self-healing concrete

The US military is working to use microorganisms in combination with construction materials such as concrete to create self-healing structures.

Concrete, what can we say about it? A very popular construction material in modern life, some people know it is the result of mixing cement, water and lime ... and what else?

Scientists experimented with freshly patched concrete materials in southern Wales, in an effort to overcome potholes and damage road surfaces.

New materials capable of repairing small cracks and holes are no longer far-fetched for construction science researchers.

Concrete capable of cracking itself is ready to be tested in practice, according to experts at Delft University of Technology (Netherlands). The Dutch research team says that