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New Concrete Recipes Could Cut Cracks

May 19, 2017
Learn how new concrete recipes incorporating by-products from the coal and steel industries can reduce road salt-related cracking on highways. A construction materials engineer discusses the issue and proposes using novel concrete blends made from coal and steel leftovers, which have shown resistance to cracking in experiments. The engineer also mentions a project using a bacterial slurry to fill in salt-induced gaps.
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