Advanced High-Performance and Ultrahigh Performance Concrete Materials and Structures

Dear Colleagues,

The annual cost of corrosion related damage in reinforced concrete structures worldwide exceeds five trillion dollars. Meanwhile, the cement and concrete industry has become a major consumer of natural resources and generator of greenhouse gas emissions. Hence, the sustainability and durability of concrete have gained strategic importance. Ultrahigh-performance concrete (UHPC) has recently emerged as a very promising solution for these challenges, considering its exceptional compressive strength, tensile ductility, and durability properties. Indeed, it is now possible to design and build UHPC structures that will never corrode, can sustain exposure in the harshest environments, and resist some of the most severe loading scenarios during their service life, while having a positive environmental footprint.

However, UHPC has not gained broad acceptance and integration into today’s construction market. To help overcome the hurdles facing the implementation of the UHPC technology, this Special Issue will highlight recent value-added contributions to the state-of-the-art and state of practice on UHPC. We seek high-quality research manuscripts addressing key UHPC aspects, including the following topics:

• measurement and control of the rheology and early-age behavior of UHPC;
• specialty materials and novel mixture proportioning;
• nanostructure and advanced characterization of UHPC;
• sustainability and novel binders with low-CO2 footprint;
• mechanical performance under extreme loading, impact, blast, and fire;
• durability in severe exposure environments;
• life cycle assessment;
• design principles and design guidance; applications of UHPC in bridges and buildings, precast concrete, repair and rehabilitation, seismic retrofit, field-cast connections, nuclear fuel and spent fuel storage and containment, etc.;
• new predictive models for the behavior of UHPC, and other novel research that pushes the envelope of innovation and application of UHPC.

Prof. Dr. Moncef L. Nehdi
Guest Editor

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