Effects of Temperature and Humidity on Cement Materials
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Civil Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2024 | Viewed by 604
Special Issue Editors
Interests: applied mineralogy; sustainable construction materials; ceramics and refractories; material characterization; industrial minerals and rocks
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Interests: mineral raw materials; sustainable construction; aggregate rocks; construction applications of rocks; circular economy; engineering properties of rocks; carbon capture and storage
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to contribute to a Special Issue of the open access journal Applied Sciences dedicated to the “Effects of Temperature and Humidity on Cement Materials”.
Such materials include common products as concrete, mortar, grout, and terrazzo, soil-cement, and roller-compacted concrete—"cousins" of concrete, geopolymer, etc. The quickly developing way of life has increased the need for new cement-based materials and technologies in a broader market. Simultaneously, the current demands on environmental protection, energy saving, and sustainability have set the life cycles elongation of such products as the most crucial parameter among others.
Cement-based materials constantly interact with the environment, so influences such as temperature and humidity affect their moisture content, leading to significant undesirable phenomena such as pH increase or microbial growth, finally resulting in the deterioration of their strength. Therefore, intensive research on the effects of temperature and humidity on cement materials need to continue in the future in order to fully understand the effects and mechanisms that take place in order to develop improved resistant materials in time and under different conditions.
Articles of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following topics: cement-construction materials and their resistance against various climate conditions (including T and humidity), concrete or other cementitious materials conservation against extreme conditions (climate or others), and the development of different cementitious materials and geopolymers with different additives for improved durability in time and exposure.
We encourage authors to contribute their high-impact original research and review papers that include discussions of aspects related to the humidity and temperature parameters along with the microstructural characteristics and phase compositions of cement-based materials as well as with their physicochemical and other specific properties, since such studies contribute strongly to the understanding and explanation of the involved deteriorated mechanisms.
Dr. Paraskevi Lampropoulou
Dr. Petros Petrounias
Guest Editors
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