This article studies the effect of Portland and Pozzolanic cement on the crack-healing of mortars prepared with Bacillus pseudofirmus bacteria and calcium lactate as a nutrient. Mixtures were prepared with the same content ...

In the present work key parameters of different epoxy systems (such as viscosity and gel time) were evaluated to be used as healing agents when were included in a cement matrix. Epoxy systems were encapsulated in hollow ...

The increase in information and communication technologies in the electric power system has led the distribution network to a new evolutionary stage known as a smart grid. In this scenario, automatic local switching plans ...

In this article we propose a fuzzy controller, as an inference engine for cognitive optical networks, to take decisions about routing of new demands of lightpaths, considering physical layer impairments (Fuzzy ...

Asphalt self-healing by encapsulated rejuvenating agents is considered a revolutionary technology for the autonomic crack-healing of aged asphalt pavements. This paper aims to explore the use of Bio-Oil (BO) obtained from ...

In this paper, a two-stage procedure is proposed in order to solve the centralized self-healing scheme for electrical distribution systems. The considered self-healing actions are the reconfiguration of the distribution ...

A damage-plasticity constitutive theory for zero-thickness interfaces is presented aimed at predicting time-dependent self-healing phenomena in concrete. The material model is based on fracture-energy concepts and accounts ...

Improving the durability and sustainability of concrete structures has been driving the enormous number of research papers on self-healing mechanisms that have been published in the past decades. The vast developments of ...