Section Editors
- Editorial Board
- Environmental Sustainability and Applications Section
- Social Ecology and Sustainability Section
- Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability Section
- Sustainable Engineering and Science Section
- Energy Sustainability Section
- Sustainable Urban and Rural Development Section
- Sustainable Agriculture Section
- Sustainable Education and Approaches Section
- Tourism, Culture, and Heritage Section
- Sustainable Chemical Engineering and Technology Section
- Sustainable Transportation Section
- Geography and Sustainability Section
- Psychology of Sustainability and Sustainable Development Section
- Resources and Sustainable Utilization Section
- Air, Climate Change and Sustainability Section
- Sustainability, Biodiversity and Conservation Section
- Sustainable Food Section
- Health and Sustainability Section
- Hazards and Sustainability Section
- Sustainable Materials Section
- Sustainable Management Section
- Green Building Section
- Soil Conservation and Sustainability Section
- Waste and Recycling Section
- Sustainable Oceans Section
- Sustainable Water Management Section
Section Board for 'Sustainable Engineering and Science' (89)
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Interests: advanced wastewater treatment; advanced oxidation processes; resource recovery; biofuels; sustainable chemical processes; renewable chemicals; biomass conversion processes
Interests: exponential innovation; project management; collective intelligence
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Interests: smart materials and structures; infrastructural health monitoring
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Interests: design theory; design engineering; design logic; innovative design; service engineering; product-service systems
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Interests: recycled aggregate; recycled powder; recycled concrete; recycled mortar; 3D printed concrete
Interests: zero energy building; passivhaus; CFD; geothermal energy; technical and economic analysis for the energy efficiency of buildings
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Interests: building sustainability; retrofit; adaptive reuse
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Topical Collection in Encyclopedia: Encyclopedia of ZEMCH Research and Development
Special Issue in Sustainability: Advances in Building Adaptive Re-design and Retrofit for Sustainable, Resilient Property
Topical Collection in Sustainability: ZEMCH International Research Series
Interests: water; urban flood resilience; blue-green infrastructure; water and sanitation in development; system modelling of coupled resource flows; sustainability in engineering education
Interests: transportation system; demand analysis; city logistics; city evacuation; sustainable mobility; port generation
Interests: construction; indoor climate; ventilation; particles; demand controlled ventilation
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Interests: biotechnology; biomass and bioenergy; bioremediation; algal technology; microbial ecology; waste management; wastewater treatment
Interests: construction safety and health; risk management; engineering education development techniques; increasing achievements of underrepresented groups in science; sustainable and resilience urban development; green building materials and techniques; sustainable development and construction
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Interests: environmental management; industrial ecology; environmental governance; local development
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Special Issue in Sustainability: Diverse Dynamics of Industrial Symbiosis: Emergence and Development
Special Issue in Sustainability: New Governance Model and Strategy to Improve a Sustainable Transport System
Special Issue in Sustainability: Governance, Power and Institutions and Overall Weaknesses of the SDG System: The Public Participation and the Role of Stakeholders
Interests: multidimensional systems; computational methods for operation of electric railway systems; applied mathematics for environmental xenobiotic analysis; neural networks
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Interests: sustainability science and engineering; process systems engineering; life cycle oriented methods; designing resilient and sustainable systems; data analysis and modeling
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Interests: waste management; environmental science; chemical engineering; industrial ecology; cleaner production
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Interests: multiobjective optimization; structures optimization; lifecycle assessment; social sustainability of infrastructures; reliability-based maintenance optimization; optimization and decision-making under uncertainty
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Special Issue in Mathematics: Optimization for Decision Making
Special Issue in Mathematics: Optimization for Decision Making II
Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainable Construction II
Special Issue in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health: Trends in Sustainable Buildings and Infrastructure
Special Issue in Mathematics: Deep Learning and Hybrid-Metaheuristics: Novel Engineering Applications
Special Issue in Mathematics: Optimization for Decision Making III
Special Issue in J: New Trends in Smart Construction Education and Research
Interests: sustainable transport; transport planning; travel behaviour; traffic engineering; traffic safety; evaluation; monitoring; walking; cycling; urban planning; shared mobility; street design
Interests: urban microclimate modeling and building energy simulation; building passive design and green building technology; building information modeling
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Special Issue in Sustainability: Green Building Technologies II
Special Issue in Sustainability: Pro-Environmental Decisions: Sustainable Use of Urban Rooftops
Interests: sustainable transportation; climate change; social and racial equity; impact analysis; behavioral change; advanced technology (alternative fuels, automation); public policy; sharing economy; shared mobility
Interests: digital production systems; assembly line design; urban logistics; healthcare processes optimization; environmental impact; social fairness
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Interests: sustainable construction (recycled aggregates in concrete and mortars); bridge and building management systems; buildings service life (prediction); life cycle assessment; construction technology
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Special Issue in J: Self-Compacting Concrete Produced with Recycled Aggregates
Special Issue in Buildings: Life Cycle Prediction and Maintenance of Buildings
Special Issue in Energies: Building Thermal Envelope
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Low Binder Concrete and Mortars
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Modelling of Corrosion-Related Mechanisms in Reinforced Concrete
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: High-Performance Eco-Efficient Concrete
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Concrete and Mortar with Non-conventional Materials
Special Issue in Energies: Building Thermal Envelope - New Trends and Applications
Special Issue in Buildings: Adaptation Strategies for the Maintenance of Existing Buildings under Climate Change
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Advances in High-Performance of Eco-Efficient Concrete
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Structural Behaviour of Concrete Waste Materials
Special Issue in Sustainability: The New Generation of Concrete: Use of Eco-Efficient Aggregates, Binders and Water
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: High-Performance of Eco-Efficient Concrete, Volume 3
Interests: sustainable engineering and science; knowledge to action; transdisciplinarity; community engaged research; water energy nexus
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Interests: structural engineering; design of tall buildings; earthquake engineering; innovative approaches for seismic retrofit of existing buildings; seismic isolation and mass damping; steel structures; masonry structures
2. DATAI, Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Navarra, 31009 Pamplona, Navarra, Spain
Interests: sustainable process improvement; Lean Green practices; data analysis; Six Sigma approach
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Interests: civil engineering; construction; technology; processes; MCDM; risk
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Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainability and Risks in Construction Management
Special Issue in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health: Occupational Safety and Risks in Construction
Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainable Decision Making in Civil and Construction Engineering
Interests: production & operation management; supply chain management; logistics and warehousing; circular economy; life cycle assessment; maintenance management
Interests: carbon nano materials; composite synthesis and application; application of nanocomposite materials in the wastewater treatment and energy production
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Interests: carbon fibre reinforced composites; carbon fibre composite and polymer recycle; development of low cost carbon fibres; bio-sustainable precursor fibres (lignin, cellulose, etc); graphene enabled materials and composites; multi-functional polymer nanocomposites; composites for protection and transport application
Interests: sustainable construction; circular economy in construction; life cycle assessment; eco-design
Interests: transport planning; sustainable mobility; demand responsive transport; public participation in transport decisions; transport modeling and simulation; public transport; active mobility; planning for accessibility
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Interests: coupled human–environment systems; sustainable digital environments; sustainable resources management; industrial ecology
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Interests: food service; catering; food waste; food processing; menu planning; menu sustainability
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Interests: structural engineering; earthquake engineering; data-driven modeling and artificial intelligence; structural health monitoring
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Interests: structural analysis and design; structural concrete; seismic assessment and retrofitting; sustainable cementitious composites
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Special Issue in Sustainability: Innovative Structural Applications of High Performance Concrete Materials in Sustainable Construction
Special Issue in Polymers: Fiber-Reinforced Composites: Innovative Solutions and Advanced Analysis Methods
Interests: mathematical modelling, simulation, statistical analysis and optimization of transport systems; transport networks; visioning of future systems; dynamic processes
Interests: probabilistic methods in civil engineering; structural reliability; safety-checking of structures; performance-based earthquake engineering; time-dependent seismic hazard and risk assessment; life-cycle cost assessment; seismic ground motion representation and intensity measures; progressive structural collapse; impact of rainfall-induced hydrogeological phenomena on the built environment
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Interests: materials science; image analysis; concrete recycling; experimental mechanics; micromechanical modeling
Interests: product-service systems design; design for service considerations; design for a circular economy; design for affordance; design for innovation; service design; customer experience design and management; design methods and processes; design cognition and informatics; design learning
Interests: supply chain management; logistics; operations research; decision theory; forecasting techniques
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Interests: lean production systems; supply chain design and management; decision support tools for production system design and operation; End-of-Life product recovery systems
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Interests: carbon capture and sequestration; life cycle analysis; energy storage; water treatment systems; sustainable mobility
Interests: computational fluid dynamics; turbulent mixing; outfall systems and sustainable design; numerical modeling of riverine and coastal waters; jets and plumes and environmental sustainability; sediment transport
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Interests: artificial intelligence; evolutionary computation; wind and solar energy; metaheuristics; pattern recognition; image processing; machine learning; software engineering; computational intelligence; operations research
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Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainability and Artificial Intelligence
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Applied (Meta)-Heuristic in Intelligent Systems
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Emerging Industry – Promoting Human Performance and Health
Special Issue in International Journal of Financial Studies: Financial Issues of Emerging Industry
Special Issue in Administrative Sciences: Emerging Industry—Improving Wellness of Humans and Entrepreneurs
Interests: composite materials and structures; novel and eco-efficient construction materials; waste-based concretes; geopolymers; composites incorporating recycled materials; green composites; biocomposites; fiber reinforced polymers (FRPs)
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Special Issue in Fibers: Fiber Reinforced Composites (FRCs) for Construction Applications
Interests: machine learning; deep learning; ensemble models; hybrid models; applied mathematics; soft computing; deep reinforcement learning; machine learning for big data; mathematical IT; hydropower modeling; prediction models; time series prediction; business intelligence; climate models; machine learning for remote sensing; hazard models; extreme events; atmospheric model; forecasting models; predictive analytics; meta-heuristic techniques
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Special Issue in Energies: Machine Learning Prediction Models in Energy Systems
Special Issue in Algorithms: Feature Papers in Evolutionary Algorithms and Machine Learning
Special Issue in Crystals: Machine-Learning and Deep Learning Applications in Crystalline Materials Science and Computational Mechanics
Interests: asphalt paving technologies; engineering modified asphalts; asphalt laboratory characterization; asphalt material performance modeling; pavement image analysis
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Interests: construction project management; construction information technology; health performance evaluation of buildings; sustainable construction management; simulation and optimization of project management; project risk management; free-form building technology; machine learning for construction management
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Interests: operations management; smart manufacturing; sustainable logistics; environmental management; life cycle assessment; smart city; safety and human factors
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Interests: numerical simulation; electronic engineering; lecturing; solar energy; and optimization
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Interests: application of systems science and complexity science in small-scale community development projects and geological engineering projects
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Interests: low energy building design; lighting; daylighting
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Interests: operations efficiency; industrial energy efficiency; industrial sustainability; industrial eco-efficiency; sustainable supply chain management
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Interests: piezoelectric and triboelectric energy harvesting devices
Interests: modeling and simulation; transportation; urban planning; urban development; smart growth; land use and land cover; data analysis; data mining; mathematical and system dynamics modeling; sustainable cities and communities
Interests: network protocols; network algorithms; wireless sensor networks; ad hoc networks; multimedia streaming
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Special Issue in Future Internet: Green Communications and Networking
Special Issue in Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks: Underwater Sensor Networks
Special Issue in Sensors: Underwater Sensor Nodes and Underwater Sensor Networks 2016
Special Issue in Sensors: Advances and Challenges in Underwater Sensor Networks
Special Issue in Sensors: Smart Communication Protocols and Algorithms for Sensor Networks
Special Issue in Information: Selected Papers from WMNC 2017 and JITEL 2017
Special Issue in Sensors: Sensors for Green Computing
Special Issue in Sensors: Smart Ocean: Emerging Research Advances, Prospects and Challenges
Special Issue in Sensors: Future Research Trends in Internet of Things and Sensor Networks
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Advanced Internet of Things for Renewable Energy Optimization
Special Issue in Sensors: Underwater Sensor Networks: Applications, Advances and Challenges
Special Issue in Sensors: Sensor Systems for Internet of Things
Special Issue in Electronics: Internet of Things (IoT)-Based Wireless Health: Enabling Technologies and Applications
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality & Semantic 3D Reconstruction
Special Issue in Sensors: Recent Advances in Internet of Things and Sensor Networks
Special Issue in Sensors: Surveys of Sensor Networks and Sensor Systems Deployments
Special Issue in Sensors: Underwater Sensor Networks
Special Issue in Sensors: Underwater Sensor Networks and Internet of Underwater Things
Special Issue in Sensors: Sensing, Imaging and Computing in Multimedia and Network
Special Issue in Sustainability: Green Technology and Sustainable Development
Special Issue in Electronics: Advances in Wireless Networks and Mobile Systems
Interests: design for sustainability; design for sustainable behaviour; methods and tools for sustainable product design; sustainable product services systems
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Interests: lighting systems science and technology; impacts of light on life; impact on the environment and energy; lighting; visual perception
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Special Issue in Sustainability: Energy Efficient Domestic Appliances and Smart Lighting Technologies
Special Issue in Energies: Selected Papers from the 11th International Conference on Energy Efficiency in Domestic Appliances and Lighting and the 17th International Symposium on Science and Technology of Lighting (EEDAL-LS21)
Interests: Interdisciplinary research and education; sustainable development and gender equality in academia; resilience to climate change hazards and gender equality; sustainability oriented engineering education; gender equality transformation of engineering higher education institutions; education for peace and life; circular economy; bioeconomy; waste-based bioeconomy; bioenergy; social acceptance of bioenergy; sustainable use of renewable resources; renewable energy
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Interests: sustainable engineering; clean technology; resource efficiency; Life Cycle Thinking; Thermodynamics
Interests: sustainable energy systems; circular economy; lifecycle assessment; greenhouse gas inventory; industrial ecology
Interests: green chemistry; ionic liquid; supercritical fluid; biocatalysis; separation processes
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Special Issue in Processes: Biochemical Processes for Sustainability
Special Issue in Processes: Advances in Ionic Liquid Membranes Technology
Interests: constraint satisfaction problem; scheduling; robust scheduling; distributed constraints; railway scheduling; green/sustainable manufacturing; logistics; metaheuristics
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Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainable Intelligent Manufacturing and Logistics Systems
Interests: multiagent systems; intelligent manufacturing systems; agent-supported simulation for manufacturing systems; applications of multiagent systems; sustainable intelligent manufacturing and logistics systems
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Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainable Manufacturing and Supply Chain in the Context of Industry 4.0: Challenges and Opportunities
Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainable Intelligent Manufacturing and Logistics Systems
Interests: sustainable chemistry; sustainable materials management; sustainable development goals; decoupling; resource efficiency; environmental impact; life-cycle assessment; criticality assessment; material flow analysis
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Interests: biocomplexity; collective dynamics; ecology and evolution of biological and socio-technological systems; systemic risk analysis; decision science; complex networks; network science; information theory; stochastic processes; fractals; uncertainty; ecohydrology; hydrodynamics; sustainability; ecosystem health; ecodesign; ecosystem modeling; data science; biomimicry; bio-inspired design; macroecology; physiophysics; ecosystem pathology; forecasting; interdisciplinary applications of statistical physics; design by analogy; food systems; physio-linguistics; microbiome; epigenetics; envirome; aquatic and marine ecosystems
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Special Issue in Symmetry: Complexity and Symmetry in Biosystems
Special Issue in Climate: Climate Ecosystems Nexus
Special Issue in Symmetry: Bioinspired Engineering: Collectivity and Design
Interests: reinforced concrete (RC); testing; repair; strengthening; fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP); self-compacting concrete (SCC); steel fiber-reinforced concrete (SFRC); damage detection; structural health monitoring (SHM); piezoelectric sensors
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Special Issue in Fibers: Steel Fibre Reinforced Concrete Behaviour
Special Issue in Fibers: Fiber-Reinforced Polymers and Fiber-Reinforced Cement Composites as Concrete Reinforcement
Interests: corporate sustainability; sustainable development goals; environmental impact; chemical assessment; absolute sustainability assessment; life cycle assessment
Interests: drinking water supply; drinking water technology; water purification
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Interests: biological metal recovery; nutrient cycling
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Interests: pollution impact assessment; Life Cycle Assessment; transportation; Sustainable mobility; electric vehicles
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Interests: construction materials; fiber reinforced composites; infrastructure; recycling; reuse
Interests: sustainable energy; carbon capture; natural gas production and storage; effect of environment on wind energy and concentated solar energy
Interests: sustainable supply chain management; green supply chain management; reverse logistics; closed-loop supply chains; CSR based supply chain management; supply chain risk management; decision analysis; multi-criteria decision-making
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Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Green Energy and Applications
Interests: life cycle analysis; net energy analysis; EROI; carbon emissions; energy transition; environmental impact analysis
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Interests: energy engineering; renewable energy sources; environmental management; life cycle analysis; environmental engineering; process engineering
Interests: sustainable development; assessment methods; life cycle assessment; sustainable development in higher education; environmental policy
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Interests: urban heat island and the mitigation measures; outdoor thermal comfort and indoor thermal comfort for naturally ventilated spaces; thermal performance of façade for non air conditioned buildings; thermal performance of urban greenery including green roofs and vertical green walls; climate change and the impact on built environment
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Special Issue in Energies: Energy Efficient Building Design 2016
Interests: sustainable manufacturing; sustainable product development; life cycle engineering and management; close loop manufacturing; reverse logistics; design for environment; circular economy; system of system thinking
Interests: disaster prevention and ecological engineering; environmental fluid mechanics; hydrology and hydraulics; contaminant transport modeling; environmental monitoring; climate change
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Special Issue in Water: The Application of Hydrologic Analysis in Disaster Prevention
Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainable Water Resources Management for Disaster Risk Reduction
Special Issue in Climate: Impact of Climate Change on Natural Hazards
Special Issue in Sustainability: Flood Risk Management and Frontiers in Environmental Fluid Mechanics
Interests: resilient and sustainable infrastructure; disaster risk reduction strategies; protective technologies; structural failure risk and casualties; science-informed safety policy and decision making; building structural design guidelines, standards and codes of practice
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Interests: energy efficiency in buildings; building energy modeling and simulation; building information modeling; energy management in buildings
Interests: sustainable constructions; green materials; durability of civil structures; insulating materials; life cycle assessment in construction
Interests: open hardware; distributed recycling; recycled composites; additive manufacturing; renewable resources; circular economy
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Special Issue in Inventions: Innovations in 3-D Printing
Special Issue in Energies: Recent Research Progress for Energy Policy
Special Issue in Technologies: Open Source Agriculture Technology
Interests: technology and innovation management; transdisciplinary research
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Interests: structures/high performance concrete (HPC) behavior and durability performance; fiber-reinforced polymers (FRP) in structural repair and strengthening applications with an emphasis related to concrete and masonry structures, and their durability performance; development of environmentally sensitive construction materials; hybrid materials and enhanced systems for blast resistant structures
Interests: ground-penetrating radar; signal processing; modeling and simulation; non-destructive testing; airfield and highway pavement engineering; construction materials; civil engineering
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Interests: SOFCs; transport applications; microtubular designs; rapid start-up SOFC systems
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Interests: factors which influence the design and implementation; affordable and sustainable building practices at the unit and community levels; market acceptance, construction, and resource efficiency
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Special Issue in J: Sustainable and Resource – Efficient Homes and Communities