Pre-conference workshop - Conference Postponed -

MONDAY 20 JULY
DURABILITY OF CONCRETE STRUCTURES – MECHANISMS, ASSESSMENT METHODS AND ENSURING DURABLE STRUCTURES

Despite numerous reported cases of failure of concrete structures, the durability of concrete is still compromised due to lack of clarity on: the causes of deterioration, interactions between different factors causing the deterioration and the mechanisms themselves, methods of assessing the susceptibility of deterioration as well as the causes and extent of deterioration; and ensuring its performance in the exposure environment. As a consequence, the current situation in most developed countries is that repair and rehabilitation costs of structures far exceed the total budget for capital development programmes. Therefore, an important consideration for the design and construction of durable concrete structures should be to ensure that exposure classes are appropriately identified/specified, concrete is specified and designed for the intended exposure regime, design and construction techniques are suitable for the expected performance, and measures are introduced for monitoring their performance in the service environment during their life so that any deviation from the anticipated performance could be identified in a timely manner and appropriate repair and rehabilitation measures are taken. In addition to dealing with most of the above topics, this workshop will introduce the concept of performance-based specifications for ensuring the durability of concrete structures and a strategy for performance testing using both in-situ test techniques and sensors embedded in concrete


SESSIONS

- Mechanisms of deterioration of concrete
- Methods of identifying and quantifying the deterioration
- Durability designs
- Methods of improving the durability

Pre-conference workshop
Professor P. A. Muhammed Basheer
PhD DSc FREng FIAE FICE FACI FICT FIStructE MIE(I) CEng
Chair in Structural Engineering and Head of School of Civil Engineering
University of Leeds, UK


NOTE: For tentative programme, kindly download the attachment.