Being involved in the decorative concrete business for over 25 years, I've learned some very important lessons - as well as some costly ones - that have resulted in many sleepless nights. Early on, a ...

ForneyField is a mobile app allowing concrete field technicians to capture site and sample data from the field to the lab and beyond, offering an end-to-end solution for the construction materials ...

The results tell the experts everything they need to know, revealing not only the proportion of steel fibers in the sample, but also their orientation. "This is especially important when the concrete ...

Testing two or three samples from the public hospital’s concrete structure to determine its overall strength might not be enough and further analysis would be required to have a more reliable result, ...

Concrete may be one of the world's most familiar materials, yet much is still unknown about its inner microbial world. Researchers from Hiroshima University and Kyoto University found that once ...

MIT scientists examined concrete samples from the archaeological site of Privernum, Italy (left) and mapped out the ingredients within (right). The red section is a calcium-rich lime clast. Courtesy ...

The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) is driving a deployment of radio frequency identification technology that is enabling its own laboratory testing of samples from job sites, as ...