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Advanced Research on Ceramic Construction Materials and Cements

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 (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 2597

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. George N. Angelopoulos

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Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Patras, Patra, Greece
Interests: utilization of metallurgical and mining wastes as well as industrial by-products; development of low-carbon-footprint cements and construction ceramics
Dr. Paraskevi Lampropoulou

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Section of Earth Materials, Department of Geology, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece
Interests: applied mineralogy; sustainable construction materials; ceramics and refractories; material characterization; industrial minerals and rocks
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Dr. Ioannis Iliopoulos

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Department of Geology, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece
Interests: mineralogy; petrology; geochemistry; archaeometry; X-ray diffraction; scanning electron microscopy; X-ray fluorescence
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you contribute to a Special Issue of the open-access journal Buildings dedicated to Advanced Research on Ceramic Construction Materials and Cements.

The increased demands of our rapidly developing way of life lead to the broadening of the construction materials market, among other effects. In fact, construction materials cover a tremendous field of applications and products pertaining to our everyday life and development. On the other hand, the need for energy-saving, cost-effective technologies and environmentally friendly products with sustainable life cycles has rapidly increased. Therefore, the intensive research and development of advanced construction materials and processes need to continue in the future.

Articles in the current Special Issue will be related to eco-friendly processes and technologies for the production of new sustainable and high-quality construction materials. Topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following materials: bricks, tiles, ceramic compositions of ancient construction materials and their conservation, refractory ceramics for fireplaces, low-carbon concrete and cement, and thermal insulation building materials (e.g., geopolymers, building stones).

We encourage authors to include discussions of aspects related to the microstructural characteristics of raw materials and products as well as their relations with the physicochemical and other specific properties of the final construction materials in their high-impact original research and review papers, since such studies contribute strongly to the development of improved products at large scale.

Prof. Dr. George N. Angelopoulos
Dr. Paraskevi Lampropoulou
Dr. Ioannis Iliopoulos
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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

  • advanced construction materials
  • ceramics in construction
  • ancient construction materials and conservation
  • sustainable concrete
  • low-carbon cement
  • green construction materials
  • advanced processes in construction

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The Effect of the Microstructure of Diabases from Greece and Cyprus on Their Engineering Characteristics and the Mechanical Behaviour of Concrete
by Petros Petrounias, Panagiota P. Giannakopoulou, Aikaterini Rogkala, Arsinoe Papalla, Vasileios Giamas, Paraskevi Lampropoulou, Petros Koutsovitis, Nikolaos Koukouzas and Konstantin Hatzipanagiotou
Buildings 2023, 13(2), 396; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13020396 - 01 Feb 2023
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This article presents, for the first time, the study of diabases from various ophiolite complexes from Greece and Cyprus to identify their performance as concrete aggregates. Within this scope, in the first step, diabase samples from four selected ophiolite complexes of Greece (Veria-Naousa, [...] Read more.
This article presents, for the first time, the study of diabases from various ophiolite complexes from Greece and Cyprus to identify their performance as concrete aggregates. Within this scope, in the first step, diabase samples from four selected ophiolite complexes of Greece (Veria-Naousa, Edessa and Guevgueli) and Cyprus (Troodos) were collected in order to estimate their suitability as concrete aggregates by means of their petrographic and physicochemical characteristics. In the next step, concrete specimens were prepared and their mechanical strength was measured in order to investigate their mechanical performance. Additionally, their petrographic characteristics in relation to the mechanical strength of the created concretes were investigated for the first time. Concrete specimens prepared by employing diabases from the Veria-Naousa and Guevgueli complexes as aggregates were reckoned as the most durable ones in contrast to those derived from the Edesssa complex and even more so than those from Cyprus, with the latter containing the most altered diabases (rodingitised). The overall conclusion of this research is that the engineering properties of the aggregates were dependent on their petrographic characteristics and hence they influenced the final mechanical behaviour of each produced concrete. Full article
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