Archaeologists at a Pompeii site buried by the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius have uncovered evidence of ancient Roman ...

Archaeologists working at an excavation site in Pompeii have uncovered new evidence that helps explain why ancient Roman buildings have ...

Roman concrete has shrugged off two millennia of earthquakes, wars, and weather that would pulverize most modern structures ...

Neglect a modern concrete structure for a few decades and it’ll start to fall apart – and yet, structures built by the ancient Romans are still standing strong after 2,000 years. Now, engineers have ...

Researchers from Drexel University’s College of Engineering are looking to nature for solutions to one of the Department of Defense’s (DoD) ongoing challenges: fortifying aging concrete structures.

When bridges, dam walls and other structures made of concrete are streaked with dark cracks after a few decades, the culprit is AAR: the alkali-aggregate reaction. AAR damages concrete structures all ...

In hopes of producing concrete structures that can repair their cracks, researchers from Drexel University’s College of Engineering are putting a new twist on an old trick for improving the durability ...

Forget scarves and mittens. Soon, we might be able to knit entire buildings. A team from the Swiss university ETH Zurich has developed a technique that allows them to knit textiles that can then form ...

Structures are designed for 50 to 100 years, depending on the requirements. Many civil engineering structures that are part of Dutch infrastructure are now over halfway through their service life, and ...

On September 2, 1945, the Second World War ended when Japan officially surrendered. Today, on the 80th anniversary, the physical legacy of the conflict remains etched into land and sea. Heat waves are ...