Proposal for the 11th International Symposium on Ferrocement FERRO 11 and3rd ICTRC

  1. Scope of Ferro11 / 3rd ICTRC

Ferrocement and textile reinforced concrete deal with similar items. Therefore the proposal for the conference is to combine Ferro11 and 3rd ICTRC in 2015. The institute of building materials research of RWTH Aachen University (ibac) is one of the most important research institutes in Germany. Young as well as experienced scientists and industry investigators will come together and discuss new developments during the Ferrocement Symposium and the 3rdICTRC. Latest development concerning ferrocement will be discussed and specialists will share their knowledge and experiences with the participants.The 3rd International Conference of Textile Reinforced Concrete will be held after Ferro 11. All aspects of textile reinforced concrete – from the filament properties, its bond to the matrix, new developments concerning the yarns, innovative textiles, further developmentsof the matrices including short fibre concretes, mechanical properties of the composite material, the load bearing behaviour of the element and the applications up to the micro-/macro-mechanical modelling – shall be presented and discussed during that conference. Apart from the basics, mainly examples of applications shall illustrate the potentials of ferrocement / textile reinforced concrete this building material. According to the questions, many disciplines of engineering sciences but also of architecture will be addressed.

  1. Scientific Committee

The international scientific committee could becomposedof the following persons:

  • Aldea, Corina, Canada

  • Austriaco, Lilia, Philippines

  • Bedoya,Daniel, Colombia

  • Bentur, Arnon, Israel

  • Brameshuber, Wolfgang, Germany

  • Canmorano, José, Uruguay

  • Castro, Marcelino, Nicaragua

  • Colon,Emilio, CMIC (in spanish)

  • Curbach, Manfred, Germany

  • De Andrade Silva, Flavio, Brazil

  • de Moya, Raul, Dominican Republic

  • Delvasto, Silvio, Colombia

  • Djausal, Anshori, Indonesia

  • Dubey,Ashish, USA

  • Fernández, Alonso, Mexico

  • Garcia, David, Spain

  • Garmendia, Leire, Spain

  • Gopinath, Smitha, India

  • Gries, Thomas, Germany

  • Guerra, Antonio, Dominican Republic

  • Gettu, Ravindra, India

  • Hamelin, Patrice, France

  • Hanai, Joao Bento, Brazil

  • Jesse, Frank, Germany

  • Jones, John, U.S.A

  • Kaushik, S. K., India
  • Martirena,Fernando, Cuba

  • Mechtcherine, Victor, Germany

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  • Melo, Antonio, Spain

  • Milenkovic, Milenko, Serbia

  • Mobasher, Barzin, USA

  • Moreno, Paul, Ecuador

  • Naaman, Antoine, USA

  • Nanni, Antonio, USA

  • Nimityogskul, Pichai, Tailandia

  • Ohama, Y. Japan

  • Pama, Ricardo, Philippines

  • Papanicolaou, Catherine, Greece

  • Paramasivam, P., Singapore

  • Peled, Alva, Israel

  • Quiñones, Javier, Guatemala

  • Reinhardt,Hans-Wolf, Germany

  • Rhyner, Kurt, Switzerland

  • Rivera, Victor, Puerto Rico

  • Sayamipuk, Sun, Thailand

  • Shah, Surendra, USA

  • Sherif, C., Germany

  • Taerwe, Luc, Belgium

  • Tan, Kiang Hwee, Singapur

  • Tatsa,Elisha, Israel

  • Toledo Filho, Romildo, Brazil

  • Triantafillou, Thanasis, Greece

  • Uomoto, T. Japan

  • Vázquez, José, Mexico

  • Waldslagel, Owen, USA

  • Wastiels, Jan, Belgium

Social events during the conference will be organized like a conference dinner in the ballroom of the old cure house on Monday. Besides there will be a various programme for participants and accompaniments like trips e.g. to Cologne, Maastricht etc. Theprogramalso depends onwhat events are being offeredat this time inAachen andsurroundings.

  1. Date / Fee

We plan the symposium to be held from 7th – 11thJune 2015 starting with the welcome reception on Sunday, 7th June 2015. The conference fee will be 300,00€ - 350,00€.

Fees / Before 15.02.2015 / After 15.02.2015
Non RILEM member / 320,00 € / 350,00 €
Full RILEM member / 250,00 € / 290,00 €
Students / 200,00 € / 230,00 €
Conference Dinner
Tuesday9th June 2015 2010 / 80.00 €
  1. Timetable
  • Submission of abstracts: February 15, 2014
  • Acceptance of abstracts: April 15, 2014
  • Submission of papers: July 31, 2014
  • Approval of papers: October 31, 2014
  • Final submission of papers: December 15, 2014
  1. About the city

Aachen is situated directly on the border with Belgium and the Netherlands. It is Germany's most westerly city, with a population of nearly 260,000. Nearly 40,000 students attend Aachen's five major colleges and universities (RWTH Aachen University, University of Applied Sciences, Catholic University of Applied Sciences, Academy of Music and Academy of Church Music).Together with the Dutch towns Maastricht and Heerlen and the Belgian towns Liège and Hasselt, the German town Aachen is one of the main population centres of the transnational Euregio Maas-Rhine.

At the interface of the major commercial and industrial centres of north-western Europe (Paris, Luxembourg, Brussels, the German Ruhr area, Holland's Randstad and the Flemish cities) the Euregio Maas-Rhine has an extremely fortunate geographic situation. The big seaports of Antwerp and Rotterdam are not far away, and the regional airports of Liège and Maastricht-Aachen and the international airports of Düsseldorf, Cologne, Amsterdam and Brussels are in the immediate or near vicinity. The Euregio Maas-Rhine is also connected to the European inland waterway network for goods transport via the Albert Canal and the Juliana Canal / Maas. Connections to the rail network are excellent, in both a north-south and an east-west direction. The European high-speed trains TGV as well as the ICE stop at Liège and Aachen.This exceptional position offers a great advantage to businesses. A study has shown that two-thirds of the industrial estates in the Euregio Maas-Rhine are easily reached. In the last few years a total area of more than 16,000 hectares has been made available for commercial purposes. In addition, the Euregio Maas-Rhine has two research parks, two industrial and innovation parks and 26 enterprise centres with emphasis on top technology and the development of the service sector.

Aachen has much to offer in respect of quality of life. The city has a flair and atmosphere of its own. The attractive layout of the old city centre, the important historic monuments, the wells and baths above the hottest natural springs in Europe, the bustling activity in the streets and squares, the cultural diversity and quality and the many recreational and leisure activities make Aachen an exciting and pleasing whole. The Carolus-Therme is one of the most modern and attractive thermal baths in Europe. The Euregio Maas-Rhine has much to offer in the field of education and research, too. Nearly 100,000 students attend the five universities (RWTH Aachen University, Université de Liège, Universität Maastricht, Limburgs Universitair Centrum Diepenbeek, Open Universiteit Heerlen) and the numerous Universities of Applied Sciences, research centres and university teaching hospitals which work hand in hand and complement each other.

Aachen unites tradition with progress. Charlemagne has left his mark throughout the city. The cathedral - the first monument in Germany to be included in the UNESCO Cultural Heritage list - and the gothic City Hall in which 32 German kings celebrated their coronations still form the heart of Aachen's old city centre. And Charlemagne has lent his name to a prize awarded by Aachen's citizens to personalities who have rendered outstanding services to European unity: the International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen. This award has been presented on Ascension Day every year since 1950.Aachen is a modern city, open to the world, with political, economic and cultural contacts that reach far beyond Germany's borders. One example is Europe's first transnational industrial estate with the name Avantis, which was developed in cooperation with the Dutch town of Heerlen. At EXPO 2000 in Hannover, Aachen was presented as a European model region, as a fine example of successful structural change and a remarkable instance of a region's departure from mining and conventional industry to become one of Europe's major high-tech locations.

This success story is a result of cooperation between the universities and the chambers of industry, research institutions, companies, business establishment centres and the city's administration. The scientific competence available in Aachen has attracted famous international enterprises and research institutions including Ericsson, Ford, Philips, Takeda Pharma and Microsoft, and enabled the successful placing of up-and-coming technology companies such as Aixtron and Parsytec on the Neuer Markt (New Market) in Frankfurt. Aachen's colleges and universities develop top technologies for the sunrise industries such as information and telecommunication engineering, plastics engineering, computer science, materials science and biotechnology.

Aachen, April 2013

Wolfgang Brameshuber