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Advances in Materials Science and Engineering Advances in Building Technologies and Construction Materials 2018 Lead Guest Editor: João M. P. Q. Delgado Guest Editors: Robert Cerný, Antonio Gilson Barbosa de Lima, and Ana S. Guimarães Advances in Building Technologies and Construction Materials 2018 Advances in Materials Science and Engineering Advances in Building Technologies and Construction Materials 2018 Lead Guest Editor: João M. P. Q. Delgado Guest Editors: Robert Cerný, Antonio Gilson Barbosa de Lima, and Ana S. Guimarães Copyright©2018Hindawi.Allrightsreserved. Thisisaspecialissuepublishedin“AdvancesinMaterialsScienceandEngineering.”Allarticlesareopenaccessarticlesdistributedunder theCreativeCommonsAttributionLicense,whichpermitsunrestricteduse,distribution,andreproductioninanymedium,provided theoriginalworkisproperlycited. Editorial Board AntonioAbate,Germany MarcoConsales,Italy BenoitGuiffard,France MichaelAizenshtein,Israel JoséA.Correia,Portugal IvanGutierrez-Urrutia,Japan JarirAktaa,Germany MaríaCriado,UK HirokiHabazaki,Japan AmeliaAlmeida,Portugal GabrielCuello,France Simo-PekkaHannula,Finland RajanAmbat,Denmark LucasdaSilva,Portugal DavidHolec,Austria K.G.Anthymidis,Greece NarendraB.Dahotre,USA SatoshiHorikoshi,Japan SantiagoAparicio,Spain JoãoP.Davim,Portugal DavidHouivet,France RaulArenal,Spain AngelaDeBonis,Italy RuiHuang,USA AliciaE.Ares,Argentina AbílioDeJesus,Portugal YiHuang,UK FarhadAslani,Australia LucaDeStefano,Italy MicheleIafisco,Italy ApostolosAvgeropoulos,Greece FrancescoDelogu,Italy SalihaIlican,Turkey RenalBackov,France LuigiDiBenedetto,Italy MdMainulIslam,Australia MarkusBambach,Germany AldoDiCarlo,Italy IliaIvanov,USA AmitBandyopadhyay,USA MariaLauraDiLorenzo,Italy AlfredoJuan,Argentina MassimilianoBarletta,Italy MarisaDiSabatino,Norway kenjiKaneko,Japan MikhaelBechelany,France LuigiDiSarno,Italy KatsuyukiKida,Japan AviBendavid,Australia AnaMaríaDíez-Pascual,Spain AkihikoKimura,Japan BrahimBenmokrane,Canada GuruP.Dinda,USA SoshuKirihara,Japan JamalBerakdar,Germany NadkaTzankovaDintcheva,Italy PawełKłosowski,Poland Jean-MichelBergheau,France HongbiaoDong,China JanKoci,CzechRepublic G.Bernard-Granger,France MingdongDong,Denmark FantaoKong,China GiovanniBerselli,Italy FredericDumur,France LingB.Kong,Singapore PatriceBerthod,France StanislawDymek,Poland LingxueKong,Australia MicheleBianchi,Italy KavehEdalati,Japan PramodKoshy,Australia HugoC.Biscaia,Portugal PhilipEisenlohr,USA HongchaoKou,China AntonioBoccaccio,Italy ClaudeEstournès,France AlexanderKromka,CzechRepublic FedericaBondioli,Italy LuísEvangelista,Norway AndreaLamberti,Italy SusmitaBose,USA MicheleFedel,Italy LucianoLamberti,Italy Heinz-GünterBrokmeier,Germany IsabelJ.Ferrer,Spain FulvioLavecchia,Italy SteveBull,UK PaoloFerro,Italy MarinoLavorgna,Italy GianlorenzoBussetti,Italy DoraFoti,Italy LaurentLebrun,France JoseM.Cabrera,Spain MassimoFresta,Italy Joon-HyungLee,RepublicofKorea AntonioCaggiano,Germany PasqualeGallo,Japan PavelLejcek,CzechRepublic VeronicaCalado,Brazil GermàGarcia-Belmonte,Spain CristinaLeonelli,Italy MarcoCannas,Italy SantiagoGarcia-Granda,Spain YingLi,USA PaoloAndreaCarraro,Italy CarlosGarcia-Mateo,Spain YuanshiLi,Canada MichelinaCatauro,Italy GeorgiosI.Giannopoulos,Greece YuningLi,Canada RobertČerný,CzechRepublic IvanGiorgio,Italy Guang-xingLiang,China JoseCesardeSa,Portugal AntonioGloria,Italy BarbaraLiguori,Italy PeterChang,Canada VincenzoGuarino,Italy JunLiu,China DaolunChen,Canada DanielGuay,Canada MeilinLiu,Georgia FranciscoChinesta,France GianlucaGubbiotti,Italy ShaominLiu,Australia GianlucaCicala,Italy JenöGubicza,Hungary YunqiLiu,China FrancescoColangelo,Italy XuchunGui,China ZhipingLuo,USA FernandoLusquiños,Spain GiorgioPia,Italy AdolfoSpeghini,Italy PeterMajewski,Australia DanielaPilone,Italy AntoninoSquillace,Italy GeorgiosMaliaris,Greece TeresaM.Piqué,Argentina ManfredStamm,Germany MuhamamdA.Malik,UK CandidoFabrizioPirri,Italy KoichiSugimoto,Japan DimitriosE.Manolakos,Greece AlainPortavoce,France BaozhongSun,China EnzoMartinelli,Italy SimonC.Potter,Canada Sam-ShajingSun,USA AlessandroMartucci,Italy UlrichPrahl,Germany YouhongTang,Australia YoshitakeMasuda,Japan VivianaF.Rahhal,Argentina KohjiTashiro,Japan BobbyKannanMathan,Australia CarlosR.Rambo,Brazil MiguelAngelTorres,Spain RoshanMayadunne,Australia ShahedRasekh,Portugal LaszloToth,France ShazimA.Memon,Kazakhstan ManijehRazeghi,USA AchimTrampert,Germany PhilippeMiele,France PauloReis,Portugal LucaValentini,Italy A.E.Miroshnichenko,Australia YuriRibakov,Israel AshkanVaziri,USA HosseinMoayedi,Iran AnielloRiccio,Italy LijingWang,Australia JoseM.Monzo,Spain AnnaRichelli,Italy RuiWang,China MicheleMuccini,Italy AntonioRiveiro,Spain ZhongchangWang,Portugal AlfonsoMuñoz,Spain MarcoRossi,Italy LuWei,China RufinoM.Navarro,Spain SylvieRossignol,France JörgM.K.Wiezorek,USA MiguelNavarro-Cia,UK PascalRoussel,France JiangWu,UK AliNazari,Australia FernandoRubio-Marcos,Spain GuoqiangXie,China BehzadNematollahi,Australia FrancescoRuffino,Italy DongminYang,UK LuigiNicolais,Italy MarkH.Rümmeli,China ZhonghuaYao,China PeterNiemz,Switzerland PietroRusso,Italy HemmigeS.Yathirajan,India HiroshiNoguchi,Japan AnttiSalminen,Finland Yee-wenYen,Taiwan ChérifNouar,France F.H.Samuel,Canada WenbinYi,China OlanrewajuOjo,Canada MariaGabriellaSantonicola,Italy LingYin,Australia DariuszOleszak,Poland HélderA.Santos,Finland TetsuYonezawa,Japan LaurentOrgéas,France CarloSantulli,Italy HiroshiYoshihara,Japan TogayOzbakkaloglu,Australia FabrizioSarasini,Italy BelalF.Yousif,Australia NezihPala,USA MichaelJ.Schu¨tze,Germany LenkaZajićˇkova,CzechRepublic ´ MariánPalcut,Slovakia RaffaeleSepe,Italy MicheleZappalorto,Italy DavidePalumbo,Italy KenichiShimizu,USA GangZhang,Singapore GianfrancoPalumbo,Italy FridonShubitidze,USA JinghuaiZhang,China AnnaMariaParadowska,Australia MercedesSolla,Spain LiZhang,China ZbyšekPavlík,CzechRepublic DonatoSorgente,Italy MikhailZheludkevich,Germany MatthewPeel,UK CharlesC.Sorrell,Australia WeiZhou,China AlessandroPegoretti,Italy AndresSotelo,Spain YouZhou,Japan GianlucaPercoco,Italy CostasM.Soukoulis,USA HongtaoZhu,Australia ClaudioPettinari,Italy DamienSoulat,France F.JavierFernándezFernández,Spain Contents AdvancesinBuildingTechnologiesandConstructionMaterials2018 J.M.P.Q.Delgado ,RobertČerný,A.G.BarbosadeLima ,andA.S.Guimarães Editorial(3pages),ArticleID4926783,Volume2018(2018) NewChemicalGroutingMaterialsandRapidConstructionTechnologyforInclinedShaftPenetrating Drift-SandLayerinCoalMine XicaiGao ,XinyuWang,andXiangdongLiu ResearchArticle(5pages),ArticleID2797419,Volume2018(2018) MechanicalBehaviorofAsphaltMasticsProducedUsingWasteStoneSawdust GhaziG.Al-Khateeb ,TaisirS.Khedaywi,andMotazF.Irfaeya ResearchArticle(10pages),ArticleID5362397,Volume2018(2018) TheStandardFireTestingandNumericalModellingoftheBehaviorofCalciumSilicateBoard Metallic-FrameworkDrywallAssemblywithJunctionBox YinuoWang ,Ying-JiChuang,Ching-YuanLin,andHaoZhang ResearchArticle(13pages),ArticleID8130647,Volume2018(2018) MultilevelSeismicDamageBehaviorCorrelationAnalysisforRCFramedStructures JianguangYue ResearchArticle(9pages),ArticleID2364297,Volume2018(2018) ViabilityStudyofaSafeMethodforHealthtoPrepareCementPasteswithSimultaneousNanometric FunctionalAdditions M.A.delaRubia ,E.deLucas-Gil ,E.Reyes,F.Rubio-Marcos ,M.Torres-Carrasco,J.F.Fernández, andA.Moragues ResearchArticle(13pages),ArticleID7805248,Volume2018(2018) ModelsforStrengthPredictionofHigh-PorosityCast-In-SituFoamedConcrete WenhuiZhao ,JunjieHuang ,QianSu,andTingLiu ResearchArticle(10pages),ArticleID3897348,Volume2018(2018) NumericalPredictionofChloridePenetrationinConcreteExposedtoaMarineEnvironmentatTide SungInHong andKiYongAnn ResearchArticle(10pages),ArticleID7591576,Volume2018(2018) 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2018 J. M. P. Q. Delgado ,1 Robert Cˇerny´,2 A.G. Barbosa de Lima ,3 and A. S. Guimarães 1 1CONSTRUCT-LFC,FacultyofEngineering,Universityof Porto,RuaDr.Roberto Frias,s/n,4200-465Porto, Portugal 2Departmentof MaterialsEngineeringandChemistry,Facultyof CivilEngineering,CzechTechnicalUniversityinPrague, Tha´kurova7/2077,166 29Prague6,CzechRepublic 3Departmentof MechanicalEngineering,Federal UniversityofCampina Grande,Av.Apr´ıgio Veloso,882, 58429-900Campina Grande,PB, Brazil CorrespondenceshouldbeaddressedtoJ.M.P.Q.Delgado;[email protected] Received 19 June 2018; Accepted 19 June 2018; Published 29 July 2018 Copyright©2018J.M.P.Q.Delgadoetal.ThisisanopenaccessarticledistributedundertheCreativeCommonsAttribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properlycited. The development of civil engineering in the course of analyse the multilevel nonlinear mechanism of the rein- centuriesmeantaconstantstrugglewithavailablematerials, forced concrete framed structures in five structural levels. spans,orheight,activeloads,andtheforcesofnature:water, Based on the presented deformation equivalent principle, fire, wind, and earthquakes. ageneralizedstiffnessdamagemodelwasdevelopedforeach While construction activities improve the quality of structurallevel.Animpactfactorwasproposedtoreflectthe human lives, they also have significant impact on the en- damage correlations between different structural levels. In vironment. The production of construction materials re- ordertoverifythismethod,theproposedmethodwasused quires energy and generates greenhouse gases. Low-cost or tostudythedamageevolutionsatvariousstructurallevelsof affordableconstructiontechnologiesandbuildingmaterials a12-storeyframestructure.Zhaoetal.presentanextension are often pushed as a magic potion in meeting the ever- of Balshin’s model to develop a prediction model of com- growing demand for rapid housing delivery in developing pressivestrengthforthreetypesofhigh-porositycast-in-situ economies. New advanced materials offer opportunities to foamed concrete (cement mix, cement-fly ash mix, and changethewayinwhichweconstructandretrofitbuildings. cement-sandmix)withdrydensitiesoflessthan700kg/m3. They give added value in terms of increased performance Zhaoetal.presentthedevelopmentofsteelfiber-reinforced and functionality. The reduction of carbon footprint for expanded-shale lightweight concrete (SFRELC) with high construction materials can start at the production phase, freeze-thawresistance.Basedonthetestresults,suggestions whereenergy-efficientprocessescanbedevelopedandwaste aregivenoutfortheoptimalmixproportionofSFRELCto or recycled materials can be employed. New materials can satisfythedurabilityrequirementoffreeze-thawresistance. also help address the new challenges of durability in M. J. Kim and K. Y. Ann evaluate the corrosion risk of a changing climate. internalchlorideand externalchloridefromthree different This special issue is the result of the huge success pre- exposureconditions.Theyconcludedthatanincreaseofthe sentedbypreviousspecialissuesofthesametopic,andasthe dryingratiointheexposureconditionresultedinanincrease previous special issues had a great acceptation by the sci- of the corrosion rate after initiation. Also, the authors entificcommunitywith61papers submittedand26papers predicted the chloride penetration with different exposure accepted for publication. conditions to determine the service life of the reinforced A considerable number of experimental and numerical concrete structure. Lee et al. investigate experimentally the papers address new research advances and applications in dowel behaviour of rebars in small concrete blocks for the theconcretematerial.J.Yuepresentsanumericalmodelto slidingslabtrackonrailwaybridges.Thisworkcanbeuseful