Krishna R. Reddy - Advances in Sustainable Materials and Resilient Infrastructure

Springer Transactions in Civil and Environmental Engineering (STICEE) publishes the latest developments in Civil and Environmental Engineering. The intent is to cover all the main branches of Civil and Environmental Engineering, both theoretical and applied, including, but not limited to: Structural Mechanics, Steel Structures, Concrete Structures, Reinforced Cement Concrete, Civil Engineering Materials, Soil Mechanics, Ground Improvement, Geotechnical Engineering, Foundation Engineering, Earthquake Engineering, Structural Health and Monitoring, Water Resources Engineering, Engineering Hydrology, Solid Waste Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Wastewater Management, Transportation Engineering, Sustainable Civil Infrastructure, Fluid Mechanics, Pavement Engineering, Soil Dynamics, Rock Mechanics, Timber Engineering, Hazardous Waste Disposal Instrumentation and Monitoring, Construction Management, Civil Engineering Construction, Surveying and GIS Strength of Materials (Mechanics of Materials), Environmental Geotechnics, Concrete Engineering, Timber Structures.

Within the scopes of the series are monographs, professional books, graduate and undergraduate textbooks, edited volumes and handbooks devoted to the above subject areas.

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The edited book on Advances in Sustainable Materials and Resilient Infrastructure stemmed out from the idea of creation and development of sustainable and resilient infrastructure and comprises of invited book chapter contributions from a domain of experts of repute. The book covers the most critical and emerging topics for creating sustainable solutions in the construction industry, promoting technologies, and monitoring methods for a resilient infrastructure with an aim to deliver high-quality end solutions in the field of civil engineering.

This book provides a path for recent developments and advances in utilizing materials, techniques, and methods with the goal of achieving sustainability. This book provides knowledge-based information for readers to assess, monitor, measure, and practice sustainability for resilient infrastructure. The content in the book is a blend of academic research work and industry-based case studies covering the use of sustainable materials like LimePozzolana Binders, bio-polymers, lignosulphonate-based materials, lightweight aggregates made from fly ash, calcined clay, paper ash, and limestone as amendments/ameliorators for soil remediation, focuses on the development of neo-construction materials and composites for civil engineering applications. Topics related to advances in characterization of structural and geomaterial, design of innovative pavements using alkali activation, and pervious concrete for sustainable infrastructure are also presented. Some of the contents provide tools, indicators, techniques, and performance-based design for energy-efficient buildings. Few chapters covered the role of Civil Engineers in achieving UN sustainable development goals, effect of COVID-19 on public transportation, promoting climate change design for urban landscapes, and modeling building energy demand. Special emphasis is laid on the valorization of industrial, C&D waste, recycle and reuse of wastes and life cycle analysis of materials.

Towards the potential areas of growth and vision for future of sustainability some of the book chapters summarize the guiding concepts to reduce the carbon footprint, development of low carbon materials, durability, and service life assessment, MCDM methods for selecting materials, promoting sustainable materials, techniques, and construction, methodologies for synthesis and design of novel composite material, performance-based design for resilient infrastructures, Durability and Service life improvement of buildings, waste minimization, and material efficiency for circular ecology materials help the reader to learn more concepts on reuse, replace, and recycle, tools and technologies for health monitoring of structures and construction sites.

Finally, this book is framed to address the principles and practice from the point of view of geoenvironmental, sustainable construction materials, low carbon materials, energy efficiency, and waste management, designed to create, evaluate, and integrate engineering approaches in the built environment to incorporate sustainability strategies in building resilient infrastructure.

This book derives the attention of the people who intend to contribute to environmental, social, and economic solutions (triple bottom line). This not only focuses on the needs of a designer but also its concerns on the strategies to improve the design and construction, eliminating the uncertainty in decision making at each stage of infrastructure development. Some practical cases are also addressed, which could be a valuable reference for faculty, researchers, field experts, scientists, and practising engineers. Overall, the book is versatile in presenting all-round developments and state of the art in the thrust area of sustainability.