The technique is pretty straightforward and potentially very cheap, but will need to be scaled up significantly to make a difference.

The team created the mortar by replacing a portion of natural sand with a mixture of silica aerogel particles and shredded PET (polyethylene terephthalate) plastic. Silica aerogel is already ...

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When ice and snow build up on walkways and driveways, here's what you should know about clearing the way for cars and pedestrians.

Question: Why does concrete get hot when it is curing? Answer: Simply put, water plus aggregates (gravel, sand, stone), plus cement (such as Portland cement) start a chain of chemical reactions called ...

Low-carbon concrete is now in use on in many construction projects—and it's cheap enough that it's poised to rival the ...

AI-driven models for predicting concrete compressive strength show promise, with machine learning techniques improving accuracy in SCM formulations.

University of Minnesota Extension Sand bedding is very popular with many dairy producers–until it comes to handling sand-laden manure. Sand is very comfortable for cows ...

:Strategy, the biggest corporate holder of bitcoin, reported a fourth consecutive quarterly loss on Wednesday as the company booked an impairment charge on its stockpile of the cryptocurrency.

The erosion threshold of sand-mud mixtures is investigated by analyzing the momentum balance of a sand particle or a mud parcel in the mixture bed surface, and a formula for the critical shear stress ...