Special Issue on novel cementitious materials and concrete in transportation infrastructure

Cementitious materials and concrete account for the majority of the construction materials used in transportation infrastructure, including pavements, bridges, tunnels and foundations. This requires cementitious materials to be strong, tough and  durable enough to cope with traffic loads and environmental impact. To meet these requirements and comply with the low carbon target, engineers and scholars have developed innovative cementitious materials and additives, and have broadened supplementary cementitious materials.

This special issue will feature the latest achievements in this field and discuss progress in making transportation infrastructure more sustainable, stronger and safer using cementitious materials and concrete. We are interested in experiments, numerical simulation, analytic methods, modelling, on-site monitoring and surveys, etc. We welcome papers from civil engineers, researchers, agencies, contractors and users.

Topics of interest:

These include, but are not limited to:

• Innovative and/or green cementitious materials, concrete, and cement-stabilised materials in transportation infrastructure
• High-performance concrete
• Additives modifying concrete performance
• Recent developments in the characterisation of cementitious materials and concrete
• The field performance of cementitious materials and concrete
• Cement treatment in foundation and other geotechnical applications

Submission deadline:

• 31 May 2022

Submission instructions:

Please read the Guide for Authors before submitting. All articles should be submitted online; please select SI: Novel cementitious material as the issue type. There is no word limit for submitted papers. Review papers and long papers with abundant content are especially welcome. All submissions will be peer-reviewed. If the manuscript is accepted, the article will be published open access with no fee payable by the author. Printed copies of the issue will be shipped to authors free of charge.

For further questions about this special issue, please contact the guest editors or the JTTE editorial office at jtte2014@126.com.

Guest editors:

• Changjun Zhou, Associate Professor, Dalian University of Technology, China. Email: zhouchangjun@dlut.edu.cn
• Qiao Dong, Professor, Southeast University, China. Email: qiaodong@seu.edu.cn
• Hao Wu, Professor, Central South University, China. Email: haoutk@csu.edu.cn
• Pengfei Liu, Dr.-Ing./ Senior research engineer, RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Email: liu@isac.rwth-aachen.de
• Liangliang Chen, Senior Engineer, Broadvision Engineering Consultants, China. Email: dongtianai@163.com
• Lei Quan, Engineer, Research Institute of Highway Ministry of Transport, China. Email: charly08@163.com