But closer to town, stone walls give way to walls made of concrete, which has largely replaced stone as the defining material of Japan’s rural infrastructure. Is that because concrete ...

creating retaining walls and entire buildings out of tire walls, sometimes filling them with concrete rubble and broken bricks to allow for drainage, or even rendering over the top for a smoother ...

focusing on millimeter-scale white chunks running through the sample, called lime clasts. These are not found in modern concrete. “Every wall made out of Roman concrete will have these ...

“In every sample we have seen of ancient Roman concrete, you can find these white inclusions,” bits of rock embedded in the walls. For many years, Masic says, the origin of those inclusions ...

Concrete walls are an average of 8 inches thick inside most commercial real estate. Keeping a network running through them is not merely a matter of running cord. Not everybody has the knowledge ...

This project quantified the improvement in structural behavior of reinforced concrete shear walls retrofitted with a new method that allows the walls to rock over the foundation and self-center after ...

A new analysis of samples taken from the concrete walls of the Privernum archaeological site near Rome has yielded insights into those elusive manufacturing secrets. It seems the Romans employed ...

Silicon Valley-based Airvine Scientific has unveiled a wireless system that tackles one of the most persistent challenges in the industry: the ability to penetrate thick concrete walls without ...

In June, the Italian Ministry of Culture announced the excavation of a new room, not yet open to the public, in the ruins of Pompeii. A few weeks later, a group of archaeologists gathered to ...