Discovering hidden arches, visualising the sloped outline characteristic of the medieval period, finding a Renaissance engraving on a roman arch or detecting restorations: these are some of the results that have been obtained ...
Engineering
Mar 13, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Rust is a civil engineer's nightmare. Motorists in the United States make more than 200 million trips across bridges rated structurally deficient or in need of significant maintenance and yearly inspection. ...
Engineering
Dec 11, 2013
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Bridges are a main component of the transportation infrastructure as we know it today. There are no less than 575,000 highway bridges nationwide, and more than $5 billion are allocated yearly from the federal budget for bridge ...
Engineering
Aug 28, 2013
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All children who build sandcastles on the beach know that in addition to sand you also need to add a little water to prevent the structure from collapsing. But why is this? In an article which appeared today in Scientific ...
Soft Matter
Aug 2, 2012
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A ratings system developed by a group of Kansas State University researchers could keep bridges safer and help prevent catastrophic collapses.
Engineering
Jul 19, 2012
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The new bridge over the Iowa River near downtown Iowa Falls is a major upgrade over the 1928 concrete arch structure it replaced last fall, once the longest arch span bridge in the state.
Engineering
Apr 24, 2012
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Recent earthquake damage has exposed the vulnerability of existing structures to strong ground movement. At the Georgia Institute of Technology, researchers are analyzing shape-memory alloys for their potential use in constructing ...
Engineering
Feb 9, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- With a random-looking spatter of paint specks, a pair of cameras and a whole lot of computer processing, engineer Mark Iadicola of the National Institute of Standards and Technology has been helping the Federal ...
Engineering
Jan 11, 2012
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One size does not fit all. By adding the word "not", this now completely revised adage rings true for at least one civil engineer.
Engineering
Dec 12, 2011
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Six full-size pickup trucks took a wild ride on a 16-foot-high steel bridge when it shook violently in a series of never-before-conducted experiments to investigate the seismic behavior of a curved bridge with vehicles in ...
Engineering
Sep 23, 2011
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