Roman Colosseum an elastodynamic cloak?

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Roman Colosseum an elastodynamic cloak?

Roman arenas have survived in many earthquake-prone regions. Did the Romans inadvertently build seismic wave cloaks when they designed colosseums? Some researchers believe they did due to the arenas' resemblance to modern experimental elastodynamic cloaking devices. Photo: DAVID ILIFF. License: CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 

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Research, Architecture, Building Construction, City Planning, Transportation, and Urban Growth, Engineering, Physics and Physical Sciences
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invisibility cloak, elastodynamic, linear elasticity, non-linear elasticity, Architecture, Earthquake, electromagnetic, wave, angular momentum, balance, planar waves, in-plane disturbance, critique, criticism, stress wave, load, wave geometry
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  • Created By: Ben Brumfield
  • Workflow Status: Published
  • Created On: Jun 7, 2019 - 9:26am
  • Last Updated: Jun 7, 2019 - 9:46am