Study on Advanced Cement-Based Materials and Their Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Cement-based materials are widely used in the construction industry and other industrial or infrastructure applications. New construction works and production technologies require specific properties of cement-based mortars or concrete in fresh and hardened state and high durability in severe operating conditions. The modification, including nanomodification, of ordinary cements and application of advanced technologies in civil engineering is very interesting and important from a scientific, engineering, and environment protection point of view.

This new issue is proposed and organized to present recent developments in the field of advanced cement-based materials and their applications in civil engineering. For this reason, the articles highlighted in this issue should relate to different aspects of cement modification with new chemical and mineral additives, to improve properties of concrete in a fresh and hardened state and to expand the field of application of that materials for new production technologies and severe applications. The development of low carbon dioxide emission materials, investigation of rheological and technological properties of mixtures, cement hydration processes and microstructure of hardened cement, and high durability in severe conditions (chemical impact, high temperature impact, marine environment, freezing–thawing cycles and other) are the main topics of concern in this Special Issue.

It is my pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript to this Special Issue mainly focused on advanced cement-based materials and their applications.

The topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Rheology of cement-based materials;
• Concrete admixtures from novel materials and industrial wastes;
• Concrete mixtures stability and flowability;
• Optimization of aggregates granulometrical composition;
• Cements and concrete with low carbon dioxide emission;
• Self-compacting cement-based materials;
• Self-healing processes in cement-based materials;
• High-strength and high-performance cement-based materials;
• Shrinkage reduction in cement-based materials;
• Nanomodification of cement-based materials;
• Cement-based materials for 3D printing;
• Cement-based materials for high temperatures;
• Concrete for marine application;
• Chemically resistant cement-based materials;
• High freezing–thawing resistance concrete.

Prof. Dr. Gintautas Skripkiunas
Guest Editor

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