71st RILEMAnnualWeek&ICACMS2017

Intnl.Conf.onAdvancesinConstructionMaterialsandSystems
September3 8,2017|TheLeela PalaceHotel,Chennai,INDIA
http://www.rilem2017conference.org
Organizedby Inassociationwith
IITMadras,Chennai

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Highlights ConferenceThemes
500+delegatesfrom50+countries Advancesinsupplementarycementingmaterials
250+papers Concretedurabilityandperformance
30parallelsessions specifications
Earlyagebehaviorandrheologyofcementitious
Keynotelecturesbyeminentintnl.speakers
systems
Fourtechnicalworkshops(atIITMadras) Specialconcreteandapplications
Advancesincharacterizationofconstruction
TwoworkshopsonSep.4th materials
WorkshoponLimestonecalcined claycement(LC3) Sustainablebuildingsystems
K.P.PradeepMemorialWorkshopon Bituminousbindersandmixtures
Textilereinforcedconcrete(TRC)systems Repairandconservationofheritagestructures
TwoworkshopsonSep.8th Corrosioncontrolandmonitoringinconcrete
CarmenAndradeWorkshoponCorrosioncontrolin structures
concretestructures(C3S) Repairmaterialsandrepairsystemsforconcrete
Luigia Binda MemorialWorkshoponNDTandrepair structures
forancient&modernheritagestructures Welcome to
Sponsors
Chennai
India

Registerat: http://www.rilem2017conference.orgEmail:iitmconcrete@gmail.com
 About RILEM Annual Weeks
RILEM Week is the annual meeting of the standing committees of RILEM (International Union of Testing and Research
Laboratories for Materials and Structures). Such meetings occur every year in conjunction with a major international
conference. The recent RILEM weeks were held in Copenhagen (2016), Melbourne (2015), So Paulo (2014), Paris (2013),
Cape Town (2012), Hong Kong (2011). This year, IIT Madras is organizing the ICACMS (Intnl. Conference on Advances in
Construction Materials and Systems) as part of the 71st RILEM Week during Sep 3 8, 2017, in Chennai
It provides a great opportunity to interact with some of the top minds in construction materials and systems, and get
information on the latest pathbreaking developments.

Keynote Speakers
HussainBAHIA,Univ.ofWisconsinMadison,USA PeterRICHNER,EMPAZurich,Switzerland
HervediBENEDITTO,Univ.ofLyon,France KarenSCRIVENER,EPFLLausanne,Switzerland
RobertFLATT,ETHZurich,Switzerland ChandraSEKHAR,NUS,Singapore
DouglasHOOTON,Univ.ofToronto,Canada L.P.SINGH,CBRIRoorkee,India
PauloLORENCIO,Univ.ofMinho,Italy SharadaSRINIVASAN,IISc,Bangalore,India
ForrestMEGGERS,PrincetonUniv.,USA DavidTREJO,OregonStateUniv.,USA
ArunMENON,IITMadras,India MariaRosaVALUZZI,Univ.ofPadova,Italy
HeraldS.MULLER,KITKarlsruher,Germany JasonWEISS,OregonStateUniv.,USA

Important Dates / Registration Fee

Papersubmissions Closed
Pre andPostconferenceworkshops September4th and8th,2017(atIITMadras)
Conference September5 7,2017(atTheLeela PalaceHotel)
Registration Currently open(http://www.rilem2017conference.org)

Category Fee(INR) Forconferencedelegates,thepre

andpostconferenceworkshopsare
Individual 17,500 free;needpriorregistration.On
Individual (RILEM/ICI/TRG/ISAP/NACEMember) 15,000 Spotintimationswillnotbe
entertained.
StudentAuthor 8,000 Toattendonlytheworkshops,afee
StudentAuthor (RILEM/ICI/TRG/ISAP/NACEMember) 6,000 ofINR2,000+15%Servicetaxper
workshopisapplicable.

ManuSanthanam,IITMadras,Chair
Ravindra Gettu,IITMadras,Cochair
Arun Menon,IITMadras,Cochair
BennyRaphael,IITMadras,Cochair
J.Murali Krishnan,IITMadras,Cochair
Radhakrishna G.Pillai,IITMadras,Cochair
S.P.Shah,IITMadras,Cochair
Atul Narayan,IITMadras
A.Veeraraghavan,IITMadras
A.Bahurudeen,BITSPilani
Bhaskar Sangoju,SERC,Chennai
CarlosEspina,LafargeHolcim
Organizing Committee
DaliNaiduArnepalli,IITMadras
Dhanya B.S.,RIT,Kottayam,
ElsonJohn,MACollege,Kothamangalam
GeertdeSchutter,GhentUniv.
HajiSheikhMohammed,BSAUniv.
K.Jayachandran,NITTrichy
K.Jayasankar,Ultratech Cement
K.P.Jaya,AnnaUniv.
K.Ramamurthy,IITMadras
K.G.K.Moorthy,Totale GlobalPvt.Ltd.
Madhavi Tadepalli,SRMUniv.
MohammedHaneefa,IITMadras
Muhammed Salman,IITBombay
NicolasRoussel,IFSTTAR,France
NigelPradeepNarayan,The
Masterbuilder
PrakashNanthagopalan,IITBombay
Shashank Bishnoi,IITDelhi
Sivakumar Palaniappan,IITMadras
Soumen Maity,TARA,NewDelhi
Sunitha K.Nayar,IITMadras
Vaibhav Rathi,TARA,NewDelhi
Venkatraman,Ultratech Cement
Viswanathan Mahadevan,BASF

Contact Information

RILEMWeek 2017 Secretariat

BSB Room 205, Department of Civil Engineering
IIT Madras, Chennai 600 036, INDIA
Email: iitmconcrete@gmail.com
Tel.: +91 44 2257 5255