Journal of Chemistry

Research Article

Biocementation Influence on Flexural Strength and Chloride Ingress by Lysinibacillus sphaericus and Bacillus megaterium in Mortar Structures

Table 3

T_calc. values summary for microbial mortars against control mortar and among varied microbial mortar categories flexural strength across 2^nd, 7^th, 14^th, 28^th, and 56^th day of curing (T_crit. = 0.5, ).


Mortar categories	T_calc. values
Mortar categories	2^nd day T_calc × 10⁻¹	7^th day T_calc × 10⁻¹	14^th day T_calc × 10⁻⁵	28^th day T_calc × 10⁻⁵	56^th day T_calc × 10⁻⁵

OPC-H₂O (H₂O) vs. OPC-H₂O (LB)	5.0	5.0	13.7908	6.8664	0.4725
OPC-H₂O (H₂O) vs. OPC-LB (H₂O)	5.0	5.0	46.4869	4.9426	1.2694
OPC-H₂O (H₂O) vs. OPC-LB (LB)	5.0	5.0	26.6329	6.1408	2.4344
OPC-H₂O (H₂O) vs. OPC-H₂O (BM)	5.0	5.0	4.9845	3.7064	3.9136
OPC-H2O (H₂O) vs.OPC-BM (H₂O)	5.0	5.0	67.1730	9.4017	1.0106
OPC-H₂O (H₂O) vs. OPC-BM (BM)	5.0	5.0	1.2815	1.2371	0.6787
OPC-H₂O (BM) vs. OPC-H₂O (LB)	5.0	5.0	302.5298	302.5298	133.2461
OPC-BM (H₂O) vs. OPC-LB (H₂O)	5.0	5.0	535.0033	38.8954	133.2461
OPC-BM (BM) vs. OPC-LB (LB)	5.0	5.0	22.3619	402.4947	436.5515