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ENGINEERIA: New wireless sensors make smart bridges smarter - 04/22/09 U-M News Service
Self-healing concrete for safer, more durable infrastructure - 02/26/09 U-M News Service
New building design withstands earthquake simulation - 01/14/09 U-M News Service
Smart bridges under development with new federal grant - 05/04/05 U-M News Service
U-M researchers make bendable concrete
Safer bridges, roads and buildings: self-healing, bendable concrete
04/21/2009 College of Engineering
Faculty members and students in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and across the College are conducting research that could help ensure the safety and durability of America's infrastructure. One research group has developed a type of concrete that heals itself when it cracks. It works because it can bend, which keeps crack widths tight. Other engineers recently simulated an off-the-charts earthquake in a lab to test the integrity of their more efficient technique for bracing high rise buildings in earthquake-prone zones. And a $17-million project will outfit test bridges with sensors to monitor cracking and corrosion. |
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What's Next?Victor Li, the E. Benjamin Wylie Collegiate Professor of Civil Engineering, will give a keynote address on self-healing concrete at the International Conference on Self-Healing Materials in Chicago in June 2009. |
