Special Issue "Advanced Studies on Strength and Cracking of Prestressed and Reinforced Concrete Structures"
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Structures".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 January 2024 | Viewed by 3715
Special Issue Editors
Interests: behavior of reinforced; prestressed concrete and steel structures; bridge engineering; engineering material; machine learning; method of finite elements; structural health assessment and monitoring
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Interests: dynamic structural tests; structural mechanics; earthquake resistance design; passive structural control
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Concrete is one of the most common materials in the field of structural engineering. For this reason, its mechanical behavior and, even more, that of prestressed and reinforced concrete, has been a research topic through several approaches for years. Although the literature is full of manuscripts on this argument, ranging from experiments to numerical studies, a comprehensive and precise description of strength and cracking exhibited by prestressed and reinforced concrete structures is still a challenge. This is due to many complicated and combined phenomena that are involved, such as compression crushing, tensile cracking, strain softening, stiffness degradation, interaction between concrete and reinforcement, environmental and long-term conditions of concrete, strand and reinforcement corrosion, prestressing losses and fatigue loading. Therefore, it is crucial to still accurately investigate the effect of such phenomena on the performance of concrete buildings, bridges and infrastructures.
This Special Issue aims to gather advanced contributions that feature studies on prestressed and reinforced concrete structures, including ordinary, high-strength, lightweight, fiber-reinforced and recycled concretes. It is our pleasure to invite you to submit a work and share this call for papers with your colleagues. High quality manuscripts related to (but not limited to) the following topics of strength and cracking of prestressed and reinforced concrete structures are welcome:
- Advanced construction technologies;
- Development of design standards;
- Laboratory and field investigations;
- Monitoring techniques of deterioration conditions;
- Nondestructive testing methods;
- Linear and nonlinear analyses of geometric and material properties;
- Advanced discrete and finite element modeling;
- Serviceability issues under dynamic and static loading;
- Strengthening and repair interventions.
Dr. Marco Bonopera
Prof. Dr. Kuo-Chun Chang
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Buildings is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- concrete
- cracking
- durability
- limit-state behavior
- mechanical strength
- nondestructive testing
- numerical modeling
- prestressed structure
- reinforced structure
- service conditions
