Located on the campus of Colorado College, a small liberal-arts college in Colorado Springs, the building—a thin-shell concrete structure from 1963—had sat unused for several years after the ...

a vacated 1960s ice hockey arena whose thin-shell concrete structure was carefully preserved in its transformation into a new visual arts hub for a small Colorado college; a once-flailing public ...

Steel plate shear walls are becoming popular for steel structures. In this study ... In the second sipecimen (S-Full), thin SPSW was added on one side of the reinforced concrete frame to improve the ...

And lining the ground beneath each raised bed of soil is a smooth sheet of concrete, dotted with slivers of ivory shells. “They’re not so obvious at first … but as you walk on it ...

Credit: Sameer Khan/Fotobuddy Princeton engineers developed a new cement composite inspired by shell nacre ... whether the structures’ fracture toughness and ductility apply to other ceramic materials ...

This design mimics the shell’s brick-and-mortar structure, enhancing durability ... such as porcelain and concrete. In contrast to materials like glass, wood, and steel, cement is brittle ...

Inspired by the material that makes up oyster and abalone shells ... the structures' fracture toughness and ductility apply to other ceramic materials beyond cement paste, such as concrete.

Abstract: In response to the urgent need to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and enhance energy efficiency in residential buildings, this research paper evaluated an insulated concrete thin-shell ...

But architects have been figuring out ways to erect structures more quickly and easily ... developing a new method that allowed him to erect shell-like domes by pouring a thin layer of concrete over ...

Detailed textures can be achieved by 3D printing the tower "Such thin-shell ... hollow columns, concrete is used only where it is structurally required, similar to optimised structures that ...

As such, concrete structures need constant maintenance ... The hydrogel layer is then coated with a thin polymer shell. BioFiber concrete can be used like any other, but its secret superpower ...