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Bio-Induced Healing of Cement Mortars in Demineralized and in Danube Water: CNN Model for Image Classification

Version 1 : Received: 9 June 2023 / Approved: 9 June 2023 / Online: 9 June 2023 (11:10:24 CEST)

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Nešković, J.; Jovanović, I.; Markov, S.; Vučetić, S.; Ranogajec, J.; Trumić, M. Bio-Induced Healing of Cement Mortars in Demineralized and Danube Water: CNN Model for Image Classification. Buildings 2023, 13, 1751. Nešković, J.; Jovanović, I.; Markov, S.; Vučetić, S.; Ranogajec, J.; Trumić, M. Bio-Induced Healing of Cement Mortars in Demineralized and Danube Water: CNN Model for Image Classification. Buildings 2023, 13, 1751.

Abstract

Reducing the costs of repairing concrete structures damaged due to the appearance of cracks and reducing the number of people involved in the process of their repair is the subject of a multitude of experimental studies. Special emphasis should be placed on research involving industrial by-products, the disposal of which has a negative environmental impact, as is the case in the research presented in this paper. The basic idea was to prepare a mortar with added granulated blast furnace slag from Smederevo Steel Mill and then treat artificialy produced cracks with a Sporosarcina pasteurii DSM 33 suspension under the conditions of sterile demineralized and water from Danube river in order to simulate natural conditions. The results show a bio-stimulated healing efficiency of 32.02% in sterile demineralized water and 42.74% in Danube water already after 14 days. The SEM images clearly show calcium carbonate crystals as the main compound that has started to fill the crack, and the crystals are much more developed under the Danube water conditions. As a special type of research, microscopic images of cracks were classified into those with and without the presence of bacterial culture. By applying convolutional neural networks (ResNet 50), the classification success rate was 91.55%.

Keywords

granulated blast furnace slag, Sporosarcina pasteurii DSM 33, bio-stimulated healing, Danube water, CNN model

Subject

Chemistry and Materials Science, Materials Science and Technology

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