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The newspaper of The Johns Hopkins University January 26, 2004 | Vol. 33 No. 19
 
Cold temps inspire civil engineering student to experiment


PHOTO COURTESY OF SANJAY ARWADE

LIAKOS ARISTON, foreground, a senior in the Whiting School of Engineering, took advantage of last week's subfreezing temperatures to craft three thin-walled ice structures outside Homewood's Latrobe Hall, using light cheesecloth draped over balloons to form shapes that were then misted with water — and quickly froze. Ariston was inspired by the thin-shell techniques of Swiss engineer Heinz Isler and the class Perspectives on the Evolution of Structures, taught by assistant professors of civil engineering Sanjay Arwade and Ben Schafer.


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