
What Causes Concrete to Crack?
Concrete is durable, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly. However, this building material may also crack even after freshly pouring it, making you wonder if you’ve done something wrong or if the product is substandard. So, what causes concrete to crack? Concrete may crack due to excess water, shrinking, freezing, swelling, steel reinforcement corrosion, absence of control joints, and overloading. Tiny concrete cracks hardly affect a structure. However, those thicker than 0.3mm