Special Issue "Sustainable Materials, Manufacturing and Design"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Materials".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2022.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Adil Saeed
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Guest Editor
Department of Design & Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, Bournemouth University, BH12 5BB Poole, UK
Interests: sustainability; materials and condition monitoring techniques
Dr. Shagufta Khan
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Guest Editor
AMCO Integrity Pvt. Ltd, Waterford West Queensland, 4133, Australia
Interests: integrity and corrosion management; metallurgical failure analysis; sustainability

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

 

“Sustainable Materials, Manufacturing and Design” is an upcoming Special Issue of Sustainability, an open access, multidisciplinary journal, which publishes original full-length articles and reviews papers focused on materials, manufacturing and design considering the fundamental science of sustainability. This Special Issue seeks to provide a platform for scientists, engineers and academics to present their insights into the field of sustainability in materials, manufacturing and design. Our aims in this Special Issue are to encourage scientists and technical experts to publish their theoretical and analytical findings and/or simulations in order to promote a greater understanding of sustainable materials and their manufacturing and design.

 

The Special Issue will cover, but is not limited to, the following topics:

  • Reliability and longevity of materials in terms of manufacturing and design;
  • Design technologies aimed at reducing environmental damage, and eco-friendly material development;
  • Design and development of recyclable materials on molecular, nano and micro-scale, etc.;
  • Design and development of eco-composites with life cycle approach;
  • Development of policy, standards and regulations;
  • Recycling of materials from large and complex objects;
  • Efficiency optimization of materials;
  • Development, manufacturing and design of materials for sustainable engineering components and devices.

 

This Special Issue entitled “Sustainable Materials, Manufacturing and Design” will create a platform for new and established researchers to contribute to the understanding of imbalances concerning the use and consumption of materials. As the use of engineering materials continues to grow across the world, sustainability is becoming ever more important.

Dr. Adil Saeed
Dr. Shagufta Khan
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1900 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • materials
  • design
  • sustainable engineering
  • eco-friendly
  • life cycle

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Development of Self-Cured Sustainable Concrete Using Local Water-Entrainment Aggregates of Vesicular Basalt
Sustainability 2021, 13(12), 6756; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13126756 - 15 Jun 2021
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The environmental and economic concerns pertaining to the construction industry have necessitated the development of sustainable concrete. Durability and strength are the two primary properties which determine the sustainability of concrete. This study evaluated the performance of self-cured concrete produced from local vesicular [...] Read more.
The environmental and economic concerns pertaining to the construction industry have necessitated the development of sustainable concrete. Durability and strength are the two primary properties which determine the sustainability of concrete. This study evaluated the performance of self-cured concrete produced from local vesicular basalt porous aggregates. The durability indicators, porosity, permeability and pore size of the hardened concrete, were obtained from the water sorptivity (water permeability under capillary action) test, the water permeability under pressure action test and the Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) surface area test and strength was evaluated in terms of compressive strength of concrete. The concrete specimens were produced with 10% porous vesicular basalt aggregate in replacement of coarse aggregate. The concrete specimens were tested at 3, 7 and 28 days. The self-curing effect on concrete strength was evaluated against water, air and membrane cured specimens, at surface/volume ratio of 26.4/40 and w/c ratio of 0.35/0.5. A 20% decrease in sorptivity coefficient, 10% increase in solid surface area and about 10% increase in compressive strength of the self-cured concrete was observed over the conventionally cured concrete. The study concludes that the addition of water-entrainment aggregates to concrete reduces water permeability, results in a finer pore structure of concrete and increases the quality and durability of concrete. Full article
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