New Applications for Internally Cured Concrete Date Back Thousands of Years
Posted by Nicholas Schaulsohn on Thu, Mar 17, 2011 @ 12:45 PM
From Physorg - The secret, probably unknown to the Emperor Hadrian’s engineers at the time, was that the lightweight concrete used to build the dome had set and hardened from the inside out. This internal curing process enhanced the material’s strength, durability, resistance to cracking, and other properties so that the Pantheon continues to be used for special events to this day....
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