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While constructing cement roads using concrete slabs, a small gap is left between two slabs.

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Dear student,
The concrete slabs undergo thermal expansion during summer. The gap allows space for this expansion.
The gaps are left between concrete roads to accommodate for the expansion of concrete as the temperature changes. Without it, cracks form in the concrete which makes it weak.


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