Special Issue "Conventional vs. Innovative Materials, Tradition and Innovation (Second Volume)"
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Advanced Materials Characterization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 June 2023) | Viewed by 1897
Special Issue Editors
Interests: seismic design; innovative materials; metal structures; advanced design; FE tools
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Interests: seismic design; steel structures; FE analysis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The capacity to use novel materials or the possibility to apply traditional construction materials in new forms is becoming a factor strongly influencing the capacity of advanced countries to develop new types of civil engineering structures and infrastructures. From this point of view, research on traditional construction materials today requires the application of refined and advanced design tools to update our knowledge, suggesting new forms of implementing traditional materials in new ways. On the other hand, the development of basic design tools for new materials is still needed in the fields where the research of novel engineering materials is at its first steps. This Special Issue in Materials aims to report critical findings, advances, and applications in all structural engineering fields and, most of all, cutting-edge methodologies applied to innovative structural typologies or the advances on innovative materials applied in structures and infrastructures. We solicit contributions covering a wide range of topics, including innovative materials, new experimental methodologies, new design tools, seismic behavior of traditional structures designed with innovative methodologies, retrofit of existing buildings with traditional and innovative materials, guidelines for the design of new structural details, and FEM studies of components.
Prof. Dr. Massimo Latour
Guest Editor
Sabatino Di Benedetto
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- advanced materials
- energy storage
- hydrogen storage
- hydrides
- hydrogen absorption/desorption