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Is an open access book
Covers emerging opportunities and future use of nanotechnology in construction
Presents sectorial interactions within the traditional construction industry supply chain
Reports specific advances in nanoscience and nano-engineering
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering (LNCE, volume 356)
Conference series link(s): International conference on Variability of the Sun and sun-like stars: from asteroseismology to space weather
Conference proceedings info: NICOM 2022.
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Table of contents (56 papers)
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Front Matter
About this book
This open access book covers emerging opportunities and future use of nanotechnology in construction, including deep advances in cement chemistry, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, robotics, concrete technology, and extreme engineering (blast, impact and fire). The proceedings also presents sectorial interactions within the traditional construction industry supply chain, enabled by the dynamic partnership between international industry, government agencies, and universities. Nanotechnology has transformed the construction materials industry into an advanced manufacturing sector to address climate change and carbon neutrality challenges by delivering sustainable and resilient infrastructure assets. Hence, this book reports specific advances in nanoscience and nano-engineering, and their impacts on numerous novel construction materials including binders, additives, high-performance concrete materials, concrete structural systems, polymer composites, and pavement materials.
Keywords
- Cement chemistry
- Concrete technology
- Polymer composites
- Pavement materials
- Construction material
- Nanocomposites
- Structural health monitoring
- Polymer paints
- Cement additives
- Clinker and Binder
- Open Access
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Australia
Wenhui Duan
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Department of Infrastructure Engineering, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
Lihai Zhang
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Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
Surendra P. Shah
About the editors
Professor Duan works at the interface of materials science and civil engineering, being an early pioneer of development of nanoscience and nanocomposites for civil engineering applications. He has led a range of ground-breaking research across both the engineering and materials science disciplines, collaborating with architects, mechanical engineers, soil scientist, applied mathematicians and physicists. Professor Duan graduated from Tianjin University (China) in engineering mechanics with BEng and MEng in 1997 and 2002, respectively. He received his PhD from the National University of Singapore (Singapore) in Civil Engineering in April 2006. From 1997 to 1999, he worked in the field of assessment and rehabilitation of bridge and road as well as assessment of pile foundation as a structural engineer in Tianjin Municipal and Highway Research Institute, China. Starting from Feb. 2006, He worked as post-doctoral fellow in Singapore and Canada. He recently joined Monash University as a Lecturer in Nov 2008.
Professor Lihai Zhang received his PhD at The University of Melbourne in 2009. He has more than 10 years working experience in industry. Prof Zhang is best known for this expertise in numerically modelling fluid flow, mass transfer, and reactive transport in deformed porous media as well as developing advanced stochastic analysis methods. By leading an Infrastructure Asset Protection & Management research group in the Department of Infrastructure Engineering, his research work mainly focuses on reliability-based life-cycle assessment of built infrastructure, building cladding subject to impact, corrosion of concrete materials and structural health monitoring using non-destructive field testing methodology.
Professor Shah has made unique, original and extensive contributions to better understand and define properties of cement-based materials and developing new advanced materials which has become a world standard in these fields. He is responsible for developing high performance concrete, fibre reinforced concrete, self-consolidating concrete, shrinkage reducing admixtures, carbon nano-tube reinforced cement-based composites and extrusion processing of concrete. These have revolutionized the way modern concretes are used worldwide.​Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nanotechnology in Construction for Circular Economy
Book Subtitle: Proceedings of NICOM7, 31 October–02 November, 2022, Melbourne, Australia
Editors: Wenhui Duan, Lihai Zhang, Surendra P. Shah
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3330-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023
License: CC BY
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-3329-7Published: 25 July 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-3332-7Published: 25 July 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-3330-3Published: 24 July 2023
Series ISSN: 2366-2557
Series E-ISSN: 2366-2565
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 533
Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations, 199 illustrations in colour
Topics: Nanotechnology, Building Materials, Nanoscale Science and Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Materials Science, general, Building Materials