Every year, the world’s cities chew through staggering quantities of concrete, and every year they spit out a mountain of ...

The autoclave has long defined thermoset composites processing — snap-cure epoxy prepreg systems are built around the premise that it doesn't have to.

The concrete slab-on-ground is among the most performance-critical structural elements in industrial and commercial buildings, yet it has long been designed using methods whose fundamental limitations ...

A new method of connecting precast beams and columns will make it possible to quickly repair concrete buildings damaged by extreme events such as earthquakes and hurricanes. The patented technology, ...

A novel latticed steel-concrete composite beam-column joint for prefabricated frames carried over 40 percent higher peak ...

Concrete beams may be considered to be of three principal types: (1) rectangular beams with tensile reinforcing only, (2) T beams with tensile reinforcing only, and (3) beams with tensile and ...

According to the American Concrete Institute CT-18, fiber-reinforced concrete is a concrete mixture that is reinforced with dispersed, randomly orientated fibers. These fibers can be used in lieu of ...