New STAR-in-a-Nutshell 221-SHC

Concrete is the most widely used construction material worldwide and is inherently quasi-brittle, prone to cracking under tensile stress and environmental exposure. Damage in concrete typically initiates at the microstructural level and can evolve into macro-cracks that compromise durability, impermeability, and load-bearing capacity. The ability of cementitious materials to autonomously recover from such damage—termed self-healing—offers an alternative paradigm to traditional damage prevention. With the aim of collecting fundamental and applied knowledge of self-healing in concrete, presenting mechanisms, experimental findings, and applications across various material classes the RILEM Technical Committee 221-SHC Self-Healing Phenomena in Cement-Based Materials was formed in 2005 and STAR 221-SHC was published in 2013.

The STAR-in-a-nutshell of STAR 221-SHC offers a brief overview of the contents available in this book. The purposes of this 3-page long document is: 1) to provide some initial guidance to a non-expert reader, 2) to inspire more comprehensive reading of the STAR, and 3) to clarify the relevance of the contents before downloading the full STAR for further details.

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