Drexel researchers are recycling coal ash, a waste product from coal power plants, to make a porous, lightweight aggregate that can be used as a concrete additive to aid the hardening process. Coal ...

Where a cantilevered concrete system may be a fairly common feature in today’s concrete buildings, a cantilevered concrete system that the majority of the building rests above draws some attention.

As infrastructure ages and deteriorates over time, the development of self-healing concrete could provide a more sustainable solution by reducing the need for repairs and maintenance. Researchers at ...

Researchers recently reported on the science behind its special concrete, that can warm itself up when it snows, or as temperatures approach freezing. There's a patch of concrete on Drexel ...

Cracking is a natural, expected, and accepted behavior of concrete. However, cracks may affect the appearance, function, durability, service life, or more seriously, the structural integrity of the ...

Roman concrete has shrugged off two millennia of earthquakes, wars, and weather that would pulverize most modern structures in a fraction of the time. The surprising reason is not mystical at all, but ...

Ajax Engineering, the leading concreting equipment manufacturer in India, has unveiled its cutting-edge artificial intelligence platform, Concrete GPT. This AI chatbot paves the way for professionals ...

It’s a most unlikely habitat and really has no creature comforts to recommend it. But University of Delaware researcher Julie Maresca and students in her lab are studying concrete and the life that ...

Engineering students from Brigham Young University are proving that concrete does actually float. On Friday, teams of college students converged on Utah Lake State Park for the annual American Society ...