Smart and Durable Inorganic-Matrix Composite Systems for Sustainable Infrastructure Rehabilitation
A special issue of Infrastructures (ISSN 2412-3811). This special issue belongs to the section "Infrastructures Inspection and Maintenance".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 March 2027 | Viewed by 29
Special Issue Editors
Interests: durability; composite materials; textile reinforced mortars; FRCM; masonry
Interests: structural health monitoring (SHM); non-destructive testing (NDT); acoustic emission monitoring; damage assessment of cementitious materials; experimental mechanics; infrastructure diagnostics
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Interests: historical masonry; earthquake engineering; strengthening of structures; masonry arch bridges
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Interests: seismic assessment; structural engineering; fiber reinforced concrete; fiber reinforced polymer (FRP); GFRP durability; life cycle assessment (LCA); applied machine learning; low carbon cement
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Inorganic-matrix composite systems such as Textile-Reinforced Mortar (TRM), Fabric-Reinforced Cementitious Matrix (FRCM), or Composite-Reinforced Mortar (CRM) systems have emerged as promising solutions for the strengthening, rehabilitation, and long-term protection of infrastructure and historic structures. Their compatibility with masonry and concrete substrates, improved durability, and potential for sustainable design have attracted increasing attention in both research and engineering practice. At the same time, growing environmental challenges, climate-driven degradation mechanisms, and the demand for resilient infrastructure have highlighted the need for more advanced approaches to durability assessment and long-term performance prediction.
Recent developments in machine learning, materials informatics, structural health monitoring, and digital modeling offer new opportunities to improve the understanding and prediction of degradation processes in inorganic-matrix composites. Data-driven methods, combined with experimental investigations and numerical approaches, can support the development of predictive frameworks for durability, maintenance planning, structural reliability, and lifecycle-oriented design.
This Special Issue aims to bring together recent advances related to the durability, monitoring, sustainability, and AI-assisted assessment of inorganic-matrix composite systems for resilient infrastructure applications. Contributions addressing experimental, numerical, analytical, and hybrid data-driven approaches are encouraged.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Durability and aging of TRM/FRCM/CRM systems;
- Accelerated weathering and environmental exposure;
- Bond behavior and interface degradation;
- Non-destructive testing (NDT) and structural health monitoring (SHM);
- Mechanical performance of inorganic matrix composites;
- Machine learning and AI for durability prediction;
- Hybrid predictive models;
- Digital twins and data-driven infrastructure assessment;
- Sustainable and low-carbon repair materials;
- Lime-based and alkali-activated matrices;
- Multi-scale characterization and degradation mechanisms;
- Lifecycle assessment and service-life prediction;
- Strengthening and rehabilitation of masonry and concrete structures;
- Experimental–numerical coupling approaches for resilient infrastructure.
Dr. Nima Azimi
Dr. Eleni Tsangouri
Dr. Daniel V. Oliveira
Dr. Omid Hassanshahi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- inorganic-matrix composites
- TRM/FRCM/CRM systems
- durability assessment
- machine learning
- structural health monitoring
- sustainable construction materials
- accelerated aging
- predictive modeling
- infrastructure rehabilitation
- digital twins
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