While steel reinforcement solves one of concrete’s greatest limitations, it creates an entirely new problem: Corrosion of embedded steel rebar is the most common form of concrete deterioration. There ...

With the need for more resilient, sustainable structures, a time-tested solution is reemerging with new relevance: concrete block construction. Known for its durability and inherent fire ...

Giant concrete blocks now surround Toronto's Union Station, the utilitarian product of a terrorist attack that shook the city seven years earlier. Pedestrians passing the city's primary transit ...

He’s opting to use a technique called Insulated Concrete Forms. He explained it simply as “a Styrofoam form you put together like Lego blocks.” Rebar reinforces the blocks and filled with ...

Surf Blocks are insulated composite concrete forms, similar to regular cinder blocks, made with plastic waste and reinforced with rebar and concrete. (Courtesy Photo/Civil Beat/2025) The pressures ...

The load cell measured the force applied on the concrete blocks and a deflectometer measured the relative displacement between the steel rebar and the concrete block (Figure 17). The curves of the ...

This void exposes the rebar frame that gives this DIY concrete coffee table its apocalyptic ... according to a former hacktivist US judge temporarily blocks Trump from firing Voice of America ...

Researchers from Pampanga’s Don Honorio Ventura State University found that spent coffee grounds (SCG) could become an ingredient for concrete blocks. They found that these concrete hollow ...

Anti poacher concrete blocks have been installed at farms following a rise in the number of hare coursing incidents. Since September, Wiltshire Police have made 11 arrests, seized eleven vehicles ...

Container shipping giant AP Moller-Maersk was not to blame for shipping 22 containers of “scrap copper” that turned out to be stuffed with worthless concrete blocks, an English court has found.

In this letter, we conduct nondestructive testing (NDT) with ultrasonic signals to determine the presence of a rebar within the concrete block. The experiments are performed at two distinct locations ...