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Smart and multifunctional concrete refers to the structural material accompanied with one or more types of intelligent or functional behaviors. Its “smartness and function” properties are achieved mainly through composition design, special processing, introduction of other functional components, or modification of microstructure of conventional concrete, thus leading to the concrete possessing bionic features. Smart and multifunctional concrete is a very broad category of materials. More than 20 types of smart and multifunctional concrete have been developed in the recent 30 years, and more new types of smart and multifunctional concrete are still emerging one after another. As a dissipative structure system, smart and multifunctional concrete can maintain energy quality to protect entropy increment, thus matching sustainable development trend of materials and infrastructures.
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Han, B., Zhang, L., Ou, J. (2017). General Introduction of Smart and Multifunctional Concrete. In: Smart and Multifunctional Concrete Toward Sustainable Infrastructures. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4349-9_1
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