For Construction Pros

EBS 180 H 7-in. Hand-held Concrete Grinder

The new EBS 180 H is a hand-held concrete grinder with a walk-behind cart option and an improved load speed over the previous model. Seven-in. diamond wheels spin at up to 9,500 rpm to remove epoxy, ...
Frontiers

Experimental and numerical analysis on frost heave cracking of prestressed high-strength concrete (PHC) pipe piles in cold regions

With the depletion of global fossil energy and the rapid development of photovoltaic power, prestressed high-strength concrete (PHC) pipe piles are widely applied in photovoltaic projects due to their ...
Irish Sun

Bradley Walsh cracks up at Treasure Island question on Beat the Chasers – but would you know the answer?

BRADLEY Walsh cracks up at a Treasure Island question on Beat the Chasers – but would you know the answer? The hit ITV series returned last week for a new run of episodes, with contestants having the ...
IEEE

A Lightweight Deep Learning-Based Approach for Concrete Crack Characterization Using Acoustic Emission Signals

Abstract: This paper proposes an acoustic emission (AE) based automated crack characterization method for reinforced concrete (RC) beams using a memory efficient lightweight convolutional neural ...
IEEE

HDCB-Net: A Neural Network With the Hybrid Dilated Convolution for Pixel-Level Crack Detection on Concrete Bridges

Abstract: Crack detection on concrete bridges is a critical task to ensure bridge safety. However, many cracks on concrete bridges show low contrast and blurry edges in practice, which brings ...