High-tech concrete technology has a famous past

Wednesday, March 16, 2011 - 17:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Almost 1,900 years ago, the Romans built what continues to be the world's largest unreinforced solid concrete dome in the world-the Pantheon. The secret is in the light-weight concrete used to build the dome and a process called internal curing. A new paper reviews the status of modern improvements on this ancient material.

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