Eco-Friendly and Sustainable Concrete Technology
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 August 2025 | Viewed by 1256
Special Issue Editor
Interests: characterization and modelling of reactive transports in cement and geomaterials (carbonation); prediction of transport properties from physical pore network model (water retention curves, intrinsic and relative permeabilities); durability of cementitious materials incorporating recycled aggregates; durability of low-carbon cementitious materials exposed to marine environments (corrosion risk induced by chloride ions); durability of cement and other geopolymer-based materials
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In order to reduce CO2 emissions in the cement industry, various measures can be adopted, such as improving energy efficiency, carbon capture and storage, and clinker substitution. Concerning this last measure in particular, mineral fines, also known as supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs), can be used as a partial substitution of cement in concrete manufacturing, either in blended cements or incorporated separately into the concrete mix, and have become an integral component of high-strength, high-performance, and self-compacting concrete mix design. These fines, which may be quarry materials, industrial wastes, or byproducts, constitute a major alternative to reduce overall economic and environmental costs associated with the use of Portland cement. Although numerous investigations have been dedicated to the durability properties of concretes formulated with SCMs, there are relatively few studies on both microstructural and porous structure properties (porosity, pore size distribution, etc.) and on their impact on transport properties (gas/liquid permeability, diffusion coefficients, water vapour sorption isotherms, water absorption, electrical conductivity), particularly under unsaturated conditions, but also on mechanical properties. A better understanding of those aspects, depending on both the type and amount of SCMs and on the thermo-hydro-chemo-mechanical (THCM) stresses undergone by the concrete structures, is addressed in this Special Issue.
Dr. Harifidy Ranaivomanana
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- low-carbon cements
- mineral additions in cements
- microstructure of concrete
- pore structure of concrete
- transport properties in cements
- mechanical properties of concrete
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