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Building walls with demolition waste - the poetry of Cyclopean concrete
- Sep, 16, 2022
- Concrete Structures Sustainable Development Structure Reinforcement Structural Behavior Walls Thin Wall Structures
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
Ancient cyclopean walls were built by overlapping raw stones, supported one on the other, without the use of mortar. The name derives from the Cyclops, the giants of Greek mythology, as their constru...
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: at least six fatalities in building collapse
- Aug, 22, 2022
- Structural Failures Damage (Structural) Structure Reinforcement Concrete Structures Other Structural
- Ethiopia
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
At least six people were killed in a building collapse Saturday in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, according to a police source. The accident happened when a warehouse collapsed in the Mercat...
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Bridge in China cracks due to buckling under high temperatures
- Aug, 19, 2022
- Bridges Structural Failures Damage (Structural) Structure Reinforcement Buckling Structural Loads Other Structural
- China
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
In engineering, buckling is a failure mode characterized by a sudden failure of a structural member subjected to high compressive stresses, where the actual compressive stresses at failure are smalle...
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Cairo, Egypt: Building collapse, at least six fatalities
- Jun, 23, 2022
- Damage (Structural) Structural Failures Other Structural Structural Design Structure Reinforcement Structural Behavior
- Egypt
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
A five-story building in Egypt’s capital Cairo collapsed in the early hours of Friday killing at least six people, Al Arabiya’s correspondent reported. The incident also resulted in the partial colla...
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Iran building collapse: at least 11 fatalities
- May, 25, 2022
- Structural Failures Damage (Structural) Structure Reinforcement Concrete Structures Steel Structures Structural Behavior Other Structural
- Iran
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
Rescuers dug through debris of a collapsed building in southwestern Iran that killed at least 11 people, fearful that many more could still be trapped beneath the rubble. Meanwhile, authorities arres...
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