IS THERE A MARKET FOR SELF-HEALING CEMENT- BASED MATERIALS?

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Crack Self-healing Behavior of Cementitious Composites Incorporating Various Mineral Admixtures (2010, background): “Van Breugel (2007) suggested a conceptual life cycle performance and cost model.”
Design of polymeric capsules for self-healing concrete (2015, background): “It has been estimated that, in 37 Europe, around 50 % of the annual construction budget is spent on rehabilitation and 38 repair of the existing structures [1, 2].”
Addressing Infrastructure Durability and Sustainability by Self Healing Mechanisms - Recent Advances in Self Healing Concrete and Asphalt (2013, background): “For infrastructure the ideal case would be that no costs for maintenance and repair have to be considered at all because the material is able to repair itself as depicted in figure 2 (Van Breugel 2007).”
A review of self-healing concrete research development (2014, background): “, (2009) Self-Healing Materials: Fundamentals, Design Strategies, and Applications, Wiley WCH, GmbH. 2- K. van Breugel (2007) Is There a market for selfhealing cement-based materials.”