Selfhealing Phenomena In Cementbased Materials Stateoftheart Report Of Rilem Technical Committee 221shc Selfhealing Phenomena In Cementbased Materials 1st Ed 2013 De Belie by De Belie, Nele.; De Rooij, Mario.; Schlangen, Erik.; Van Tittelboom, Kim 9789400766235, 9789400766242, 9400766238, 9400766246 instant download after payment.

Self-healing materials are man-made materials which have the built-in capability to repair damage. Failure in materials is often caused by the occurrence of small microcracks throughout the material. In self-healing materials phenomena are triggered to counteract these microcracks. These processes are ideally triggered by the occurrence of damage itself. Thus far, the self-healing capacity of cement-based materials has been considered as something "extra". This could be called passive self-healing, since it was not a designed feature of the material, but an inherent property of it. Centuries-old buildings have been said to have survived these centuries because of the inherent self-healing capacity of the binders used for cementing building blocks together. In this State-of-the-Art Report a closer look is taken at self-healing phenomena in cement-based materials. It is shown what options are available to design for this effect rather than have it occur as a "coincidental extra".