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Location: Cambridge, United States
In the 2,000 or so years since the Roman Empire employed a naturally
occurring form of cement to build a vast system of concrete aqueducts and other
large edifices, researchers have analyzed the molecular structure of natural
materials and...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
MIT civil engineers have for the first time identified what causes the most frequently used building material on earth -- concrete -- to gradually deform, decreasing its durability and shortening the lifespan of infrastructures such as bridges and...
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Location: NIST-Boulder, MS 104.00, 325 Broadway, Boulder, Colo. 80305-3328, United States
Using
a brace of the most modern tools of materials research, a team from the National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Northwestern University has
shed new light on one of...
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