Self-healing concrete for safer, more durable, and greener infrastructure? Professor Victor Li at the University of Michigan has created concrete that can bend and heal itself. A concrete material developed at the University of Michigan can heal itself when it cracks. No human intervention is necessary–just water and carbon dioxide. A handful of drizzly days…
Self-healing concrete for safer, more durable, and greener infrastructure? Professor Victor Li at the University of Michigan has created concrete that can bend and heal itself.
5% tensile strain applied to self healing concrete.
A concrete material developed at the University of Michigan can heal itself when it cracks. No human intervention is necessary–just water and carbon dioxide.
A handful of drizzly days would be enough to mend a damaged bridge made of the new substance. Self-healing is possible because the material is designed to bend and crack in narrow hairlines rather than break and split in wide gaps, as traditional concrete behaves.
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