One of the leading threats to these structures is concrete shrinkage in the walls which can lead to cracks, enabling water to escape or contaminants to leech into the environment. There are many ...

When positioned in the upper or top portion of the slab thickness, steel reinforcement limits the widths of random cracks that may occur because of concrete shrinkage and temperature restraints ...

Take a good, long look at your driveway - what do you see? For most of us, the answer is concrete, and likely cracked ...

Lead researcher Dr. Chamila Gunasekara from RMIT University said the team had developed a technique using waste carpet fibers to reduce early-age shrinkage cracking in concrete by up to 30% ...

Researchers from Hohai University, Northwestern University, and Politecnico di Milano have introduced a pioneering mesoscale mechanical discrete model, LDPM-MicroF, to simulate the fracture behavior ...