Coconut Shells and Hemp Fibers Tested as Concrete Armor Against Underwater Abrasion
Concrete is the workhorse of hydraulic engineering, but underwater structures face a relentless enemy: abrasion. Sediment-laden water swirling around bridge ...
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Carbon Quantum Dots Turn Silica Fume Into a Stronger, Cheaper Cement Ingredient
A trace dose of carbon quantum dots boosts silica fume cement strength by up to 83.7% while cutting costs, offering ...
Wax foam 3D printing slashes formwork waste in concrete casting breakthrough
A wax foam that can be 3D printed, milled, and remelted has produced a full-scale concrete staircase formwork, cutting wax ...
Steel Mill Scale Could Turn Concrete Into a Shielding Supermaterial — But the Evidence Isn’t Ready
A critical review finds steel mill scale could replace sand in concrete and deliver radiation and EMI shielding, but the ...
Graphene Oxide Gives Concrete a Microscopic Makeover, Boosting Strength by Nearly 31 Percent
Researchers at Vellore Institute of Technology show that adding just 0.04 percent graphene oxide by weight of cement densifies the ...
Two-Stage AI Cracks the Hidden Pore Problem in Concrete Scans
A two-stage Vision Transformer–U-Net pipeline restores reliable detection of rare voids in concrete X-ray CT images where single-stage deep learning ...
AI Models Team Up to Spot Cracks in Bridges, Roads and Buildings Before Disaster Strikes
Researchers in Mexico have built an AI pipeline combining SAM2, Florence2 and Stable Diffusion XL to detect and segment cracks ...
AI Cracks the Concrete Code: Explainable Machine Learning Predicts Green Concrete Strength Before Mixing
Researchers trained an explainable XGBoost model on 1,670 field-recorded concrete mixes, achieving R-squared 0.9263 in strength prediction while using SHAP ...
Hydrogen Bonds Turn Concrete’s Weakest Layer Into a Vibration-Killing Shield
Molecular dynamics simulations reveal that hydroxyl-rich polymers like PVA strengthen cement's weakest interlayer through hydrogen bonding, boosting damping capacity by ...
Tiny PVA Fibers Stop Ultra-Strong Concrete From Exploding in Fires
Japanese researchers show that polyvinyl alcohol fibers alone can suppress explosive fire spalling in 150-MPa ultra-high-performance concrete through a two-stage ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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