Advanced Cementitious Materials for Sustainable Structures: Testing, Monitoring, and Modeling
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 6 December 2026 | Viewed by 551
Special Issue Editors
Interests: architected cementitious materials and structures; multifunctional cementitious materials and structures; fiber-reinforced cementitious composites; modelling of cementitious materials and structures
Interests: steel-concrete composite bridges; UHPC; numerical assessment; fatigue and fracture
Interests: structual engineering; bridge engineering; earthquake engineering; seismic design
Interests: ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation; concrete bridge structural health monitoring; acoustoelastic stress analysis; elastic wave scattering in concrete
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the rapid advancement of sustainable infrastructure and smart civil engineering systems, cementitious materials are evolving toward low-carbon, multifunctional, and intelligent materials. At the same time, emerging technologies such as additive manufacturing, advanced sensing, energy harvesting, and artificial intelligence are creating new opportunities for the development of next-generation cement-based materials and structures with improved mechanical performance, functionality, durability, and sustainability.
This Special Issue therefore aims to highlight recent advances in sustainable and intelligent cementitious materials, including their design, fabrication, multifunctional performance, monitoring technologies, and multiscale simulation approaches. Particular emphasis will be placed on innovative materials and structural systems that integrate high-toughness mechanical behavior, smart sensing, energy harvesting, structural health monitoring, and resistance to dynamic and extreme loading.
Researchers from the fields of materials science, structural engineering, and computational modeling are invited to submit original research articles, review papers, and perspective articles.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following areas of interest:
- Architected Cementitious Materials and Structures Based on Additive Manufacturing Technology: 3D-printed concrete and cementitious composites, auxetic cement-based metamaterials, reinforcement-enhanced auxetic cementitious metamaterials, novel architected or meta-structured cement-based materials, bio-inspired cementitious materials, and bio-inspired reinforcement systems.
- High-Performance Fiber-Reinforced Cementitious Composites and Structural Applications: Engineered cementitious composites (ECCs)/strain-hardening cementitious composites (SHCCs), ultrahigh-performance concrete (UHPC), multifunctional applications of fiber-reinforced cementitious materials, special fibers and bio-inspired fiber-reinforced cementitious materials, constitutive modeling, interface bond modelling, structural bending/shear/torsion/fatigue behaviors, structural repair, and strengthening applications.
- Multifunctional Cementitious Materials: Electrically conductive cement-based materials, self-sensing cementitious materials, energy harvesting using cement-based materials (such as piezoelectric, triboelectric, thermoelectric), and cement-based energy storage materials.
- Advanced Simulation and AI-driven Techniques for Cementitious Materials, including multiscale modeling, simulation of concrete structures, chemical modeling of cementitious systems, structural mechanics of concrete, multiphysics modeling of cementitious materials and structures, and AI-driven optimization of cementitious materials and structural performance.
- Advanced Monitoring Techniques for Cementitious Materials and Structures: Applications of structural health monitoring (SHM) techniques in cementitious materials and concrete structures, such as acoustic emission (AE), electromechanical impedance (EMI), and ultrasonic methods; advances in sensing technologies for civil infrastructure, including novel sensor design, electrical sensing hardware, and integrated monitoring systems; and signal processing and data analytics, including advanced algorithms for data processing, feature extraction, and robust damage detection and characterization.
- Dynamic and Impact Testing of Cementitious Materials: Dynamic mechanical behavior and damage evolution of cement-based materials and structures, impact resistance and high-velocity response of cementitious materials, cementitious materials under extreme loading conditions, seismic performance and resilience of cementitious structures and infrastructure, energy dissipation, shock absorption, and seismic isolation using cement-based materials.
Authors are invited to submit original research articles, review papers, or technical notes on advanced cementitious materials and structural systems, and submissions should present novel methodologies, experimental and modeling studies, monitoring, or practical applications that contribute to the advancement of concrete technology. Interdisciplinary approaches, theoretical developments, and innovative engineering solutions are particularly encouraged. All manuscripts will undergo a rigorous peer-review process. This Special Issue aims to promote collaboration and knowledge exchange in the field of advanced cementitious materials for sustainable structures, with a focus on testing, monitoring, and modeling.
Dr. Jinbao Xie
Dr. Zhanchong Shi
Dr. Jian Zhou
Dr. Hao Cheng
Dr. Yubao Zhou
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- architected cementitious materials and structures
- fiber-reinforced cementitious composites
- multifunctional cementitious materials and structures
- advanced monitoring techniques for cementitious materials and structures
- dynamic and impact testing of cementitious materials and structures
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