Contents

### **Preface XI**



### **Engineering 249**

Mehrdad Honarmand, Javad Tanzadeh and Mohamad Beiranvand

Preface

*Sustainable Construction and Building Materials* provides an overview of the complete range of modified and modern sustainable construction and building materials available to civil en‐ gineers and all those involved in the building and construction industries. The book sheds light on recent advances in sustainable construction and building materials with special em‐ phasis on the characterization of natural and composite hydraulic mortars, advanced con‐ crete technology, green building materials, and the application of nanotechnology to the improvement of the design of building materials. The book covers in detail the characteriza‐ tion of natural hydraulic lime mortars, a decade of research on self-healing concrete, bio‐ composite cement binding process and performance, development of sustainable building materials from agro-industrial wastes, applications of sugarcane biomass ash for developing sustainable construction materials, oil-contaminated sand: sources, properties, remediation, and engineering applications, oil shale ash addition effect in concrete to freezing/thawing, connection node design and performance optimization of girders, functionally graded con‐ crete structures, cumulative tensile damage and consolidation effects on fracture properties of sandstone, key performance criteria influencing the selection of construction methods used for the fabrication of building components in the Middle East, fly ash as a resource material for the construction industry, degradation monitoring systems for a building infor‐ mation modeling maintenance approach, durability of composite-modified asphalt mixtures

based on inherent and improved performance, and bitumen and its modifiers.

the civil engineering and construction sector.

With its distinguished editor and eminent editorial committee, *Sustainable Construction and Building Materials* is a standard introductory reference book on the complete range of con‐ struction and building materials. It is aimed at students of civil engineering, construction engineering, and allied courses, including water supply and drainage engineering. It also serves as a source of essential background information for engineers and professionals in

**Sayed Hemeda**

Doctor of Civil Engineering

Faculty of Archaeology Cairo University, Egypt

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

and Structural Restoration of Historic Buildings

Professor of Geotechnical Engineering
