Recycled Aggregate Concrete and Alternative Binders for Sustainable Building Engineering (Second Volume)
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Construction and Building Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 August 2023) | Viewed by 27146
Special Issue Editors
Interests: materials science; sustainability in construction; recycled aggregate concrete; cementitious materials from industrial byproducts; supplementary cementitious materials; alkali-activated materials
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: materials science; civil engineering; sustainability in construction; recycled aggregate concrete; alkali-activated materials; supplementary cementitious materials
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: materials science and technology; recycled aggregate concrete; sustainability of construction; structural and computational mechanics; steel–concrete composite structures; composite materials
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The construction industry is considered one of the most important sectors of socioeconomic development. However, its dynamism gives rise to two major environmental issues: (i) a significant increase in construction and demolition waste (CDW), which represents more than 30% of the solid waste generated by all economic sectors, and (ii) an increase in the production of Portland cement concrete, which is the most widely used construction material in the world and, through the production of cement alone, constitutes about 7% of all greenhouse gas emissions. Hence, it is essential to find, on the one hand, solutions for discarded CDW in addition to their use as recycled aggregates and, on the other hand, alternative sustainable binders that can replace Portland cement.
This Special Issue focuses on the development of sustainable cementitious composites, either by the replacement of natural aggregates with recycled aggregates or by the use of sustainable binding technologies that constitute a viable alternative to Portland cement.
The main topics covered in this Special Issue are (but not limited to) the following:
- Experimental characterization (rheological, physical, mechanical, durability-related, thermal, etc.) of cementitious composites containing recycled aggregates (of all origins);
- Experimental characterization of new sustainable alternative binders and cementitious composites containing them;
- Development and implementation of analytical methods, numerical models, and optimization algorithms applied to the characterization of sustainable materials and structures produced from them;
- Development of inspection and diagnostic methodologies and techniques for evaluating the performance of sustainable materials and structures containing them;
- Life cycle assessment (LCA) and life cycle cost analysis (LCC) of sustainable materials and structures produced from them.
Work on subjects other than the aforementioned that contribute to advancing knowledge of sustainable materials and their applications are also welcome in this Special Issue.
We kindly invite you to submit a manuscript(s) for this Special Issue. Full papers, communications, and reviews presenting and discussing the most recent trends in the field are all welcome.
Prof. Dr. Miguel Bravo
Prof. Dr. Rui Vasco Silva
Prof. Dr. António P.C. Duarte
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable construction
- recycled aggregate concrete
- sustainable alternative binders
- supplementary cementitious materials
- construction and demolition waste
- carbon dioxide
- alkali-activated materials
- low environmental impact
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