Concrete creeps. And now scientists think they know why.
CONCRETE CREEP When a needle puts pressure on a slab of cement paste, the needle causes an indentation partially due to an effect called creep. A new study suggests that creep may be a product of the rearrangement of concrete particles just a few nanometers wide.
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