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#Youth Materials and structures

Souad Abou Zeid, chemistry researcher

Find out more about Souad Abou Zeid, a chemistry researcher who is contributing to the fight against environmental pollution.

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#Youth Materials and structures

Daniella Gabra Gilda, chemistry researcher

Find out more about Daniella Gabra Gilda, a researcher who is helping to make the construction of buildings more environmentally friendly.

Photo ancienne de l’arc du viaduc de Garabit en cours de montage

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Gustave Eiffel and his construction of metal arch bridges

Gustave Eiffel is known worldwide as the builder of the Eiffel Tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, but he is also remembered for having built metal railway structures, in particular metal arch bridges.

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#Data Materials and structures

The data tell you everything about the behaviour of concrete!

How special concrete structures age. The partners of the national CEOS.fr project publish, in open data, their datasets on the cracking and durability of concretes.

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Recommendations for preventing disorders due to delayed ettringite formation

The delayed ettringite formation causes an expansion and a cracking of concrete. Concrete durability experts are familiar with the phenomenon, the conditions under which it occurs and how to prevent it for future structures.