Structural Concrete Material: New Trends for Eco-Efficiency and Performance

Dear Colleagues,

The fib Symposium 2021 will be held in Lisbon, from the 14th to the 16th of June 2021, gathering together professionals, researchers, and students from all over the world to discuss ‘Concrete Structures: New Trends for Eco-Efficiency and Performance.’

In recent years, structural concrete material has experienced significant advances, rising in response to more demanding requirements in terms of sustainability, durability, and strength. Extremely relevant developments have been achieved regarding constituents (cement, additions, admixtures, and aggregates), mixture design, and production techniques, giving rise to a broad set of new structural concretes, e.g., self-compacting, nanoreinforced, fibre-reinforced, light-weight, ultra-high performance, and sustainable (low-carbon, low-binder, incorporating recycled aggregates), among others.

The scope of this Special Issue covers the latest developments and new challenges in the following main domains: sustainable cementitious-based materials and alternative binders, including geopolymers, waste cements, alkali-activated cements, modified clinkers, and other emerging low-carbon cements; concrete durability and extended lifetime; advanced materials and special concretes; materials characterization.

This Special Issue will include outstanding research based on the best papers submitted to the fib Lisbon Symposium 2021 addressing the topic of structural concrete material: new trends for eco-efficiency and performance. We also welcome other high quality papers on this topic to be submitted to this Special Issue of the Materials journal.

Prof. Dr. Eduardo Júlio
Prof. Dr. Alexandre Bogas
Prof. Dr. Hugo Costa
Guest Editors

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