by GCO | Aug 9, 2022 | experts
Brief Climate change is increasingly threatening civil infrastructure as flooding, heat waves and other climate disasters become more prevalent, but a far less visible impact from our evolving climate is the slow deterioration of the materials that make up our...
by GCO | Aug 4, 2022 | experts
Brief Julie Mark Cohen offers a review of enclosed cantilever construction, how it’s used today, how well it performs and key issues that are often overlooked. Some of those issues include bracing compression flanges of beams, directly exposing cladding to...
by GCO | Aug 3, 2022 | experts
Brief A study of the interlayer fracture behavior of functionally layered concrete found multi-mix fracture behavior depended on the placement delay and the mix combination. Results also showed that an uplift of fracture properties for functionally graded specimens...
by GCO | Jul 22, 2022 | experts
Brief Ibtisam Abbasi examines the pros and cons of incorporating a porous aggregate into the 3D printing of lightweight foam concrete. While foam concrete offers benefits such as improved insulation, being cost effective and able to be used in various applications,...
by GCO | Jul 15, 2022 | experts
Brief Cutting CO2 emissions is a critical goal for the concrete industry, and though it may seem counterintuitive, Craig Yeack writes adding small amounts of carbon, in the form of graphene, to concrete could help achieve that goal by improving the strength of...
by GCO | Jul 13, 2022 | experts
Brief Estimates of annual losses from hurricane damage may understate the real total by more than 80%, thus undervaluing hurricane-resistant construction, according to MIT researchers. The error is traced to the failure to take into account the density of a...
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