When to Seal New Concrete: The Science Behind Protection - Shield Insight Hub
Sealant Science in Precast Infrastructure: How Visco-Elastic Materials Are Redefining Watertight Performance in Concrete Assemblies
The Detroit News on MSN: The Inside Outside Guys: Understanding concrete sealers
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Precast concrete infrastructure, including manholes, vaults, chambers, and box culverts, forms the backbone of modern utility, water, and wastewater networks.
Seals are pinnipeds, a group of animals with three separate families—phocidae, otaridae, and odobenidae—that are the only mammals that feed in the water and breed on land.
New research shows Weddell seals avoid making extreme dives for prey during midday, allowing the seals to keep diving over and over without having to pause for long. This allows them to spend almost all of their time underwater, foraging under high-light conditions, which is best for visual hunters. (Michelle Shero, ©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
The night approaches quickly. A harbor seal plunges into the water, diving deep as the sunlight recedes. Through the dark, turbid waters, she searches for fish. Suddenly, the whiskers on her right cheek begin vibrating. And she’s off. Heather Beem is closely examining seal whiskers for insights to design new…
A female grey seal nursing her pup on the beaches of Sable Island, Nova Scotia. Gray seals give birth once a year and females will quickly lose ~30% of their body mass while the pup triples in size during a short nursing period of only 15-20 days.
