Design and Preparation of High-Performance Building Life-Prolonging Materials
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 492
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Interests: high-performance building materials; smart material and structure; low-carbon building materials
Interests: high-performance building materials; low-carbon building materials
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Dear Colleagues,
Under the dual-carbon background, the consolidation of existing damaged concrete structures with high-performance building life-prolonging materials is cost-effective and environment-friendly rather than destroying reconstruction. It is essential to develop building life-prolonging materials to possess high toughness, good thin-layer anti-cracking, low shrinkage, sufficient interface bonding, and bonding durability with old concrete substrate, along with the corresponding on-site consolidation and protection-serving behaviors. Building life-prolonging materials can be generally divided into inorganic, organic, and hybrid cementitious systems. Inorganic building life-prolonging materials can provide sufficient durability with concrete substrate, such as Portland cement, sulphoaluminate cement, magnesium phosphate cement, alkali-activated geopolymers, etc., whereas the organic building life-prolonging materials can bring forth adequate interface bonding, such as acrylate polymers, polyvinyl alcohol, styrene butadiene rubber polymers, ethylene vinyl acetate polymers, or latex, etc. Actually, building life-prolonging materials with hybrid cementitious systems can combine the two advantages above, but should be mix-proportion designed and carefully prepared to finally achieve the compromised and expected properties, which is worth extensive study and systematic exploration.
Prof. Dr. Jianlin Luo
Dr. Bo Pang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- building life-prolonging materials
- building repair and protection
- high-performance concrete
- low-carbon building materials
- polymer-modified concrete
- muti-functional coating for structures
- damaged building consolidation
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