Advanced Cement and Concrete Composites
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Construction and Building Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2022) | Viewed by 56521
Special Issue Editor
Interests: construction materials; sustainability; machine learning; deep learning
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Dear Colleagues,
The cement and concrete industry is the world’s primary consumer of natural resources and a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. To mitigate climate change and the threat to biodiversity, we need to produce eco-efficient and highly durable cement and concrete composites that meet the ever-increasing demand for enhanced mechanical performance and resiliency. This Special Issue seeks novel and impactful research on: eco-efficient and sustainable cement and concrete; geopolymers and alkali-activated binders; self-healing, bio-inspired, multi-functional, stimuli-responsive, and other advanced and emerging engineered cement and concrete composites; pertinent studies on rheology, mechanical performance, and durability; life-cycle analysis studies; and numerical, artificial intelligence, and other modeling of cement and concrete composites.
Prof. Dr. Moncef L. Nehdi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- cement;
- concrete;
- alkali-activated materials;
- sustainability;
- durability;
- rheology;
- mechanical properties;
- modeling;
- artificial intelligence;
- life cycle analysis.
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