Design, Control, and Evaluation of Advanced Engineered Materials—2nd Edition
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Processes".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 January 2027 | Viewed by 1964
Editors
Interests: artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning modeling (e.g., generative AI and agentic AI), and digital twinning; structural health monitoring; nondestructive testing and remote sensing; operation intelligence and system resilience; predictive maintenance; risk engineering and decision analytics; sustainable civil infrastructural materials; nanomaterials and multifunctional coatings for corrosion control and mitigation; water and energy systems (e.g., water and energy pipelines and networks); bridge engineering
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Interests: deep learning; maintenance management; steel engineering; bridge engineering; seismic engineering; structure enginneering
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This is the second edition of the Special Issue, “Design, Control, and Evaluation of Advanced Engineered Materials”. The first edition can be found at the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/processes/special_issues/civil_infrastructure_materials.
While conventional civil infrastructure materials, such as concrete and steel, are dominant in existing civil structures, these materials often exhibit premature deterioration and have shortened lifespans due to insufficient durability. The effects of aging and excess operational and environmental stresses necessitate that materials be designed with sufficient resistance under a given performance level.
As such, their derivatives and advanced engineered materials have been recently developed and applied to structural applications. Moreover, a national trend to move toward preventive maintenance also requires proper selection and quantification of cost-effective, durable civil infrastructure materials to ensure a long-term, resilient civil infrastructure. This Special Issue seeks advances and innovations in civil engineering materials and their applications, with the following topics being of particular interest:
- Civil infrastructure materials, including steel, concrete, and composites;
- Functionalized material, including self-cleaning, self-sensing, and self-healing materials;
- Long-term durable material, including high/ultrahigh-performance concrete/steel;
- Green materials, including recycled material and natural fibers;
- Energy-associated materials, including phase-change materials.
In addition to the design, evaluation, and characterization of civil infrastructure materials that address the state-of-the-art advances, submissions that focus on computational modeling of material behavior are also encouraged.
Dr. Zhibin Lin
Dr. Ji Dang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- civil infrastructure materials
- functionalized material
- durability
- green materials
- energy-associated materials
- material behavior computation
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