Cyclic Deterioration of Concrete

Dear Colleagues,

Since its start in 2017, the DFG Priority Program “Cyclic Deterioration of High-Performance Concrete in an Experimental-Virtual Lab” with its 35 principal investigators has gained detailed new insight into the mechanisms and interrelationships of concrete deterioration due to fatigue loading. Furthermore, significant methodological developments in the numerical simulation of concrete behaviour have been and are currently being implemented and coupled with the experimental results gained in the programme.

The present Special Issue intends to provide a forum for all participants in the Priority Program to present the current state within the field of cyclic deterioration of concrete in the experimental-virtual lab to a broad international audience. The aim is to highlight the specific issues of the individual scientific investigations as well as the interdisciplinary cooperation between the fields of building materials and computational mechanics as practiced in the particular projects. Therefore, we invite you to submit an interdisciplinary paper together with your project partners.

With this Special Issue, we hope to present readers an interesting selection of papers highlighting the current state of research on concrete fatigue and its modelling.

Prof. Dr. Ludger Lohaus
Dr. Nadja Oneschkow
Guest Editors

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