Place up to 140,000 cubic yards of tremie concrete to construct a 2,700-foot-long concrete dam across the Ohio River without draining the water. Located on the Ohio River that begins in Pittsburgh and ...

When concrete shells are constructed, they usually have to be supported by elaborate timber structures. A revolutionary technique developed at the Vienna University of Technology now uses inflatable ...

At TU Wien, an alternative for resource intensive formwork for the construction of concrete domes was developed. It is now used in a test dome for the Austrian Federal Railways Infrastructure.

The recycling bio-waste shells problem has grown more and more serious in recent years and many efforts have been made to solve this problem. One possible solution is to put these bio-shells into ...

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 ...

Technologists working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have looked to nature for inspiration to “re-design” concrete. Concrete is not a well-defined material; concrete is a somewhat random ...