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Self-Healing Phenomena in Cement-Based Materials: State-of-the-Art Report of RILEM Technical Committee 221-SHC: Self-Healing Phenomena in Cement-Based … 11 2013th Edition
Author(s): Mario de Rooij (Editor), Kim Van Tittelboom (Editor), Nele De Belie (Editor), Erik Schlangen (Editor)
- Publisher: Springer
- Publication Date: 4 May 2013
- Edition: 2013th
- Language: English
- Print length: 286 pages
- ISBN-10: 9400766238
- ISBN-13: 9789400766235
Book Description
Self-healing materials are man-made materials which have the built-in capability to repair damage. Failure in materials is often caused by the occurrence of small microcracks throughout the material. In self-healing materials phenomena are triggered to counteract these microcracks. These processes are ideally triggered by the occurrence of damage itself.
Thus far, the self-healing capacity of cement-based materials has been considered as something “extra”. This could be called passive self-healing, since it was not a designed feature of the material, but an inherent property of it. Centuries-old buildings have been said to have survived these centuries because of the inherent self-healing capacity of the binders used for cementing building blocks together.
In this State-of-the-Art Report a closer look is taken at self-healing phenomena in cement-based materials. It is shown what options are available to design for this effect rather than have it occur as a “coincidental extra”.
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Self-healing materials are man-made materials which have the built-in capability to repair damage. Failure in materials is often caused by the occurrence of small microcracks throughout the material. In self-healing materials phenomena are triggered to counteract these microcracks. These processes are ideally triggered by the occurrence of damage itself.
Thus far, the self-healing capacity of cement-based materials has been considered as something “extra”. This could be called passive self-healing, since it was not a designed feature of the material, but an inherent property of it. Centuries-old buildings have been said to have survived these centuries because of the inherent self-healing capacity of the binders used for cementing building blocks together.
In this State-of-the-Art Report a closer look is taken at self-healing phenomena in cement-based materials. It is shown what options are available to design for this effect rather than have it occur as a “coincidental extra”.
