Innovative and Sustainable Infrastructure Materials for Construction Resilience and Improved Productivity
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Resources and Sustainable Utilization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 February 2024) | Viewed by 8957
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Interests: digital twin; BIM; data visualization; 3D concrete printing
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Interests: computational solid mechanics; sustainable and resilient infrastructure systems
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Interests: crumb rubber modifiers recycling in asphalt; microstructural image analysis of asphalt binders
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is deeply soaked not only in the industrial fields but also in the construction fields for improving construction productivity. In other words, newly developed technologies that can achieve the purposes of construction projects without being labor-intensive and wasting construction materials are being actively introduced. In particular, sustainable construction materials are innovatively being developed to shift the existing paradigm of construction materials via, for example, residential construction using 3D-printable cementitious mixtures, self-healing cementitious composites, smart asphalt mix designs, the optimization of asphalt pavement selection, metals and alloys in extreme environments, data-driven construction materials design, machine-learning-based material assessment, and advanced construction materials characterization.
Many numerical and experimental test results have been published in academic journals and conferences. However, more detailed studies that employ emerging technologies are being carried out. The engineering properties of construction materials rely on their types and additives. However, measuring engineering properties is time-consuming and requires technical expertise, specialized equipment, and effort. The Fourth Industrial Revolution develops the deep regression model for predicting the performances of construction materials based on the base properties of materials, image analyses, and historical data to show the feasibility of replacing traditional measuring estimate techniques. Thus, this Special Issue welcomes your contributions to make these fields more elaborate. The topics associated with this Special Issue range from cementitious composites, asphalt, and alloys for infrastructure to data-driven infrastructure management. However, this Special Issue is not limited to this scope. Therefore, please feel free to submit your manuscripts to this Special Issue.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Jaeheum Yeon
Dr. Yooseob Song
Dr. Hyunhwan Kim
Dr. Bongjun Ji
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- three-dimensional-printable cementitious mixtures
- self-healing cementitious composites
- smart asphalt mix designs
- optimization of asphalt pavement selection
- metals and alloys in extreme environments
- data-driven construction materials designs
- advanced construction materials characterization
- machine-learning-based material assessment
- performance prediction
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