Self-healing concrete seals its own cracks Written by Sarah Korones, Contributor Nov. 3, 2012 at 6:09 a.m. PT Avoiding stepping on the cracks during casual sidewalk strolls might soon become a ...

The idea with self-healing concrete is to intervene in this process while the cracks are still tiny, sealing up the material to prevent not just a catastrophic collapse, but expensive maintenance ...

Self-Healing Concrete Repairs Its Own Cracks. It was to this problem that microbiologist Hendrik Jonker set his mind. Whilst thinking about how the body can heal bone through mineralization, he ...

Even the tiniest cracks on the surfaces of concrete structures can lead to big problems if they aren’t immediately repaired. Now researchers have demonstrated a sunlight-induced, self-healing ...

If cracks in concrete can be fixed when they're still tiny, then they can't become large cracks that ultimately cause structures to collapse. It is with this in mind that various types of self ...

Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) have developed a new self-healing concrete that could multiply structures’ lifespans and slash CO2 emissions. Most infrastructure is composed of ...

Scientists at Binghamton University have developed self-healing concrete that repairs cracks with fungi.In a paper recently published in the journal Construction and Building Materials, Binghamton ...

Concrete cracks heal themselves Date: June 29, 2015 Source: American Concrete Institute (ACI) ... Despite the effectiveness of self-healing in ECCs with micron-size cracks, ...

Well, Dutch researchers may have a solution to the sidewalk crack blight — they’ve created self-healing concrete. This concrete is filled with little pods that contain bacteria.

Still standing: Researchers crack the secret of ancient Rome’s self-healing concrete Scientists have long wondered what made the material so durable.

Self-healing roads might seem like something we could have in the future, but scientists and Google are working on making it ...