How Fire Causes Office-Building Floors to Collapse

How Fire Causes Office-Building Floors to Collapse

Engineers and technicians at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) spent months meticulously recreating the long concrete floors supported by steel beams commonly found in high-rise office buildings, only to deliberately set the structures ablaze,...
Laser Sampling For Characterisation

Laser Sampling For Characterisation

A laser sampling tool offers an alternative approach for  waste in the nuclear industry, NEI learns.VIRIDISCOPE IS AN INNOVATIVE LASER sampling tool for materials characterisation in nuclear applications. It can be used in place of conventional drilling to remove...
How were the Walls of Roman Buildings Constructed?

How were the Walls of Roman Buildings Constructed?

At the apogee of the Roman Empire, its territory extended over more than five million square kilometers, between Europe, Asia, and Africa. Rome exercised power over a population of more than 70 million people, which equated to roughly 21% of the world population at...
MyTop 7 Rules For Leading a Digital Team

MyTop 7 Rules For Leading a Digital Team

For most leaders, that’s a massive change…a change no one prepared them for.In our new era of border closures, social distancing, self-isolation, quarantine, pandemics and lockdowns, how do you lead a team you can’t see or talk to in person?That’s a question thousands...
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