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Functional and Smart Materials for Buildings and Constructions
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Functional and Smart Materials for Buildings and Constructions

A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2023) | Viewed by 2787

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Vučetić Snežana

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Department of Materials Engineering, Faculty of Technology, University of Novi Sad, Boulevard Cara Lazara 1, 21101 Novi Sad, Serbia
Interests: ceramic materials; materials characterization; cultural heritage; durability; development of functional materials
Dr. Ana Bras

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School of Civil Engineering and Built Environment, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool L3 3AF, UK
Interests: self-healing; bio-based materials; durability; performance-based design
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Smart and functional materials and technologies are arguably the most significant research issues in the building and construction fields in the 21st century.

The development and application of functional and smart materials results in superior durability of buildings and constructions, greater safety, structural stability, and environmental protection. The design of smart technologies is connected to the production of materials that have large benefits from an economic and ecological point of view (usage of waste as raw materials, lower CO2 emissions, better utilisation of available resources, lower maintenance costs, etc.). Moreover, development of these functional and smart materials could infuse fresh ideas and awareness into architectural design.

For this Special Issue, authors are kindly invited to submit high-quality papers on one or more of the following topics related to the design of functional and smart materials and technologies for buildings and constructions:

  • Development and design of sensing materials (external or internal stimuli)
  • Development and design of functional materials (e.g. self-cleaning, self-healing, bio-cleaning, bio-based repair) for novel structures and cultural heritage protection
  • Development of materials for reducing the concentration of health-relevant substances
  • Development of energy-efficient buildings and constructions
  • Smart design and manufacturing of novel materials for environmental protection
  • Reuse and valorisation of waste materials through smart technologies and manufacturing
  • Upgrade and valorisation of traditional technologies for buildings and constructions
  • Development of new methods for characterisation of materials’ functional properties

Papers addressing other related topics will also be considered.

Dr. Vučetić Snežana
Dr. Ana Bras
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Buildings is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • functional and smart materials
  • smart technologies and manufacturing
  • environmental protection
  • waste valorisation
  • functional properties characterisation
  • earth-based materials

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Bio-Induced Healing of Cement Mortars in Demineralized and Danube Water: CNN Model for Image Classification
by Jasmina Nešković, Ivana Jovanović, Siniša Markov, Snežana Vučetić, Jonjaua Ranogajec and Milan Trumić
Buildings 2023, 13(7), 1751; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13071751 - 10 Jul 2023
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Reducing the costs of repairing concrete structures damaged due to the appearance of cracks and reducing the number of people involved in the process of their repair is the subject of a multitude of experimental studies. Special emphasis should be placed on research [...] Read more.
Reducing the costs of repairing concrete structures damaged due to the appearance of cracks and reducing the number of people involved in the process of their repair is the subject of a multitude of experimental studies. Special emphasis should be placed on research involving industrial by-products, the disposal of which has a negative environmental impact, as is the case in the research presented in this paper. The basic idea was to prepare a mortar with added granulated blast furnace slag from Smederevo Steel Mill and then treat artificially produced cracks with a Sporosarcina pasteurii DSM 33 suspension under the conditions of both sterile demineralized water and water from the Danube river in order to simulate natural conditions. The results show a bio-stimulated healing efficiency of 32.02% in sterile demineralized water and 42.74% in Danube river water already after 14 days. The SEM images clearly show calcium carbonate crystals as the main compound that has started to fill the crack, and the crystals are much more developed under the Danube river water conditions. As a special type of research, microscopic images of cracks were classified into those with and without the presence of bacterial culture. By applying convolutional neural networks (ResNet 50), the classification success rate was 91.55%. Full article
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Performance Evaluation of a Sustainable Prefabricated System Using Small-Scale Experimental Model Technique
by Ravijanya Chippagiri, Hindavi R. Gavali, Ana Bras and Rahul V. Ralegaonkar
Buildings 2022, 12(11), 2000; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12112000 - 17 Nov 2022
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The increasing urban population requires rapid housing construction. Rising global temperatures have led to more space cooling options inside buildings. There is a need to design new-age buildings with a sustainable, thermal comfort, and energy-efficiency approach. The present work integrates this approach into [...] Read more.
The increasing urban population requires rapid housing construction. Rising global temperatures have led to more space cooling options inside buildings. There is a need to design new-age buildings with a sustainable, thermal comfort, and energy-efficiency approach. The present work integrates this approach into the design of prefabricated elements. Locally available co-fired ash, along with other sustainable alternates, are used in developing these elements. This study involves a performance evaluation and feasibility assessment of the proposed prefabricated system. A small-scale model house of one-third size is constructed using these elements for the purpose of functional evaluation. An average temperature variation of approximately 4 °C is observed upon comparison with the fly-ash brick model during the peak summer season. During energy assessment, a 12% and 52% decrease in embodied energy and peak cooling loads were observed. The time study resulted in 20% time savings over the conventional technique. The proposed system also includes a solar photo-voltaic panel, which compensates for 30% of the energy demand and reduces approximately 42% of the energy cost. Thus, the developed prefabricated system is found suitable for non-load bearing as well as functional applications. The performed studies determined the system to be sustainable, lightweight, quick, as well as energy efficient. Full article
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