Materials Design, Manufacturing, Testing and Processes for Sustainability
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 February 2024) | Viewed by 969
Special Issue Editor
Interests: building materials; sustainable products and technologies; full-scale testing; low-energy design; performance modelling
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue, “Materials Design, Manufacturing, Testing and Processes for Sustainability”, will highlight experimental/theoretical research related to the latest progress in new innovative and advanced materials, systems, and methods. Modern technologies and techniques in different industrial, professional, and academic fields have been multiplying in the last few decades, affecting the lives of people around the world. Such technologies have come to define modern lifestyles, and must be utilized in the adoption of sustainable and green technologies. This Special Issue is focused, therefore, on satisfying the requirements of society, and oriented towards sustainability. We hope to collect works that discuss, in addition to analysis and simulations, materials environmental profile assessments, prefabrication and sustainability in engineering, construction, and other industrial and scientific sectors, applications of new materials and low-energy design, the evaluation of prototypes, the management and reuse of waste in manufacturing processes, and passive energy-saving strategies and clean technologies. Therefore, potential topics for the Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Sustainable construction, including analysis, simulations, testing, and life cycle assessments of new products and systems, prefabrication, energy-saving processes, and passive design;
- Engineering and resource efficiency, involving low-energy design, management, and the reuse of waste in manufacturing processes oriented towards a zero-waste economy, and clean technologies;
- Informatics and sustainability, including predictive performance and maintenance modelling techniques, digital twins for process optimization, and sustainable applications of artificial intelligence and Internet of Things.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to collect research papers presenting the current state of knowledge concerning these topics. Contributions presenting different approaches are warmly welcomed. I deeply believe the collection will become an appropriate forum for the discussion of these topics and for the dissemination of scientific knowledge.
Dr. Carlos Rivera-Gómez
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- sustainable construction
- life cycle assessment of new products and systems
- prefabrication and energy-saving processes
- low-energy design
- management and reuse of waste
- clean technologies
- performance and maintenance modelling techniques
- digital twins for process optimization
- sustainable applications of artificial intelligence
