LIST OF INVITED SPEAKERS FOR ACF SYMPOSIUM ON UHPC Sr Name of Keynote No Speaker 1 Prof Ekkehard Fehling Affiliation Tentative topic of paper Faculty of civil and environmental engineering, Professor of structural engineering / reinforced concrete structures University of Kassel, Germany Structural aspects of UHPC with some examples 2 Prof. Dr. rer.nat. Bernhard Middendorf Prof Michael Schmidt University Professor, University of Kassel, Germany University Professor, University of Kassel, Germany 4 Prof Dr.-Ing. habil. Nguyen Viet Tue 5 Victor Perry University Professor, Institute for Betonbau, Technical University Graz, Lessingstraße 25 President, V.iConsult Inc., Calgary, AB, Canada UHPC: Materials and Developments UHPC: Materials and Developments Structural aspects of UHPC and recent examples in Austria 6 Dr Byung-Suk KIM 3 7. Prof. YAN Peiyu 8. Prof. Dr.-Ing., Harald S. Müller, Case studies on innovative applications and challenges of introducing break-through technologies (uhpc) in the construction industry Vice President, Korean Institute of Concrete Technology Case studies highlighting innovative applications Tsinghua University, Beijing State-of-the-art Report on the Applications of UHPC in PRC President of fib University: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) – MPA Karlsruhe 1uelle.mueller@kit.edu Deformation and Strength of Ultra High Performance Concrete (UHPC) under sustained loading”. LIST OF INVITED SPEAKERS FOR ACECON 2015 Sr Name of Keynote Sub Theme No Speaker 1. Prof. S. P. Shah North Western University,USA 2. Prof. Dr.-Ing., Harald S. Müller, President of fib University: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) – MPA Karlsruhe 2uelle.mueller@kit.edu 3. Prof. UEDA Tamon Past President, ACF Hokkaido University, Japan ueda@eng.hokudai.ac.jp 4. Prof. Manyop Han President Asian Concrete Federation 5. Prof. Hiroshi Yokota Vice President ACF 6. Dr. Venkatesh Kodur Professor of Structural Engineering Michigan State University USA 7. Prof. YAN Peiyu Professor in School of Civil Engineering & director of Institute of Building Materials; Tsinghua University. Beijing 100084, China Tel: +86-10-62785836 Fax: +86-10-62785836 E-mail: yanpy@tsinghua.edu.cn Tentative topic of paper 8. Chemical Admixtures for Advanced Concrete Performance, implementation of surface resistivity based 9. Dr. Bruce J. Christensen Innovative Vice President, BASF Ingredients of Concrete Dr. Carmen Andrade CISDEM, Spain Advances in Materials Science of Concrete in Last 50Years Sustainable concrete structures through service life design and ecoefficient concretes Debonding in case of repair application Maintenance of Concrete Structures Fire design of concrete structures Pumping Practices for high-strength SCCof ultra high-rising building. Remarks 10. Dr. Herald Justnes SINTEF Norway 11. Dr James Aldred AECOM Australia Prof. Prasad Rangaraju Clemson University, USA Prof. Sri Sitharan IOWA State University, USA 12. 13. 14. Prof. Masahiro OUCHI Kochi University of Technology,JAPAN 15 Prof. Caijun Shi Chair Professor College of Civil Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, China & China Building Materials Academy, Beijing, China 16. Dr. Anol K Mukhopadhyay, Research Scientist (TTI) Ad. Graduate Faculty (Zachry Department of Civil Engineering) Materials and Rigid Pavement Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) e-mail: anol@tamu.edu 17 Prof.Arup Kanti Maji control of durability in the Panama canal project Influence of SCMs on hydration and durability of blended cements - Chemical and physical principles Experience of Burj khalifa seismic design of bridges or buildings involving precast concrete Innovations and Recent Advances in Concrete Technology Development of Airenhanced SelfCompacting Concrete 'Innovative Ingredients of Concrete' Durability of Concrete “Emerging Rapid Aggregate and Concrete Test Methods for Developing Performance Based ASR-Resistant Concrete Mixes”. Non destructive done extensive work on ultrahigh performance concrete. Can speak on this topic also lecture on 9th or 10th October amaji@unm.edu 18 Esmaeel ESMAEELI University of Minho Portugal Evaluation of Concrete Repair and Retrofitting of structures About 150 abstracts received for ACECON Participation from outside India USA Australia Portugal Germany Norway Taiwan Japan Austria South Korea Canada China Spain Papers received from : Taiwan, South Korea, New Zealand, Japan, Indonesia, China, Italy, Malaysia Require support of ACF for more delegates, Papers, Sponsors and exhibitors