Design, Control, and Evaluation of Advanced Engineered Materials

Dear Colleagues,

While conventional civil infrastructure materials, such as concrete and steel, are dominant in the 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 will seek 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, 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 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. Qi Cao
Dr. Fujian Tang
Guest Editors

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