[Stoves] Bendable Concrete

[Crispin Pemberton-Pigott]

Dear Friends

If you are thinking that concrete stoves are too prone to cracking, there is a new product which flexes.

"Bendable Concrete

"The nickname for Engineered Cementitious Composites (ECC) is self-explanatory: bendable concrete. Specially coated microscopic polymer fibers slide past each other instead of snapping under stress, so ECC bends without breaking. The material has been used to create stretchable expansion joints for a Michigan bridge, and to allow the coupling beams in a 41-story tower in Yokohama to flex during Japan's frequent earthquakes."

>From http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4205068.html

Regards
Crispin