BHEEMANNA KHANDRE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

BHALKI
Department of civil engineering
Technical seminar on

Bacterial Concrete

Seminar guide Seminar coordinator

Prof. Surekha Shaka Prof. Goudappa Biradar

Presented by
Pawan N Sidda (3RB20CV022)
Content
 Introduction
 Objective
 Meaning of bacterial concrete
 Types of bacteria
 Materials
 Quality control
 Test on bacterial concrete
 Advantages
 Result
 Conclusion
 References
Introduction
 Cracking in concrete is main concern throughout the world
because it causes loss of strength of structure with time
 Maintaince of cracked structure required a lot of care and
money
 A environmental friendly solution is preferred i.e. Biological
concrete over other alternatives like epoxy resins which is
non degradable
 Cracking in the structure layer of concrete the mainly
reduces its durability
Objective
 To study the effects of different types of bacteria on
concrete.
 Develop a bacterial concrete by introducing the bacteria of
bacillus family.
 To study the efficiency of bacteria when mixed with mineral
admixtures.
 Good compressive strength by arriving at optimum proportions
by trial.
 To make a comparative study of bacterial concrete with
normal concrete.
Meaning of bacterial concrete

 Bacterial concrete is a concrete which heals the it self when it

comes in contact with air and water, it produces the lime on
outer layer of concrete
 In most of traditional concrete mixture 20-30% of the cement is
left unhydrated.
 If the cracking of the concrete occurs, unreacted cement grains
may become exposed to moisture penetrating of the crack.
 In that case the hydration process may start again and
hydration products may fill up and heal the crack
Types of bacteria
Bacillus pasteurizing
Bacillus sphaericus
Escherichia coli
Bacillus subtilis
Bacillus cohnii
Bacillus balodurans
Bacillus pseudofirmus
collected GNP of bacteria demonstrated the high self- healing
while cores was/ crack at early phase 3 to 7 days
Materials
 Cement
 Fine aggregate (M sand)
 Coarse aggregate
 Bacteria solution ( bacillus subtilis)
 M sand
 Aggregates are granular materials such as sand, gravel,
or crushed stone. This is one of the essential
components used in the concrete.
 The main use of aggregate is that when high
performance concrete is required to where the strength
of concrete is close to that of strength of aggregate, fine
aggregate is used.
 Bacteria
 one spore producing bacteria Bacillus subtilis,
 Bacteria solution is get from the biogrowth lab (ponalab
biogrowth lab Bangalore)
 collected GNP of bacteria demonstrated the high self-
healing while cores was/ crack at early phase 3 to 7 days
Quality control
 Cube casting
 two types of cube casting 150×150×150mm and
70.6×70.6×70.6 mm as per IS code: 10086-1982
 is code for cube casting IS 456 : 2000
 This way you can check whether the concrete mix ratio is
giving you the desired compressive strength.
 If you fail to get the desired strength then you need to
alter the parameters and again do the concrete mix
design.
Test on bacterial concrete
 Sieve analysis for coarse aggregate
 Fineness modulus of coarse aggregate 3.52
 Compressive strength
 Bacterial concrete give the more compressive strength
compare to the conventional concrete
 Compressive strength of conventional concrete = 24.1 Mpa
 Compressive strength of bacterial concrete = 27.25 Mpa
Advantages
 It is highly durable
 Bacterial concrete reduces permeability
 It improves the compressive strength
 Bacterial concrete requires low maintenance
 It is eco-friendly
At the stage of healing of concrete

After the healing of

concrete
Conclusions

 Bacterial concrete also significantly influenced the durability

characteristics of the structure by healing of cracks in the structure
 The importance of this work that by the application of bacteria in
concrete it was found that the compressive strength and tensile
strength of concrete increased with a decrease in permeability,
water absorption and corrosion of reinforcement compared to
that of conventional concrete.
 This self-healing character of concrete it can can reduce the
maintenance cost of the structure.
 This self-healing property of concrete can increase the life span of
structures.
References
1. Henk M. Jonker’s & Erik Schlager., “Development of a bacteria-based self-healing

concrete”, Journal of Tailor-Made Concrete Structures, Page 425-429, 2008.

2. Jagadeesh Kumar B.G, Prabhakar, Pushpa. H., “Effect of Bacterial Calcite-

Precipitation on Compressive Strength of Mortar Cubes”, International Journal of

Engineering and Advanced Technology (IJEAT), Vol 2, Issue 3, Page 486- 491, 2013.

3. . Nirmal Kumar k and Sivakumar, “A Study on the Durability Impact of Concrete by

Using Recycled Waste Water”, JIPC Journal, Vol 24, No.1, Page 17-22, 2008.