Most recent advances in the field of self-healing cementitious materials

  • Van Tittelboom, Kim
  • Snoeck, Didier
  • Wang, Jianyun
  • De Belie, Nele
Publication date
January 2013
Publisher
Ghent University. Magnel Laboratory for Concrete Research

Abstract

While the Japanese researchers Ohama et al. [1] already mentioned in 1992 that a self-healing effect was noticed when polymer-modified concrete without hardener was made, the real pioneer in the research on self-healing concrete is Carolyn Dry from Illinois. The first time she proposed the use of encapsulated polymers to obtain self-healing concrete dates back to 1994 [2] and based on her publication output, she remained active within this field until 2003 [3, 4]. Within this timeframe, Victor Li started his research on fiber-reinforced self-healing concrete in Michigan [5]. From 2000 onwards other researchers in Japan (Mihashi, Nishiwaki et al.) [6-8], France (Granger et al.) [9], the United Kingdom (Joseph et al.) [10] and the Netherlands...

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