Q: You have written about spalling or flaking bricks and why they’re that way. You said a cap of stone, wood or metal is needed to keep rain and snow out. Would you please explain what kind of cap you ...

DEAR TIM: I’ve got an odd problem. I have concrete spalling on a sidewalk that leads from my concrete driveway to my home. The concrete driveway and sidewalk were poured at the same time. The driveway ...

CLINTON – Downtown sidewalks, part of the recent $4 million downtown revitalization project, will have repairs done this fall ... at no cost to the town. Areas of the new sidewalks that suffer from ...

When fire breaks out in a tunnel the ensuing heat has little possibility of escaping. Temperatures rise rapidly to over 1000 degrees Celsius. The heat that develops causes the concrete to spall ...

KADENA AIR BASE, Okinawa — The 18th Wing will inspect more than 100 homes on base after spalling concrete was discovered in several unrenovated buildings. The wing identified spalling in 32 quadplexes ...

RESULTS of a laboratory study of some of the factors causing wear, scuffing, and spalling in passenger-car engines, with emphasis on the lubricating oil variables involved, are reported in this paper, ...

The town of Surfside received a required 40-year inspection report for the Champlain Towers South 16 hours after the beachside building’s catastrophic failure. An October 2018 inspection report found ...