AI for American-Produced Cement and Concrete

Meta is continuing its long-term roadmap to help the construction industry leverage AI to produce high-quality and more sustainable concrete mixes, as well as those exclusively produced in the Unit…

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Hand-held devices for testing concrete properties would be more useful. Most concrete problems come from a bad mix - too much water, not enough cement, etc. Concrete testing usually involves cutting a core out of the poured slab and sending it to a lab. Something where you stick a probe in the mix and can reject it before pouring would help. Here are some on-site concrete testers.[1] They're heavy and a pain to use.

There should be an app for this. But that's so last-decade.

[1] https://store.forneyonline.com/concrete-testing-equipment/fr...

On-site, before pouring, they use the slump test: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_slump_test
Concrete slump test - Wikipedia

Glad to see someone pointed this out. The test consists of a bucket, plywood board & a stopwatch.