CIES’s Strong presence at CONCRETE 2015 – Melbourne (30 August – 2 September)

Concrete 2015 was the 27th Biennial National Conference of the Concrete Institute of Australia and was held in conjunction with the 69th RILEM Week.  This historic joint event provided national delegates with valuable exposure to cutting edge research and developments both from Australia and overseas..

Concrete 2015 focused on the theme Research into Practice. The conference brought together global leaders in the concrete industry, covering all aspects of concrete design improvements, research, construction, maintenance and repair of concrete projects. Concrete 2015 was a great opportunity for participants from around the world to connect face to face and share innovative and interesting ideas on valuable research outcomes and the latest construction practices. Invited Papers are based on experimental work, research and development, practice or industry application, case studies, innovations and other relevant work of interest.

CIES’s Professor Stephen Foster was a Keynote speaker on day one of the conference and along with his Research collaborator and former student Dr Yen Lei Voo, delivered an exceptionally well received presentation on “Ultra-high performance ductile concrete: The delivery from research into practice”.

CIES’s Emeritus Professor Ian Gilbert presented a paper on Day 2 of the conference titled “An approach for the quantification of ductility and robustness of reinforced concrete beams and slabs”.

CIES Research Associate Dr Farhad Aslani has been awarded the 2015 National Engineering Bursary from the Concrete Institute of Australia, and as a result of this award he was invited to present his paper at the Conference titled “Instantaneous and time dependent behaviour of reinforced self-compacting concrete slabs”..

Other presentations from CIES personnel include:

Research Associate Dr Inamullah Khan presented a paper on “Experimental study of creep and shrinkage in early age concrete”.

PhD candidate Angus Murray presented a paper on “Time-dependent stiffness of concrete members under cyclic loading”.

PhD candidate James de Burgh presented his paper on “Predicting fire induced spalling in concrete structural elements”.