Concrete structures are commonly cracked when in service. To overcome issues arising from cracking, self-healing concrete is being developed. Together with the development of the material, techniques to verify and quantify self-healing are being developed. A number of destructive techniques have been used in the past. It would be beneficial to use non-destructive testing for continuous monitori...

Development of self-sensing and self-healing concrete is essential to minimize the labour-intensive monitoring repair activities conducted for maintenance structures. A type can be achieved by using microbial agents that induce calcium carbonate precipitation inside a crack. Recently, biogranules consist nitrate reducing microorganisms were presented as new generation healing agent biogranule c...

The production of cement accounts for 5 to 7% carbon dioxide emissions in the world, and its broad-scale use contributes climate imbalance. As a solution, biotechnology enables cultivation bacteria fungi synthesis calcium carbonate as one main constituents cement. Through biomineralization, which is initial driving force compounds compatible with concrete, crystallization, these can be delivere...