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.

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.

Conference Announcement: SCC 2008
The Third North American Conference on the Design and Use of Self-Consolidating Concrete is approaching quickly. It will be held at the Chicago Marriot O'Hare from November 10-12, 2008. Registration is open! Early Registration fee is only available until August 15, 2008. For more information, please visit the SCC 2008 website (www.scc2008.info).

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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