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UWM Engineer Developing High Performance Concrete

Jon Strelecki
Tom Luljak and Konstantin Sobolev

As winter winds down, there are two things we can be certain of:  It is going to begin to get warmer and there is a pothole out there waiting to give you and your car a sudden jolt.

But, what if we could make our roads capable of withstanding the forces of nature? What if we could build streets and highways out of material that held together and made potholes a thing of the past?

On this edition of UWM Today, meet an engineer who is developing high performance concrete that can last 120 years or more. Konstantin Sobolev is a professor of Civil Engineering and Mechanics 

Tom Luljak hosted UWM Today on WUWM for more than two decades and is the inaugural host of Curious Campus.