Mechanical Properties and Characterization Technologies of Composite Materials
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 3026
Special Issue Editor
Interests: building materials; innovative families of binders; greenhouse gas emission; pollutant degradation; photocatalysis; globalization; geopolymers; durability and sustainability of traditional or innovative mortars
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Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, academic and professional personnel have been increasingly interested in the development of composite materials and technologies to promote high-performance (mechanically stronger, improved response to service and extreme loads, and more durable), smart/multifunctional, and sustainable (low environmental footprint and energy consumption) construction materials for application in new and existing structures and infrastructures.
Advances in our understanding of material behavior also necessitate the development of performance assessment procedures, based on effective experimental verification methods and refined numerical simulation models.
This Special Issue aims to collect scientific contributions on the following:
- Mixed design, mechanical properties, and durability of composite materials based on traditional or innovative and sustainable binders also with non-conventional aggregates (e.g., industrial wastes, insulating aggregates, agricultural wastes, aquaculture farming, and municipal wastes) or aimed at suggesting validation and standardization methods of testing.
- Applications of the different types of fiber-reinforced mortars and concrete composites in civil engineering. Topics may include the durability and overall performance of structural members reinforced and strengthened with FRCM composites under severe environmental exposure, sustained loading, elevated temperatures, seismic activity, fatigue, fire, blast, and impact. Experimental tests, finite element and numerical analysis, theoretical and code equations, and algorithms are welcome.
- Mortars and concrete with natural fibers.
- Mortar/concrete with phase change materials (PCMs) or nanomaterials.
- Self-sensing, self-adjusting, and self-healing concrete and mortars.
- Three-dimensional printed fiber/nano-reinforced mortars and concrete.
Dr. Sebastiano Candamano
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- natural fibers
- fiber-reinforced mortars and concrete
- textile-reinforced mortars (TRMs)
- harsh exposure
- FRCM
- 3D printing
- supplementary cementitious materials
- nanomaterials and nanocomposites
- unconventional reinforcement
- recycled aggregates
- waste
- self-healing mortar and concrete
- smart/multifunctional composite
- self-sensing composites
- alkali-activated materials
- geopolymers
- building materials
- calcium sulfoaluminate binders
- cementitious composites
- hybrid binders
- calcinated clays
- fly ash
- blast furnace slag
- natural pozzolans
- waste management
- immobilization of toxic wastes
- foamed and lightweight concretes
- mortars
- grouts and renders
- reinforced concrete
- precast concrete
- corrosion
- durability
- environmental assessment
- materials processing
- rheology
- performance-based specifications
- activators
- additives
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