“…In recent decades, geopolymer, which is known as a clinker-free lowcarbon binder, has a good potential to be a sustainable replacement for Portland cement, and has gradually attracted increasing attentions of researchers (Li et al, 2019;Amran et al, 2020;Xu et al, 2021a;Peng et al, 2022;Peng et al, 2023). Since geopolymer can present a similar mechanical performance with the cement paste, it has been successfully adopted to produce different types of advanced sustainable construction materials, such as artificial geopolymer aggregates (Xu et al, 2021b;Qian et al, 2022;Qian et al, 2023), Engineered/Strain-Hardening Geopolymer Composites (EGC/SHGC) (Yoo et al, 2022b;Lao et al, 2023), and ultra-high-performance geopolymer concrete (UHPGC) (Ambily et al, 2014;Ranjbar et al, 2017;Wetzel and Middendorf, 2019;Liu et al, 2020a;Liu et al, 2020b;Lao et al, 2022). Here, it is mentioned that strain-hardening can also be achieved in UHPGC through proper matrix design and fiber utilization, and this material can be termed as strain-hardening UHPGC (SH-UHPGC) (Lao et al, 2022).…”