Fractal and Fractional in Construction Materials

Dear Colleagues,

Construction materials, including concrete, cement mortar, asphalt, ferric metal, fiber-reinforced materials, bamboo, polymer, etc., have been widely used in civil engineering. In recent years, fractal theory has been widely adopted in many research fields, such as civil engineering and materials science to probe the origin of materials properties (such as rheology, permeability, diffusivity, and thermal transportation). Fractal geometry is a new branch of nonlinear science, proposed and fundamentally established in the 1970s, focusing on the irregularities as well as the haphazard phenomena and self-similarity in nature.

This Special Issue aims to collect the recent advances made in Fractal and Fractional in construction materials globally. The submitted manuscripts will be peer reviewed, and those accepted will be published in the open-access journal Fractal and Fractional. This issue will cover topics of interest that include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

1. Fractal and fractional characterization of construction materials;
2. Fractal and fractional combined with other theoretical, numerical, and/or experimental methods, in the evaluation of the mechanical performance of construction materials;
3. Fractal approach to study the geotechnical engineering, cement-based materials, fiber-reinforced materials, rock and soil materials, geopolymer materials, asphalt and other materials for road pavements, and innovative sustainable materials;
4. Fractal approach to study the properties such as transportation and durability, volume stability and mechanical properties, and cracks and fractures;
5. Other fractal-based approaches used in construction materials.

Dr. Shengwen Tang
Dr. Lei Wang
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 submissions that pass pre-check are 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. Fractal and Fractional is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly 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 2700 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.

• construction materials
• fractal and fractional
• mechanical performance
• fractal theory
• experiment
• transportation
• durability