Concrete is everywhere, right? We walk on it, drive on it, build our houses on it. But producing the ubiquitous construction material makes up a significant portion of global greenhouse gases that are ...

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Skokie, Ill.- Every industry has one outstanding reference book, and for concrete it is Design and Control of Concrete Mixtures. For more than 85 years, the publication has been the cement and ...

According to the American Concrete Institute CT-18, fiber-reinforced concrete is a concrete mixture that is reinforced with dispersed, randomly orientated fibers. These fibers can be used in lieu of ...

Concrete is one of the world's biggest carbon emitters. Benjamin Skuse asks if AI can help tame concrete’s climate impact ...

(Image: Drilling out a sample of an ancient Roman concrete structure in Portus Cosanus, Tuscany, in 2003.) Ancient Roman concrete was more durable than any developed before or since. "It's the most ...