The first prize of Dh 15,000 was bagged by Ahmed Al Harrasi, a student of the UAE University, who made a concrete cube with a compressive strength difference of 0.12 Mega Pascal. The second prize of ...

Voiceover: A concrete cube is plucked out of the tank. After air-drying the water off its surface, the cube is lifted by a six-axis robotic arm. Laser sensors then measure its dimensions. Finally, it ...

Maturity and compressive strength of concrete is tested through both destructive and non-destructive methods. Destructive test involve damaging some of an element or the structure. Some would like to ...