As infrastructure ages, one question shapes the future of cities: How do we know the materials we build with will last?

The American Concrete Institute has released the new ACI Reinforced Concrete Design Handbook as a three-volume handbook providing guidance to professionals engaged in the design of reinforced concrete ...

Structures are designed for 50 to 100 years, depending on the requirements. Many civil engineering structures that are part of Dutch infrastructure are now over halfway through their service life, and ...

The site of the partially collapsed Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida. Image courtesy of NIST. Learn about the role material testing labs play in investigating concrete structural failures ...

PTI DC80.3/ICRI 320.6, "Guide for Evaluation and Repair of Unbonded Post-Tensioned Concrete Structures," a new document from the Post-Tensioning Institute (PTI) and the International Concrete Repair ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Concrete structures of the past weren’t built to withstand the fury of an earthquake but a groundbreaking solution from engineers at Purdue University could change that. A ...

Each time Mija Hubler drives through Denver, she notices bridges patched with concrete and thinks about how these structures might fail. Hubler, an associate professor in CU Boulder’s Department of ...