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Researchers Make Bendable Concrete
karvind writes "PhysOrg is reporting that scientists from University of Michigan have developed a new type of fiber-reinforced bendable concrete. The new concrete looks like regular concrete, but is 500 times more resistant to cracking and 40 percent lighter in weight. Tiny fibers that comprise about 2 percent of the mixture's volume partly account for its performance. Also, the materials in the concrete itself are designed for maximum flexibility. Because of its long life, the Engineered Cement Composites (ECC) are expected to cost less in the long run, as well." Michigan roads must make the perfect test cases for this stuff, and I look forward to their improvement.
How quaint!
How about a concrete jumping castle?
why? because nobody makes the first jump. (shameless matrix refrence)
this one can be solved with bending - Bender Bending Rodriguez
"Clearly you haven't experienced the joys of ice-cube trays."
What have Jell-O shots got to do with it?
KFG
The architects, contractors, and construction workers of the Petronas towers in Kuala Lumpur simultaneously shout, "D'oh!"
Well, it runs on toasters.
Concrete is just the next logical step.
Just another "DOJ fascist authoritarian totalitarian bootlicker" -- Zeio
Negitive mass
...can it withstand the impact of a jet airplane?
No, but because of it's bendability, it can actually dodge incomming plains.
Headlines Plane hits building....
Today the newly launched Airbus was hijacked by an unknown group of radical loons just before 3.00pm EST. After the terrorists seize control of the cockpit they flew the plane into the side of the world tallest building 'the humgo ercto 'standing over 675m in height built in 2006 housed in a flexible concrete sheath. The building stood the attack, bystanders claim the plane hit the build folding into a pile of scrape metal. One claimed the building swayed a full football fields length as it took the blow. The bad news is as the ball of molten steel fell from the sky it took out the 3 Skyscrapers below ;(
Clearly you haven't experienced the joys of ice-cube trays.
Don't ask me how to apply that material to roads, though.
Sure as I c'n set a wireless tower in the holler, I c'n say that there a'int no way to freeze the roads south of Virginny!
World Trade Center made of bendable concrete: 262m $US
747: 5m $US
Razor Blade to hijack plane: 2.95 $US
The look on Osama's face as the plane bounces off the building: priceless.
It doesn't have to
What the hell is flexible concrete going to prove when CA is under water? ;)
As the buildings are washing up and down while the sea stays as steady as a rock.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Best not use it for runways, then.
We can finally make people more comfortable when we toss them off a bridge into the ocean!
Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. --Nietzsche
No, but because of it's bendability, it can actually dodge incomming plains.
What, we're worried now about people crashing Oklahoma into buildings as an act of terrorism?
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