Prof. Pierre-Claude Aïtcin
Pierre-Claude Aïtcin is Professor Emeritus with the Department of Civil Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Sherbrooke, a member of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering, and an Honorary Member of the American Concrete Institute.
From July 1990 to April 1998, he was the Scientific Director of Concrete Canada, the Network of Centres of Excellence on High-Performance Concrete, a network of fifteen teams of researchers from several Canadian provinces. For nine years, he also held an Industrial Chair on Concrete Technology, a programme of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) in collaboration with thirteen industrial partners.
His principal research interests are the manufacturing and use of high-performance and ultra high-performance concretes, and the use of industrial by-products in concrete. Besides his activities as professor and researcher, Pierre-Claude Aïtcin was a member of committees C-234 on Silica fume and C-363 on High-strength concrete of the American Concrete Institute. He has authored numerous books and received many awards in recognition of his achievements.
Michael P. Collins is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Toronto where he has led a long-term research program aimed at improving design procedures for reinforced and prestressed concrete structures. The results of this work have influenced design provisions for buildings, bridges, nuclear containment structures and offshore concrete platforms. He has received 15 international awards for technical publications and contributions to the practice of structural engineering. He has participated in a number of major failure investigations and in evaluating and strengthening concrete structures in distress. He is a graduate of the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and of the University of New South Wales, Australia.
Dr. François de Larrard is senior scientist at LCPC, the main French public research institution in road infrastructure engineering. Since the defense of his PhD in '87 on Very-High Performance Concrete, he has produced about 300 reports and publications, and co-authored six books, four mix-design software programs and three laboratory devices, in the field of concrete optimization, rheology, production and transport. After 12 years devoted to bridge and other great civil engineering constructions, he is now focused on application of cementitious materials in pavement and horizontal structures. He is currently chairman of the International OECD/ITF working group on Long-Life Pavement Surfacings (phase 3), which coordinates the construction of a series of trafficked test sections covered with Ultra-High Performance Fibre-Reinforced Concrete as a wearing course.
Robert J. Flatt is head of research on inorganic materials and principal scientist in Corporate Research at Sika Technology AG (Zürich, Switzerland) since 2002. Before that he was a post-doc at Princeton University (1999-2002), obtained a PhD in materials science (1999) and a chemical engineering diploma from EPFL (1994).
He has authored more than 60 publications in the area of materials science of construction materials and conservation of cultural heritage. Currently, his main topic of research is the use of dispersing admixtures in concrete. He is a member of the cement division of the American Ceramic Society since 2000 and an alumni of the Young leaders conference of the American-Swiss foundation.
Tor Arne Hammer is a senior scientist at SINTEF Building and Infrastructure, Trondheim, Norway. He has a Dr.degree in civil engineering. His main field of research, for 25 years, is material properties of fresh and hardening concrete, and in particular within early age cracking, high-performance concrete, lightweight aggregate concrete and self compacting concrete. He is presently the manager of COIN – Concrete Innovation Centre at SINTEF.
Mitsutaka Hayakawa is professor of Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo Polytechnic University (Japan). After graduation from University of Tokyo in 1974 he had been working for Taisei Corporation, one of the leading construction companies in Japan, until 2004. In Taisei Corporation, he belonged to the technical research center, and engaged in research on concrete materials. During the 1970s and 80s his main research topics were the mixing method to obtain high quality concrete. In the 1990s the development and the application of high performance concrete to building construction projects became his major subject. He is now teaching building materials and construction methods in the University. He received his Doctor of Engineering from University of Tokyo.
Dr. Min-Hong Zhang is Associate Professor at Department of Civil Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS). She obtained her Doctoral degree from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. Prior to joining NUS, she was Research Scientist at Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology (CANMET), a Canadian Federal Government research organization in Ottawa.
Her research interests include lightweight aggregate concrete, high-strength high-performance concrete, and microstructure of composite materials. She has authored and co-authored more than 80 papers in international journals and conference proceedings.
José I. Restrepois a Professor in Structural Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. His research interests are in the development of new structural systems for bridges, port structures and buildings. Dr. Restrepo is an ACI fellow. Dr Restrepo also holds an adjunct faculty position at the International School for the Reduction of Seismic Risk at the University of Pavia, Italy.
Nicolas Roussel is senior researcher at the French Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussées. He is the leader of the research team dealing with mix design and casting of construction materials. He is the chairman of the RILEM Technical Committee dealing with numerical simulations of flow of fresh concrete and member of the RILEM Bureau.
Dr. Koji Sakai is a professor at the Kagawa University, Japan, and was a senator of the Kagawa University during 1999 - 2004.
Koji is chairing the ISO/TC71/SC8 on environmental management for concrete and concrete structures, fib commission 3 on environmental aspects of design and construction, and JCI committee on sustainability. He is also a fib Presidium member.
Surendra P. Shah is a Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil Engineering at Northwestern University. He is the Director of the pioneering NSF Science and Technology Center for Advanced Cement-Based Materials. His current research interests include: fracture, fiber reinforced composites, non-destructive evaluation, transport properties, processing, rheology, nanotechnology, and use of solid waste materials. He has published more than 400 journal articles and edited more than twenty books, and is past Editor in Chief of RILEM's journal Materials and Structures.
Professor Shah is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He is an ACI Honorary Fellow and was named one the Most Influential People in the industry by Concrete Construction Magazine. He spent time as an Honorary Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, under a Fulbright grant. Most recently he has been named to the Indian National Academy of Engineering and the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Besides teaching at Northwestern, he has taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago and served as a visiting professor at MIT, University of Sidney, Denmark Technical University, University of Singapore, Darmstadt Technical University, and LCPC, Paris. He is currently an honorary professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnical University and L'Aquilla University in Italy.
Professor Olafur H. Wallevik is the head of basic research at Innovation Center Iceland and a professor at Reykjavik University. He has worked with concrete technology since he finished his master thesis on the rheology of fresh concrete at Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1984. In 1987 he made the first version of the BML Viscometer which now is purchased throughout the world. Since then he has developed several instruments to measure the rheological properties of cement based particle suspensions.
His special fields are Rheology of Fresh Concrete, High Performance Concrete, High Strength Concrete, Self-Compacting Concrete and Microstructures. He is manager of ICI Rheocenter. He has held about 40 rheology / SCC courses in 16 countries.
Francis Young is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He graduated from the University of New Zealand in 1961 and then studied at Imperial College, University of London, under Nobel Laureate Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson, gaining a PhD in Inorganic Chemistry in 1965. In 1970 he joined the faculty of the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, being promoted to Professor in 1977. In 1990 he was named Associate Director of the newly formed NSF Centre for Advanced Cement-based Materials (ACBM). He retired from the University of Illinois in 2000.
Professor Young is a Fellow and Distinguished Life Member of the American Ceramic Society, and a Fellow of the American Concrete Institute. He is a co-author of the textbooks “Concrete’ and “The Science and Technology of Civil Engineering Materials”.