Juniper Publishers Journal Of Civil Engineering

Civil Engineering Research Journal- Juniper Publishers Abstract A great number of unique wide-span structures have been built in Russia in recent years. More than 30 new stadiums and covered arenas have been or are being built for the 2014 Winter Olympics and the 2018 Football World Cup. The most interesting of these are briefly described below. The objects were designed, manufactured and erected with the participation of TsNIISK. Keywords:  Wide-span construction; Spatial metal structures Go to Opinion Lokomotiv Football Stadium (Figure 1) with a capacity of 30,000. Its roof (206 by 157 m) covering the stands has an oval shape in plan and is suspended on guys attached to four reinforced-concrete pylons with a height of about 50 m erected at the stadium corners and supported by guy-wires. Olympic Stadium Fisht (Figure 2) with a capacity of 50,000 has an oval shape in plan (285 by 240 m). The main elements of the roofs are two main lattice arches with a span of 285 m and a height of 70

 Civil Engineering Research Journal - Juniper Publishers Introduction Over the last 20 years, communities in and around Houston, Texas have seen a number of major flooding events including, most notably, Tropical Storm Allison in 2001 and Hurricane Harvey in 2017. In each of these instances, flooding limited the ability of individuals and families to responsibly evacuate high-risk areas in a self-sufficient manner, while straining public resources as first responders worked to assist those who are physically incapable of seeking safety on their own. Hurricane Harvey proved to be the second most expensive natural disaster in American history, causing more than 125 billion dollars in damage throughout the city, damaging more than 200,000 homes, and displacing upwards of 30,000 individuals. In addition to the massive devastation related to the aforementioned generational rainstorms, separated by sixteen years, certain parts of the city have had to grapple with flooding that has become inc