Sustainable and Advanced Cementitious Materials (Second Edition)
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Construction and Building Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2025 | Viewed by 86
Special Issue Editors
Interests: long-term properties of cementitious materials; structural health monitoring; reinforced concrete structure design; Eurocode adaption in country building regulations
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Interests: innovative concrete and cement composite materials; geopolymer concrete; foamed composite; long-term properties of concrete composites in various stress-strain conditions; physicomechanical properties
Interests: long-term properties of cementitious materials; long-term properties of fiber reinforced cementitious materials; 3D printed cementitious material long-term properties; foamed cementitious composite mechanical and long-term properties
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recently, CO2 emission reduction, as well as building waste reduction and recycling, have been key topics for legislative bodies around the globe. In addition to these issues, new restrictions have been imposed. As the construction industry is one of the most polluting industries, the restrictions, which mostly refer to CO2 reduction in the construction material manufacturing and building processes, have given rise to the need for optimized construction materials and optimized building processes in order to achieve or come close to achieving this goal. As concrete and other cementitious composites are the backbone of modern civil and industrial infrastructures, it would be impossible to reduce CO2 by abandoning cementitious material usage altogether. Nevertheless, one proposed way is to optimize cementitious material design and to incorporate construction and building waste into the construction materials and their compositions.
Therefore, the goal for this Special Issue of Materials is to attract original contributions, with topics related to the latest developments in sustainable and innovative cementitious materials, as well as their design and property assessments.
Prof. Dr. Leonids Pakrastins
Dr. Andina Sprince
Dr. Rihards Gailitis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- modern cementitious materials
- sustainable development
- innovative construction materials
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