Concrete curing tends to get pushed down the list of priorities on the jobsite. It doesn’t have the same immediate visual payoff as placing and finishing. Add this to budget constraints and tight ...

Once it's properly cured, you can trust a concrete driveway to give you exactly the kind of durability and longevity you need for decades of daily use. But their long-term performance depends a lot on ...

Self-curing concrete, or internally cured concrete, integrates water-retaining agents or prewetted porous materials within the cementitious matrix to maintain moisture for ongoing hydration. This ...

“People just don’t realize we’re still in the Stone Age. Or that humans will always live in the Stone Age.” —Donald Mikulic, retired senior paleontologist, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign I ...

A researcher in the Purdue University College of Engineering is using a $50,000 investment to further development of her patent-pending innovation designed to support the curing of concrete using ...

Curing of cementitious materials governs the progression of hydration reactions, the development of microstructure and ultimately the mechanical performance of concrete, mortar and other cement-based ...