UT Research Team Creating Innovative, Eco-Friendly Concrete Mixtures
Sazzadul Saykat and Caleb Napper each grab a side of the large mixing bowl filled with concrete and carry it across the lab floor to pour into a funnel. As the concrete mix gradually seeps into the center of a circle drawn on the ground, the graduate students measure the rate of the flow and how many inches the mix spreads to fill the circle.
Surrounding them in the John D. Tickle Engineering Building are large orange Home Depot buckets filled with rocks and sand from throughout the state of Tennessee.
Saykat and Napper have spent countless hours performing the same routine over the last few months, hoping to play a major role in creating a more environmentally friendly method of producing concrete.