Better materials and increased wall thickness are common upgrades for tie rods and drag links, but oftentimes not ... is to mount the Heim joint in double shear, where it is captured above and ...

Fewer cross-ties, simpler link beams and less fire protection ... proof of concept for SpeedCore—a novel modular steel-plate shear-wall sandwich system—to new heights. And the creators ...

A Composite Plate Shear Wall-Concrete Filled (CPSW/CF) is a special lateral-force resisting system consisting of two steel plates with concrete infill in between them. The steel plates are connected ...