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Welcome to ACBM's website!
Established in 1989, ACBM is now the world's preeminent research consortium on cement and concrete. ACBM conducts basic research for a better understanding of the materials science of cement and concrete. It has contributed major advances in the knowledge of these materials and their behavior.
ACBM Research Institutions include Northwestern University, Purdue University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Michigan, and National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Affiliate Institutions include Universite de Sherbrooke, Icelandic Building Research Institute, Delft University of Technology, Politecnico di Milano, Technical University of Denmark, and Universite Laval.
Industrial Partners include Haliburton, Holcim, Lafarge, PCA, and W.R. Grace.
For more information on ACBM, visit the Overview page.
ACBM researchers and Industrial Partner representatives should visit the members section and sign-up for a login and password. This will enable those users to view information on meetings and research updates.
Join Us for a Dinner Honoring
Professor
Surendra P. Shah
The Center for Advanced Cement-Based
Materials is holding a dinner to honor Professor Surendra Shah, its
retiring director.
March 21, 2010 (during the ACI Convention)
7:30 p.m.
Ryan Atrium, Lurie Research Center, Northwestern University
303 E. Superior, Chicago, Illinois
The Ryan Atrium is located seven blocks north of the Chicago Sheraton, location of the ACI convention. It is approximately a ten minute walk on Fairbanks Street (the Atrium is located between Huron and Superior Streets). For those driving, limited pay street parking is available in the neighborhood. Be sure and look for the pay boxes as there are no meters on the street. Note that parking fees are assessed until 9:00 p.m. A Northwestern Hospital parking garage is located just west of the Atrium. There is an entrance on both Superior, an east-bound one-way street, and Huron, a west-bound one-way street.
Dinner registration: Dinner registration
is now closed. If you have questions about your registration, please
contact us at acbm@northwestern.edu.
Send a note and picture: A
book of messages and photos from well wishers is being compiled for Professor
Shah. Messages
should be short, fitting into a 5 x 7 inch space. Handwritten messages,
which are preferable, should be scanned at the highest resolution
possible. Photos should also be scanned as a high resolution electronic
picture file such as TIF, TIFF, PICT. Documents for the book must
be received by March 12 and sent via e-mail to Richard Garza (richardg@northwestern.edu).
Please contact Richard via e-mail or phone (847.491.3858) if you
have any questions.
We hope you are able to attend and look forward to seeing you
on March 21.
News Briefs
Nathan Tregger named 2007 Outstanding Student of the Year
Every year, the Transportation Research Board honors the most
outstanding students from each participating University Transportation
Center. These students are selected based on accomplishments in
areas such as research, academic performance, and leadership. Nathan
Tregger is a graduate student at the Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering at Northwestern University. His current research focuses
on the hardened-state properties of concrete. At the same time,
Nathan has been a teaching assistant for several classes and oversaw
undergraduate research projects.
Congratulations Poster Winners from the March 26 & 27, 2008 Semiannual Technical Review
1st place: "Shrinkage and shrinkage Cracking Behavior of Paste and Mortar Made with Cements cntaining Interground Limestone" - Aleksandra Radlinska, Purdue
2nd place: "Novel Chemical-Thermal Treatment of Rice Husk Ash to Enhance Properties of High Performance Concrete" - Andres Salas, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
3rd place - TIE:
"Frost Damage in Concrete " - Zhenhua Sun, Princeton University
"Constitutive Modeling of Partially Saturated Materials: Cement Paste and Vycor Glass" - Ivan Vlahinich, Northwestern University Projects and Publications ACBM is currently entering its second research cycle (2003-2006). New Research Projects have been selected which focus on ACBM's three broad topic areas; Designing for Performance, Life Cycle Prediction, and Waste Material Utilization. Additionally, a complete list has been compiled of ACBM Publications resulting from the first cycle of funding (2000-2003).
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