Abstract: A construction system includes a pair of bi-planar sheets of structural material, each bi-planar sheet having two alternating series of vertical segments, each segment of the series, in horizontal cross-section, defining a planar base parallel to a base of a successive vertical segment of the alternating series of vertical segments, the bases of each segment of the series integrally connected to each other by sidewalls; a pair of longitudinal members, defining in, transverse cross-section, a substantially U-shaped geometry, each longitudinal member being open-ended for horizontally enclosing and securing a portion of each bi-planar sheet of the pair of bi-planar sheets; upper horizontal longitudinal members defining, in transverse cross-section, a geometry of a square, each upper longitudinal member vertically disposed between the pair of bi-planar sheets; and second horizontal longitudinal members defining, in transverse cross-section, a geometry of a square.

Abstract: A construction system includes a pair of bi-planar sheets of structural material, each bi-planar sheet having two alternating series of vertical segments, each segment of the series, in horizontal cross-section, defining a planar base parallel to a base of a successive vertical segment of the alternating series of vertical segments, the bases of each segment of the series integrally connected to each other by sidewalls; a pair of longitudinal members, defining in, transverse cross-section, a substantially U-shaped geometry, each longitudinal member being open-ended for horizontally enclosing and securing a portion of each bi-planar sheet of the pair of bi-planar sheets; upper horizontal longitudinal members defining, in transverse cross-section, a geometry of a square, each upper longitudinal member vertically disposed between the pair of bi-planar sheets; and second horizontal longitudinal members defining, in transverse cross-section, a geometry of a square.

Abstract: A blast protective barrier system, termed a blast wall, providing a security perimeter or boundary at and above a ground level definable in terms of an x, y, z coordinate system, includes several substantially ground level (xy plane) pile caps, each itself having a y-axis elongate length, a x-axis width, and a z-axis depth, the x-axis substantially defining the width of the barrier system. Each pile cap also includes an upper and lower xy plane surface, each of the upper surfaces including y-axis channels and each of the lower surfaces including several recesses. The system also includes a first, second and further modules having a plurality of opposing pairs of yz plane, the y-axis elongate concrete panels including opposing integral xz end cap elements having a high shock-absorptive structure for isolating each module from the effect of a blast upon an adjacent module.

Abstract: A metallic stud for use in the framing of structures, the stud definable in terms of an x, y, z coordinate system, in which the z-axis corresponds to the gravity vector. The metallic stud includes a z-axis elongate generally rectangular integral xz plane web having a width (thickness) in a yz plane. The stud also includes a series of xz plane tabs each having a parallelogram-like geometry and an outer major base. The series of xz plane tabs project within at least one of a positive or negative x-axis direction, in which the tabs interdigitate with void spaces along at least one z-axis edge of the web. The metallic stud also includes a z-axis elongate apex element, within xz plane web, projecting in a y-axis plane and integrally dependent from the web of the stud.

Abstract: A blast protective barrier system, termed a blast wall, providing a security perimeter or boundary at and above a ground level definable in terms of an x, y, z coordinate system, includes several substantially ground level (xy plane) pile caps, each itself having a y-axis elongate length, a x-axis width, and a z-axis depth, the x-axis substantially defining the width of the barrier system. Each pile cap also includes an upper and lower xy plane surface, each of the upper surfaces including y-axis channels and each of the lower surfaces including several recesses. The system also includes a first, second and further modules having a plurality of opposing pairs of yz plane, the y-axis elongate concrete panels including opposing integral xz end cap elements having a high shock-absorptive structure for isolating each module from the effect of a blast upon an adjacent module.

Abstract: A press-formable light-gauge truss framing element which comprises a longitudinal constructional beam having a uniform generally T-shaped cross-section, in which a generally vertical portion of said cross-section defines a web of said beam and a transverse horizontal upper portion thereof defines symmetric opposing portions of a hollow solid rectangle. An upper-most outer surface of each of said portions includes longitudinal channels thereon. The beam comprises a material having a thickness in a range of about 10 to about 22 gauges and having a yield strength in a range of about 36 to about 55 kips per square inch and, prior to press-shaping, a width of about one foot.

Abstract: The instant invention constitutes a method of forming a concrete column and panel wall system, comprising the steps of: auguring a vertical pile hole; excavating about the pile hole a ground level recess for a pile cap; placing vertical rebars into the auger hole and cap recess; pouring concrete in situ into the pile hole and pile cap recess; positioning a pile cap plate on the poured concrete prior to the curing thereof; positioning opposing vertical ends of pre-cast concrete panels upon opposite ends of the pile cap plate and using forms to substantially define an H-shaped above-ground geometry each having vertical rebars therein, the panel ends also having horizontal re-bars extending into the geometry, thus horizontally and vertically positioning re-bars characterize substantially an entirely above-ground length of each column resultant of the H-shaped geometry; and casting in situ within volumes defined by the forms defining the above-ground geometry.

Abstract: A constructional assembly includes a first rigid member, such as a wood beam or surface; a metallic surface having a repetitive sequence of ridges and grooves, one side of the surface secured to one side of the rigid member, and a second rigid member secured to an opposite side of the metallic surface. The repetitive sequence of ridges and grooves may employ a variety of geometries or corrugations, inclusive of patterns which are sinusoidal, trapezoidal, saw tooth, square wave, and triangular. This assembly is exceedingly stable, light, economical, and may be readily provided with internal apertures providing pre-formed passageways thru which electrical wiring, plumbing, air ducts, data lines and the like may be readily passed during the construction of a building.

Abstract: The instant invention relates to a metallic stud frame construction panel definable in terms of an x, y, z coordinate system. Each stud of the panel includes a z-axis elongate substantially rectangular integral steel web within a yz plane and further includes (i) a first series of xz plane tabs projecting from a first z-axis edge of the web in an x-axis direction, the tabs interdigitating with void spaces, and (ii) a second series of xz plane tabs projecting from an opposite z-axis edge of the web in a like x-axis direction, each tab of the second series staggered relative to the first series of tabs. The panel structure also includes first and second xy plane concrete slabs cast about the first and second series of tabs. The slabs are integrally molded about their y- and z-axis peripheries, after a volume of the panel existing between the series of tabs has been filled with an acoustic and/or thermal insulator. The concrete slabs are reinforced thru the use of re-bars.

Abstract: The instant invention constitutes a method of forming a concrete column and panel wall system, comprising the steps of: auguring a vertical pile hole; excavating about the pile hole a ground level recess for a pile cap; placing vertical rebars into the auger hole and cap recess; pouring concrete in situ into the pile hole and pile cap recess; positioning a pile cap plate on the poured concrete prior to the curing thereof; positioning opposing vertical ends of pre-cast concrete panels upon opposite ends of the pile cap plate to substantially define H-shaped above-ground virtual columns each having vertical rebars therein, the panel ends also having horizontal re-bars extending into the virtual columns, thus horizontally and vertically positioning re-bars substantially in an entirely above-ground length of each virtual column; and casting in situ within volumes defined by forms about the virtual above-ground columns.

Abstract: A metallic stud for use in a framing structure, the stud definable in terms a x, y, z coordinate system. The stud includes the z-axis elongate substantially rectangular integral web within a yz plane and further includes a series of xz plane tabs projecting in an x-axis direction, the tabs alternating in x-axis extent between interdigitating greater and lesser dimensions, in which a z-axis line of dependency exists between a common xz plane of all of the tabs in a first major rectangular base of the yz plane of the web of the stud. The stud further includes a z-axis elongate L-shaped element integrally dependent from a second major rectangular base of the web, the elongate element parallel to the first base.

Abstract: A system for guiding of the visually handicapped includes a continuous electrical conductor, in the nature of a wire or strip, having a substantially uniform conductivity embedded within a walkway to be traversed by the handicapped person. The system also including a proximity for detecting the conductor in which the detector may be in a shoe of the user or a tip of a walking cane. The system further includes a signalling element, in the nature of a vibrator, in electrical communication with the detector such that, through the presence of such vibration, the visually handicapped person is able to determine his proximity to the electrical conductor to determine that he is proceeding in a proper direction within or along the walkway. The signalling element is preferably provided with a switch, for example, a mercury switch, so that the shoe or cane circuit will become energized only upon the occurrence of movement or motion of the shoe or cane within which the proximity detector is located.

Abstract: The instant invention relates to a metallic stud frame construction panel. definable in terms of an x,y, z coordinate system. Each stud of the panel includes a z-axis elongate substantially rectangular integral steel web within a yz plane and further includes (i) a first series of xz plane tabs projecting from a first z-axis edge of the web in an x-axis direction, the tabs interdigitating with void spaces, and (ii) a second series of xz plane tabs projecting from an opposite z-axis edge of the web in a like x-axis direction, each tab of the second series staggered relative to the first series of tabs. The panel structure also includes first and second xy plane concrete slabs cast about the first and second series of tabs. The slabs are integrally molded about their y- and z-axis peripheries, after a volume of the panel existing between the series of tabs has been filled with an acoustic and/or thermal insulator. The concrete slabs are reinforced thru the use of re-bars.

Abstract: The instant invention relates to an earth retaining wall system, definable with reference to an x,y,z Cartesian coordinate system, for stabilizing an earthen wall, the system comprising a y-axis footing having an x-axis width, the footing embedded within the earth along a y-z plane at a base of an earthen mass to be retained by the system, the footing having a flat xy upper surface thereof; and upon the upper surface of the footing, a retaining wall comprising a multiplicity of courses of constructional blocks, each block thereof defining a generally solid rectangular exterior configuration, an x-axis thereof defining a width axis of the wall, a y-axis thereof defining a segment of a length of the wall, and a z-axis thereof defining a segment of a height of the wall, in which one xz end surface of each block comprises a positive y-axis deep key geometry and each opposing xz end surface thereof comprises a negative y-axis deep key geometry complementally interlockable to a part of a substantially planar xy geo

Abstract: A blast protective barrier system, termed a blast wall, is definable in terms of an x, y, z coordinate system. The system includes several substantially ground level (xy plane) pile caps, each itself having an x-axis elongate length, a y-axis width, and a z-axis depth, the x-axis length substantially defining the width of the barrier system. Each pile cap also includes an upper and lower xy plane surface, each of the upper surfaces including y-axis channels and each of the lower surfaces including several recesses. The system also includes a plurality of yz plane, y-axis elongate vertical concrete panels having an x-axis width, each panel pair having a lower y-axis edge proportioned for press-fittable securement within the y-axis channels of the upper xy surfaces of the pile caps.

Abstract: A metallic stud for use in a framing structure, the stud definable in terms a x, y, z coordinate system. The stud includes the z-axis elongate substantially rectangular integral web within a yz plane and further includes a series of xz plane tabs projecting in an x-axis direction, the tabs alternating in x-axis extent between interdigitating greater and lesser dimensions, in which a z-axis line of dependency exists between a common xz plane of all of the tabs in a first major rectangular base of the yz plane of the web of the stud. The stud further includes a z-axis elongate L-shaped element integrally dependent from a second major rectangular base of the web, the elongate element parallel to the first base.

Abstract: A metallic stud for use in the framing of structures, the stud definable in terms of an x, y, z coordinate system, in which the z-axis corresponds to the gravity vector. The metallic stud includes a z-axis elongate generally rectangular integral xz plane web having a width (thickness) in a yz plane. The stud also includes a series of xz plane tabs each having a parallelogram-like geometry and an outer major base. The series of xz plane tabs project within at least one of a positive or negative x-axis direction, in which the tabs interdigitate with void spaces along at least one z-axis edge of the web. The metallic stud also includes a z-axis elongate apex element, within xz plane web, projecting in a y-axis plane and integrally dependent from the web of the stud.