Sprayable self-healing engineered cementitious composites
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26 March 2021

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Sprayable self-healing engineered cementitious composites

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26 March 2021

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A poster from a project funded by the Institution's 2019/20 Undergraduate Research Grants

This poster describes the research on developing sprayable self-healing engineered cementitious composites (ECC) for repair infrastructure using crystalline admixtures (CA) and magnesium oxide.

Author: Niroshan Santhakumar
Poster: Niroshan Santhakumar
Supervisors: Dr Ana Blanco, Prof Sergio Cavalaro, Dr Chris Goodier and Meena Tamilarasan
University: Loughborough University
 

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