While it doesn't burn in the conventional sense, concrete chips and flakes when exposed to fire, for the same reasons that firewood crackles. Water trapped inside the material vaporizes when subjected ...
Self-compacting high-performance concrete has till now suffered from one weakness: when exposed to fire it flakes and splits, which reduces its loadbearing capacity. Scientists in Switzerland have now ...
A new way of protecting concrete from fire damage using materials recycled from old tires has been successfully tested. A new way of protecting concrete from fire damage using materials recycled from ...