scholarly journals Control of the Polymorphism of Calcium Carbonate Produced by Self-Healing in the Cracked Part of Cementitious Materials

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 546 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heesup Choi ◽  
Hyeonggil Choi ◽  
Masumi Inoue ◽  
Risa Sengoku
2021 ◽  
Vol 871 ◽  
pp. 386-391
Author(s):  
Qin Wen Chen ◽  
Chun Xiang Qian

Microorganisms can effectively heal the cracks of cementitious materials through the formation of calcium carbonate by microbial mineralization deposition, which has a wide application prospect in cementitious materials. In order to analysis the activity change and distribution of microorganisms in cementitious materials, this paper prepared cement pastes incorporated microbial powder, and extracted microorganisms by pre-crushing, grinding and ultrasonic, at the age of 3, 7 and 28 days respectively. The relationship between the optical density and effector cells is near linear fit, reflecting the activity change and specific distribution of microorganisms in cement paste specimen of different ages. The in-depth research on the activity change and distribution of microorganisms in the microbial cementitious materials can effectively characterize the microorganisms in the cementitious materials, which has a guiding role in microbial self-healing cementitious materials.


AIP Advances ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 075018
Author(s):  
Xi Wang ◽  
Hao Qiao ◽  
Ziwei Zhang ◽  
Shiying Tang ◽  
Shengjun Liu ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 299 ◽  
pp. 124254
Author(s):  
Jun Ren ◽  
Xianfeng Wang ◽  
Dongfeng Li ◽  
Shengye Xu ◽  
Biqin Dong ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haoliang Huang ◽  
Guang Ye

In this research, self-healing due to further hydration of unhydrated cement particles is taken as an example for investigating the effects of capsules on the self-healing efficiency and mechanical properties of cementitious materials. The efficiency of supply of water by using capsules as a function of capsule dosages and sizes was determined numerically. By knowing the amount of water supplied via capsules, the efficiency of self-healing due to further hydration of unhydrated cement was quantified. In addition, the impact of capsules on mechanical properties was investigated numerically. The amount of released water increases with the dosage of capsules at different slops as the size of capsules varies. Concerning the best efficiency of self-healing, the optimizing size of capsules is 6.5 mm for capsule dosages of 3%, 5%, and 7%, respectively. Both elastic modulus and tensile strength of cementitious materials decrease with the increase of capsule. The decreasing tendency of tensile strength is larger than that of elastic modulus. However, it was found that the increase of positive effect (the capacity of inducing self-healing) of capsules is larger than that of negative effects (decreasing mechanical properties) when the dosage of capsules increases.


2016 ◽  
Vol 92 ◽  
pp. 499-511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haoliang Huang ◽  
Guang Ye ◽  
Chunxiang Qian ◽  
Erik Schlangen

Author(s):  
Héctor Ferral Pérez ◽  
Mónica Galicia García

In recent years, biological mineralization has been implemented as a viable option for the elaboration of new building materials, protection and repair of concrete by self-healing, soil stabilization, carbon dioxide capture, and drug delivery. Biogenic mineralization of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) induced by bacterial metabolism has been proposed as an effective method. The objective of the present study was to characterize the bioprecipitation of CaCO3 crystals by Bacillus subtilis in a semi-solid system. The results show that CaCO3 crystals were produced by day 3 of incubation. The prevalent crystalline polymorph was calcite, and in a minor proportion, vaterite. The presence of amorphous material was also detected (amorphous CaCO3 (ACC)). Finally, the crystallinity index was 81.1%. This biogenic calcium carbonate does not decrease pH and does not yield chloride formation. Contrary, it increases pH values up to 10, which constitutes and advantage for implementations at reinforced concrete. Novel applications for biogenic calcium carbonate derived from Bacillus subtilis addressing self-healing, biocementation processes, and biorestoration of monuments are presented.  


2018 ◽  
Vol 761 ◽  
pp. 152-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip van den Heede ◽  
Bjorn van Belleghem ◽  
Maria Adelaide Araújo ◽  
João Feiteira ◽  
Nele de Belie

The service life of steel reinforced concrete in aggressive marine environments could be increased substantially by embedding a self-healing mechanism that ensures autonomous healing of cracks upon their occurrence. Previous proof-of-concept experiments have shown that the incorporation of encapsulated polymer-based healing agents (HAs) counts as a very appropriate way to achieve this goal. Over the years, several polymer-precursor-capsule systems have been developed in that perspective at our laboratory. Cementitious materials containing either commercial or in-house developed encapsulated HAs have been subjected to preliminary feasibility tests (water absorption, permeability tests, etc.). However, these experiments did not yet allow for a fast and straightforward assessment of the self-healing efficiency (SHE) in relation to the expected durability and service life performance of the material. This approach would have many advantages when having to select the most suitable polymer-precursor-capsule system for a particular concrete application. In this paper, a modified chloride migration test based on the one prescribed in NT Build 492 has been proposed to support the development of self-healing concrete for marine environments. Four polymer-based HAs have been screened that way, i.e. an in-house developed high-viscosity polyurethane (PU) precursor, a commercial low-viscosity PU precursor, the same commercial PU precursor with addition of accelerator and benzoyl peroxide (BPO), and an in-house developed 2-component acrylate-endcapped precursor + cross-linker. For now, a highly repeatable SHE value of 100% could only be obtained for the second option.


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