"structural upgrade" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the process of strengthening a structure to make it more reliable. For example, "The building is getting a structural upgrade to ensure it meets safety standards."
Based on the findings of this work the use of externally bonded grids comprises a promising solution for the structural upgrade of existing masonry structures.
Nowadays the building is scheduled to be reused as a Museum of Electric Power and the need for structural upgrade arose mainly from current seismic requirements.
This paper presents the structural upgrade of a public school building, which did not guarantee safety against collapse under gravity loads and which had been designed ignoring seismic actions.
The changes are the first major structural upgrade made to the Eiffel Tower in 30 years, and are part of a clean energy and efficiency initiative aimed at cutting the tower's ecological footprint.
PVH, the parent company of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, and Tchibo, a German retailer, have endorsed a plan in which Western retailers would finance fire safety efforts and structural upgrades in Bangladeshi factories — although they first want other companies to sign on.
Spurred by that and earlier disasters, two companies — PVH, the American parent company of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, and Tchibo, a modest-size German retailer — last year endorsed a plan for Western companies to finance fire safety efforts and structural upgrades to Bangladeshi factories.
Atwell chose to dedicate the entire award – $1m worth – to the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), the nonprofit demonstration school she founded 25 years ago, which she said is in need of structural upgrades, including a new roof and furnaces, and many more books.
Therefore, measures for structural upgrading and repair have become imperative.
Three structural upgrading optimization problems (SUOPs) are implemented.
We illustrate our framework proposing a broader set of outcome indicators capturing also structural upgrading.
frames designed without specific seismic rules is a key problem for maintenance, structural upgrading and seismic assessment.
