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April 2019

features
24 Take Me to the River
BY WILLIAM GOULET, SE, AND MARIAN BARTH, PE
A new steel span provides safe pedestrian pas-
sage over a busy street to a prominent gather-
ing spot along the Charles River in Boston.
34 Bending Basics
Curved steel: How it happens, what to know
when it comes to designing it and why you
should consider it for your next project.
52 16 Rules for Connection Design
BY CAROL DRUCKER, SE, PE, PENG, BILL
THORNTON, PE, PHD, DOMINICK D’ANTONIO,
PE, PATRICK J. FORTNEY, SE, PE, PENG, PHD,
AND SNEHAL SUPE
Structural connections connect everyone—
engineers, detailers, fabricators and erectors.
And the better they are designed, the better
it is for all parties involved with steel
framing systems.
58 Filling the Gap
BY ROLINE PASCAL
A new coalition aims to close the skilled
trades gap.

columns

steelwise
in every issue 17 Don’t Get Blown Away
BY JAMES M. FISHER, PE, PHD, AND
departments ROGER A. LABOUBE, PE, PHD
departments
6 EDITOR’S NOTE AISC’s latest Design Guide focuses on
9 STEEL INTERCHANGE designing areas to safely shelter occupants
during high-wind events like tornadoes
12 STEEL QUIZ and hurricanes.
62 NEWS & EVENTS
66 STRUCTURALLY SOUND business issues
22 Forging a Framework
resources for Facilitating
64 ADVERTISER INDEX BY ANNE SCARLETT
65 MARKETPLACE & Want to become a leader? Becoming a
EMPLOYMENT facilitator is one way to start.
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ON THE COVER:
The Fanny Appleton Bridge reaches toward the Charles River in Boston, p. 24. (Photo: Newport Industrial Fabrication)
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