Advancing Sustainable Concrete Materials and Resilient Structures
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Abstract
This editorial posits that the defining challenge for 21st-century civil engineering is the synthesis of two historically distinct goals: environmental sustainability and structural resilience [...]
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OpenAlex topics: Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance · BIM and Construction Integration · Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials
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Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science, University of South Wales, Treforest Campus, Pontypridd CF37 1DL, UK
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