Engineers are looking to Ancient Roman architecture like the Colosseum and the Pantheon when it comes to future “recipes” of ...

According to an international team of environmental engineers, Roman concrete mixtures would need to outlive modern ...

The researchers have developed a synthetic lichen that can fix cracks in cement, sort of like how our epidermis heals cuts, ...

After casting, the Roman-inspired hot-mixed concrete samples were mechanically fractured and then re-mated (with a gap of 0.5 ± 0.1 mm) and preconditioned for the crack-healing studies.

The breakthrough carries great potential, as concrete is the most widely used material in the world. Scientists make incredible self-healing concrete out of bacteria — here's how it works first ...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and other institutions believe they have uncovered the mystery of the durability of the 2,000-year-old structures -- self-healing ...

A new type of self-healing concrete has debuted in the U.S. market. The concrete, which is called Basilisk Self-Healing Concrete, gets its self-healing properties from bacteria that is mixed into it.

Concrete may seem strong, but it can be surprisingly vulnerable to the elements. Now researchers at Drexel University have demonstrated a type of self-healing concrete embedded with “BioFibers ...

We've seen other self-healing concrete, but never one that combines so many other attributes in one place. When micro-cracks occur, the concrete's material reacts with water and carbon dioxide to ...

The team reports that a grid of BioFibers embedded within a concrete structure can improve its durability, prevent cracks from growing and enable self-healing. “This is an exciting development for the ...

Challenges still remain for the widespread adoption of self-healing concrete. Right now, not many companies make the stuff, and it’s still more expensive to produce that typical, run-of-the-mill ...

But they are in fact what gives the ancient concrete a "previously unrecognized self-healing capability." "The idea that the presence of these lime clasts was simply attributed to low quality ...