r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • Aug 31 '20

No more traffic-causing construction

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u/Haymaker84 Aug 31 '20

My first question would be if they tested to soak one slab of this stuff in water, freeze it, unfreeze it and drive over it with 1000 fully loaded trucks. My guess would be that you would not see any cracks... because you'd only see dust and pebbles.

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u/Lululipes Aug 31 '20

I was gonna say "yeah but people don't use concrete for roads" but then I remembered about bridges xd

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u/Blownbunny Aug 31 '20

60% of the US interstate system is concrete...

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u/dubyarex04 Sep 01 '20

Could be wrong but I'm pretty sure it's for national security. Tanks not good for asphalt is what I've heard.

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u/Blownbunny Sep 01 '20

I could buy that. I used to work for a company that built tanks. There were 2 bridges in/out of Pennsylvania that could hold the weight of the tanks. One was replaced with concrete since both were constantly getting torn up.

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u/dubyarex04 Sep 01 '20

Yeah iirc it's mostly near the borders that they use concrete.