Composite Systems for Strengthening and Rehabilitation of Concrete and Masonry Structures
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Construction and Building Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 March 2023) | Viewed by 36408
Special Issue Editors
Interests: characterization of composite materials; advanced cement-based materials; retrofitting and strengthening buildings with composite materials; sustainable composite materials
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Interests: composites; FRP reinforcing bars; tunnel; FRC (fiber reinforced concrete); concrete
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Dear Colleagues,
The development of alternative techniques for the strengthening and rehabilitation of concrete and masonry structures is of critical importance to the safety and preservation of the world’s civil infrastructures. Composite materials are playing an increasingly important role in this context, because of their many advantages over steel and other conventional materials.
In particular, composite materials include both organic-based systems, such as FRP (fiber-reinforced polymer), mainly used for the reinforcement of concrete structures, and the most recent inorganic-based systems, including FRCM (fabric-reinforced cementitious matrix), CRM (composite-reinforced mortar), and TRM (textile-reinforced mortar), more suitable and compatible with masonry.
The aim of this Special Issue is to collect original contributions on the use of composite materials for the reinforcement, both internal or external, of concrete and masonry elements or structures. Topics of interest include but are not limited to mechanical characterization tests, analytical and numerical methods to model, simulate, and predict the mechanical behavior, durability studies, and mechanical tests on macroscale elements.
Prof. Jacopo Donnini
Prof. Simone Spagnuolo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Rehabilitation
- Composite system
- FRCM (fiber-reinforced cementitious matrix)
- FRP (fiber-reinforced polymer)
- FRC (fiber-reinforced concrete)
- Durability
- Existing structures
- Reinforcement
- Concrete
- Masonry
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