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APT Bulletin: The Journal of Preservation Technology, Vol. 48, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE ON CONCRETE (2017), pp. 6-14 (9 pages) The Wisconsin Avenue Bridge in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., for instance, ...
If you visit Denge, a former Royal Air Force base on the Eastern coastline of Kent, England, you’ll find three enormous concrete structures. Two of the structures resemble a hollow ball, cut in half ...
When bridges, dam walls and other structures made of concrete are streaked with dark cracks after a few decades, the culprit is AAR: the alkali-aggregate reaction. AAR damages concrete structures all ...
Materials researchers from the Block Research Group at the ETH Zurich, together with architects supermanoeuvre, have revealed a prototype for an ultra-thin, sinuous concrete roof system with an ...
R esearchers at Princeton University's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering have created a new type of concrete that's 560% stronger, simply by using less materials . The new concrete, ...