In the 2,000 or so years since the Roman Empire employed a naturally occurring form of cement to build a vast system of concrete aqueducts and other large edifices, researchers have analyzed the ...

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 ...

The Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) has announced the development of an effective structural strengthening method using a noncombustible carbon textile grid and ...

In an approach reminiscent of the classic board game "Battleship," Stanford researchers have discovered a way to characterize ...

Concrete has a long history of innovation, dating back to 6500 B.C.E. Although most of this material breakthroughs through ...

Scientists have been working for the last few years on enhancing concrete – arguably the most common construction material on ...

What is new is that as the headwall was printed, a lidar unit made precise scans of the structure, building up a digital virtual twin against which the real thing can be compared. Also, wireless ...

Forget scarves and mittens. Soon, we might be able to knit entire buildings. A team from the Swiss university ETH Zurich has developed a technique that allows them to knit textiles that can then form ...

Scientists have developed a technology where two robots can work in unison to 3D-print a concrete structure. Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed ...