Identification of gaps to conduct a study on biological self-healing concrete

Abstract

Biological self-healing concrete is a new idea to ha ve concrete structures with more durability. Althou gh, several papers have been published on biological self-healing conc rete, a suitable instruction to conduct this type o f studies is not reported. Aim of this paper is collecting comprehensive infor mation about conducting a study on self-healing con cretes based on previous studies. This paper present many new ideas that have not been completely study. Some idea suc h as application of fungi, thermopiles bacteria, mix culture of microor ganisms or using of aerobic or anaerobic bacteria t o design biological selfhealing concrete are suggested in this paper. Ideas of this paper can help researchers to find a suita ble and novel subject in biological self-healing area to conduct a strong re search.