Research Thrust 1: High-performance Fiber-reinforced Cementitious Composites

  1. Resilient: durable, strain-hardening property, high tensile strength, and high tensile ductility
  2. Sustainable: green raw materials and wastes
  3. Multifunctionality: temperature management, self-sensing, self-cleaning, and air-purifying

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Research Thrust 2: CO2 Utilization by Cementitious Materials

Mechanical properties and durability of concrete has been improved by CO2 curing and CO2 injection:

  1. Optimize CO2 curing procedures to precast concrete with high CO2 uptake efficiency
  2. Develop a low carbon precast concrete adapted to CO2 curing technology
  3. Optimize CO2 injection procedures to concrete during mixing
  4. Develop a low carbon ready-mix concrete adapted to CO2 injection technology

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Research Thrust 3: Sea Water and Sea Sand Concrete

Sea water and sea sand concrete (SEACON) has been developed:

  1. CProperly design SEACON matrix (cementitious materials-sand-chemical admixtures) with denser microstructure and higher cracking resistance
  2. Use non-metallic fibers to minimize/eliminate steel in concrete for better durability

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Research Thrust 4: Bio-inspired Engineering Materials

Bio-inspired engineering materials have been developed:

  1. Ultra-light weight, high toughness, ultra-high flexural strength
  2. Multifunctionality: temperature management, self-sensing, self-cleaning, and air-purifying

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Research Thrust 5: Machine Learning

Intelligent algorithms have been developed:

  1. Prediction: logic-guided neural networks for predicting materials properties
  2. Optimization: novel metaheuristic optimization algorithms, game theory-based optimization

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