Recent Advances in Smart Materials for the Built Environment - Paperback

by Cesare Sangiorgi (Guest Editor), Filippo Ubertini (Guest Editor), Anna Laura Pisello (Guest Editor)

The built environment of the future will implement innovative solutions for energy efficiency, self-monitoring infrastructures, and self-healing strategies, just to mention the most promising smart material technologies that will most likely assume a pivotal importance in the future. This book is a result of a very multidisciplinary effort aimed at driving the scientific progress of the constructions of the future. The works included in this book concern new materials and coatings for cultural heritage preservation, environmentally sustainable concretes and paving material components, self-healing, and durability strategies.]