Yasmina Shields made a review that intends to provide a comprehensive overview of the current progress and limitations of the design approaches, fabrication methods, healing mechanisms, and relevant applications of embedded vascular networks.

The article has been published in the journal Smart Materials and Structures and can be found here: A review of vascular networks for self-healing applications

In the framework of the COST Action SARCOS, Tim Van Mullem coordinated an inter-laboratory study with the aim of paving the way for standard testing methods to assess the self-healing efficiency of concrete. Six different European universities participated in this study, four of which are SMARTINCS members. The inter-laboratory study focused on concrete and mortar with macrocapsules (filled with polyurethane).

The results have been published in the journal Science and Technology of Advanced Materials and can be found here: Addressing the need for standardization of test methods for self-healing concrete: an inter-laboratory study on concrete with macrocapsules

The SMARTINCS consortium was born from the COST action CA15202 SARCOS on self-healing and preventive repair of concrete structures. Nele De Belie, Kim Van Tittelboom, Mercedes Sánchez Moreno, Liberato Ferrara and Elke Gruyaert brought the information on both projects together in the article "Self-healing concrete research in the European projects SARCOS and SMARTINCS".

The article can be read here.: Self-healing concrete research in the European projects SARCOS and SMARTINCS

As Riccardo Maddalena and Diane Gardner report, self-healing concrete represents an environmentally-friendly choice, for increasing the service life of a structure, and reducing its overall maintenance and the subsequent usage of concrete.

The full article is published in Construction & civil Engineering issue 167 2019.

You can read it here: https://issuu.com/schofieldpublishingltd/docs/cce_167_cropped/16