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RILEM Conference on Sustainable Materials & Structures: Meeting the major challenges of the 21st century - SMS 2024

General themes of the SMS 2024 Conference

The conference will aim to present and discuss the recent advances in materials and structures research to meet the great challenges of the 21st century and beyond to:
  • enable sustainable, safe, and durable construction (new and existing buildings and strategic infrastructures),
  • promote the circular construction / economy;
  • improve the energy efficiency of construction,
  • favour the quality and comfort of building (indoor air quality and comfort).
All these topics will be considered from the material’s perspective, but also from the structure's perspective.
 
A special focus will be put on the worldwide practices and rationale to meet these goals.

 

The conference will cover all the topics in the scope of RILEM scientific activities, and will include the following:

> At the level of the building materials:
  • Cementitious materials (conventional and low-CO2 binders, alkali-activated materials and geopolymers, new binders (sulfur, magnesium, etc.), materials for energy storage),
  • Bricks, stone, masonry, mortars, grouts
  • Bio-based materials, earth construction (special session organised)
  • Bituminous materials (special session organised)
  • Wood and timber structures
> At the level of the civil engineering structures:
  • Buildings: Quality of indoor air, comfort, hygrothermal behaviour of building materials
  • Strategic infrastructures in their environments
 
For any of these topics, scientific contributions investigating the time and service related properties, like, early age and setting, service properties, durability, safety, environmental impact, recyclability, will be particularly welcome. Experimental and numerical characterisation of material properties at different scales will be of interest: nanoscale (molecular dynamics, coarse grain models, advanced characterisation techniques), micro-mesoscale (mesoscopic models, indentation, etc.), macroscale (multiphysics characterisation, etc.), and structural scale (SHM, NDT, hybrid testing).
 
A special focus will be done on the special practices according to the different regions in the world.
 
Special sessions will be organised on a variety of topics: Bio-based materials and earth construction; Materials for energy storage (Sensible-Heat, Latent-Heat, and Thermochemical), Bituminous materials, Characterisation and modelling on small scales (nano, micro, molecular), Non-destructive inspection of concrete materials and structures, Data-driven concrete science (AI for concrete material and infrastructures), Microorganisms-Building materials interactions, etc.
 

Keywords:

  • Building materials: cementitious materials, geopolymers, new binders, masonry, bio-based materials, earth construction, bitumen, wood and timber
  • Low-CO2, low-energy, low-resources materials and processes
  • Historic buildings and cultural heritage
  • Early-age properties and rheology
  • Service properties, including energy-efficient buildings, comfort, indoor air quality
  • Durability of materials and structures (corrosion, chemical attack, biological attack, thermo-hydro-chemo-mechanical behaviour of materials and structures, etc.)
  • Monitoring and Non-destructive Testing (NDT)
  • Maintenance and repair
  • Data-driven concrete science (AI for concrete material and infrastructures)
  • Circular economy in construction, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
  • Regional practices

 

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