Which risk increased the most in ancient Mesopotamian ziggurats that employed bronze reinforcing structural elements?

💡 Explanation

With high temperature fluctuations, the bronze reinforcement within baked brick ziggurats experienced differential thermal expansion from the brick, generating tensile stresses, which causes cracking in the brick structure. Therefore cracking results, rather than shear displacement, resonance amplification, or liquefaction whoch do not directly interact with bronze element properties efficiently.

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