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It is a testament to the ingenuity and expertise of the ancient Roman engineers. It will be interesting to see what other insights this research may lead to and
by jesuspiece 4y ago
It is a testament to the ingenuity and expertise of the ancient Roman engineers. It will be interesting to see what other insights this research may lead to and how it could potentially be applied to modern construction techniques.
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- I_complete_me 4y agoThe subject is complicated. For example see this paper[0]. The setting of concrete goes on for a long time and the Romans were probably not aware of how long their concrete(s) was/were going to last. There is a type of 'survivorship bias' going on here. But still, I guess, they knew something important. Adding reinforcement to concrete may well be a source of shortevity - or what ever the complement to longevity is. [0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022509616305919 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00225...
- UncleEntity 4y agoIt’s not like the Romans started out in a place where there weren’t thousands of years old structures nearly everywhere they went. Assuming they didn’t want their structures to last as long as the ancient ones (at their time) is just laughable.