Sustainable Cementitious Materials for Civil and Transportation Engineering—2nd Edition
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Construction and Building Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 954
Special Issue Editor
Interests: sustainable building materials with low CO2 emissions and low energy costs (such as recycled cement, geopolymer concrete, and recycled aggregate concrete); highly durable and high-performance concrete in marine environments; non-destructive testing methods for concrete structures
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Dear Colleagues,
After our successful first edition of the Special Issue “Sustainable Cementitious Materials for Civil and Transportation Engineering”, we have decided to create the 2nd edition, in order to collect and publish a series of state-of-art research in the field. Concrete has become the mostly widely used construction material since its invention. Growing concerns over the greenhouse emissions profile of the Portland cement and concrete industry have led to a very high level of recent interest in the development of low-carbon construction materials. The requirements of raw materials for cement and concrete, such as natural minerals, stones and river sand, have been increasing, especially in developed countries where massive amounts of infrastructure are being built. This trend certainly promotes the requirements on sustainable cementitious materials with low carbon emissions for civil and transportation engineering. The development of low-carbon construction materials has been recognized as a means of reducing the carbon footprint of the Portland cement and concrete industry, in response to growing global concerns over natural materials shortage and CO2 emissions from the construction sector. The concrete and cement industry has been under pressure to shift towards sustainability by developing alternative low-carbon cement and concrete materials. However, many fundamental mechanisms in this field are yet to be well understood. Besides, industrial applications are still scarce due to the gap existing between the fundamental research and industrial use in this area.
The purpose of this special issue is to focus on state-of-the-art progress, developments, and new trends on the physical and chemical mechanisms, fresh and harden properties, long term performance and durability of sustainable cementitious materials with low carbon emissions for civil and transportation engineering. Both original research and review articles are welcome. In particular, the topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Low carbon cementitious binders
- Carbonation enhanced concrete
- Low-carbon cement and concrete technology based on non-Portland cement systems, such as alkali-activated materials or geopolymeric materials
- Recycled aggregate concrete
- Green admixtures for cement and concrete
- Long-term performance or durability of low-carbon concrete
Dr. Junjie Wang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- low carbon emissions
- carbon fixation
- sustainable materials
- recycled materials
- cement
- concrete
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