Sustainable Materials and Structures in Civil Engineering
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2024 | Viewed by 936
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fracture mechanics; rock mechanics; structural durability
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Interests: rock mechanics; dynamic failure; tunneling engineering
Interests: risk evaluation; structural health monitoring; smart Infrastructures
Interests: mineral carbonation; solid waste based cementitious materials; mine health and safety; mechanochemistry
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Civil engineering materials (e.g., cement, concrete, rock, sand, steel, etc.) and structures (e.g., buildings, bridges, dams, nuclear power plants, geological waste disposals, underground tunnels, etc.) are essential in today’s world. The production of materials and construction of structures in civil engineering play an important role in energy and resource consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Increasing the sustainability of materials and structures in civil engineering has been an important but challenging topic. In particular, under the pressure of carbon neutrality, new knowledge is urgently required for understanding the performance of new materials and structures in regard to safety, stability, and sustainability for civil engineering development.
This Special Issue aims to cover recent research on the mechanical performance, reliability, stability, durability, and whole-life management of sustainable materials and structures in civil engineering. The Special Issue is focused on, but not limited to, new materials, structures, reusing waste for civil engineering, experimental methods, in situ monitoring/testing methods, theoretical models, and computational methods with respect to cement and concrete, low-carbon construction materials, rock mechanics, corrosion and deterioration, time-dependent reliability, prevention of deterioration, and fracture and failure at multi-scales.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Low-carbon civil engineering materials and structures;
- Reusing waste for civil engineering;
- Green constructions and infrastructures;
- Durability of civil engineering materials and structures;
- Reliability of civil engineering structures;
- Carbonation of cement and concrete;
- Fracture mechanics and damage mechanics in civil engineering;
- Computational modeling and simulation;
- Whole-life management of civil engineering structures;
- Repair and retrofitting of civil engineering structures.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Xun Xi
Dr. Xu Wu
Dr. Jinglai Sun
Dr. Jiajie Li
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- low-carbon
- concrete
- cementitious materials
- rock
- structural performance
- mechanical behavior
- constitutive model
- municipal engineering
- subsurface engineering
- civil engineering
