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Quizzical Pursuit
The Architecture Puzzler
Created by Dave Guadagni
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Solution to Last Week's Puzzler
Architecture Puzzler #185
Question
Hollow metal doors have a variety of cores: polystyrene cores for insulation, steel stiffened cores for exterior doors, and lightweight honeycomb cores. The honeycomb core, first used in steel doors in the late 1950s, was originally designed for what purpose?
Answer
Honeycomb core was originally developed as a structural core for military aircraft wings during World War II.
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Dave Guadagni, AIA, is an architect with Robertson/Sherwood/Architects
Quizzical Pursuit is Copyright 2004, Dave Guadagni.
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Steel door for a bank vault.
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