PERHAPS it is thanks to Star Wars that Tunisia is thought of as a desolate, dry and barren desert country in which people live in strange white domes. While this may be true in some parts of ...

Moscow, 10 October 2024 Skoltech researchers and their colleague from the University of Granada, Spain, have determined which ways to reinforce vaults and domes in architecture are more efficient.

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And we thought we could reproduce that in vaults,” she said. From there, researchers built a sixth pattern that hybridized the topological optimization with more restriction on material expenditure.

A Roman vault, discovered two years ago at the Augusta Raurica ruins near Basel, has been opened to the public. Apart from being of considerable historical interest, it contains evidence of what ...