Biomimetic Cementitious Construction Materials for Next Generation Infrastructure
| Autor: | Abir Al-Tabbaa, Tim Embley, Diane Ruth Gardner, Kevin Paine, Chrysoula Litina, Tony Jefferson, Bob Lark |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Engineering
Biomimetic materials Resilience business.industry 0211 other engineering and technologies 02 engineering and technology General Medicine Advanced Materials Advanced materials 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology Material technology Construction engineering Infrastructure materials Biomimetic Materials 021105 building & construction Cementitious 0210 nano-technology Resilience (network) business |
| Zdroj: | Al-Tabbaa, A, Lark, B, Paine, K, Jefferson, T, Litina, C, Gardner, D & Embley, T 2018, ' Biomimetic Cementitious Construction Materials for Next Generation Infrastructure ', Smart Infrastructure and Construction, vol. 171, no. 2, pp. 67-76 . https://doi.org/10.1680/jsmic.18.00005 |
| Popis: | The resilience of civil engineering structures has traditionally been associated with the design of individual elements with sufficient capacity to respond appropriately to adverse events. This has traditionally employed ‘robust’ design procedures that focus on defining safety factors for individual adverse events and providing redundancy. As such, construction materials have traditionally been designed to specific technical specifications. Furthermore, material degradation is viewed as inevitable and mitigation necessitates expensive maintenance regimes. Based on a better understanding of natural biological systems, biomimetic materials that have the ability to adapt and respond to their environment have recently been developed. This fundamental change has the potential to facilitate the creation of a wide range of ‘smart’ materials and intelligent structures that can self-sense and self-repair without the need for external intervention which could transform infrastructure. This paper presents an overview of the development, application and commercial perspectives of a suite of complementary self-healing cementitious systems that have been developed as part of a national team and led to the first UK full-scale field trials on self-healing concrete. |
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