May 4—(Family Features) Concrete is a strong, durable and easy-to-maintain material that is popular for driveways, walkways, patios and more. Like most materials, though, it can inevitably wear down ...

Concrete cracks. That’s a fact of construction life that has been with the human race since it began building with concrete three millenia ago. The problem spurred the Romans to develop and perfect a ...

It's easy to stand in your garage, perhaps marveling at your hot water recirculation system or the web of cables entering your electrical load center, and forget that the bit of concrete you're ...

Architectural concrete as we know it today was invented in the 19th century. It reached new heights in the U.S. after World War II when mid-century modernism was in vogue, following in the footsteps ...

A chemical reaction that causes concrete to crack and deteriorate can now be identified without harm, according to Argonne scientists. Bridges, dams, nuclear plants and other concrete structures are ...

MATTITUCK, N.Y., March 30, 2021 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Capital Industries, a leading supplier of industrial concrete repair products, is proud to offer a solution for concrete cracks in industrial ...

A new self-healing fungi concrete could help repair cracks in aging concrete permanently, and help save America's crumbling infrastructure. A new self-healing fungi concrete, co-developed by ...

There’s a technological marvel on the horizon that promises to address the perennial issue of infrastructure degradation – ...

There's a stretch of highway in Pennsylvania, along U.S. 422. "And like every probably 20 feet you see a big pothole or cracking at the joint. Like everywhere. It was so bad." Yaghoob Farnam is a ...

Scientists reveal that the deterioration of modern concrete and asphalt structures is due to the presence of trace quantities of organic matter in these structures. Scientists reveal that the ...

Every structure, from small homes to large buildings, stands upon a foundation. This foundation does more than simply hold a building in place—it provides stability, balance, and protection against ...