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    Self Healing Concrete - Abstract

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    This document discusses research into using bacteria to enable self-healing in concrete structures. Specifically, it explores using Bacillus subtilis bacteria to induce the precipitation of calcite to seal cracks in concrete and increase its strength and durability over time. This self-healing technique could significantly extend the lifespan of infrastructure by preventing crack propagation and corrosion of reinforcements without extensive maintenance.

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    This document discusses research into using bacteria to enable self-healing in concrete structures. Specifically, it explores using Bacillus subtilis bacteria to induce the precipitation of calcite to seal cracks in concrete and increase its strength and durability over time. This self-healing technique could significantly extend the lifespan of infrastructure by preventing crack propagation and corrosion of reinforcements without extensive maintenance.

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    This document discusses research into using bacteria to enable self-healing in concrete structures. Specifically, it explores using Bacillus subtilis bacteria to induce the precipitation of calcite to seal cracks in concrete and increase its strength and durability over time. This self-healing technique could significantly extend the lifespan of infrastructure by preventing crack propagation and corrosion of reinforcements without extensive maintenance.

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    Self Healing Concrete - Abstract

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    Prabhat Kumar Sahu
    This document discusses research into using bacteria to enable self-healing in concrete structures. Specifically, it explores using Bacillus subtilis bacteria to induce the precipitation of calcite to seal cracks in concrete and increase its strength and durability over time. This self-healing technique could significantly extend the lifespan of infrastructure by preventing crack propagation and corrosion of reinforcements without extensive maintenance.

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    ABSTRACT

    Concrete is the most critical element applied in public infrastructure/buildings and is often difficult to service, yet requires lengthy service periods. Recent research has shown that specific species of bacteria can actually beuseful as a tool to repair cracks in already existing concrete structures. This new concrete, that is equipped to repair itself, presents a potentially enormous lengthening in service-life of public infrastructure/buildings and also considerably reduces the maintenance costs. In addition, concrete by its nature is very prone to deformations that expose its reinforcements, corroding them. Self-healing concrete offers a solution to preventthis. A novel eco friendly self healing technique called Biocalcification is one such approach on which studies were carried out to investigate the crack healing mechanism in enhancing the strength and durability ofconcrete. Microbiologically induced calcite precipitation (MICP), a highly impermeable calcite layer formedover the surface of an already existing concrete layer, due to microbial activities of the bacteria (Bacillus subtilis JC3) seals the cracks in the concrete structure and also has excellent resistance to corrosion.

    KEYWORDS: Biominerilization, Calcium Carbonate, Bacillus subtilus, self-healing concrete, bacterial concrete. Prabhat Kumar Sahu Civil engineering Regd no.0901109200

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