**About the Editors**

#### **Guoming Liu**

Master supervisor at Shandong University of Science and Technology. His main research area is shotcrete technology. He has presided over a number of projects, such as the youth fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the youth fund of the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong province. He obtained honors for his excellent doctoral dissertation and for being one of the "excellent graduates" of Shandong province. He won the first and second prizes of the China Coal Industry Science and Technology, the first prize of Safety Science and Technology Progress of the China Work Safety Association, the first prize of the National Coal Industry Teaching Achievement Award, and other awards. He has published more than 20 SCI papers and served as a guest editor of SCI journals, such as *Buildings*, *Applied Sciences*, *Sustainability* and *Advances in Civil Engineering*.

#### **Xiangming Hu**

Xiangming Hu is a young expert of the Taishan Scholars, Deputy Director of the State Key Laboratory of Mine Disaster Prevention and Control (Incubation Base), recipient of the Sun Yueqi Youth Science and Technology Award, recipient of the Shandong Provincial Excellent Youth Fund, and recipient of the Outstanding Young Scientific and Technological Talent Award in the field of Mining. He has published more than 50 papers in the *Journal of Hazardous Materials*, *Journal of Cleaner Production*, *Cement and Concrete Composites*, *Fuel*, *Construction and Building Materials*, etc. He has presided over three events of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, one sub-project of the National Key Research and Development Program, one of the Excellent Youth Funds of Shandong Province, one of the Excellent Youth Innovation Team Support Programs of Shandong Province, and one of the Science and Technology Development Programs of Shandong Province.
