Concrete may be one of the toughest materials you can use in building, but often, it will eventually crack. Luckily, there's ...

‘Smart concrete’ could cut down on road repairs and traffic WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Roads always seem to need repairs. Luna Lu is giving concrete the ability to “talk” and even heal itself. Her lab at ...

Cracking is a natural, expected, and accepted behavior of concrete. However, cracks may affect the appearance, function, durability, service life, or more seriously, the structural integrity of the ...

Here, we tell the slab where to crack and widths of contraction joints or cracks in the joints are largely controlled by the joint spacing and concrete shrinkage. As joint spacings and concrete ...

Each time Mija Hubler drives through Denver, she notices bridges patched with concrete and thinks about how these structures might fail. Hubler, an associate professor in CU Boulder’s Department of ...