geo wrote:

"Vaughn" wrote in message
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Wood is an amazing building material. A properly designed wooden

structure

will stand up to a hurricane just as well as a properly designed concrete
structure.


I'm not talking about cinder blocks. Reinforced concrete is by FAR the
strongest building material generally available and in the shape of a dome
it's much stronger still. Given the same forces a stick home will be a pile
of splinters while the dome is unscathed. The numbers have been done; it's
not a mystery. http://www.monolithic.com/plan_desig...ive/index.html

Define strongest? Tensile strength? Compressive strength? Stiffness?


Matt