The durability of concrete for outdoor items such as patios, sidewalk slabs and steps is well known, but concrete`s brittleness and vulnerability to cracking is less known. Water entering small ...

Materials scientists develop techniques to control the microscopic shape of cement particles for the bottom-up manufacture of stronger, more durable and more environmentally friendly concrete.

Double O Studio has designed Trefoil House in Aroeira, Portugal, as a series of overlapping concrete shapes topped by a long swimming pool. Set on a sandy site amongst pine trees close to the Atlantic ...

HOUSTON - (Dec. 7, 2016) - Bringing order to disorder is key to making stronger and greener cement, the paste that binds concrete. Scientists at Rice University have decoded the kinetic properties of ...