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Special issue SP-13 on:
“Synergising expertise towards sustainability and robustness of cement-based materials and concrete structures”

Editors:
Dr. Agnieszka Jędrzejewska, Dr. Fragkoulis Kanavaris, Prof. Miguel Azenha,
Prof. Farid Benboudjema and Prof. Dirk Schlicke

This special issue will consist of peer-reviewed papers on selected research presented during the International RILEM Conference on Synergising expertise towards sustainability and robustness of cement-based materials and concrete structures (SynerCrete’23) held on Milos Island, Greece, in June 2023.
The authors have been invited by the Editors of the Issue based on the recommendations of the Scientific Committee of the conference who selected the papers.
We appreciate your kind contribution to publishing your excellent research works in this special issue of JACT to promote international academic discussion on development in the field of the future of cement-based materials and structural concrete.
When the authors submit the article for this SP, please use the template (download template) and state that the submission is for the above special issue in the manuscript notes.

The first submission date (JACT System open for submissions): 1 September 2023
The final submission deadline: 31 December 2023

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Special issue SP-12 on:
“Non-Destructive Evaluation of Concrete in Nuclear Applications”

Editors:
Dr. Ernst Niederleithinger, Dr. Miguel Ferreira, Dr. Vera Lay, Prof. Sylvia Keßler,
Dr. Salvador Villalobos and Dr. Javier Sanchez

This special issue will consist of peer-reviewed papers on selected research presented at the international conference on "Non-destructive Evaluation of Concrete in Nuclear Applications," held at Aalto University, Finland, in January 2023. When the authors submit the article for this SP, please use the template downlod templateand state that the submission is for the above special issue in the manuscript notes.
We really appreciate your kind contribution to publishing your excellent research works in this special issue of JACT to promote international academic discussion on the development.

The first submission date (JACT System open for submissions): 1 July 2023
The final submission deadline: 31 December 2023

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Special issue SP-11 on:
[Advanced concrete technology for circular economy]
“CO₂ Valorization, Sequestration, and Utilization by Cement-based Materials”

Editors:
Prof. Ryoma Kitagaki, Prof. Yuya Suda, Prof. Atsushi Teramoto, Prof. Go Igarashi, Dr. Takeshi Yamamoto, Dr. Takeshi Torichigai, Dr. Eiji Owaki, Dr. Hikotsugu Hyodo, and Mr. Taiichiro Mori

The cement and concrete industry is turning to carbon capture, utilization, and storage technologies to address climate change. In Japan, the Japan Concrete Institute published the "Concrete sustainability declaration" in 2012 and has been leading research on various measures to reduce CO₂ emissions in the concrete sector in Japan. In the cabinet decision on 18th June 2021, the action plan for the growth strategy was presented. This plan lists the development of CO₂-fixing concretes and other related technologies for the concrete sector, and many national projects are in progress. The Journal of Advanced Concrete Technology is intended to be a showcase for information from Japan and a forum where relevant advanced and latest information from inside/outside Japan can be presented and discussed. Two special issues on this topic will be published in two parts. Part 1 and Part 2 include the accepted papers from January to December 2023 and from January to December 2024, respectively. This special issue of JACT is intended to be peer-reviewed even more quickly than usual. We encourage you to submit your papers for prompt review.
We really appreciate your kind contribution to publishing your excellent research works in this special issue of JACT to promote international academic discussion on the development.

Please use the template, and state that the submission is for the above special issue in the manuscript notes when you submit it.

Special issue SP-10
“Temperature-Time Effects on Properties of Concrete Materials and Structures”
Editors: Dr. Fragkoulis Kanavaris, Prof. Miguel Azenha, and Prof. Shingo Asamoto

We have planned to publish a special issue of the Journal of Advanced Concrete Technology (JACT) to present the recent advances in understanding the combined effects of temperature and time on the properties of concrete, cementitious materials and concrete structures. Temperature has widely been recognised as an instrumental factor which affects the development of the fresh, mechanical and durability properties of concrete. On the same time, with the recent advents in cement and concrete technology, new binders materials emerge which are affected by temperature and time differently when compared to traditional cements and this could potential induce adverse consequences during design, production, construction and service life of concrete materials and structures. In addition to the above, ongoing climate crisis and change may result in unusual temperature observations that can affect the performance of materials and structures. It is therefore important to encapsulate the progress in understanding, predicting and monitoring the combined effects of temperature and time on the behaviour of concrete and cementitious systems. This special issue draws information and is particularly relevant to the works of RILEM TC 254-CMS and 287-CCS which investigate in detail the early-age behaviour of concrete as well as thermal and shrinkage cracking phenomena and fib TG 4.5 – TG 4.8 which investigate structural and durability properties of traditional and novel concretes as affected by temperature and time.
We aim to publish high-quality papers dealing with the following topics:

(a) Temperature effects on fresh, mechanical and durability properties of cementitious systems
(b) Effect of temperature and time on properties of cementitious systems with supplementary cementitious materials
(c) Effect of temperature and time on properties of systems with alternative binders, e.g. non-Portland cements, alkali-activated materials, etc.
(d) Maturity functions
(e) Methods/models to estimate temperature-time effects in concrete properties
(f) On-site and lab-based monitoring of temperature effects on concrete properties

After the submission of papers to this special issue, they will be evaluated through the standard refereeing process in JACT. We really appreciate your kind contribution to publishing your excellent research works in this special issue of JACT to promote international academic discussion on the development.

Please use the template, and state that the submission is for the above special issue in the manuscript notes when you submit it.

The first submission date (JACT System open for submissions): 14 November 2022
The final submission deadline (The last date until which JACT System will be open for new submissions): 14 May 2023

Special issue SP-9
“Recent Advances in High-Performance Fiber-Reinforced Geopolymer Composites for Resilient and Sustainable Construction”

Editors: Dr Behzad Nematollahi, Prof Kazuo Ichimiya, and Prof Minoru Kunieda