Materials and Structures 2023 Outstanding Papers

Since 2016, every year RILEM endorses the best papers published by Materials and Structures. These are ten papers that exemplify the highest standards in our scientific community and that are selected by Materials and Structures board of editors. They cover all fields of RILEM activities.

Congratulations to all the authors of the 2023 Outstanding Papers! The manuscripts will be available in Open Access in the following weeks.

• Automatic generation of high-fidelity representative volume elements and computational homogenization for the determination of thermal conductivity in foamed concretes, Víctor D. Fachinotti, Ignacio Peralta, Sebastián Toro, Bruno A. Storti & Antonio Caggiano

• Investigation of unaged and long-term aged bio-based asphalt mixtures containing lignin according to the VECD theory, Elena Gaudenzi, Lorenzo Paolo Ingrassia, Fabrizio Cardone, Xiaohu Lu & Francesco Canestrari

• Impact of hydration stoppage on quantification of the GGBS content in ternary limestone cements using the PONKCS method, Samuel Adu-Amankwah, Maciej Zajac, Pengkun Hou & Leon Black

• Does carbon footprint reduction impair mechanical properties and service life of concrete?, Kiran Ram, Marijana Serdar, Diana Londono-Zuluaga & Karen Scrivener

• Effect of matrix self-healing on the bond-slip behavior of micro steel fibers in ultra-high-performance concrete, Salam Al-Obaidi, Shan He, Erik Schlangen & Liberato Ferrara

• Experimental and numerical evaluation of the compressive and shear behavior of unstabilized rammed earth, Fernando Ávila, Mario Fagone, Rafael Gallego, Esther Puertas & Giovanna Ranocchiai

• A removable use of FRP for the confinement of heritage masonry columns, Francesco Micelli, Alessio Cascardi & Maria Antonietta Aiello

• In situ visualization of water transport in cement mortar with an ultra-low w/b ratio under the coupling conditions of osmotic pressure, confining pressure, and temperature, Zhiyong Liu, Yuncheng Wang, Meng Wu, Xizhi Xia, Yunsheng Zhang & Jinyang Jiang

• Standardisation of low clinker cements containing calcined clay and limestone: a review by RILEM TC-282 CCL, Fragkoulis Kanavaris, Manuel Vieira, Shashank Bishnoi, Zengfeng Zhao, William Wilson, Arezki Tagnit Hamou, Francois Avet, Arnaud Castel, Franco Zunino, Talakokula Visalakshi, Fernando Martirena, Susan A. Bernal, Maria C. G. Juenger & Kyle Riding

• RILEM TC 277-LHS report: How hot are hot-lime-mixed mortars? A review, S. Pavia, R. Veiga, J. Hughes, G. Pesce, J. Valek, J. I. Alvarez, P. Faria & A. Padovnik