Concrete is an indispensable building material in the construction industry, and in recent years, people's attention to smart concrete materials has increased dramatically. Intelligent concrete is a composite of intelligent materials in concrete, and concrete with special functions such as self-perception, self-healing, self-monitoring, and self-adaptation is prepared, which improves the performance of concrete. The self-monitoring of intelligent concrete is manifested in the fact that when the concrete is damaged, the concrete itself will feedback a signal, and the damage degree of the concrete can be characterized through the feedback signal, and then the concrete self-monitoring can be achieved. Self-repair is manifested in the fact that when the internal structure of concrete is damaged, the filled intelligent material can repair the internal damage of the concrete under certain conditions. This paper mainly reviews the current self-monitoring and self-healing properties of smart concrete, expounds its research process and shortcomings, and puts forward the prospect of future research and application of smart concrete.

Jinyan Wang, Chenyang Lou. The Study and Application of Intelligent Self-Monitoring and Self-Repairing Concrete. Academic Journal of Architecture and Geotechnical Engineering (2026), Vol. 8, Issue 1: 1-9. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJAGE.2026.080101.

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