Professor Li | University of Michigan

Beginning my research, this was one video that came up. Professor Li of the University of Michigan College of Engineering has been studying bendable concrete for some time now. He has even gone as far as placing test strips on roads to see if it is a feasible replacement to standard concrete. It was very interesting to learn about some other things about flexible concrete. It had never crossed my mind that the steel could rust and expand causing the concrete to crack which is a force that can easily be mitigated by the flexible concrete. I also didn't think that the flexible concrete could fix its cracks with just air and water. This is important considering, in places like Buffalo where the winter weather tears roads apart, pot holes may never be able to form since the water that would fill the cracks could then help fix those cracks.

This video is also helpful in showing how differently standard and flexible concrete act under normal, every-day loading capacities and even how much higher of a load the flexible concrete can take when compared to standard concrete.