Design and Application of Cement-Based Materials in Sustainable and Efficient Construction
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 March 2025) | Viewed by 1692
Special Issue Editors
Interests: eco-efficient concrete; alternative binders; recycled aggregate; mechanical and durability properties; statistical analysis; self-healing concrete
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Interests: sustainable concrete; concrete rheology; by-product for cement-based materials; special concretes (self-compacting, fiber reinforced…); lime-based materials; internal curing agents; bond in concrete; genetic programming; durability
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The construction industry has a notable impact on the environment and people's quality of life, contributing considerably to CO2 emissions, natural resource depletion and energy demand. The construction sector now tends to use alternative construction materials replacing natural resources, thus decreasing environmental impact and increasing sustainability.
This Special Issue aims to compile recent scientific advances in the use of secondary raw materials in new cementitious matrices and eco-efficient concretes. In particular, this Special Issue may cover experimental studies on the design of new cement-based materials and their applications in the intelligent construction of buildings and infrastructures to reduce their carbon footprint. This may also include studies on pre-treatments that enhance the improvement of these by-products, synergies between new cementitious materials, properties at nano, micro and macro levels that occur in concrete as a consequence of a change in the cement components and the type of aggregate.
Although this field of research is constantly growing, innovative studies with the application of 3D printing and also artificial intelligence in the field of construction with concretes incorporating this new typology of materials are particularly welcome.
We hope that this Special Issue will become a source of new ideas on the various advances in this field of research.
Dr. Blas Cantero
Prof. Dr. María Belén González Fonteboa
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- eco-efficient concrete
- alternative binders
- byproduct for cement-based materials
- self-healing concrete
- low clinker cements
- sustainable material
- 3D-printable concrete
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