- continues the activity that the Journal of Building Materials has carried out for more than 30 years as it was first published in 1971. The Journal of Building Materials has represented a source of information for researchers, engineers and students in the fields of ceramics, binders and concretes, glass and composite materials. In the first years of publication, it was focused on what is meant by building materials, developing its objectives at the same time with the fundamental and applied research in the developed countries, and in our country as well, towards the interests of the rapid research of the Oxide Materials Science and Engineering, with regard to performing and sustainable materials, advanced in the light of its results and consequences. The change of the name of the journal was therefore only natural, and it has also become bilingual since 2002 (Romanian and English) in the Romanian Journal of Materials, successor, on a higher level, of the series of issues of the Journal of Building Materials (Romania). The journal is published quarterly.
Since 2005, the Romanian Journal of Materials is published by the Foundation for Materials Science and Engineering "Serban Solacolu". The mentioned foundation was set up in the homage year Centenary 2005 – Serban Solacolu, founder of the Romanian School of Oxide Materials Science and Engineering.
The Romanian Journal of Materials aims at reflecting the storing of knowledge from the scientific investigations – both fundamental and applied.
The Romanian Journal of Materials publishes the results of original research works referring to the chemical and phase composition, to the structure, proprieties and technology used in obtaining ceramics, glass, binders and composite materials. At the same time, papers referring to modeling of phenomena and processes, their respective mechanisms, to statistical interpretations of the results obtained, to the process engineering are greatly encouraged as well as integrated preoccupations implying informatics (fundamental science – process engineering – advanced technology - ecology – energy saving and reduced costs – manufacture of performing products, in keeping with the use functions of these products in various fields, paying attention to new oxide materials, especially unitary ones (ceramics, binders and glass), and composites (mortar and concrete masses, fiber composites, dispersed phase composites) a.s.o..
The published papers may have an experimental or theoretical character covering a wide range from the oxide materials science and technology.
The main objective of the journal is to maintain a high level of the papers by a rigorous reviewing carried out by specialists, renowned in the field, both from Romania and from foreign countries.