Special Issue "Sustainable Energy Conversion Processes, Environment and Buildings and Urban Network"

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

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2021.

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Guido Marseglia
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Research Department, Link Campus University, Rome, Italy& University of Seville (IMUS), Seville, Spain
Interests: energy conversion processes; circular economy; numerical model; sustainable buildings and infrastructures; sustainable transports; physical processes in experimental tests; heat transfer; pollutant emissions; engine efficiency; combustion process; thermal systems; alternative fuels; waste management; climate changes; smart cities
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Dear Colleagues,

The initiative for Sustainable Development Goals launched by the United Nations in the 2030 Agenda has brought to the forefront of discussions on development the imperative of providing clean and affordable energy in different areas of the world. The use of new technologies and alternative energy sources in power systems is moving towards more efficient and environmentally-friendly solutions.

In addition, in the last decade, many cities have been undergoing a major restructuring of their design of urban networks with sustainable transport and infrastructure, motivated by a growing urban dispersion that arises from the demand for cheaper housing and the location of commercial enterprises. The aim is to put together a series of scientific articles that report important actions taken to improve aspects of sustainability, which may include energy processes, transport, urban design, infrastructure and buildings, biomass conversion, waste management, and logistics. Articles are invited from all countries.

Dr. Guido Marseglia
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • energy conversion processes
  • circular economy
  • numerical model
  • sustainable buildings and infrastructures
  • sustainable transports
  • physical processes in experimental tests
  • pollutant emissions
  • sustainable policies
  • renewable energies
  • waste

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Mechanical Properties of Spruce Wood Extracted from GLT Beams Loaded by Fire
Sustainability 2021, 13(10), 5494; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13105494 - 14 May 2021
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Heating wood to high temperature changes either temporarily or permanently its physical properties. This issue is addressed in the present contribution by examining the effect of high temperature on residual mechanical properties of spruce wood, grounding on the results of full-scale fire tests [...] Read more.
Heating wood to high temperature changes either temporarily or permanently its physical properties. This issue is addressed in the present contribution by examining the effect of high temperature on residual mechanical properties of spruce wood, grounding on the results of full-scale fire tests performed on GLT beams. Given these tests, a computational model was developed to provide through-thickness temperature profiles allowing for the estimation of a charring depth on the one hand and on the other hand assigning a particular temperature to each specimen used subsequently in small-scale tensile tests. The measured Young’s moduli and tensile strengths were accompanied by the results from three-point bending test carried out on two groups of beams exposed to fire of a variable duration and differing in the width of the cross-section, b=100 mm (Group 1) and b=160 mm (Group 2). As expected, increasing the fire duration and reducing the initial beam cross-section reduces the residual bending strength. A negative impact of high temperature on residual strength has also been observed from simple tensile tests, although limited to a very narrow layer adjacent to the charring front not even exceeding a typically adopted value of the zero-strength layer d0=7 mm. On the contrary, the impact on stiffness is relatively mild supporting the thermal recovery property of wood. Full article
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