by GCO | Jul 11, 2019 | News
A new space radar technique, applied retrospectively to satellite imagery of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa, has detected deformations that pre-empted its collapse. In August 2018, a section of the bridge failed catastrophically, killing 43 people. By reviewing 15 years...
by GCO | Jul 10, 2019 | News
ASTM Committee C09 on Concrete and Concrete Aggregates’ new C1876-19 standard presents a test method aimed at improving concrete durability assessment through measuring resistance to electrical current flow. Ability to resist such currents, along with exposure to...
by GCO | Jul 10, 2019 | News
The opening of Yankee Stadium on April 14, 1923, was a triumph for baseball. It was a triumph for the Yankees, of course, who had started their major-league life in Baltimore, as the nascent American League was afraid to challenge the successful, established and...
by GCO | Jul 10, 2019 | News
California is a land shaped by seismic activity. A history of earthquakes is written in its landscape in the form of rifts, folds, and cracks. But major tremors also tend to leave less dramatic fingerprints.Amid last week’s Independence Day celebrations, a 6.4...
by GCO | Jul 10, 2019 | News
The Peninsula House appears to defy gravity. Designed as a monolithic concrete block, the house in Kanto, Japan, seems to hover over its base with only a column to balance it. Mount Fuji Architects crafted the weekend home to withstand the harsh conditions of its...
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