Many homeowners look for new ways to improve the surroundings of their home without being too harmful to the environment when autumn arrives One of the most eco-friendly and visually attractive altern ...

Detailing their glass brick design research and development in a study appearing in the journal Glass Structures and ...

Engineers at MIT have developed interlocking bricks made from recycled glass that could be re-used at the end of a building's lifecycle. It's part of a movement known as circular construction, which ...

They also contain two small pegs on the bottom that allow them to interlock, much in the same way LEGOs go together. After the bricks were printed, the team placed them in an industrial hydraulic ...

Using a custom 3D glass printing technology provided by MIT spinoff Evenline, the team has made strong, multilayered glass bricks, each in the shape of a figure eight, that are designed to interlock, ...

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In mechanical testing, a single glass brick withstood pressures similar to that of a concrete block. As a structural demonstration, the researchers constructed a wall of interlocking glass bricks.

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But last year, as they sought ways to generate an income, they got into making interlocking bricks. With the project, the group, calling itself Tri-K Group, did not only find a way of earning a ...

So, next time you’re out and about, have a look for some of these strengthening techniques, like interlocking bricks in walls, buttresses on buildings such as castles, or triangles on bridges.

These interlocking, multilayered glass bricks have two round pegs and connect like LEGOs do. They can be linked together and stacked to build structures just like regular bricks. The engineers ...