TU Delft - Self-healing concrete for performance based infrastructures

Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Materials & Environment section, Stevinweg 1, NL-2618 CN Delft, The Netherlands.
A specifically developed ‘healing agent’ added to the concrete mix results in autonomous repair of occurring cracks. Application of this novel ‘self-healing concrete’ results in waterproof and low maintenance constructions. Application of self-healing concrete assures continuous functional performance of infrastructure.
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[@RidwanS7]

I've tried this experiment. There're so many factors including bacteria species and their capability to induce calcite. Unfortunately, they are limited to heal overall crack as you can find it too in other references. It still needs further experiments.

[@thegreatmonster]

Can we also talk about the downsides of this idea? Does the bacteria heal it all, and where and when does it stop, how does the bacteria know when to stop? (This is when the bacteria is overactive.) What happens when the cracks are not fully healed in this process? Are you planning to completely pull human interaction away of repairs? Who's going to check whether the concrete is really healed and to what extent? (This is when the bacteria doesn't work properly.)

[@marchelandersen6839]

good questions have you asked the university how it is going whit their project ?

[@suejackson2566]

What about new Jobs the Concert scratcher.

[@awesomedee5421]

I'd like to try some, but can't find info on it. Is there a contact email or a place to get the pellets?