The Impact of Recycled Materials on Infrastructure Performance and Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 8 May 2025 | Viewed by 204
Special Issue Editor
Interests: recycled materials and infrastructure sustainability; infrastrcucture materials characterization and performance assessment; condition assessment of infrastructure and materials through NDT; QA/QC; specifications; risk analysis
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Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, the value of using recycled materials in infrastructure construction has been recognized. These include the following, among others: recycled asphalt and concrete materials; fly ash and foundry sand; glass culets; crumb rubber; and recycled plastics. The recent emphasis on “low carbon materials” and “sustainable civil infrastructure” has generated additional impetus to increase their use and capture the added sustainability benefits.
The combined emphasis on performance and sustainability has generated new approaches and challenges currently explored by academia, industry, and the owners of civil infrastructure. Thus, the focus of this Special Issue on “The Impact of Recycled Materials on Infrastructure Performance and Sustainability” aims to include up-to-date research articles on recent studies that accomplish the following: (i) explore the impact of using recycled materials in civil infrastructure applications; (ii) utilize new design methods and a performance assessment of mixtures with recycled materials for highway and building construction applications; (iii) address the sustainability contributions of using recycling materials in terms of life cycle economic and environmental impact analysis, LCA, as well as “circular economy” principles; and (iv) develop “low carbon” construction materials considering “environmental product declarations”, EPDs, “cradle to gate” and “cradle to grave” life cycle assessment.
Dr. Dimitrios Goulias
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- recycled materials
- infrastructure materials
- sustainable infrastructure
- life cycle analysis
- economic and environmental impact analysis
- circular economy
- low carbon materials
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