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    Roman concrete, also called opus caementicium, was used in construction in ancient Rome. Like its modern equivalent, Roman concrete was based on a hydraulic-setting...
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    whereas Roman concrete could depend only upon the strength of the concrete bonding to resist tension. The long-term durability of Roman concrete structures...
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    surviving buildings were constructed. It used new materials, particularly Roman concrete, and newer technologies such as the arch and the dome to make buildings...
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    Concrete Roman is a slab serif typeface designed by Donald Knuth using his METAFONT program. It was intended to accompany the Euler mathematical font which...
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    The Romans used two types of lime mortar to make Roman concrete, which allowed them to revolutionize architecture, sometimes called the Concrete revolution...
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    making regular Roman concrete, brick dust can also be used. Besides regular Roman concrete, the Romans also invented hydraulic concrete, which they made...
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    strength of concrete was improved by the reinforcing. Before the 1870s, the use of concrete construction, though dating back to the Roman Empire, and...
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    The Roman architectural revolution, also known as the concrete revolution, is the name sometimes given to the widespread use in Roman architecture of...
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    structures still in use. Roman engineers built dams with advanced techniques and materials, such as hydraulic mortar and Roman concrete, which allowed for larger...
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    Self-healing concrete is characterized as the capability of concrete to fix its cracks on its own autogenously or autonomously. It not only seals the...
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    ingredient responsible for the longevity of ancient undersea Roman concrete. The volcanic ash that Romans used for construction of sea walls contained phillipsite...
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    the end of the Republic. In the 1st century BC, Romans started to use Roman concrete widely. Concrete was invented in the late 3rd century BC. It was...
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    results are available on the concrete used in the Pantheon; however, Cowan discussed tests on ancient concrete from Roman ruins in Libya, which gave a...
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    erroneous conclusion. It has been determined that the durability of ancient Roman concrete is attributed in part to the use of quicklime as an ingredient. Combined...
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    Romans incorporated concrete cores into a number of their masonry bridges and aqueducts, along with constructing spanning water conduits of concrete....
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    materials, which Romans experimented with in the creation of building materials, particularly cements and mortars. Along with concrete, the Romans used stone...
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  • The most used material on this planet, concrete has been utilized since Egyptian and Roman times to create buildings like the Pantheon. Because of its...
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    Pozzolana (category Concrete)
    Greeks, it was the Romans who eventually fully developed the potential of lime-pozzolan pastes as binder phase in Roman concrete used for buildings and...
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  • Dragged Across Concrete is a 2018 American crime thriller film written and directed by S. Craig Zahler. It stars an ensemble cast that includes Mel Gibson...
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    domes was greatly facilitated by the invention of concrete, a process which has been termed the Roman Architectural Revolution. Their enormous dimensions...
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    using lime mortar. Despite its enduring utility over many centuries (Roman concrete), lime mortar's effectiveness as a building material has not been well...
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  • architecture Ancient Roman engineering Ancient Roman technology Roman concrete Bannon, Cynthia. Gardens and Neighbors: Private Water Rights in Roman Italy. University...
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    developed and refined. The Roman concrete has remained a riddle, and even after more than two thousand years some ancient Roman structures still stand magnificently...
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  • Opus quadratum (category Ancient Roman construction techniques)
    centered over the blocks in the row below. With the introduction of Roman concrete, continuous outer walls were often constructed, with some blocks laid...
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  • Concrete Utopia (Korean: 콘크리트 유토피아) is a 2023 South Korean disaster-thriller film directed by Um Tae-hwa, who wrote the screenplay with Lee Shin-ji, based...
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    Roman theatres derive from and are part of the overall evolution of earlier Greek theatres. Much of the architectural influence on the Romans came from...
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  • Donald Knuth used the first edition of Concrete Mathematics as a test case for the AMS Euler typeface and Concrete Roman font. Recurrent Problems Summation...
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    Eifel Aqueduct (category Roman aqueducts outside Rome)
    that, at the lowest level, the Roman engineers had placed a loose layer of stones. On this base, they set a concrete or stone U-shaped groove for the...
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    Concrete degradation may have many different causes. Concrete is mostly damaged by the corrosion of reinforcement bars due to the carbonatation of hardened...
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    impermeability of Roman dams was increased by the introduction of waterproof hydraulic mortar and especially Roman concrete in the Roman architectural revolution...
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