Small cracks in your concrete driveway, patio, or foundation may not seem like much to worry about, and you may be tempted to ignore them. But left to their own devices, they can eventually widen into ...

Concrete cracks. That’s a fact of construction life that has been with the human race since it began building with concrete three millenia ago. The problem spurred the Romans to develop and perfect a ...

Infrastructure supports and facilitates our daily lives – think of the roads we drive on, the bridges and tunnels that help transport people and freight, the office buildings where we work and the ...

Concrete cracks. That’s a fact. After investigating the cracks and establishing the repair objectives, designing or selecting the best repair material and procedure is fairly straight forward. This ...

Q Our fireplace brick is cracked, and we want to know if there is any way to fix it. Also, there are cracks in our patio. Can those be repaired or at least made less unsightly? A Let’s take the patio ...

Concrete has a massive carbon footprint, so technologies that boost its performance and enable it to last longer could have profound benefits for the environment. This has led to the development of ...

Over time, it's common for concrete or asphalt surfaces to develop cracks and/or gaps due to a wide range of factors like settling, freezing/thawing, tree roots, installation issues, and more. Repairs ...

Researchers have developed bacteria that produce a kind of glue that can "knit together" cracks in concrete structures. Nine students at Newcastle University in the U.K. engineered a microbe to swim ...

Concrete cracks. The reasons for that are the stuff of engineering seminars, Ph.D. dissertations, and contractors’ worst nightmares. Here’s a short list: Differential Settlement: Concrete needs to be ...