Innovative and Sustainable Materials for Strengthening and Rehabilitation of Building Structures
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 2260
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The built heritage of many countries throughout the world is mainly composed of masonry and reinforced concrete buildings, which may have not been designed according to the current regulations and standards or against the seismic action. Moreover, over time, their structural performances could have degraded. Therefore, we must retrofit and strengthen these constructions considering both gravitational and seismic loads. With this purpose, in recent years, the use of innovative materials, e.g., high-performance fibers and different types of organic and inorganic matrices, has become widespread. It is well known that the construction sector is responsible for a huge amount of CO2 emission and to achieve carbon neutrality in the future, the novel materials must be durable and sustainable. In this framework, experimental evidence supported by numerical simulations should determine the efficiency of these solutions, and, when possible, provide definitions for the design criteria and formulations.
This Special Issue aims to collect original papers or state-of-the-art reviews about innovative and sustainable materials for the strengthening and rehabilitation of existing masonry and reinforced concrete buildings. The contributions should be focused on, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Experimental campaigns on innovative and sustainable materials for structural retrofitting, from material testing to full-scale testing;
- Experimental procedures for the mechanical characterization of the innovative materials;
- Studies on the durability of sustainable materials;
- Numerical simulations in support of experimental tests;
- Analytical formulations and design criteria.
Dr. Francesca Ferretti
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- existing buildings
- masonry
- reinforced concrete
- retrofitting interventions
- innovative materials
- sustainable materials
- durability
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