Sentences with phrase «unreinforced concrete»

So we built unreinforced concrete walls — pure compression structures.

After nearly two millennia, the dome remains the largest unreinforced concrete dome in the world.

Where else in the world are huge populations still at risk because they are living in cities where the primary building construction is unreinforced concrete and there is a likelihood of a major earthquake like this?

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It was noticed in a California earthquake some years ago that unreinforced brick warehouses survived while reinforced concrete (an earthquake - resistant material) elevated freeways fell, and small apartment houses built on steel columns over open parking areas often dropped to the ground.