Association - NEW CORPORATE MEMBER

RILEM is pleased to welcome amongst its comporate members IRSN - L'Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire. IRSN, a public expert with industrial and commercial activities, was set up in 2001. The Institute is placed under the joint authority of the Ministries of Defense, the Environment, Industry, Research, and Health of France. IRSN expertise and research are in the following areas:

• nuclear safety
• safety of transport of radioactive and fissile materials
• protection of man and the environment against ionizing radiation
• protection and control of nuclear materials
• protection of...

Association - 2020 M&S Outstanding Papers are now Open Access!

Each year up to ten papers are selected by Materials and Structures board of editors and published as OPEN ACCESS papers. The 2020 M&S outstanding papers, which cover all fields of RILEM activities and exemplify the highest standards in our scientific community, are now available!

• Microscopy techniques for determining water–cement (w/c) ratio in hardened concrete: a round-robin assessment by H.S. Wong et al.
• Irradiation-Induced Damage in Concrete-Forming Aggregates Revisiting Literature Data through Micromechanics by Y. Le Pape et al.
• An analytical inverse analysis to determine...

Association - New State-of-the-Art

A new State-of-the-Art report is now available:

Reinforcement of existing timber elements and structures - State-of-the-art report of the RILEM Technical Committee 245-RTE; Edited by Jorge Branco, Philipp Dietsch, Thomas Tannert

You can find it on Springer website: http://www.springer.com/9783030677930

Association - CBMT 2021 program is now available online!

International conference on “Cement-based materials tailored for a sustainable future” in honor of Prof. Surendra Shah and Prof. Turan Ozturan will take place online on May 27-29, 2021.

Join us for 3 days to hear up-to-date research of colleagues from all around the globe! https://www.cbmt2021.org/en/PROGRAM.html

For more information and registration please visit https://www.cbmt2021.org/en/

Association - New State-of-the-Art

A new State-of-the-Art report is now available:

Non-destructive in situ strength assessment of concrete - Practical Application of the RILEM TC 249-ISC Recommendations; Edited by Denys Breysse, Jean-Paul Balayssac

You can find it on Springer website: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030648992

Association - Online doctoral courses at the 75th RILEM Annual Week

The RILEM Educational Advisory Committee (EAC) has established 5 online doctoral courses to be given at the 75^th RILEM Annual Week in September this year. These courses target those individuals currently enrolled in a doctoral program willing to enhance their training and knowledge on:

HYDRATION AND MICROSTRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION OF CEMENTITIOUS SYSTEMS. Course Leader: Prof. Karen Scrivener,  Construction Materials Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne-Switzerland.

STEEL CORROSION; THEORY, PREVENTION AND REPAIR. Course Leader: Prof. Carmen Andrade Perdrix. Centro...

Association - Another new corporate member

RILEM is pleased to annonce that Kordsa, global player of tire and construction reinforcement and composites markets, has joined RILEM as Corporate Member. Kordsa operates in 12 facilities throughout 5 countries including Turkey, Brazil, Indonesia, Thailand and USA with over 4.500 employees. Through its mission to “Inspired to Reinforce Life”, the Company aims to create sustainable value to all its stakeholders and society by combining high value-added reinforcement technologies with innovation. In construction reinforcement industry, Kordsa touches every aspect of life with more...

Association - New corporate member

RILEM welcomes amongst its Corporate Members Dalkafouki Oikos Ltd, a company specialized in the demanding field of restoration of monuments, historical and preserved buildings, traditional settlements and ensembles. With absolute specialization in restoration mortars and traditional building materials without cement, Dalkafouki Oikos Ltd. provides raw materials such as pozzolan, natural hydraulic lime, lime, aggregates, ceramic tiles, pumice and more, as well as ready-made mortars without cement, from selected foreign companies, for the restoration of historic buildings and monuments, suitable...

Association - Report of the 4th RILEM Spring Convention

The 4^th RILEM Spring Convention took place in April 2021, “in” Paris, France. The event was initially planned to be the celebration of the 75^th RILEM Anniversary in the same town where the association was founded 75 years ago. This interminable COVID pandemic, however, has forbidden us from travelling and meeting in person this spring so the decision was taken to postpone the celebration to 2022, still IN Paris, hopefully IN person, and to make the 2021 event fully online. This decision has definitively affected the amount of wine and cheese and chocolate consumed over the event...