EAST LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Engineers, students, and city leaders gathered in East Lansing Saturday to showcase the initial steps of a new “self-healing and heating bendable concrete.”
MSU president Kevin Guskiewicz joined Spartan faculty and staff at the Research Engineering Complex Friday morning to install the first official slab of the pavement.
“We’re so proud to conduct [this research] here at MSU. The relevance of the work that we are so passionate about,” Guskiewicz said.
Researchers point to the material’s flexibility, thermal expansion, and self-healing properties as important factors for embedded sensors that tend to be a failure creation point in existing concrete…