Concrete Composites in Hybrid Structures

Dear Colleagues,

Concrete composites in hybrid structures combine concrete with other materials like steel, timber or timber-based composites or fiber-reinforced polymers (FRP) to enhance structural performance and achieve specific design goals. These structures enable the positive properties of each structural material to be used, such as concrete's compressive strength, steel's tensile strength and timber lightness, to create a more efficient and robust structures.  Using timber in combination with other structural materials, such as concrete and concrete-based composites, steel and fiber reinforced plastics, is of special interest. Timber–concrete, timber–concrete–steel and timber–concrete–plastic hybrid composite structures can meet the growing demand for sustainable structures. Modification of the properties of concrete composites in the hybrid structures enables the improvement of its structural behavior, such as the ductility of the adhesive timber-to-concrete connection in the hybrid timber–concrete composite structures, so to ensure the effectiveness of the different structural materials used in one structural member.

In addition, compared to structures made of a single structural material, the hybrid structures on the base of the concrete composites are characterized by a decreased amount of energy needed for its production and lower carbon emissions in the case of using a timber–concrete hybrid composite.

This Special Issue will focus on several fields, including the structural solutions of steel–concrete, timber–concrete, timber–concrete–steel and timber–concrete–plastic hybrid composite structures and separate members, investigating the materials’ mechanical properties’ influence on the structural behavior, design methods and determination of the parameters, which enables the structural efficiency to increase. Sufficient interest will encourage investigations of the long-term behavior of adhesive timber-to-concrete connections and possibilities to decrease their brittleness in timber–concrete hybrid composite structures by the use of the concrete composites with modified mechanical properties.  We hope that the contributions in this Special Issue will promote knowledge related to structural solutions and behavior analyses, producing technologies for hybrid structures and structural members based on concrete composites.

This Special Issue focuses on structural properties and the analysis of concrete composites in hybrid structures, and provides a forum for the publication of research papers, short communications and review papers which advance the behavior, analysis and testing methods and applications of concrete composites in hybrid structures. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible so that their results can be reproduced. Therefore, there is no restriction on the maximum length of the papers.

Prof. Dr. Dmitrijs Serdjuks
Dr. Janis Sliseris
Dr. Vjaceslavs Lapkovskis
Guest Editors

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• steel–concrete hybrid composite
• timber–concrete hybrid composite
• lower carbon emission
• structural optimization
• rational parameters
• physical and mechanical properties
• structural behavior