Advanced Studies on Strength and Cracking of Prestressed and Reinforced Concrete Structures

Dear Colleagues,

Concrete is one of the most common materials in the field of structural engineering. For this reason, its mechanical behavior and, even more, that of prestressed and reinforced concrete, has been a research topic through several approaches for years. Although the literature is full of manuscripts on this argument, ranging from experiments to numerical studies, a comprehensive and precise description of strength and cracking exhibited by prestressed and reinforced concrete structures is still a challenge. This is due to many complicated and combined phenomena that are involved, such as compression crushing, tensile cracking, strain softening, stiffness degradation, interaction between concrete and reinforcement, environmental and long-term conditions of concrete, strand and reinforcement corrosion, prestressing losses and fatigue loading. Therefore, it is crucial to still accurately investigate the effect of such phenomena on the performance of concrete buildings, bridges and infrastructures.

This Special Issue aims to gather advanced contributions that feature studies on prestressed and reinforced concrete structures, including ordinary, high-strength, lightweight, fiber-reinforced and recycled concretes. It is our pleasure to invite you to submit a work and share this call for papers with your colleagues. High quality manuscripts related to (but not limited to) the following topics of strength and cracking of prestressed and reinforced concrete structures are welcome:

• Advanced construction technologies;
• Development of design standards;
• Laboratory and field investigations;
• Monitoring techniques of deterioration conditions;
• Nondestructive testing methods;
• Linear and nonlinear analyses of geometric and material properties;
• Advanced discrete and finite element modeling;
• Serviceability issues under dynamic and static loading;
• Strengthening and repair interventions.

Dr. Marco Bonopera
Prof. Dr. Kuo-Chun Chang
Guest Editors

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