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Engineers are replacing steel rebar with wavy 3D-printed plastic plates to stop buildings from rusting

The steel skeletons in our reinforced concrete buildings share a fatal flaw: corrosion. As water seeps in through microcracks ...
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Steel rebar may have met its match – in the form of wavy plastic

Who could possibly compare to Superman, the Man of Steel? Definitely not a man of plastic! Right? Wrong. Researchers at the ...