Small cracks in your concrete driveway, patio, or foundation may not seem like much to worry about, and you may be tempted to ignore them. But left to their own devices, they can eventually widen into ...

Infrastructure supports and facilitates our daily lives – think of the roads we drive on, the bridges and tunnels that help transport people and freight, the office buildings where we work and the ...

Q Our fireplace brick is cracked, and we want to know if there is any way to fix it. Also, there are cracks in our patio. Can those be repaired or at least made less unsightly? A Let’s take the patio ...

Always wear a dust mask or respirator, impervious gloves and eye protection when working with Portland cement. Mix one part ...

If cracks in concrete can be fixed when they're still tiny, then they can't become large cracks that ultimately cause structures such as bridges to collapse. It is with this in mind that various ...

Congrui Jin receives funding from the Research Foundation for the State University of New York’s Sustainable Community Transdisciplinary Area of Excellence Program. Infrastructure supports and ...

Researchers have developed bacteria that produce a kind of glue that can "knit together" cracks in concrete structures. Nine students at Newcastle University in the U.K. engineered a microbe to swim ...

Earlier this year we took a look at the development of self-healing concrete that repairs its own cracks using a built-in healing agent. While this kind of technology holds promise for construction in ...