People riding in the gondolas were lowered down by ropes over the course of about five hours, a resort spokesperson said.

Deep cracks in the ground are not alien in hilly areas. However, they can be a sign that a landslide is about to happen and ...

Most slabs-on-ground are unreinforced or nominally reinforced for crack-width control. When positioned in the upper or top portion of the slab thickness, steel reinforcement limits the widths of ...

Contraction joints (sometimes called control joints) are used in unreinforced and lightly reinforced slabs-on-ground to minimize random cracking. By creating straight-line weakened-planes in ...