Self-Healing Sculpture
Zack Jacobson-Weaver is the Materials Fabrication Studio Coordinator at A&D.
This bronze statue known as "The Dancing Girl of Mohenjo-Daro" is about 4500 years old. Bronze has been used in sculpture for it's balance of workability and durability. Workability being relative. Today we can cast a full size human figure in bronze in a matter of months. It is known that bronze statues from antiquity (on a LARGE scale) took as many as 25 YEARS to complete. That's like a 124-credit class or something.
HOWEVER, students from TU Delft ( http://www.tudelft.nl/ ) in the Design/Engineering program may have beaten bronze with concrete! Yea, concrete, the stuff that rips the tie-rods out of your car while bouncing through potholes in (ahem....sorry Mr. Steve) some place like Detroit. How is that possible? Self-healing concrete, duh! Self-Healing sculpture: that's what I'm talkin' about.
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