Wood crackles as it burns in a chimney or campfire. When concrete is exposed to fire it chips and flakes - a process known as spalling. Both effects are due to the same phenomenon: water trapped ...

Self-compacting high-performance concrete has till now suffered from one weakness: when exposed to fire it flakes and splits, which reduces its loadbearing capacity. Scientists in Switzerland have now ...

image: A UCO study proves the feasibility of substituting up to 40% of conventional aggregates of self-compacting mortar for granite sludge, thus reducing the construction sector's environmental ...

SCC can be made from any of the constituents that are generally used for structural concrete. In the mix design of SCC, the relative proportions of key components are generally considered by volume ...

The service tunnel under the Dubai International Financial Centre complex, which is approximately 1.4km long, 10m high and between 20-40m wide, has been completed. The tunnel will be used for delivery ...

02 December 2007 Saudi Arabia - Saudi Readymix sponsored the second workshop on Concrete Deterioration and its Prevention, organised by the Centre for Engineering Research at the King Fahd University ...

If not for a family trip to his parents’ native Greece in 1997, when he was a civil engineering student in Germany, concrete mix master Andreas Tselebidis would have missed his life’s calling. When he ...

This aerial photo taken on Feb. 15, 2023 shows the construction site of the last ballastless track slab of Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway in Karawang, West Java, Indonesia. With the ...