Structural systems and materials for large buildings and towers, such as reinforced concrete, Roman concrete, steel frame construction, geodesic domes and guyed masts. A member belongs here when the cited article describes it as a structural system or material for buildings and towers. The group is one of the groupings under this field in the Technology Atlas, and each member keeps its own entry with its own cited sources and its own place in the field. Its members appear in the Browse By view for the field, so a reader can move from this group to each member entry and to the sources cited there.
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Joseph Monier - Wikipedia
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Joseph Monier (French: [mɔnje]; 8 November 1823-13 March 1906) was a French gardener and one of the principal inventors of reinforced concrete.
Roman concrete (Wikipedia)
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Roman concrete, also called opus caementicium, was used in construction in ancient Rome.
Steel frame - Wikipedia
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Steel frame is a building technique with a "skeleton frame" of vertical steel columns and horizontal I-beams, constructed in a rectangular grid to support the floors, roof and walls of a building which are all attached to the frame.
Geodesic Dome (Wikipedia)
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A geodesic dome is a hemispherical thin-shell structure (lattice-shell) based on a geodesic polyhedron.
Guyed mast (Wikipedia)
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A guyed mast is a tall thin vertical structure that depends on guy lines (diagonal tensioned cables attached to the ground or a base) for stability.
Clock Tower (Wikipedia)
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Clock towers are a specific type of structure that house a turret clock and have one or more clock faces on the upper exterior walls.
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