It can survive for centuries. When you're looking at a cracked floor or wall, you may wonder about the material's durability. Cracks are just a fact of concrete's life.
Concrete masons know that cracks almost always appear in concrete.
But unfortunately, concrete won't stretch that much. So shrinkage forces will fracture any large span, whether it's a sidewalk, driveway, or warehouse floor. If masons can't stop the cracks, the next best thing is to control them. So before the concrete dries, they deeply groove the surface to make weak spots, called control joints, so the concrete cracks at those lines and not randomly. Sometimes concrete doesn't cooperate, however.