https://www.mexperience.com/hurricane-season-in-mexico/ Experience More of Mexico Wed, 11 Oct 2023 17:42:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 https://www.mexperience.com/hurricane-season-in-mexico/#comment-1115 Sun, 28 Sep 2014 14:08:07 +0000 https://www.mexperience.com/?p=4359#comment-1115 Actually, there are house designs that will withstand the worst winds that mother nature has to offer . . First, the concrete and reinforced roof must be what is called a catenary curve (engineering term for a uniformly loaded cable) . . the same one you see on a suspension bridge cable . . and the rest is full tie down, mass, structure and quality materials (architects call it a funicular arch). The shape “converts” most impact or pressure forces to lateral forces then contained by the reinforcements. . . not exactly, but that is the best way to think of it.

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