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Sewn Fabric Mold Cuts Concrete and Steel in Beam Test

Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Boston University have built a 3-meter concrete beam. It is about 10 feet long. They made it in a sewn fabric mold instead of a stiff one. A standard beam that carries the same weight needs much more material. The new beam used only about a third of the concrete and…

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