Could so-called ‘hot mixing’, with pockets of reactive lime clasts inside the cured concrete provide self-healing properties? At its core, this is the recipe which any hydraulic cement uses ...

Researchers are developing the biomaterial as a more environmentally friendly alternative to concrete, but any wide-scale use ...

If self-healing concrete can reduce the rate of degradation, nuclear plants could operate longer with fewer costly repairs. This discovery also raises the possibility of designing future reactors ...

This everyday miracle is what inspired [Congrui Jin] to try to find a way to make concrete self-healing. The answer she and her colleagues are working on might surprise you. They are adding fungus ...

The lime clasts resulting from hot mixing imparted self-healing properties to the concrete. When cracks formed, they ...

A service-learning project about sustainable concrete will be provided. Emerging topics such as self-healing concrete, self-consolidating concrete, mart concrete, 3D concrete printing and ultra-high ...