Construction Failures and Prevention under Unforeseen Circumstances

Submission Deadline: 30 April 2025 View: 15 Submit to Special Issue

Guest Editors

Prof Dr. Ramadhansyah Putra Jaya

Email: ramadhansyah@umpsa.edu.my 

Affiliation: Faculty of Civil Engineering Technology, Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah

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Research Interests: Concrete Durability, Advanced Materials, Pavement Engineering 

Summary

Introduction to the topic

For over a century, engineers and scientists have been focusing on the failure and prevention of construction in challenging environments and this failure in manufacture can occur due to various unforeseen circumstances. Therefore, the performance of construction could be affected due to its surrounding situation, for instance, environmental conditions (freezing and thawing, wetting and drying, and temperature), chemical attack (salt concentration and presence of more than one kind of aggressive ions), and factors related to construction characteristic. However, various solutions are available in order to overcome this challenging. Introduction of innovative materials into the construction area is one of the methods that can be used by many researchers in order to improve the performance and to prolong the building construction service life. Therefore, this special issue is important to sharing the knowledge on the failure and prevention of construction subjected to unpredicted environments. This can lead to better understanding of readers especially in the problem of failure and preclusion.

Current challenges in the field

There are insufficient information and incoherent research on the failure and prevention of construction under unexpected conditions. Consequently, analyzing every construction failure offers valuable insights that can be utilized to prevent incidents in the future and promoting a systematic investigation of such failures is essential. This special issue to help and identify avoidable errors and contribute to enhancing the safety of future designs. In addition, each construction failure highlights gaps in theory or practice, fostering innovations. As well, the development and integration of novel materials possessing improved strength, durability, and sustainability attributes are underway to enhance structural resilience.

The aims of the Special Issue

This special issue aims to collate original research and review articles that report on the newest studies on construction under unpredicted surroundings with covering of aspects including failure analysis, innovative materials, corrosion, macroscopic & microscopic analysis of construction failures, design-construction & monitoring, and safety management methods. The articles from industry and academia can begin to apply, as well as papers on good practices that others can learn from and utilize. Furthermore, discussions/research/case study on any normative restrictions, implementation in Codes and Standards in regard to its application and challenges are most welcome. The special issue scope covers topics of specific interest include, but are not limited to:

· Mechanics of materials & technologies

· Novel applications of new materials

· Performance of modern structures

· Structural materials & analysis  

· Repair & renovation construction

· Pavement design, failure, and repair  

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