Flexible Concrete

Just when you thought certain things couldn't be improved upon, along comes an engineer tinkering. Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed concrete comprising of 2% tiny fibres. The addition of the fibre had the remarkable effect of making the concrete 500 times more resistant to cracking, 40% lighter and flexible. This summer the concrete will be put on a real world test, as the Department of Transportation in Michgan retrofits a section of a bridge -- limited real world use is already in place, and there are plans to use the concrete in more roadway construction.

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  1. zydeco fish7:59 p.m., May 11, 2005

    I never knew I could become excited about concrete, but that did it for me.

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