Foreword

Author(s): N. Roussel, H. Bessaies-Bey
Paper category: Conference
Book title: Rheology and processing of Construction Materials – 7th RILEM International Conference on Self-Compacting Concrete and 1st RILEM International Conference on Rheology and Processing of Construction Materials
Editor(s): Nicolas Roussel and Hela Bessaies-Bey
Print ISBN: 978-2-35158-137-7
e-ISBN: 978-2-35158-138-4
Publisher: RILEM Publications SARL
Pages: 7 - 8
Total Pages: 2
Language: English

Abstract: 
Advanced construction materials, such as self-compacting concrete, tile adhesives and modified bitumen have strongly benefited from transversal knowledge exchange between various disciplines in the last decades. As a result, the level of science and technology needed to understand and carry out diligent mix design and processing of these materials has tremendously increased. Further advances will surely follow from on-going exchanges between scientific communities.

It was therefore our pleasure to organize the 1st International RILEM Conference on Rheology and Processing of Construction Materials along with the 7th RILEM Conference on Self-Compacting Concrete.

From a material point of view, these two joined RILEM conferences deal with a variety of construction materials, including concrete, mortar, grouts, renders, plasters, bitumen, paints or adhesives... In particular, a wide set of works concerning the rheology, design and processing of self-compacting concrete are included in this book.

We received more than 280 abstracts, among which 48 papers were selected and anonymously reviewed to produce this book.

The scientific committee of the 1st RILEM conference on rheology and processing of construction materials and of the 7th RILEM international conference on self-compacting concrete was chaired by Philippe Coussot and Kamal Khayat. It gathers the following experts from academia and industry:

Christophe Lanos, INSA Rennes
Didier Lesueur, Lhoist
Didier Lootens, Sika
Francois de Larrard, Lafarge
Guillaume Ovarlez, Univ. Paris-Est
Henri Van Damme, IFSTTAR
Jan Vermant, KU Leuven
Jean Eric Poirier, Colas
Matthieu Joanicot, Saint-Gobain
Phil Banfill, Heriot-Watt Univ.
Robert Flatt, ETH Zurich
Sofiane Amziane, Polytech', Clermont-Ferrand


Papers dealing specifically with Self Compacting Concretes were reviewed by the members of the RILEM technical committee "Mechanical properties of self- compacting concrete" under the supervision of its chairman, Prof. Kamal Khayat.

Andreas Leemann
Antonios Kanellopoulos
Bart Craeye
Bertil Persson
Claudio Mazzotti
Geert De Schutter
Kosmas Sideris
Liberato Ferrara
Manuel Vieira
Michael Khrapko
Mohammed Sonebi
Olafur Wallevik
Pedro Serna
Peter Billberg
Petra Van Itterbeeck
Pieter Desnerck
Pietro Lura
Richard Morin
Steffen Grunewald
Veerle Boel
Violeta Bokan Bosiljkov
Wolfram Schmidt


Along with the following appointed RILEM experts:

Annika Gram
Arnaud Perrot
Dimitri Feys
Dirk Lowke
Jon Wallevik
Lars Nyholm Thrane
Marc Beitzel
Mette Geiker
Stefan Jacobsen
Tilo Proske
Viktor Mechtcherine
Yannick Vanhove

Online publication: 2013
Publication Type: full_text
Public price (Euros): 0.00