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Cost-Effective Self-Healing Concrete

Cost-Effective Self-Healing Concrete

A team of scientists from the University of Rhode Island (URI) has recently published an article describing a self-healing concrete that would be inexpensive to produce. According to Elite Force Staffing, such concrete could help reduce structure repair costs, lower ...

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Waterless Concrete for the Moon

Waterless Concrete for the Moon

Dr. Houssam Toutanji, a professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, has recently published an article which deals with a concept of creating concrete structures on the lunar surface without the use of water. Since regular concrete requires water, ...

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Waterproof Concrete

Waterproof Concrete

Concrete, as strong as it may be, cannot stop water from seeping through it and forming cracks. The U.S. Company Penetron has developed a series of powder-like waterproof materials, which can protect concrete from even the strongest of elements. Penetron ...

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World’s First Concrete Screen

World’s First Concrete Screen

Imagine a wall, floor, or sidewalk with moving images. A new technology by the Danish company Innovation Lab that transforms concrete into a screen promises just that. Developed as a collaboration between engineering student Christoffer Dupont, architecture student Lene Langballe, ...

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LiTraCon – Light-Transmitting Concrete

LiTraCon – Light-Transmitting Concrete

Invented by Hungarian architect Áron Losonczi in 2001, LiTraCon is a mixture of thousands of optical fibers and fine concrete produced as precast building blocks and panels that are light-transmitting. LiTraCon rooms will be brightened and proximal objects situated on ...

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