It is RILEM’s objective to gather together the most eminent specialists throughout the world in the fields of building materials and structures. Aiming for excellence in all its activities, RILEM awards the following recognised distinctions annually:
RILEM Honorary Members
RILEM distinguishes Honorary Members. These are people who have rendered exceptional services to the association — for example, who have successfully chaired the work of several TCs, or have contributed to giving a new orientation to the association.
RILEM Fellows
Created in 1993 by the General Council, the honorary title of RILEM Fellow is bestowed upon RILEM Senior Members who have made exceptional contributions to RILEM in their capacities as research scientist, engineer, technical leader or educator.
Robert L'Hermite Medalists
In 1967 when RILEM celebrated its 20th anniversary, it was decided to create a RILEM Medal which would be granted each year to a research scientist. As an example, and to mark the high level of merit which was required of the medal holders, the first RILEM Medal was bestowed upon Prof. Ferdinand Campus, one of the founders of RILEM. In 1981, the Medal was renamed the Robert L’Hermite Medal, in honour of the President-Founder of RILEM.
Since then, each year, the Robert L’Hermite Medal is awarded to a researcher under 40 years of age, who has made an exceptional scientific contribution to the field of construction materials and structures. (How to apply)
Gustavo Colonnetti Medalists
Starting in 2016, the Gustavo Colonnetti Medal is awarded each year to up to two researchers under 35 years of age, who have made an outstanding scientific contribution to the field of construction materials and structures. (How to apply)
RILEM Best Student Poster Award
Implemented in 2017, the RILEM Best Student Poster Award is to be given at every RILEM Annual Week conference. The award is given at the conference to a student who has a poster and is at the conference to present/explain the work. The selection is made by a jury chosen by the RILEM Honorary President. The awardee receives a diploma/certificate from the TAC Chair at the conference, and a 500€ reward.
Materials and Structures is the flagship publication of RILEM. The journal is dedicated to the publication of high quality papers examining the fundamental properties of building materials, their characterization and processing techniques, modeling, standardization of test methods, and the application of research results in building and civil engineering.
Materials and Structures: Outstanding Papers
Each year, up to ten papers are selected by Materials and Structures board of editors and published as open access papers. These papers, which cover all fields of RILEM activities, exemplify the highest standards in our scientific community.
Materials and Structures: Best Reviewer Awards
The best reviewer awards are given annually and are meant to commend the top reviewers of our journal for their outstanding peer review efforts over the past year. Recipients are chosen by the board of editors from scores of nominations provided by the associate editors of the journal.
RILEM Honorary Members
- 2020 - Prof. Wolfgang BRAMESHUBER (Posthumous)
- 2020 - Prof. Hervé DI BENEDETTO
- 2020 - Prof. Dr Vyatcheslav R. FALIKMAN
- 2020 - Ing. Johan VYNCKE
- 2019 - Prof. Karen SCRIVENER
- 2017 - Prof. Lars-Olof NILSSON
- 2017 - Prof. Manfred PARTL
- 2016 - Prof. Mark ALEXANDER
- 2016 - Prof. Yoshihiko OHAMA
- 2016 - Dr. Roberto TORRENT
- 2015 - Dr. Carmen ANDRADE PERDRIX
- 2015 - Prof. Dr. Zdenek P. BAZANT
- 2011 - Dr. Sidney MINDESS
- 2010 - Prof. Surendra SHAH
- 2009 - Prof. Luigia BINDA
- 2009 - Prof. Dr.- Hans W. REINHARDT
- 2009 - Prof. Arnon BENTUR
- 2009 - Dr. Åke SKARENDAHL
- 2004 - Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Folker H. Wittmann
- 2002 - Prof. Fritz EGGIMANN
- 2001 - Mr. Hermann W. FRITZ
- 1994 - Prof. Elio GIANGRECO
- 1993 - Prof. Hanoch JAEGERMANN
- 1992 - M. Maurice FICKELSON
- 1989 - Prof. Dr. Theodosios P. TASSIOS
- 1985 - Prof. Pekka JAUHO
- 1985 - Dr. James R. WRIGHT
- 1983 - Prof. Fernando Luiz Lobo Barboza CARNEIRO
- 1982 - Prof. P. C. KREIJGER
- 1982 - Prof. Dr. Ing. Karlhans WESCHE
- 1981 - Prof. Sven Gabriel BERGSTRÖM
- 1981 - Prof. J RICALDONI
- 1980 - Prof. Waclaw OLSZAK
- 1973 - Prof. Rahel SHALON
- 1973 - Prof. Simon DELPECH
- 1972 - Prof. Eduard AMSTUTZ
- 1971 - Prof. Inge LYSE
- 1971 - Prof. WÄSTLUND
- 1971 - Prof. Edouard WEGELIUS
- Dr. Stanislav BECHYNE
- Prof. Ferdinand CAMPUS
- Prof. Gustavo COLONNETTI
- Prof. Theodor H. ERISMANN
- Prof. Hjalmar GRANHOLM
- Prof. Julije HAHAMOVIC
- Dr. Arnost HÖNIG
- Dr. Frederick LEA
- Prof. C. A. LOBRY DE BRUYN
- Prof. Paul MLOSCH
- Mr. Poul NERENST
Mr. Niels Munk PLUM
- Dr. C D POMEROY
- Prof. Manuel Coelho Mendes da ROCHA
- Prof. Mirko ROS
- Prof. Hubert RÜSCH
- Prof. Eduardo TORROJA
RILEM Fellows
Robert L'Hermite Medalists
- 2022 - Prof. Susan Andrea BERNAL LÓPEZ
- 2021 - Prof. Klaartje DE WEERDT - Article, Video of her lecture
- 2020 - Prof. Tung Chai (Bill) LING - Video of his lecture
- 2019 - Dr. Augusto CANNONE FALCHETTO - Video of his lecture
- 2018 - Dr. Fernando MORENO-NAVARRO - Video of his lecture
- 2017 - Prof. Ueli ANGST - Video of his lecture
- 2016 - Not awarded
- 2015 - Prof. Guillaume HABERT - Video of his lecture
- 2014 - Dr. Alexandra BERTRON - Article, video of her lecture
- 2013 - Prof. John PROVIS - Video of his lecture
- 2012 - Dr. Dimitrios AGGELIS
- 2011 - Dr. Laura DE LORENZIS
- 2010 - Prof. Nele DE BELIE
- 2009 - Dr. Pietro LURA
- 2008 - Prof. Jason WEISS
- 2007 - Dr. Nicolas ROUSSEL
- 2006 - Not awarded
- 2005 - Dr. Maria Rosa VALLUZZI
- 2004 - Not awarded
- 2003 - Dr. Robert FLATT
- 2002 - Prof. Franz ULM
- 2001 - Prof. Dr. Geert DE SCHUTTER
- 2000 - Prof. Jacques MARCHAND
- 1999 - Dr. Antti HANHIJÄRVI
- 1998 - Mr. Dale P. BENTZ
- 1997 - Dr. Ing. Massimo SOSORO
- 1996 - Dr. Pierre ROSSI
- 1995 - Dr. Birgit MENG
- 1994 - Prof. Gustavo V. GUINEA
- 1993 - Dr. André NONAT
- 1992 - Dr. Edward GARBOCZI
1991 - Dr. Henrik STANG
1990 - Prof. Dr. Lucie VANDEWALLE
1989 - Dr. François de LARRARD
1988 - Prof. Dr. Luc TAERWE
1987 - Prof. Dr. Jan G. M. van MIER
1986 - Dr. Carmen ANDRADE
1985 - Not awarded
1984 - Prof. Jean-Marie RIGO
1983 - Prof. Christopher L. PAGE
1982 - Prof. Alberto CARPINTERI
1981 - Prof. Yiu-Wing MAI
1980 - Prof. Dr. Surendra P. SHAH
1979 - Dr. Giulio MASARANI
1978 - Dr. Göran FAGERLUND
1977 - Prof. Dr. Tibor JAVOR
1976 - Prof. Folker H. WITTMANN
1975 - Prof. Dr. Zdenek P. BAZANT
1974 - Dr. Ioan FACAOARU
1973 - Prof. Stanislaw KAFASZ
1972 - Dr. Birger WARRIS
1971 - Prof. Luis Maria MACHADO
1970 - Dr. Marc MAMILLAN
1967 - Prof. Ferdinand CAMPUS
Gustavo Colonnetti Medalists
- 2022 - Dr. Ellina Bernard
- 2022 - Prof. Qing-feng Liu
- 2021 - Dr Emilio MARTINEZ-PANEDA - Article, Video of his lecture
- 2021 - Dr Prannoy SURANENI - Article, Video of his lecture
- 2020 - Dr Mija H. HUBLER - Article, Video of her lecture
- 2020 - Dr Branko ŠAVIJA - Article, Video of his lecture
- 2019 - Dr Bahman GHIASSI - Article, Video of his lecture
- 2019 - Dr Claire E. WHITE - Article, Video of her lecture
- 2018 - Dr Sergio H. P. CAVALARO - Article, Video of his lecture
- 2018 - Dr Didier SNOECK - Article, Video of his lecture
- 2017 - Prof. Gaurav SANT - Article, Video of his lecture
- 2017 - Prof. Enrico SASSONI - Article, video of his lecture
- 2016 - Dr Susan BERNAL LOPEZ - Article, video of her lecture
- 2016 - Dr Ruben SNELLINGS - Article, video of his lecture
RILEM Best Student Poster Award
- 2021 - Ms. Michelle Tiong for her work on "Acceleration Carbonation of Dry-mix Pressed Cement Blocks: A Coupling Effect of Water-to-Cement and Moulding Pressure"
- 2020 - Ms. Magdalena Rajczakoska for her work on “Improved self-healing blended mortars” and Ms. Natalia Pires Martins for her work on “CSA cement synthesis from sulfidic mine tailings”
- 2018 - Ms. Alice Titus Bakera for her work on "Durability Properties of Concrete Containing Metakaolin”
- 2017 - Ms. Sripriya Rengaraju for her work on "Challenges in Determining the Chloride Threshold of Steel Embedded in Cementitious Systems"
Materials and Structures: Outstanding Papers
- 2021
Behaviour of an interface between pavement layers obtained using Digital Image Correlation, T. Attia, H. Di Benedetto, C. Sauzéat & S. Pouget
Temperature dependence of viscoelastic Poisson’s ratio of cement mortar, A. Baranikumar, Christa E. Torrence & Zachary Grasley
Steel fibers for replacing minimum reinforcement in beams under torsion, Luca Facconi, Fausto Minelli, Paola Ceresa & Giovanni Plizzari
Hardened properties and durability of large-scale 3D printed cement-based materials, Yu Zhang, Yunsheng Zhang, Lin Yang, Guojian Liu, Yidong Chen, Shiwei Yu & Hongjian Du
A multi-level investigation on the mechanical response of TRM-strengthened masonry, Ali Dalalbashi, Bahman Ghiassi & Daniel V. Oliveira
Torsion-shear behaviour at the interfaces of rigid interlocking blocks in masonry assemblages: experimental investigation and analytical approaches, Claudia Casapulla, Elham Mousavian, Luca Argiento, Carla Ceraldi, Katalin Bagi
Influence of fiber alignment on pseudoductility and microcracking in a cementitious carbon fiber composite material, D. Volkmer, Matthias Rutzen, Philipp Lauff, Roland Niedermeier, Oliver Fischer, Manuel Raith, Christian U. Grosse, Ursula Weiss & Malte A. Peter
Triaxial mechanical behaviour of hybrid basalt‒polypropylene fibre-reinforced concrete: The effect of micro-fibres at multi scale levels, Qiang Fu, Mengxin Bu, Li Su, Lei Liu, Lou Chen, Ning Li & Ditao Niu
RILEM TC 277-LHS report: a review on the mechanisms of setting and hardening of lime-based binding systems, J. I. Alvarez, R. Veiga, S. Martínez-Ramírez, M. Secco, P. Faria, P. N. Maravelaki, M. Ramesh, I. Papayianni & J. Válek
Recommendation of RILEM TC 258-AAA: RILEM AAR-0 Outline Guide to the Use of RILEM Methods in the Assessment of the Alkali-Reactivity Potential of Concrete, Terje F. Rønning, Børge Johannes Wigum, Jan Lindgård, Philip Nixon & Ian Sims (NB: This is the first article in the "RILEM TC 258-AAA: Recommendations for Avoiding Alkali Aggregate Reactions in Concrete – Performance Based Concept" topical collection.)
- 2020
- 2019
- Fire spalling sensitivity of high-performance concrete in heated slabs under biaxial compressive loading by Lo Monte, F., Felicetti, R. and Rossino, C.
- Prediction of autogenous shrinkage in concrete from material composition or strength calibrated by a large database, as update to model B4 by Rasoolinejad, M., Rahimi-Aghdam, S. and Bažant, Z. P.
- Effect of water film thickness on the flow in conventional mortars and concrete by Ghasemi, Y., Emborg, M. and Cwirzen, A.
- A new short-term aging model for asphalt binders based on rheological activation energy by Zhang, D., Birgisson, B., Luo, X. and Onifade, I.
- Uniaxial tensile behavior of aligned steel fibre reinforced cementitious composites by Qing, L., Yu, K., Mu, R. and Forth, J.P.
- Improved method to measure the strength and elastic modulus of single aggregate particles by Silva, N.V., Angulo, S.C., Barboza, A.S., Lange, D.A. and Tavares, L.M.
- Curing behavior and mechanical properties of an eco-friendly cold-mixed epoxy asphalt by Si, J., Li, Y. and Yu, X.
- Experimental investigation on the reversibility of concrete creep under repeating loads by Docevska, M., Markovski, G. and Mark, P.
- A data analysis procedure for phase identification in nanoindentation results of cementitious materials by Bernachy-Barbe, F.
- The influence of the glass transition temperature (T g) of polymers on early OPC hydration: a complete study of the heat flow, phase evolution, and pore solution chemistry by Jansen, D., Lu, Z., Kong, X.M., Pakusch, J., Jahns, E., Deschner, F. and Schmidtke, C.
- 2018
- A microstructural insight into the hygro-mechanical behaviour of a stabilised hypercompacted earth by Bruno, A.W., Perlot, C., Mendes, J. et al.
- A simplified model for the combined wicking and evaporation of a NaCl solution in limestone by Pel, L., Pishkari, R. & Casti, M.
- A methodology for quantifying the impact of casting procedure on anisotropy in fiber-reinforced concrete using X-ray CT by Oesch, T., Landis, E. & Kuchma, D.
- A thermo-mechanical model for SFRC beams or slabs at elevated temperatures by Heek, P., Tkocz, J. & Mark, P.
- Evaluation of surface cracks of bending concrete using a fully non-contact air-coupled nonlinear ultrasonic technique by Chen, J., Yang, C. & Guo, Q.
- Numerical evaluation of test setups for determining the shear strength of masonry by Zhang, S., Richart, N. & Beyer, K.
- Modelling the poroplastic damageable behaviour of earthen materials by Xu, L., Wong, H., Fabbri, A. et al.
- Long-term pozzolanic reaction of fly ash in hardened cement-based paste internally activated by natural injection of saturated Ca(OH)2 solution by Bui, P.T., Ogawa, Y. & Kawai, K.
- Experimental study of bitumen emulsion–cement mortars: mechanical behaviour and relation to mixtures by Mignini, C., Cardone, F. & Graziani, A.
- Statistical filtering of useful concrete creep data from imperfect laboratory tests by Rasoolinejad, M., Rahimi-Aghdam, S. & Bažant, Z.P.
- 2017
Application of ultrasonic pulse velocity for assessment of thermal expansion coefficient of concrete at early age by Zhutovsky, S. and Kovler, K.
Incremental-iterative model for time-variant analysis of SFRC subjected to flexural fatigue by Heek, P., Ahrens, M.A. and Mark, P.
Irreversible desiccation shrinkage of cement paste caused by cement grain dissolution and hydrate precipitation by Li, X., Grasley, Z.C., Bullard, J.W. and Garboczi, E.J.
An inverse approach to determine complex modulus gradient of field-aged asphalt mixtures by Ling, M., Luo, X., Gu, F. and Lytton, R.L.
The impact of intrinsic anhydrite in an experimental calcium sulfoaluminate cement from a novel, carbon-minimized production process by Jen, G., Skalamprinos, S., Whittaker, M., Galan, I., Imbabi, M.S. and Glasser, F.P
Carbonation front in cement paste detected by T 2 NMR measurements using a low field unilateral magnet by Cano-Barrita, P.D.J., Balcom, B.J. and Castellanos, F.
The oxidation of bitumen witnessed in-situ by infrared spectroscopy by Makowska, M., Hartikainen, A. and Pellinen, T.
Determination of transfer stress from ruptured pre-load galvanised tendons in tanks and bund walls by O’Flaherty, F., Lambert, P., Mangat, P. and Starinieri, V.
Analysis of shear transfer and gap opening in timber–concrete composite members with notched connections by Boccadoro, L., Steiger, R., Zweidler, S. and Frangi, A.
Effect of temperature on the sorption curves of earthen materials by Fabbri, A., McGregor, F., Costa, I. and Faria, P.
- 2016
- Dam and wet-screened concrete creep in compression: in situ experimental results and creep strains prediction using model B3 and composite models by C. Serra, A. L. Batista, N. Monteiro Azevedo
- Changes in rheology of self-consolidating concrete induced by pumping by Dimitri Feys, Geert De Schutter, Kamal H. Khayat, Ronny Verhoeven
- Anhydrite/aerogel composites for thermal insulation by D. Sanz-Pont, D. Sanz-Arauz, C. Bedoya-Frutos, R. J. Flatt, S. López-Andrés
- 3Dim experimental investigation of linear viscoelastic properties of bituminous mixtures by Daniel Perraton, Hervé Di Benedetto, Cédric Sauzéat, Bernhard Hofko, Andrea Graziani, Quang Tuan Nguyen, Simon Pouget, Lily D. Poulikakos, Nouffou Tapsoba, James Grenfell
- The pore solution of blended cements: a review by Anya Vollpracht, Barbara Lothenbach, Ruben Snellings, Johannes Haufe
- Ingress of NaCl in concrete with alkali reactive aggregate: effect on silicon solubility by Anne Heisig, Liudvikas Urbonas, Robin E. Beddoe, Detlef Heinz
- Investigation on the effect of supplementary cementitious materials on the critical chloride threshold of steel in concrete by Federica Lollini, Elena Redaelli, Luca Bertolini
- Strätlingite: compatibility with sulfate and carbonate cement phases by M. U. Okoronkwo, F. P. Glasser
- Creep and drying shrinkage of a blended slag and low calcium fly ash geopolymer Concrete by A. Castel, S. J. Foster, T. Ng, J. G. Sanjayan, R. I. Gilbert
- Fast solidification kinetics of parts of bituminous binders by Hartmut R. Fischer, Bert Dillingh, Bastiaan Ingenhut
- 2015
- An image analysis procedure to quantify the air void system of mortar and concrete by P. C. Fonseca, G. W. Scherer
- Ag/AgCl ion-selective electrodes in neutral and alkaline environments containing interfering ions by Yurena Seguí Femenias, Ueli Angst, Francesco Caruso, Bernhard Elsener
- Comparative testing of crack formation in strain-hardening cement-based composites (SHCC) by Gideon P. A. G. van Zijl, Volker Slowik, Romildo D. Toledo Filho, Folker H. Wittmann, Hirozo Mihashi
- Effects of strain reversal on elastic and viscoelastic properties of early age cement paste beams by Christopher Galitz, Zachary Grasley
- Structural built-up of cement-based materials used for 3D-printing extrusion techniques by A. Perrot, D. Rangeard, A. Pierre
- Extrapolation of short-time drying shrinkage tests based on measured diffusion size effect: concept and reality by Zdeněk P. Bažant, Abdullah Donmez
- Quantitative evaluation of carbonation in concrete using nonlinear ultrasound by Gun Kim, Jin-Yeon Kim, Kimberly E. Kurtis, Laurence J. Jacobs, Yann Le Pape, Maria Guimaraes
- The bitumen microstructure: a fluorescent approach by Florian Handle, Josef Füssl, Susanna Neudl, Daniel Grossegger, Lukas Eberhardsteiner, Bernhard Hofko, Markus Hospodka, Ronald Blab, Hinrich Grothe
- Anm: a geometrical model for the composite structure of mortar and concrete using real-shape particles by Z. Qian, E. J. Garboczi, G. Ye, E. Schlangen
- A new 3D damage model for concrete under monotonic, cyclic and dynamic loadings by Jacky Mazars, François Hamon, Stéphane Grange
Materials and Structures: Best Reviewer Awards
- 2021
Stefan JACOBSEN
Hiroshi SASANO
Piyush CHAUNSALI
Johannes MIRWALD
Miomir MILJKOVIC
Qiang ZENG
Go IGARASHI
Wenqiang ZUO
- 2020
- Steffen GRUNEWALD
- Nicolas CARINO
- Anastasios MPALASKAS
- Alessio CASCARDI
- Augusto CANNONE FALCHETTO
- Christiane WEISE
- Qiang ZENG
- 2019
- Hua DONG
- Daniele FERRETTI
- Pietro GAMBAROVA
- Bernhard PICHLER
- Damien RANGEARD
- Didier SNOECK
- Yu YAN
- 2018
- Flora FALESCHINI
- Andrea GRAZIANI
- Lik LAM
- Giovanni METELLI
- Laurent POROT
- Nader TABATABAEE
- Gideon VAN ZIJL
- 2017
- Gian Piero LIGNOLA
- Andreas LEEMANN
- Kendra A. ERK
- Christopher HALL
- Maria Adelaide PARISI
- Rob B. POLDER
- Haoliang HUANG
- 2016
Pietro CARRARA
Farshad RAJABIPOUR
George W. SCHERER
Xiaohu LU
Antonio MARI
Dirk LOWKE
- 2015
- Ralejs TEPFERS
- Hannelore DERLUYN
- Catherine PAPANICOLAU
- Burkan ISGOR
- Alexander MICHEL
- Bernhard HOFKO
- Geert DE SCHUTTER
- 2014
- Matteo PANIZZA
- Stefano DAL PONT
- Christof SCHROFL
- Michele GRIFFA
- Rebecca MCDANIEL
- Jean Pascale PLANCHE
- Mohammad POUR-GHAZ
- Martin HOFKO
- James GRENFELL
- Paulo PILOTO
- Mateusz WYRZYKOWSKI
- Hans-Wolf REINHARDT
- Stefan JACOBSEN
- Aaron SAKULICH
- Dimitri FEYS
- 2013
- Narayanan NEITHALATH
- Antonio MARI
- Christophe PETIT
- Arnaud PERROT
- Gian Piero LIGNOLA
- Ippei MARUYAMA
- John PROVIS
- Liberato FERRARA
- Maria JUENGER