Self-healing efficiency of cement-based materials containing extruded cementitious hollow tubes filled with bacterial healing agent
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Heuristically known at least since the first half of XIX century, the self-healing capacity of ce...ment-based materials has been receiving keen attention from the civil engineering community worldwide in the last decade.
The intensive use of cement-based building materials is a growing concern in terms of environment...al impact, since they significantly contribute to the global anthropogenic CO2 emissions.
Development and commercialization of self-healing concrete is hampered due to a lack of standardi...zed test methods. Six inter-laboratory testing programs are being executed by the EU COST action SARCOS, each focusing on test methods for a specific self-healing technique.