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Example of a monolithic dome at the Centro de la Familia de Utah Migrant Head Start Center, Genola, Utah.
A monolithic dome (from Greek mono- and -lithic, meaning "one stone") is a thin-shell structure cast in a one-piece form. The form may be permanent or temporary and may or may not remain part of the finished structure. Monolithic domes are a form of monolithic architecture.
A monolithicdome (from Greek mono- and -lithic, meaning "one stone") is a thin-shell structure cast in a one-piece form. The form may be permanent or...
most commonly concrete, can also be described as monolithic. Extreme examples are monolithicdomes, where the material is sprayed inside of a form to...
interior columns or exterior buttresses. The shells are most commonly monolithicdomes, but may also take the form of hyperbolic paraboloids, ellipsoids,...
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remains as one of the fastest and cost-effective ways to construct dome-shaped, monolithic, and reinforced shell structures. The original Binishells are circular...
monolithicdome. At 72 feet (22 m) tall, and 280 feet (85 m) in diameter it is the largest diameter monolithicdome designed by the MonolithicDome Institute...
A dome is a self-supporting structural element of architecture that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere. Every dome in the world which was the...
concerts. With a concrete monolithicdome measuring 440 feet (130 m) in diameter and a height of 110 feet (34 m), the dome was, at the time of its construction...
A monolithic church or rock-hewn church is a church made from a single block of stone. Because freestanding rocks of sufficient size are rare, such edifices...
positioned some time between 522 and 526. The low saucer shape of the monolithicdome, which is estimated to be more than 230 tons of Istrian stone, may...
Abuna Yemata Guh is a monolithic church located in the Hawzen woreda of the Tigray Region, Ethiopia. It is situated at a height of 2,580 metres (8,460 ft)...
Shells Used as Domes, Pressure Vessels, and Tanks". Retrieved 2020-12-15. South, David (March 24, 2009). "Advanced Dome Calculator". monolithic.org. Retrieved...
their easy, fast, and cost-effective construction as self-supporting monolithicdomes of polyurethane foam without using concrete. They were ergonomically...
A monolithic column or single-piece column is a large column of which the shaft is made from a single piece of stone instead of in vertical sections. Smaller...
the weight of its granite shaft has been put at 285 t. The largest monolithicdome crowned the early 6th century AD Mausoleum of Theodoric in Ravenna...
attached to solid rock, as in monolithic church, or for exceptionally large stones such as obelisks, statues, monolithic columns or large architraves,...
step-rings used to compress the "haunches" of the dome, which would not be necessary if the dome acted as a monolithic structure, may be an acknowledgement of this...
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