Surfology Based Concrete Repair Engineering

Research projects performed at the University of Liege and the Warsaw University of Technology have pointed out the importance of taking care about surfology of materials: if durability also means sustainability, we may then consider that optimization in material selection is essential for repair efficient. Surfology contributes to understand what will make the contact effective or not, and allow interactions of variable intensities between the materials. Different scales of observation – micro to macro - are needed to exactly represent what happens when materials are put into contact.