Concern over sustainability in the construction industry is growing. Engineered cementitious
composites (ECC) have the potential to reduce the carbon and energy footprints of the built …

Over the past decades, extensive studies on municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI)
ashes have been performed to develop more effective recycling and waste management …

Current demand for highly sustainable concrete, eg alkali-activated fly ash-slag (AAFS)
concrete, urges understanding the links between microstructure and micromechanical …

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation plays an effective role in predicting the critical
properties and explaining the macroscale phenomenon at the nanoscale. This review …

Nano materials are well known for their excellent performance over a wide range of
applications. Several studies have examined the effective utilization of nano particles in …

Understanding and characterizing the properties of recycled concrete aggregate asphalt
mixture (RCAM) is a challenge because there are more complicated aggregate-asphalt …

This paper systematically investigates the micromechanical properties of interfacial
transition zone (ITZ) in alkali-activated fly ash-slag (AAFS) concrete using nanoindentation …

External wrapping with engineered cementitious composite (ECC) extends the service life of
concrete structures after reinforcement corrosion, but the low economics of this …

The problem of taking macro-mechanical data of the interface between aggregates and
slurry in the calculation of meso-mechanics of concrete was studied in this paper. Through a …

The property of asphalt mastics consisting of asphalt binder and mineral fillers significantly
affects the performance of asphalt mixture and also results in several forms of distresses in …