Erik Schlangen: A "self-healing" asphalt

About this film

Paved roads are nice to look at, but they’re easily damaged and costly to repair. Erik Schlangen demos a new type of porous asphalt made of simple materials with an astonishing feature: When cracked, it can be “healed” by induction heating. (Filmed at TEDxDelft.)

Directors & creators

TED.com

Subjects

TEDTalks;TED;Talks;demo;engineering;invention;science;technology;urban planning;TEDxDelft;2012

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