US EditionThis Ancient Construction Site in the Ruins of Pompeii Is Revealing New Secrets About the 2,000-Year-Old Recipe for Roman Concrete
MIT researchers found that hot-mixing quicklime and volcanic ash in Roman concrete created reactive lime clasts enabling self-healing and increased durability, per a Nature Communications study.
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This Ancient Construction Site in the Ruins of Pompeii Is Revealing New Secrets About the 2,000-Year-Old Recipe for Roman Concrete
New research suggests the Romans used a method known as "hot mixing" to produce self-healing concrete, which allowed them to build structures that endured for centuries
A 2,000-year-old building site reveals the raw ingredients for ancient Roman self-healing concrete
Roman concrete is pretty amazing stuff. It's among the main reasons we know so much about Roman architecture today. So many structures built by the Romans still survive, in some form, thanks to their ingenious concrete and construction techniques.
Pompeii, buried under the ashes for centuries, continues to deliver surprises. On a former construction site frozen by the eruption, intact materials tell another story. Among them, an amazing mortar attracts attention. Roman concrete, used by the workers of the period, still seems capable of reacting, as if it had never ceased to live. What the Romans knew already to build 2,000 years ago When the teams searched Regio IX, they fell on a real wo…
When Vesuvius broke out, he froze a construction site in time. Now she told a team of researchers with which trick the Romans gave their concrete self-healing powers.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology confirmed the greatest secret of Roman cement. The analysis of an unfinished house in Pompeii buried by the eruption of the Vesuvius volcano showed that Roman concrete was self-repaired. Occurred in 79 C.E., the eruption of the Vesuvius volcano buried Pompeii and Herculano. In 2023, the first studies emerged that concluded that Roman cement was self-repaired. This finding could allow a new…
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