Pre-Congress Courses
Programme
Pre-congress courses will be organised in coordination with the Educational Activity Committe of RILEM from 21 to 23 August 2024.
The topics covered will be:
• Cement hydration and Supplementary Cementitious Materials, 1.5 days – Prof. Karen Scrivener (21-22 August) Detailed content• Rheology and processing of fresh cement-based materials, 1.5 days – Prof. Nicolas Roussel (22-23 August) Detailed content• Durability of concrete – Prof. Alexandra Bertron and Prof. Karen Scrivener (23 August) Detailed content• Corrosion, anti-corrosion of reinforced concrete, 1.5-2 days (21-22 August) – Prof. Ueli Angst, Prof. Deepak Kamde, Prof. Gabriel Samson. Detailed content - LIMITED NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS • Earthen materials & construction, 2 days (21-22 August) – Prof. Céline Perlot, Dr. Emmanuel Keita, Prof. Arnaud Perrot, Prof. Antonin Fabbri. Detailed content. - LIMITED NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS
Registration & fees
Attendees: the courses will be opened to any RILEM or non-RILEM member.
- PhD student and post-doc (2 years after PhD defence): 55 €, including a free three-year RILEM membership
- RILEM members from academia, senior scientists (> 2 years after PhD defence): 200€
- Non-RILEM member from academia, senior scientists (> 2 years after PhD defence): 250 €, including a free one-year RILEM membership (for <35 year old)
- Architects, professionals/engineers, RILEM member: 550 €
- Architects, professionals/engineers, non-RILEM member: 650 €, including a free one-year RILEM membership.
To register to the courses, please create an account on this website and proceed to your registration (registration to the pre-congress courses only is possible).
CPD Credits
CPD credits will be delivered to pre-congress courses attendees upon request.
The fees cover the coffee break and lunches offered during the courses.
Pre-congress Courses Speakers
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Ueli Angst obtained his degrees in civil engineering from ETH Zurich in Switzerland (MSc, 2005) and from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU (PhD, 2011). He gathered 7 years, some of it part-time, of practical experience as corrosion consultant. In 2017, inspired by having seen the relevant questions in engineering practice, Ueli Angst established his research group “Durability of Engineering Materials” at ETH Zurich (www.ifb.ethz.ch/durability). The mission is to develop new and fundamental understanding about corrosion mechanisms to enable better assessments and predictions of the performance of engineered materials and structures across disciplines. His research group uses experimental and computational methods covering corrosion science, electrochemistry, materials science, porous media, reactive mass transport, and civil engineering. Ueli Angst received several awards for his work, including the Robert L’Hermite medal awarded by RILEM in 2017, and he is active in various international committees. His research related to inspection and monitoring led to a SpinOff (www.duramon.ch), founded in 2021.
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Alexandra Bertron is Professor of Civil Engineering at INSA Toulouse, France. She is Deputy Director of the Laboratory for Materials and Durability of Construction (LMDC). Her research topics concern the durability of cementitious materials in chemically aggressive environments and in particular in biological environments (natural waters, sewer systems, agricultural environments, nuclear waste storage, etc.) and the related biogeochemical interactions, as well as the indoor air quality (gaseous and microbial pollution, photocatalysis). She was awarded several recognitions including: the Robert L’Hermite Medal (2014), IUF junior member (2016-2021), and RILEM Fellow (2021). She is the Editor-In-Chief of RILEM Technical Letters, the RILEM Open Access journal, and Associate Editor of Materials and Structures.
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Karen Scrivener has been Professor and Director of the Laboratory of Construction Materials in the Department of Materials of EPFL(Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne for the last 20 years. She is a Fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering and author of over 200 journal papers. Her research focusses on the understanding the chemistry and microstructure of cement based materials and improving their sustainability. In 2008, she came up with the idea for LC3 cement, this material has the potential to cut CO2 emissions related to cement by more than 400 million tonnes a year. She received her bachelor’s degree in Materials Science from the University of Cambridge in 1979 and her PhD from Imperial College London in 1984.
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Nicolas Roussel is the head of the physico-chemistry of construction materials laboratory at Gustave Eiffel university, France. He is moreover the current president of RILEM. His research focuses on mix design, rheology and processing of construction materials. With 135 journal papers and more than 10.000 citations, his H-index is currently 54. He received in 2007 the Robert L'Hermite medal for his work on fresh concrete rheology and processing.
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Céline Perlot is a full professor of the University of Pau (France) and, PhDs in Civil Engineering from the University of Toulouse (France) and the University of Sherbrooke (Canada). As a specialist in the physical chemistry of construction materials, she conducts research into microstructural characterization and transfers in earthen materials. She is the head of a scientific innovation chair of the Institut Universitaire de France on the effect of raw earth biostabilization on indoor building comfort, and co-chair of the TC BEC “Bio-stabilised earth-based construction”.
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Arnaud Perrot has been professor at Bretagne Sud university, France, since 2007. His research topic mainly deals with construction materials rheology and processing. He is an active member of RILEM Technical Committees on concrete 3D printing and Deputy Chair of TC PEM “Processing of earthen materials”. He is also Associate Editor of RILEM/Springer Materials and Structures journal.
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Emmanuel Keita graduated from the École Polytechnique and received a Ph.D. in physics. He is a researcher at the Navier Laboratory and a teacher at the École des Ponts ParisTech. His research work focuses on the physical understanding of construction materials. Using innovative imaging techniques, he adapts the concepts of applied physics to the development of construction materials with low environmental impact, by minimizing the material required (3D printing) or by using recycled concrete or concrete without hydraulic binder (earth). Emmanuel Keita is the chair of the RILEM Technical Committee “Processing of Earthen Materials”.
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Antonin Fabbri got his PhD in 2006 on physics and mechanics of freezing-thawing behavior of porous media at “Laboratoire Navier”. During his post-doctoral position at the "Ecole Normale Supérieure," he investigated the supercritical carbonation of oilwell cements. From 2007 to 2011, he managed projects related to CO2 geological sequestration at the French Geological Survey (BRGM). Since 2011, as a research professor at ENTPE, he has focused on the hydrothermal and hydromechanical behaviors of earthen materials such as rammed earth and earth plasters, as well as their durability. He is Chair of the RILEM TC on Mechanical Performance and Durability Assessment of Earthen Elements and Structures. He serves as an executive board member of the French National Project on earthen construction.
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Florent Vieux-Champagne is associate professor in 3SR lab/Université Grenoble alpes. He leads the working group 1 of the TC Rilem MAE and the mechanical group of the Earth French National Project. He is involved in B2M and Pisez ! projects dealing with the characterization of the masonry and the rammed earth respectively. He is also leading the ParaSisTerre project focusing on the seismic behavior of rammed earth structures.
His research team RV from 3SR lab and him are working on the characterization of the mechanical behavior of the geo and bio-based structures under ambient, wind and seismic loadings. His work is based on multi-scale approach from mesoscale to full scale of the building where experimental and numerical results are compared.
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Deepak Kamde is a Chaire de Professeur Junior at LMDC, INSA Toulouse. Earlier to this, he worked as a UKRI Research Fellow at the University of Leeds and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM). He earned PhD in Civil Engg. from the IITM. He has received several awards such as the Marie Curie fellowship, UKRI fellowship, NACE India Best PhD Thesis Award, and NACE academic scholarships. His research interests include corrosion of rebars in concrete, durability, service life estimation, and electrochemical repair of concrete structures. |
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Gabriel Samson is an assistant professor at LMDC, INSA Toulouse. His reseach mainly deals low-carbon concretes (formulation, characterization, durability) such as alkai-activated materials, super sulphated cement concrete, low clinker concrete and corrosion in concrete (numerical modelling, probe development and experimental measurements). He is an active member of RILEM Technical Committees 296-ECS and 283-CAM.
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