TOPICS FOR CONFERENCE

NOVEL CEMENTS AND ADVANCED MATERIALS

  • Advances in science and technology of cement, admixtures, and concrete

  • Advances in materials concept and tailored material properties

  • Energy efficient process and materials

  • Fibre reinforced concrete

  • Green concrete

  • Heavy density concrete

  • Hot weather / cold weather concreting

  • Nano technology

  • New cements such as LC3

  • Other related developments

  • Permeable concrete

  • Phase change materials (PCM)

  • Recycled Concrete Aggregates & Concrete

  • Self consolidating/ compacting concrete

  • Ultra high performance concrete

  • Underwater concrete

EARTH-BASED MATERIALS

  • Advances in structural and civil engineering applications

  • Concrete construction & maintenance of structures in different fields of infrastructure, such as: -Aviation, Structures - Railways / Metros, Ports, Harbours and Nuclear Plants

  • Dismantling of structures

  • Innovative and cost effective fire resistant solutions

  • Innovative therapies & Practices in structural designs

  • Quality control related to concrete structures

  • Research and current developments

  • Seismic retrofitting

  • Structural Steel Quality control related to concrete structures

PERFORMANCE IN SERVICE, PREDICTION OF SERVICE

  • Durability of concrete

  • Improved performance of shrinkage cracking

  • Innovative solutions for corrosion prevention of rebars

  • Service life and life cycle analysis

  • Smart materials

  • Structural health monitoring

  • Sustainability of concrete

  • Transport properties of concrete

FIRE

  • Characterisation of fire, blast and impact loading on structures Behaviour of structural materials at high temperatures

  • Design of structures for improved resilience

  • Design of Bridges for Fire & Blast Resistance

  • Effects of Fire & Blast on Facades & Glass Assemblies

  • Effects of Fire and Blast on Steel connections

  • Strengthening, retrofit and repair

CHARACTERIZATION, TESTING AND MONITORING MATERIALS AND THEIR PROPERTIES AND ASSOCIATED MODELING

  • Advanced models from nano to macro scale

  • Advances in software

  • Advances in testing of material properties

  • Advances in material modeling, fresh state to early age to fracture and damage mechanics

  • Experimental analysis of concrete structures

  • Monitoring concrete properties during construction

  • Multi-scale modeling

  • Non-destructive testing

  • Sensors

  • Natural stone

  • NORMs

  • Nuclear concretes

  • Numerical Modeling

  • Polymers

  • Prestressed concrete

  • Protection and renovation of heritage structures Freeze-Thaw

  • Recycle aggregate

  • Rheology of concrete

  • SAPs / Internal curing

  • Self-healing asphalt

  • Self-healing concrete

  • Soil Materials

  • Special Construction Materials and Components Bitumen/Asphalt

  • Structural aspects

  • Sustainable materials

  • Textile reinforced concrete

  • Timber

  • Transport properties

  • Waste materials

  • Coating materials

  • Composite and hybrid structures

  • Concrete in fire

  • Creep and Shrinkage

  • Curing of concrete

  • Deterioration mechanisms

  • Design

  • Deleterious ions

  • Durability

  • Sustainable materials

  • Early age properties of concrete

  • Explosion

  • Fibers

  • Fracture

  • Hydration and micro structure development Admixtures

  • Impact

  • Masonry

  • Materials processing

PRECAST & PRE-STRESSED CONCRETE:

  • Connections in Precast Jointed Systems

  • Fast Track Precast Construction

  • Precast Concrete Technology

  • Precast Concrete Tunnel Segments

  • Precast Pavements

  • Prestressed Concrete

OTHER TOPICS:

  • 3D printing

  • Aggregates

  • Alternative cement

  • Asphalt and bituminous materials

  • ASR

  • Bacterial processes

  • Bio-based materials

  • Carbonation

  • Carbon-based nanomaterials

  • Cement chemistry