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A "self-healing" asphalt

Erik Schlangen · TED

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About

Paved roads are nice to look at, but they're easily damaged and costly to repair. Erik Schlangen demos a new type of porous asphalt made of simple materials with an astonishing feature: When cracked, it can be "healed" by induction heating.

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDxDelft
Speaker
Erik Schlangen
Year
2012
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Engineering, Society and politics, Art, architecture and design
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
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