electrically conductive concrete tagged posts

1. Iowa State engineers don’t need a plow to clear snow from the heated test slabs they installed at the Des Moines International Airport. Larger photo. Photos courtesy of Halil Ceylan.
2. A thermal image of the heated airport pavements.

Engineers have installed 2 test slabs of electrically conductive concrete and the pavement has effectively cleared ice and snow. Iowa State University’s Halil Ceylan picked up his smartphone, opened up an app and called up the remote controls for the first full-scale test slabs. When a winter storm approaches, Ceylan can use that app to turn on the heated pavement system and, thanks to real-time video capability, watch as snow and ice melts away.

Late last fall Prof...