The ''Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering'' is a monthly

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established in 1989 by the

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. It covers research and best practices concerns on development, processing, evaluation, applications, and performance of construction materials in

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. It consists of four sections: cementitious material,

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, geo-materials, and hybrids (which encompass

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, and

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Abstracting and indexes

The journal is abstracted and indexed in

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Civil engineering database The Civil Engineering Database (CEDB) was created in 1994, and is maintained by American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). It is a free bibliographic database, containing 270,000-entries, for all ASCE publications including journals, conference pr ...

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, and EBSCO databases.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Materials in Civil Engineering Civil engineering journals American Society of Civil Engineers academic journals Monthly journals Materials science journals English-language journals Academic journals established in 1989