Awesome. People take concrete for granted. Even at small scales (e.g. your patio) with formulas provided on the cement bag, concrete can go wrong (crazing, scaling, cracks). There's a lot of unappreciated craft in the work, not only in the composition and mixing, which is what this research seems dedicated to, but also in the placing, leveling, curing, finishing.

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alephnerd 4 hours ago | parent [-]

^ This.

Civil Engineering is hard, and concrete is a perfect example of how something as "simple" as concrete in reality requires significant interdisciplinary collaboration with domain experts in ChemE, MatSE, Physics, Applied Math, and CS.

Some of the most robust HPC applications I saw back when I was an undergrad were done by Civil and Structural Engineers in the ONG space.

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cucumber3732842 2 hours ago | parent [-]

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Silamoth an hour ago | parent | next [-]

That’s funny because I don’t see civil engineers being “glazed” much online. Usually they’re the butt of jokes and ridicule from other engineering majors who perceive civil engineering as less ‘rigorous’ than other disciplines. I’m curious where you see this civil engineering “glazing”?

	▲	cucumber3732842 32 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		They're usually held up to as the pinnacle of "real engineers" in discussions where software people are trying to portray software as insufficiently rigorous. Yeah the other varieties of "real engineer" think of them about the same way that NPs think of MDs.

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GorbachevyChase 29 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Come fight me, Java nerd.