Why Consider Domes for Your Structural Constructions
Generally speaking, there are lots of benefits that come with having a dome as your type of structure and some of these are like the fact that they happen to be so low in cost, fire resistant, cost effective and as well call for minimal costs in terms of maintenance. The following is a look at some of these benefits in their very detail.
Hurricanes and tornadoes have become such a common occurrence in some areas. For a structure to withstand the effects, devastating as they always are, it needs to have such a high resistance to wind. One thing with domes is that they have been so established to be so high in their wind resistance, which is rated at 200Mph and this basically tells of the fact that they often get to be strong enough to withstand the effects of most tornadoes and hurricanes. For a fact to prove this, consider the hurricane that swept Florida back in the year 2004 in which most of the dome structures that were in the path of the hurricane, managed to survive and remained intact while others were brought down by the hurricane.
Dome shaped structures as well happen to be quite resistant to natural disasters such as earthquakes. This is for the fact that having a dome shaped structure integrated with the floor plan of the same works to strengthen whole structure as a unit which makes it so resistant to such effects as of earthquakes.
The other beneficial feature there is with the dome shaped structures is their high resistance to fires and as a fact, they are often considered to be non combustible. Where there has been some exterior inferno touching on a dome, it is often the case that this gets to only cause some cosmetic damage on the exteriors of the dome, the outer layers are the parts that may be affected though minimally. This is explained by the fact that domes by their design tend to be having two kinds of layers on them which are the polyurethane foam layers and the concrete layer and in most cases, it is the polyurethane layer that gets burnt in such cases of an inferno while the concrete layer below it hardly burns as such offering such a good layer of protection to the interiors of the building.
The other benefits of dome structures worth mentioning are such as the fact that they often happen to be quite low in maintenance and as well low when it comes to insurance. By and large, this can be explained by the fact that for a number of the common risks against which we take insurance covers like fires, tornadoes and hurricanes, dome structures have proved to be quite resistant to such and this typically serves to lower the rate of insuring such property going forward.