I Spy Science: What is Concrete?
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Concrete is mixed a bit like cake batter - TU Graz researcher Dirk Schlicke demonstrates it and explains what concrete is, what it can do and how it is made.
Concrete is mixed a bit like cake batter - TU Graz researcher Dirk Schlicke demonstrates it and explains what concrete is, what it can do and how it is made.
Dirk Schlicke describes concrete as a “low-cost, high-performance building material”. For him, concrete has many advantages, but could be optimized. Especially the amount of concrete we use.
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And it is also having an impact on our cities.
Scientists at TU Graz are researching how urban
living spaces can respond to these changes.
To learn something at university, you don’t always have to go to the lecture hall or library. Sometimes one of Austria’s most famous construction sites is the perfect place for this.
With a digital monitoring system developed in-house, researchers at TU Graz want to help make costly and potentially dangerous mistakes in concrete work a thing of the past.
One of the first major studies on abrasion emissions from rail vehicles shows that a lot of particulate matter contaminated with heavy metals is produced especially along railway lines.
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