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Techniques to make residential buildings more blast resistant
There are generally two approaches:
First: use stronger materials (e.g. thicker RCC with fibres, go underground, etc).
Second: for any given material, use a superior design.
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How did gothic church architects/builders properly scale up their models to full size churches?
In this video the author explains how ancient church builders used models to determine the proper shape and order of installation of architectural elements in gothic churches.
From the little I know, ...
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How to design safely collapsing buildings?
Background—Currently, buildings seem to be designed to be strong enough to not fall upon dangerous events, such as earthquakes. This makes them expensive, and out of the reach of poor places.
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Reaction forces in a structure
I have the following structure, in which I am failing to calculate the two reactions: Cz (apparently vertical) and Dz, in the roller support of the beam. The beam length is 7.5 m, the reactions Az, Cx,...
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