Fracture Behavior of Fiber-Reinforced Building Materials
A special issue of Fibers (ISSN 2079-6439).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2024 | Viewed by 7669
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Special Issue Editor
Interests: nondestructive evaluation; acoustic emission; ultrasound; reinforced concrete; mortar; building materials; earthquake precursor; concrete aggregates; construction and demolition waste; self-compacting concrete; spalling; flammability; statistical analysis in nondestructive evaluation; neural network in fracture mechanics; structural integrity
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Dear Colleagues,
Concrete structures are the cornerstone of modern technical civilization. They mainly support city infrastructure as far as the residential environment and the transportation network. However, since concrete elements undergo continuous loading due to their own weight and dynamic forces such as earthquakes, accidental explosions, spalling after fires, and environmental disintegration, there is a need for a holistic approach concerning the type of reinforcement used to enhance concrete as the most commonly used building material. One widely used method that can successfully improve concrete mechanical properties is the addition of different types of fibers with variations of materials, shape, and volume embedded during the mixture. Moreover, besides concrete, many other building materials can enhance their mechanical properties with the appropriate fiber reinforcement.
This Special Issue of Fibers aims to incorporate recent progress in the general field of fiber reinforcement in concrete as well as in other commonly used building materials, focusing on fracture behavior. The improvement of the final properties is usually measured by mechanical testing, with concurrent monitoring by various kinds of non-destructive methods such as acoustic emission, ultrasound, and verification by digital image processing applications.
Dr. Anastasios C. Mpalaskas
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- fibers
- concrete
- mortar
- acoustic emission
- ultrasound
- nondestructive evaluation
- restoration
- fracture behavior
- digital image correlation
- structural integrity
