Sustainable Concrete Materials and Resilient Structures, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Civil Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 29
Special Issue Editor
Interests: fiber-reinforced polymer; structural engineering; concrete technology and structures; structural health monitoring; sustainability; recycling; computational techniques; machine learning
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Dear Colleagues,
The climate emergency is the most significant threat to our planet. Concrete materials and structures play a critical role in making societies resilient, stronger and safer. Among the construction materials currently employed in building, civil engineering and other infrastructures, concrete is by far the most disaster-resilient and can be incorporated into structures to enhance their resilience, in accordance with the UN’s sustainable development objectives.
This Special Issue focuses on sustainable and low-carbon-based concrete materials, as well as resilience-based design and construction for civil infrastructure systems. It aims to address the following scope/topics of interest:
Constituent Materials
- Cement
- Aggregates
- Admixtures
- Supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs)
- Geopolymer binders
- Recycled materials for concrete
- Others
Concrete Properties and Testing
- Fresh concrete
- Hydration, setting and hardening of concrete
- Properties of hardened concrete
- Durability of concrete
- Microstructural and structural characterisation
- Testing, quality and standards
- Modelling of cement and concrete
- Concrete construction
Processing
- Mixture design methods
- Special concrete
- Ready mixed concrete
- Formwork
- Precast concrete
- Reinforced and prestressed concrete
- Alternative reinforcement for concrete
- 3D concrete printing
- Structural strengthening with fibre-reinforced polymers
- Roller compacted concrete
- Light weight concrete
- Self-compacting concrete
- Air entrained concrete
- Shotcrete concrete
- Asphalt concrete
- Polymer concrete
- Pervious concrete
- High-performance concrete
- High-strength concrete
Concrete Structural Analysis and Design
- Mechanics of reinforced concrete
- Building codes and standards
- Finite element method for analysis of reinforced concrete structures
- Concrete applications in civil infrastructures
- Seismic design of concrete structures
- Tall building design
- Stability systems for concrete structures
- Construction of reinforced concrete structures
Structural Health Monitoring
- Novel approaches for implementing structural health monitoring
- Recent advances and trends in structural health monitoring
- Structural health monitoring using machine learning
- Testing and non-destructive evaluation
- Self-diagnostics and condition-based performance evaluations
- Vibration and wave propagation methods for damage assessment
- Embedding technology, sensor/structure integration technology
- Structural health monitoring system integration and validation
- Interdisciplinary approaches and applications for structural health monitoring
Dr. Jiping Bai
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- constituent materials
- concrete properties and testing
- processing
- concrete structural analysis and design
- structural health monitoring
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