- Title
- Robust evaluation of self-healing efficiency in cementitious materials - a review
- Creator
- Tang, Waiching; Kardani, Omid; Cui, Hongzhi
- Relation
- Construction and Building Materials Vol. 81, p. 233-247
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2015.02.054
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- During the last decade, self-healing of concrete has attracted so much attention in the research community as a promising tool toward more durable and sustainable infrastructures. Although various self-healing approaches have been vastly studied, employment of different assessment methods in these studies has made it difficult to compare the efficiency of various self-healing mechanisms. This paper presents a review of test methods which have been commonly utilized to assess the efficiency of self-healing mechanisms in concrete. Three broad categories of assessment methods are considered, namely visualization and determination, assessment of regained resistance and assessment of regained mechanical properties. Moreover, as a pathway toward standardized evaluation of self-healing mechanisms, various assessment techniques are evaluated against four proposed essential criteria - reliability, quality of results, operational considerations and in-situ applicability.
- Subject
- self-healing concrete; self-healing evaluation; robust concrete assessment
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1336681
- Identifier
- uon:27679
- Identifier
- ISSN:0950-0618
- Language
- eng
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