Design, Process, Energy, and Evaluation in Construction Material Science

Dear Colleagues,

Design, Process, Energy, and Evaluation is a broad field in the research of Construction Material Science. At the beginning of the 1960s, design and process-oriented research was the primary interest of scientists and methodologists, including technical and social scientists. However, since then, research has focused little on design and process-oriented methodologies, especially in the evaluation of construction materials. Therefore, this Special Issue focuses on topics such as construction binders, by-products, waste-to-material processing, and the transformation of by-products into construction materials; these topics will be addressed in relation to the manufacturing process, the evaluation of features, CO2 neutrality, the achievement of net zero CO2 emissions and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals; and energy demand.

Regarding the use of by-products as an alternative material in the mitigation of climate change, the vast majority of hazardous industrial by-products/human-based wastes meet the requirements of green-binder-based structural/construction materials in the manufacture of raw materials with low greenhouse gas emissions. The availability of by-products/human-based wastes enables them to provide specific functions in the preparation of products used in roads, bridges, buildings, and other engineering, environmental, constructional, and infrastructural projects. Therefore, varying volumes of these by-products should be mixed with cement, sand, tar, granulates, and clay to create attractive construction materials, such as blended cement, substituted cement, mortar composites, grout composites, bitumen composites, brick composites, geopolymer composites, and lightweight construction composites modified with fibre, carbon nanotubes, and graphite nanoparticles.

This Special Issue, entitled “Design, Process, Energy, and Evaluation in Construction Material Science”, aims to provide an overview of the design, processing and evaluation of materials through a systematic assessment of the input and outcome. All the information gathered in this Special Issue will enhance the design of novel construction materials.

This Special Issue will enable engineers and researchers to develop efficient, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly production processes and materials.

The scope of this Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, the following topics;

• Non-Portland cement binders with by-products,
• Portland cement binders with by-products,
• Construction binders with fibre,
• Reviews regarding the transformation of by-products into materials for use in construction,
• The use of nanotechnology in transforming by-products into materials for use in the construction process,
• Evaluation methodology for the transformation of by-products into materials for use in construction,
• Analysis and characterization of the transformation of by-products into materials,
• The failure mechanism of transforming by-products into materials for end-users

Prof. Dr. M. Serkan Kirgiz
Prof. Dr. Jamal Khatib
Guest Editors

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• clinker
• gypsum
• construction lime
• cement
• supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs), pulverized fuel ash, rice husk ash, ground granulated blast furnace slag, steel slag, mine tailing, red mud, limestone sludge
• calcined clay powder
• marble powder
• metakaolin
• carbon nano tube
• carbon-based nano dot
• carbon-based quantum dot
• fiber
• cellulose
• design
• process
• material
• energy
• evaluation
• by-product in various industry
• manufacturing of materials
• nanomaterials
• usage of fibre in material
• lightweight materials
• structural materials
• natural materials
• sustainable construction materials
• reuse
• recycling
• upcycling