High ambient temperature, high concrete temperature ... Cooling water in the mix, or cooling the aggregates. Adding ice to the mix. Adding liquid nitrogen to the mix. During the construction ...

The ancient Romans were masters of building and engineering, perhaps most famously represented by the aqueducts.

Additionally, all concrete mix experienced a decline in structural ... the mixes with NCS behaved slightly better than those ...

Based on high-resolution imaging and chemical mapping techniques, the study found that at "extreme temperatures," the lime clasts allowed cracks in the concrete to "automatically heal before they ...

To make concrete, limestone, or calcium carbonate, is mixed with clay and other materials and then calcined at high temperatures, so CO2 is released via the thermal decomposition of calcium carbonate.