The Path to Green Concrete

Jorge de Brito is Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Georesources at the Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. He was Head of the ICIST Research Centre from 2009 to 2012. Francisco Agrela is a Full Professor of Civil and Agricultural Engineering at the University of Cordoba, Spain, where he also obtained his PhD in 2003. He is a prolific author of research papers, book chapters, and conferences proceedings. In the last ten years, he has participated as Principal Investigator in more than 40 R+D+i projects related to real-scale applications of waste management and recycled materials. He collaborates with several Elsevier journals as a reviewer, notably Construction and Building Materials, Waste Management, Materials and Design, Resources, Conservation and Recycling, etc., and he is also on the Editorial Board of Materials (MDPI).Rui Vasco Silva is a lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Georesources at IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal. He completed his PhD on the use of recycled aggregates derived from construction, demolition, and excavation waste in the production of structural concrete. He is a member of the CERIS Research and Development Unit, hosted by IST-ID, and an honorary member of the CIB Student Chapter at IST. He has notable experience in FCT-funded Research Projects and is currently Managing Director of the Rinopolycrete project PTDC/ECI-CON/29196/2017 and is Principal Investigator of the upcoming research project ECO2Alkrete. He is the author of several publications concerning sustainable construction and is currently researching other approaches that can further decrease the environmental impact of concrete, namely reactive magnesium oxide, alkali-activated materials, municipal solid waste incinerator bottom ashes and electric arc furnace slag.

• Section 1 - Developments on green supplementary cementitious materials1. Reactive magnesiaMiguel Bravo and Bruna A. Silva2. Stainless Steel SlagFrancisco Agrela Sainz and Julia Rosales3. Alkali activation of slagFrancisca Puertas4. New and More Sustainable Paths for the Development of Alkali Activated CementsNuno Cristelo, Jhonathan Rivera and Inés Garcia-Lodeiro5. Alkali-activated aluminosilicate industrial wastes as alternative binders in precast paving blocksRui Vasco Silva6. Granulation of incinerated municipal solid waste bottom ash with one-part alkali activation technologyPriyadharshini Perumal, Suman kumar Adhikary and Mirja IllikainenSection 2 - Construction, demolition and industrial wastes as aggregates in cementitious composites7. 3D printing concrete with by-productsBelén Gonzalez-Fonteboa8. Steel slag aggregate in concreteFlora Faleschini, Mariano Angelo Zanini and Daniel Trento9. Microtomography of eco-efficient concreteCarlos Thomas10. Mining waste as aggregate for concreteLina M. Trujillo López, Jesús Suárez-González, Carlos López-Colina, Ismael García, Miguel Serrano and Fernando Lopez GayarreSection 3 - Advances on eco-efficient concrete11. Ultra-high-performance concreteCaijun Shi and Xuanhan Zhang12. Self-healing concreteGurkan Yildirim and Behlul Furkan Ozel13. Cellular concreteMaria Victoria Borrachero Sr.14. Graphene in eco-efficient concreteManuel Cruz15. Nanoindentation of concrete with sustainable supplementary cementitious materialsWengui Li, Zhiyu Luo, Yipu Guo, Xuqun Lin, Xiaonan Wang, Hanbing Zhao and Xuanrui Zhang16. Pervious concrete with alternative materialsKrishna Prapoorna Biligiri and Avishreshth Singh