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MIT students create stronger concrete using plastic bottles
Undergraduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) discovered a way to use plastic water and soda bottles with fly ash to make concrete stronger and more flexible. According to a school press release, the researchers say that exposing plastic flakes to small doses of gamma radiation, pulverizing the flakes into a fine powder, […]
November 6, 2017
Roadbuilding
Understanding concrete on the atomic level may lead to a stronger product
MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) researchers have discovered the beginnings of a new approach to producing concrete, which could lead to new ways to make concrete stronger and more sustainable with local materials as additives that will offset concrete’s greenhouse gas emissions, according to a release from the institute. Oral Buyukozturk, a professor of civil […]
October 6, 2017
Roadbuilding
MIT research finds road maintenance can lower CO2 emissions
If Congress and drivers need another reason to invest money in road maintenance, reducing greenhouse gas emissions may be it. According to a report from MIT News, a paper published in the Journal of Cleaner Production by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Concrete Sustainability Hub (CSHub) researchers—Arghavan Louhghalam and Mehdi Akbarian, plus CSHub faculty director Professor Franz-Josef Ulm—offers […]
September 9, 2016
Roadbuilding
ARTBA’s TransOvation workshop to focus on impacts of driverless cars, new technologies
The American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) will host the Dr. J. Don Brock TransOvation Workshop at the San Jose Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, California, October 28-30. The workshop, themed “Where Technology Meets the Road,” will feature speakers and workshop leaders from IBM, Microsoft and the Automobile Manufacturers Alliance, as well […]
August 12, 2013
Roadbuilding
Don’t cry for me, cross the road now
You want to walk across the road. A car approaches. You stare into the blue eyes of Evita, uncertain. From behind those eyes comes a soft voice telling you, “Go ahead. I see you. I’m stopping, and it’s safe to cross the road.” But the car is driverless. The eyes and the voice are computers. […]
March 28, 2013
Roadbuilding
Celebrating 80 Years of Better Roads
From the mostly gravel roads that existed when the magazine was founded to today’s super highways, there has been extensive development, technology and building of local roads, state and federal highways and bridges during this time. Perhaps we can find a way to learn from the past.
November 10, 2011
Equipment
Hamlin Jennings will lead new Concrete Sustainability Hub at MIT
Hamlin Jennings, who is known among academic and industry researchers for his influential work on the fundamental chemistry of cement, will be the inaugural executive director of the Concrete Sustainability Hub (CSH), a research center established last fall at MIT in collaboration with the Portland Cement Association (PCA) and Ready Mixed Concrete (RMC) Research & […]
May 6, 2010
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