Recycling Wastes into Construction Materials: Innovative Methods and Developments
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Materials".
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Interests: structural engineering; machine learning; construction materials; sustainability; ecofriendly bricks
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Interests: civil and structural engineering; sustainable construction materials; concrete; clay bricks; waste recycling
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2. Department of Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
Interests: reinforced concrete; FRP composites; structural strengthening; structural rehabilitation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Concrete is the most highly consumed material after water with an estimated global annual production of 25 billion tons. On the other hand, a lot of construction and demolition waste (CDW) is generated every year. The total generation of CDW in Europe, Japan, and the US is around 510, 77, and 325 million tons per year respectively. Similarly, huge quantities of other municipal, agricultural and industrial wastes are landfilled each year around the world causing different environmental and waste management issues. Considering the massive generation of such wastes and consumption of concrete in construction activities, many nations are promoting the up-cycling of different construction as well as municipal, agricultural, and industrial wastes in the construction materials. Although numerous studies have focused on the recycling of different wastes in construction materials, the practical application of green construction materials is still rare due to the uncertainty in the performance of waste-incorporated construction materials and the lack of sustainable concrete design guidelines.
The Special Issue titled “Recycling wastes into construction materials: innovative methods and developments” will be focused on research and review articles and case studies discussing recycling of wastes in different construction materials, novel design approaches, life-cycle assessment, and development of empirical and analytical performance prediction models of construction materials using different artificial intelligence techniques. Works on subjects other than the above-mentioned areas that contribute to knowledge about eco-friendly construction materials are also welcome in this Special Issue. We hope that this Special Issue will be a beneficial contribution to the field of sustainable construction materials and related industrial applications.
Dr. Syed Minhaj Saleem Kazmi
Dr. Yufei Wu
Guest Editors
Keywords
- eco-friendly concrete
- sustainable construction materials
- waste recycling
- industrial wastes
- agricultural wastes
- municipal wastes
- thermal behavior of construction materials
- mechanical and durability performance
- performance prediction modeling
- artificial intelligence for construction materials
- industrial manufacturing
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