Electrical testing for the assessment of self-healing and self-sensing capability of cementitious composites

Abstract

Engineered Cementitious Composites (ECC) is regarded as a multifunctional smart material due to its intrinsic autogenous self-healing and self-sensing attributes. Here, recent findings related to the utilization of electrical measurements in analyzing combined effectiveness of autogenous self-healing and self-sensing attributes in ECC are discussed. It is concluded that electrical testing which are already widely used for self-sensing, can also be used successfully in estimating the autogenous self-healing efficiency in ECC. It is believed that further research into developing/understanding methods to rapidly and accurately characterize the multifunctional properties of such smart materials will significantly fasten their development and wider practical adoption. © 2019, Associated Cement Companies Ltd.. All rights reserved.