Summer can be the busiest time for the construction industry. Not only do the summer months provide the chance to get a lot done, but it also helps you avoid the challenges that come with cold weather ...

The thermal monitoring of concrete plays an important role in ensuring performance and avoiding early-age cracking. Often, this scenario involves a mass-concrete placement such as a building’s large ...

Hot weather concrete practices are generally governed by ACI 305 Hot Weather Concreting. This document is typically the basis for most specifications that directly address the allowable temperature of ...

The technology shows particular effectiveness for snowfall accumulations of 2 inches or less. While heavy blizzards may ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — After several days of prolonged heat, bursting concrete panels became a side effect of the high temperatures. There have been three panels that burst during the week of July 8, ...

The project conducted a series of experiments to investigate residual bond strength between rebar and concrete after exposure to high temperatures. A total of 15 beam-end specimens based on ASTM A944 ...

Researchers have developed a new semi-analytical multiscale model that accurately predicts how concrete's stiffness and thermal-expansion behavior change at high temperatures, offering engineers a ...