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Recent Scientific Developments in Sustainable Building Materials and Structures

A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Structures".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2024) | Viewed by 3746

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Peng Wu

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College of Civil Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211816, China
Interests: composite structures; thermal insulation; fiber reinforced composite; viscoelastic materials; long-term behavior; thermo-mechanical coupling
Dr. Zhibin Ling

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School of Civil Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215009, China
Interests: innovative timber joints; timber-concrete/steel hybrid structures and their seismic performance; strengthening on timber components and numerical modelling on timber structures
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Dr. Zhongkui Cai

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College of Civil Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211816, China
Interests: advances in materials and structures; seismic resilience; impact resistance; corrosion; durability

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The building and construction sector has been identified by most governments worldwide as being responsible for between 50 and 60% of carbon emissions, due to the vast bulk of them being composed of concrete and steel. As the growing environmental problems caused by human activities lead to negative effects, sustainable building materials are increasingly prized by scientists and engineers.

Sustainable building materials, including wood, bamboo, recycled concrete, self-healing materials, etc., have the advantages of energy saving, pollution reduction, and resource conservation. New sustainable construction and building material development is imperative as it holds the possibility of unlocking the solutions to the current global challenges. This Special Issue brings together recent scientific developments in sustainable building materials, in order to examine, explore, and critically engage with issues and advances in sustainable building materials that can both provide several environmental benefits and create cost-effective products. The papers collected in this Special Issue can help researchers, engineers, and scientists to find more advanced techniques and alternative approaches towards sustainable building material development.

Dr. Peng Wu
Dr. Zhibin Ling
Dr. Zhongkui Cai
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • wood modification
  • bamboo scrimber
  • recycled concrete
  • fiber reinforced composite
  • bio-based building materials
  • thermal insulation
  • maintenance free material
  • self-healing material

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Liquid Sloshing in Soil-Supported Multiple Cylindrical Tanks Equipped with Baffle under Horizontal Excitation
by Ying Sun, Xun Meng, Zhong Zhang, Zhenyuan Gu, Jiadong Wang and Ding Zhou
Buildings 2024, 14(4), 1029; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings14041029 - 7 Apr 2024
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The dynamic behavior of liquid storage tanks is one of the research issues about fluid–structure interaction problems. The analysis errors of the dynamics of multiple adjacent tanks can exist if neglecting soil–tank interaction since tanks are typically supported on flexible soil. In the [...] Read more.
The dynamic behavior of liquid storage tanks is one of the research issues about fluid–structure interaction problems. The analysis errors of the dynamics of multiple adjacent tanks can exist if neglecting soil–tank interaction since tanks are typically supported on flexible soil. In the present paper, the dynamics of a group of baffled cylindrical storage tanks supported on a circular surface foundation and undergoing horizontal excitation are analytically examined. For upper multiple tank–liquid–baffle subsystems, accurate solutions to the velocity potential for liquid sloshing are acquired according to the subdomain partition technique. A theoretical model is utilized to portray the continuous sloshing of each tank. For the soil–foundation subsystem, a lumped-parameter model is used to characterize the impacts of soil on upper-tank structures using Chebyshev complex polynomials that present the fitting results of horizontal, rocking, and coupling impedance functions. Then, a model of the soil–foundation–tank–liquid–baffle system is constructed on the basis of the substructure approach. The present sloshing frequencies, sloshing height, and hydrodynamic shear as well as the moment under rigid/soft soil foundations are compared to the available exact results and the numerical results to prove the validity of the present model. The error of the maximum sloshing height between the present and the numerical solutions is within 5.27%; the solution efficiency of system dynamics from the present model is 40–50 times faster than that from the ADINA model. A detailed parameter analysis of the dynamic characteristics and earthquake responses of the coupling system is presented. The research novelty is that an equivalent analytical model is presented, and it allows for investigating the dynamics of soil-supported multiple cylindrical tanks with a baffle, providing acceptable accuracy and high calculation efficiency. Full article
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Experimental Investigation and Prediction for Bending Creep of Glass Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Pultruded Tube
by Kaige Cheng, Yaohui Wang, Hai Fang, Changgen Qian and Peng Wu
Buildings 2023, 13(11), 2714; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13112714 - 27 Oct 2023
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This study experimentally investigates the bending creep behavior of a pultruded tube made of glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) and provides the corresponding fitting model as well as the life prediction equation. In the experiment process, the static bending test is performed first to [...] Read more.
This study experimentally investigates the bending creep behavior of a pultruded tube made of glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) and provides the corresponding fitting model as well as the life prediction equation. In the experiment process, the static bending test is performed first to determine the ultimate load-bearing capacities. Then, the creep experiments lasting 3000 h are conducted for GFRP pultruded tubes with 50%, 55%, 60%, and 65% fiber contents, subjected to four different load levels, i.e., 20%, 32.5%, 45%, 57.5%, and 70%, of the ultimate load-bearing capacity. The results indicate that the creep behavior exhibits linear viscoelasticity for load levels below 45%, while the specimens under load levels of 57.5% and 70% experienced creep failure before 1500 h. The test results indicate that for GFRP tubes, the higher the load level, the more pronounced the creep deformation, and specimens with a higher fiber content exhibit better creep resistance compared to those with lower fiber content. When the load level is less than 45%, the creep behavior appears as linear viscoelasticity. However, at a load level of 57.5%, the specimens experience shear failure, and at a load level of 70%, the specimens undergo overall bending failure. In addition, the prediction equation of creep deflection for GFRP pultruded tubes in linear viscoelasticity is developed by utilizing the Bailey–Norton model and the Findley model, and the prediction equation of creep life is acquired by fitting the experimental data with an exponential function. Full article
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Thermoelastic Behaviors of Temperature-Dependent Multilayer Arches under Thermomechanical Loadings
by Zhong Zhang, Wenjie Zhao, Ying Sun, Zhenyuan Gu, Wangping Qian and Hai Gong
Buildings 2023, 13(10), 2607; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13102607 - 16 Oct 2023
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This work presents analytical solutions for thermoelastic behaviors of multilayer arches with temperature-dependent (TD) thermomechanical properties under thermomechanical loadings. The temperature is varied across the thickness of the arch. Firstly, an arched-slice model is developed, which divides every layer of the arch into [...] Read more.
This work presents analytical solutions for thermoelastic behaviors of multilayer arches with temperature-dependent (TD) thermomechanical properties under thermomechanical loadings. The temperature is varied across the thickness of the arch. Firstly, an arched-slice model is developed, which divides every layer of the arch into numerous hypothetical arched slices with uniform thermomechanical properties. Based on the model, the nonlinear heat conduction equations across the thickness of the arch are solved using the iteration approach, and then the thermoelastic equations obtained from the two-dimensional thermoelasticity theory are solved using the state-space approach and transfer-matrix approach. The present solutions are compared with those obtained using the finite element method and the Euler–Bernoulli theory (EBT). It is found that the error of the EBT increases when the angle of the arch increases or the length-to-thickness ratio decreases. Finally, numerical examples are conducted to analyze the effects of surface temperature and TD thermomechanical properties on the temperature, displacement, and stress distributions of a sandwich arch. The results show that the temperature dependency of thermomechanical properties is a key parameter in predicting the thermoelastic behaviors of the arch in a high-temperature environment. Full article
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