If you find yourself at this moment in a city of any size, take a look out the window. Most of what you see is made with a single material, one that dominates our world: concrete. It makes up the bulk ...

There is movement in concrete. Like other building materials, the unglamorous-if-ubiquitous slabs of cemented stone, slag, and sand constantly expand and contract in reaction to temperature and ...

William G. "Bill" Hime, one of the nation's first and premier experts in cement chemistry and a pioneer in failure analysis of concrete and construction materials, died on June 6 in Glenview, Ill. He ...

You walk on concrete every day without thinking about it. That sidewalk, your driveway, the foundation of every building around you; it's all made from essentially the same recipe. Funnily enough, ...

From floating in wet concrete to crushing cylinders at 10,000 PSI, this experiment breaks down the truth behind the world’s most trusted material. Concrete hardens through chemistry, not drying, and ...

Findings from a study by a team from Kanazawa University have been published recently in the International Journal of Civil Engineering. They report an evaluation of porosity-free concrete (PFC), ...

Editor’s note: This article first appeared in “The Spillway,” a newsletter of the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Upper Colorado Region, February 1993. The Pantheon in Rome has ...