{"id":108989,"date":"2020-06-22T09:05:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T16:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/intelligent-concrete-heals-itself-enabling-highways-and-bridges-to-prevent-their-own-damage"},"modified":"2020-06-22T09:05:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T16:05:48","slug":"intelligent-concrete-heals-itself-enabling-highways-and-bridges-to-prevent-their-own-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/intelligent-concrete-heals-itself-enabling-highways-and-bridges-to-prevent-their-own-damage","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIntelligent Concrete\u201d Heals Itself \u2013 Enabling Highways and Bridges to Prevent Their Own Damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/intelligent-concrete-heals-itself-enabling-highways-and-bridges-to-prevent-their-own-damage2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>\u2018Intelligent concrete\u2019 could cut down on road repairs and traffic.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Roads always seem to need repairs. Luna Lu is giving concrete the ability to \u201ctalk\u201d and even heal itself.<\/p>\n<p>Her lab at Purdue University is developing technology that would allow concrete-paved bridges and highways to reveal more accurately when they need repairs and to come equipped with materials that respond to potential damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Intelligent concrete\u2019 could cut down on road repairs and traffic. Roads always seem to need repairs. Luna Lu is giving concrete the ability to \u201ctalk\u201d and even heal itself. Her lab at Purdue University is developing technology that would allow concrete-paved bridges and highways to reveal more accurately when they need repairs and to come [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}