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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
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