Tech fasting is a total disconnect from the technology, embracing the nature by just being yourself by relieving all strings attached.

‘Gonna be in my regular weekend tech fasting. Will not be available, call you monday morning, tc dumbo‘ – Vishanth texted me couple of days back. He spends most such weekends in his hill station resort.

Vishanth is a Construction Management professional for whom his job demands his online availability 24×7. Diligent since early stage of career, his long standing efforts got paid off soon. Now the Principal Project Manager in US, tailor made his schedule so that it perfectly aligns with his personal and professional life.

Woke up to his call, in high spirits he asked “Feel like appreciating my concrete decision of tech fasting for self healing from stress?”

“Yes, yes, in fact lot common for you and concrete” I replied playfully.

“Loosu, started in the morning itself“, he sensed something coming.

“No.. I am serious. Both make good bonds, are strong, cannot take tension, will perform good upon reinforcement, takes time to settle in one place and are self healing from stress” I chuckled at his astonishment.

It was until early 2030’s the task of sealing cracks in concrete using sand, aggregates etc pertained. Formation of cracks in concrete were common untill self healing concrete was developed. Reasearches happened on various ways to achieve self healing property of concrete. One of them was to add Super Absorbent Polymer (SAP) to the concrete. This on formation of cracks get exposed to humidity and swells, thereby seals the crack. Another research was on adding Calcium Carbonate precipitating microorganisms which seal the crack with layers of Calcium Carbonate.

“Thank god, you didn’t point out transparent concrete or bio luminescent concrete!”, he scored.

Reference: https://www.ugent.be/ea/structural-engineering/en/research/magnel/research/research3/selfhealing

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