LSU’s bendable concrete project hits breakthrough with sugarcane byproduct 

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The quest by LSU construction management researchers to develop an engineered cementitious composite, or bendable concrete, continues.  Last year, researchers constructed three 60-foot-long overlay sections on top of a section of deteriorated asphalt at the Louisiana Transportation Research Center, but they have recently discovered that swapping the sand used with ash from sugarcane bagasse makes

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