Testing the WWI concrete ships and WWII concrete barges (thecretefleet.com)

29 points by surprisetalk a day ago

7 comments:

by 5555624 23 minutes ago

ASCE (American Society opf Civil Engineering) has an annual Concrete Canoe Competition. (https://www.asce.org/communities/student-members/conferences...)

by jimnotgym 2 hours ago

Interestingly concrete yachts are a thing. Ferro-cement is the term, but it is just reinforced concrete. You can buy very large yachts for small amounts of money with yachts made this way in the 70s.

Insurance can be tricky for no really good reason

by UncleSlacky an hour ago

Reminds me of "pykrete" which was also a potential construction material for ships (notably aircraft carriers) proposed during WWII:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pykrete

by ninalanyon 2 hours ago

Was this created by AI and not proofread or created by a human and not proofread? The paragraph relating to the Musgraves taking over a factory is repeated and it reads rather oddly.

Anyway, regardless of that nitpick, it was an interesting read.

by warumdarum an hour ago

You could do that today for cargodrone boats sintering or epoxy glueing beachsand?

by sandworm101 an hour ago

Or melt the sand and form it into long strips, fibers, then glue the fibers together in some sort of glass-fiber-epoxy type material. Get the patent done quick because that sounds viable imho.

by margalabargala an hour ago

Glass fiber? Ridiculous, that'll never work.

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