Articles
Material science, application research, and the questions the polymer concrete field hasn't answered yet.
Each article works through a real question in depth — sometimes an experiment, sometimes a harder look at how the field thinks about this material. Where there's a result, we show it as it actually unfolded, including the null results and the surprises.
What Is Polymer Concrete?
A material with no cement, no water, and compressive strengths that make structural steel look modest. What polymer concrete actually is, how it's made, what it's good at, and what it isn't.
The Polymer Concrete Innovator's Dilemma
Clayton Christensen's disruption framework is one of the most cited — and most misapplied — ideas in business strategy. What happens when you apply it honestly to polymer concrete?
What Will Fail First?
A structure does not have to collapse to fail. A practical framework for choosing between conventional and polymer concrete by asking what is most likely to make the structure unusable — and which material changes that outcome.
The Fundamentals of Polymer Concrete Mix Design
Choose a resin, add aggregate, mix, place, and cure — that names the ingredients but not how to make them work together. Designing the binder, aggregate, workability, reinforcement, cure, and manufacturing system as one problem, with safety built in from the start.
Between Concrete and Composites: How Standards Learned to Recognize Polymer Concrete
How polymer concrete emerged through concrete technology, chemical-resistant construction, plastics, composites, and civil product engineering—and how its standards gradually learned to treat it as a distinct material.
Coming Up
In progress or plannedFifty Years of Research and We Still Can't Fully Predict How It Cures
The cure event is the most consequential thing that happens to a polymer concrete part. It is also the least studied. Here's what we know, what we don't, and why it matters.
What Hydrogen Sulfide Does to a Manhole
The mechanism behind biogenic acid corrosion — why ordinary concrete manholes fail, how fast they fail, and what the chemistry looks like at the material level.
Why Stronger Does Not Always Mean Better
The tradeoff among compressive strength, tensile strain capacity, shrinkage stress, brittleness, creep, and thermal behavior — and why fixation on maximum compressive strength misses what actually governs failure.