Follow-up methods for autonomic repairing process

Insaurralde, Carlos C.; Rahman, Pattanathu K.S.M.; Ramegowda, Manu; Vemury, Chandra M.

Abstract

© 2016 IEEE. The technical maintenance of civil concrete structures is not really cheap. A way to reduce maintenance-related costs is to have a concrete capable of repairing itself when damaged. This paper presents a cybernetic engineering approach for self-healing in concrete. The approach is inspired by the biological self-healing principle to make self-repairing possible in concrete. It consists of adding biological and chemical agents (bacteria) to concrete mix along with Shape Memory Alloys (SMA) to get an improved self-healing effect. A challenging issues related to this approach is that effective monitoring of the progress of the self-healing process. The main challenge is the diagnosis and even prognosis of the cybernetic concrete health. This paper proposes different testing methods to monitor the self-healing in cybernetic concrete. These methods allow for diagnosis and prognosis of the self-healing process in the above concrete. Experimental results from the above tests carried out in conventional and cybernetic concrete samples are shown. Conclusions and future work are also presented.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: 2016 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2016 - Conference Proceedings
• Start Date: Oct 9, 2016
• End Date: Oct 12, 2016
• Acceptance Date: Jan 1, 2017
• Online Publication Date: Feb 9, 2017
• Publication Date: Feb 6, 2017
• Deposit Date: Mar 10, 2020
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Pages: 4854-4859
• ISBN: 9781509018970
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/SMC.2016.7844997
• Keywords: cybernetics, smart materials, biotechnology, self-healing/repearing, multidisciplinary research projects
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/5282438