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Louisville researchers win $1M to find cheaper way to make cement
With help from Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute, Louisville researchers work to find cheaper, more energy-efficient ways for making cement.
June 15, 2018
Roadbuilding
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
New concrete mixture would allow roads to resist corrosion from road salt
Deicing salt is used on roads every winter to improve driving conditions, but the calcium chloride salt commonly used in this application reacts with the calcium hydroxide in concrete, forming a chemical byproduct called calcium oxychloride that causes roadways to degrade, crack, and crumble. According to a Drexel University press release provided to Phys.org, Yaghoob Farnam, a civil engineer, […]
May 29, 2017
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Acid mine drainage may be the answer for bendable, more durable concrete
The Eastern Pennsylvania Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation (EPCAMR) in Ashley donated approximately 180 gallons of acid mine drainage from Solomon Creek boreholes in Hanover Township to the University of Michigan to help with its research into a bendable, more durable concrete, The Times-Tribune reports. Robert Hughes, executive director of EPCAMR, told the news agency he hopes to […]
April 28, 2017
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