Cement Materials and Binding Materials for Construction: Preparation, Characterization and Applications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2022) | Viewed by 432
Special Issue Editors
2. Interdepartmental Center for the Study of Hydraulic Binders (CIRCe), University of Padova, Via VIII Febbraio, 2, 35122 Padova PD, Italy
Interests: cements and alkali-activated materials; hydration solid-liquid equilibria kinetics and microstructural development; structural heterogeneity in solid suspensions and paste-like materials; circular economy and industrial symbiosis, by-product valorization and reuse
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Dear Colleagues,
All around the world, the doubling of the population, improved standards of living, and continuing need for mobility over the past 50 years have generated a 10-fold increase in the consumption of cement-based materials.
Widely different binders have been used in building construction since antiquity. Today, Portland cement seems to be the sole binder used. More sustainable alternatives such as geopolymers, alkali-activated binders, or raw earth represent case studies more so than industrial reality.
Since the second half of the last century, investigations on Portland cement, focusing on production first and on its hydration mechanism later, have improved the quality of its fresh and solid properties, leading to the development of self-consolidating, self-curing, ductile, strain-hardening, and high-performance concrete.
The aim of this Special Issue is to gather recent advances on the production and use of binders, not limited to Portland cement but also open to more sustainable hydraulic binders such as geopolymers, alkali-activated binders, recycled aggregates, and raw earth/clays. In this context, the analytical techniques to investigate the materials at all different organization levels, from nano to macro, and the assessment of their macro mechanical characteristics in the fresh and hardened state represent key topics.
Prof. Dr. Maurizio Bellotto
Dr. Teresa LIBERTO
Guest Editors
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