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Self-healing technologies in metals have a great potential to improve structures reliability and sustainability in particular in the construction sector. However, limited technologies are available compared to other self-healing material groups and they struggle to find industrial applications. The main limitation for self-healing strategies in metals is the low mobility of atoms at room temperature and often the need for an external driving force to promote mass transfer. This chapter provides a review of all currently developed self-healing concepts in metallic systems classified by their scale and healing process category as: macroscopic systems (including liquid-based systems, shape memory alloys and electro-healing) and solid-state healing of nano and microscale damage. A summary of all strategies is provided and a comprehensive analysis of their advantages and challenges is introduced. Finally, further perspectives of self-healing strategies are discussed and critical points interrupting further development of the existing self-healing materials are highlighted.
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This chapter writing has been funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement n°716678). M.A., J.G and N.N. acknowledge the support of the Fonds de la recherche scientifique—FNRS (FRIA grant), Belgium. F.H. acknowledges the FNRS for his postdoctoral fellowship at UCLouvain.
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Arseenko, M., Gheysen, J., Hannard, F., Nothomb, N., Simar, A. (2022). Self-Healing in Metal-Based Systems. In: Kanellopoulos, A., Norambuena-Contreras, J. (eds) Self-Healing Construction Materials. Engineering Materials and Processes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86880-2_3
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