bucy wrote:
] ] PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. - First light revealed that the "Dome
] Home"
] ] made it through the night and did exactly what it was
] designed to do
] ] -- survive even the worst hurricane.
]
] Smart!

That's awesome! Its just like what I'm studing in Machine Design about rounding off corners in order to minimize stress concentrations! I do wonder, however, how much of the house is over-engineered. Steel reinforced concrete is certainly necessary in tall buildings to compensate for the lousy tensile strength of concrete, but I can't exactly conceive that you would need it in a 3-story round house. Maybe the buffeting endured because of the Cat 5 winds makes it necessary.

hehe...applications are cool. :-)

RE: MSNBC - 'Dome Home' weathers storm