Development and application of visualization test system for biocementation
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1.School of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400045, P. R. China;2.School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639789, Singapore

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TU415

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National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 52078085); Chongqing Talents Program (No. cstc2021ycjh-bgzxm0051)

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    Biocementation is a green and low-carbon building technique that has emerged in recent decades. It shows promising prospects in foundation treatment, slope treatment, and concrete crack repair. Biocementation involves complex bio-physical-chemical dynamic processes, requiring developing a real-time visualization system to figure out the regimes of reaction and reinforcement. The necessity of developing the visualization system for biocementation is analyzed. A framework of the visualization test system is established for biocementation, composing of a solution transport system, microreactor, observation system, as well as environmental control and monitoring system. The solution transport system is used for solution delivery and fixing of boundary conditions. The microreactor is used as a mold for reaction. The observation system is used to visualize the reaction process. The environmental control and monitoring system is used to control the environmental conditions such as temperature and light and also collect the feedback data including fluid pressure. The methods for test data acquisition are based on image processing associated with the data logged by the environmental monitors. Analytical approaches are also proposed to deal with the test data. Results show that the biocementation visualization system can not only directly obtain the image of the reinforcement process and the data of the osmotic pressure change, but also be combined with microscopic test methods such as scanning electron microscopy for material characterization and micro-mechanical characteristics analysis. It can be used for microscopic real-time research of biocementation, providing a new method for study of the microscopic mechanism of biocementation, which is conducive to revealing the mechanism of biocementation.

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李俊,何想,张瑾璇,赵常,肖杨,刘汉龙.微生物加固研究可视化试验系统的开发与应用[J].土木与环境工程学报(中英文),2024,46(3):73~79

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  • Received:November 02,2022
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