Which structural risk greatly increases if significant outward creep develops in a historic Roman concrete defensive wall?

💡 Explanation

Reduced resistance to siege weapons will follow. This is because outward creep relaxes the arching action mechanism, which distributes load, therefore making the wall vulnerable to concentrated impacts rather than distributing forces through the wall.

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