Recent Research on Sustainable Concrete and Construction Materials: Structure, Durability and Mechanical Properties
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Civil Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 October 2025 | Viewed by 38
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Interests: concrete durability; railway track system; track–bridge interaction
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Interests: durability; sustainability; carbonation; chloride attack; crack; corrosion
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Dear Colleagues,
Sustainability is essential to the continued growth of our society and human civilization, and thus, is the hottest issue not only in engineering but also in all fields. In particular, cement, a main constituent material of concrete, emits a large amount of CO2 and other greenhouse gases, so it constitutes the most important axis of the sustainability issue. In addition, due to restricted natural resources, the constituents of concrete are gradually depleted. For example, the amount of aggregates is rapidly decreasing in most developed countries, so it is no longer possible to obtain high-quality aggregates, which leads to poor-quality concrete construction. To address this sustainability issue in concrete construction, new innovative technologies have been developed in recent decades. For example, various supplementary cementitious materials, such as fly ash, blast-furnace slag, silica fume, and rice husk ash, are utilized to reduce cement usage. Recently, limestone calcined clay cement (LC3) has been spotlighted as one of the alternative types of cement with lower CO2 emissions. Alkali-activated concrete is also being actively studied. Furthermore, recycled aggregates collected from waste concrete are a good example of waste recycling in the concrete industry to address the depletion of natural resources. Other examples of waste recycling are being introduced. All concrete that utilizes these technologies can be called “sustainable concrete”, but sustainable concrete is not limited to just cement and constituent materials; it can be extended to technologies related to the entire cycle of concrete manufacturing, construction, operation, and disposal. Moreover, to more actively utilize sustainable concrete in the construction industry, it is of the utmost importance to verify its compatibility as materials constituting structural members.
From these viewpoints, subjects that will be dealt with in this Special Issue will focus on recent trends in sustainable concrete research as well as case studies that prove the structural performance of sustainable concrete.
Prof. Dr. Seung-Yup Jang
Prof. Dr. Seung-Jun Kwon
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainability
- concrete
- CO2 (carbon dioxide)
- GHG (greenhouse gas)
- supplementary cementitious materials
- alkali-activated concrete
- cement-free concrete
- recycled aggregates
- waste recycling
- strucutral performance
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