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Elise Bertheau, Valérie Simon and Christine Delgado Raynaud
Wood-based panels are ubiquitous in our daily lives, both as building materials and as furnishing materials. Numerous studies have revealed that these materials emit volatile organic compounds, such as formaldehyde, into indoor air, which can be harmful ...
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Angelos Filippatos, Dionysios Markatos, Georgios Tzortzinis, Kaushik Abhyankar, Sonia Malefaki, Maik Gude and Spiros Pantelakis
The current prevailing trend in design across key sectors prioritizes eco-design, emphasizing considerations of environmental aspects in the design process. The present work aims to take a significant leap forward by proposing a design process where sust...
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Farhan Ahmad, Sanket Rawat and Yixia Zhang
Magnesium oxychloride cement (MOC), an alternative to ordinary Portland cement (OPC), has attracted increasing research interest for its excellent mechanical properties and its green and sustainable attributes. The poor water resistance of MOC limited it...
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Yan?e Yang, Bo Pang, Yunsheng Zhang, Minghui Wang, Gaixia Miao and Aoxiang Zhou
The properties of a large number of concrete infrastructures in China are deteriorating year by year, raising the need for repairing and strengthening these infrastructures. By introducing waterborne polymers into a cement concrete system, brittle cracks...
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Jaroslav Pokorný, Lucie Zárybnická, Radek ?evcík and Lubo? Podolka
Plastics represent an integral part of our everyday lives, with various functions from packaging materials to insulation layers in our buildings. Pure expanded polystyrene (EPS) is a good example of a fully recyclable material. However, once polluted wit...
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Yeng-Fong Shih, Chun-Wei Chang, Teng-Hsiang Hsu and Wei-Yi Dai
Wood?plastic composites (WPCs), abbreviated as WPCs, are typically composite materials made by mixing wood flour and thermoplastic resins, and then shaped through processes such as extrusion or compression. They have emerged as a viable and advanced alte...
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Jan Kortmann and Stefan Minar
Fibre-reinforced composites are used in many industries. In the construction industry, for example, the building material carbon concrete is increasingly being used successfully. Although the demand for fibre-reinforced composites and fibre-reinforced pl...
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Panuwat Joyklad, Hafiz Ahmad Waqas, Abdul Hafeez, Nazam Ali, Ali Ejaz, Qudeer Hussain, Kaffayatullah Khan, Arissaman Sangthongtong and Panumas Saingam
Many masonry structures are constructed with cement clay interlocking brick (CCIB) due to its added benefits. Recent research has demonstrated the vulnerability of brick masonry walls against seismic loading. Various strengthening materials and technique...
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Bin Liu, Xiaoduan Zhang and Yordan Garbatov
A micro-meso-macro analysis framework based on the multi-scale method was employed to analyse the mechanical behaviour of marine GFRP stiffened panels. The study aims to establish a procedure for assessing the impact of material composition and weave on ...
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Debo Zhao, Bin Chen and Jingming Sun
Dynamic loadings arising from impact, explosive, and seismic disasters impose high requirements on the performance of engineering structures during service periods. Engineered cementitious composite (ECC) exhibits exceptional toughness and crack resistan...
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