Microstructures and Mechanical Properties of Cement-Based Composites
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Construction and Building Materials".
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Interests: composite materials; structural design; property characterization; multi-scale analysis; machine learning; non-destructive testing
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Interests: cement-based composites; composite structures; structural strengthening; microstructure characterization; fatigue; fracture; engineering applications; experimental investigation
Interests: ultra-high-performance concrete; sustainable building material; fiber-reinforced polymer; durability; interfacial behavior; toughness
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Interests: multi-scale materials modeling; high-throughput spectroscopy analysis; bridge health monitoring
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Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, with the fast development of technology and economy associated with the global growth of the population, the construction of economical, sustainable, and eco-friendly infrastructures with improved ductility, resistance to external elements, and durability has increased the need of developing high-performance construction materials. Due to the addition of constituents including fibers, waste plastics, biominerals, and industrial wastes, cement-based composites could possess enhanced properties, such as strength, toughness, wear resistance, and chemical corrosion resistance, compared with conventional construction materials. Therefore, cement-based composites have been increasingly used in the construction and strengthening of civil infrastructures, including buildings, roads, bridges, tunnels, and dams. Meanwhile, the addition of recyclable, readily available, and low-cost constituents for manufacturing cement-based composites is important to achieve a circular economy and sustainable development.
The cement-based composites with remarkable mechanical properties are largely resulted from the synergistic effect between different added constituents and cement matrix in the composites. The addition of these constituents leads to the changes in the microstructure of cement-based composites, such as the distribution of constituents and the induced structural changes including crystallization, porosity. In order to facilitate the applications of cement-based composites, it requires the understanding and design of composite microstructures for achieving the advanced mechanical properties observed at different length scales.
This Special Issue is to focus on the investigation of the microstructure and mechanical properties of cement-based composites via the integration of disparate techniques, such as microstructural characterization methods and multi-scale testing techniques linking up with numerical simulation approaches for the structural and property measurements. A special focus is on the joint efforts of multidisciplinary techniques to study the relationship between the microstructure and mechanical properties of the cement-based composites at different length scales, that include, but not limited to the following subjects:
- Cement-based composites with different added constituents
- Characteristics of the constituents of cement-based composites
- Microstructure formation and characterization
- Microstructure design, fabrication, and synthesis
- Mechanical properties and durability performance of cement-based composites and ultra-high performance concrete
- Microstructure-property relationship of cement-based composites
- Modeling and simulation of cement-based composites
Dr. Lik-ho Tam
Prof. Dr. Chao Wu
Dr. Ao Zhou
Dr. Zechuan Yu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cement-based composites
- microstructures
- mechanical properties
- durability
- modelling and simulations
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