Fardis M.N. (Ed.) Innovative Materials and Techniques in Concrete Construction: ACES Workshop

Springer Science+Business Media, 2012, 379 pages, ISBN: 978-94-007-1996-5Concrete is ubiquitous in the modern world. It is claimed to be the material that humankind uses most (in volume terms), after water of course. The position of structural concrete as the prime structural material seems unchallenged nowadays. However, to remain so and to continue serving well the world, concrete has to continuously adapt to the economic, social and technical developments around the globe: the demand for sustainable use and re-use of material resources, the threat of climate change, the pressures in the developing world for more affordable housing, the need of the developed world to extend the lifetime of its infrastructures or to build better and more efficient ones, the desire for safety in a world of increased natural and man-made hazards, etc.Top experts in the field of concrete structures, active in the leading and truly international scientific and technical association in Structural Concrete – the International Federation of Structural Concrete (fib) – gathered on the Greek island of Corfu in early October 2010 for the Workshop on Innovative Materials and Concepts in Concrete Construction.The Workshop has been organized in the framework and with the financial support of Grant FP7-REGPOT-2007-1, no. 204697, of the European Community to the University of Patras within the Regional Potential part of its seventh Framework Programme (2007–2013).