Advanced Fiber Composites for a Sustainable Built Environment
A special issue of Journal of Composites Science (ISSN 2504-477X). This special issue belongs to the section "Fiber Composites".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 June 2026 | Viewed by 23
Special Issue Editors
Interests: construction materials; cement; sustainability; concrete; durability
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We invite you to contribute to the Special Issue “Advanced Fiber Composites for a Sustainable Built Environment.” Fiber-reinforced systems continue to transform civil infrastructure, energy, and mobility through high specific stiffness/strength, damage tolerance, and designability across length scales. Recent advances in textile architectures, hybridization, nano-enabled interfaces, and automated manufacturing are unlocking performance gains alongside pathways to circularity. For construction and environmental applications, durability under moisture/alkali, freeze–thaw, fire/high temperature, and UV exposure, as well as robust test methods and data transparency, remain pivotal to safe, sustainable adoption.
This Special Issue will advance the design, processing, characterization, modeling, and application of advanced fiber composites with emphasis on civil/environmental engineering performance and sustainability metrics. The focus aligns with the aims and scope of the Journal of Composite Science by prioritizing properties, testing methods, applications, non-destructive evaluation, and physics–chemistry–mechanics characterization. We particularly encourage submissions that enhance reproducibility (detailed protocols, open data, benchmarkable methods).
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Advanced manufacturing
- Microstructure–property relations;
- In situ/operando characterization;
- Durability: alkali/moisture, thermal/fire, fatigue/impact, UV;
- Non-destructive evaluation and structural health monitoring;
- Hybrid and nano-enabled fibers/interfaces;
- Structural strengthening/retrofit for RC, masonry, timber, steel;
- Circularity: repair, reuse, recycling;
- Sustainability assessment;
- Applications: civil/architectural, aerospace/space, automotive/rail, marine/offshore, renewable energy, biomedical, protective/sports and robotics.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Fatih Kantarcı
Dr. Enes Ekinci
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- advanced fiber composites
- civil infrastructure
- structural strengthening and retrofit
- durability and environmental aging
- non-destructive evaluation
- sustainable/circular composites
- life cycle assessment
- civil/aerospace/marine applications
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