Advances in Building Materials and Concrete

Dear Colleagues,

Nowadays the demand for improved performance (i.e., strength, stiffness, toughness, and durability), sustainability, and aesthetics for new and existing buildings is constantly growing.

Concrete is the most widely used building material all over the world, due to its huge versatility and reduced cost, but its impact on greenhouse gas emissions is dramatically high due to the production of Portland cement.

As a consequence, many researchers aim to replace Portland cement with more sustainable binders to reduce CO2 emissions and, at the same time, to improve the mechanical properties of concrete.

In the last decade, other building materials such as wood (for sustainability, strength, and toughness), structural glass (for its outstanding aesthetic), and several types of reinforcement (e.g., FRP, FRCM to improve the mechanical properties of R.C. and masonry buildings) started receiving much more attention.

This Special Issue focuses on the development of new concretes as well as other building materials characterized by or aiming for specific performance characteristics such as sustainability, durability, non-standard mechanical properties, and aesthetics.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Special concretes (High-performance/fiber-reinforced, self-compacting, green, self-healing concretes, etc.)
• Non-metallic reinforcements as valuable alternatives for classical concrete reinforcements (i.e., CFRP, GFRP, FRCM, etc.)
• Structural wood
• Structural glass

Prof. Dr. Sara Cattaneo
Dr. Manuela Alessandra Scamardo
Guest Editors

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