Cement is the most widely used construction material and its demand in recent decades has increased exponentially. Cement is usually mixed with aggregates an...

Some ancient construction materials have lasted thousands of years of weathering and use and yet structures still stand today. The ruins of the Roman empire,...

This project explores innovative approaches to characterize ancient structures and materials, addressing recently developed imaging techniques that analyze m...

Since their discovery in the late 1940s, the Dead Sea Scrolls, some 900 ancient Jewish texts, have never stopped attracting the attention of scholars and gen...

Bioinspired construction materials Construction industry used about 40% of raw material by weight in 2009, and the amount of material usage in construction i...