If you visit Denge, a former Royal Air Force base on the Eastern coastline of Kent, England, you’ll find three enormous concrete structures. Two of the structures resemble a hollow ball, cut in half ...

APT Bulletin: The Journal of Preservation Technology, Vol. 48, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE ON CONCRETE (2017), pp. 6-14 (9 pages) The Wisconsin Avenue Bridge in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., for instance, ...

Let's think of a paper sheet. If we tried to stiffen it from its primary state, it couldn't support its own weight. However, if we bend it, the sheet achieves a new structural quality. The shells act ...

Materials researchers from the Block Research Group at the ETH Zurich, together with architects supermanoeuvre, have revealed a prototype for an ultra-thin, sinuous concrete roof system with an ...

A solid concrete structure may probably fail if gaps are not properly bridged and protected. When the concrete structure serves as a containment vessel of fluids, leakage must be prevented or reduced ...

Researchers at Princeton University's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering have created a new type of concrete ...

When bridges, dam walls and other structures made of concrete are streaked with dark cracks after a few decades, the culprit is AAR: the alkali-aggregate reaction. AAR damages concrete structures all ...

Perched on the hillside of Whistler Mountain—one of North America’s top ski resorts—the 20,000 sq. ft. (1,800 sq. m) Kadenwood residence complies with stringent energy efficiency and seismic ...