ERICA-CASH II
Final Conference
About the conference
The ERICA and CASH II Final Conference will be held from January 25 to 27, 2021. At this event, the ERICA and CASH II projects will be presented along with invited and contributed talks.
After consultation with the steering boards of ERICA and CASH II, it was finally decided to organize the ERICA and CASH II Final Conference only in an online format.
Inorganic hydrates such as calcium-silicate-hydrate, abbreviated C-S-H, are “wonder” materials exceedingly rich in terms of potential applications that can be produced in almost any shape or form, cheaply and in large quantities right across the world from local and sustainable resources. C-S-H is the “glue” of cement, itself the glue of concrete, material with enormous economic impact. But C-S-H and other hydrates are also used as a filler in paper and in polymer composites, as dental filling materials, for waste water treatment in fertilizers and as insulation and encasement materials including for nuclear waste.
C-S-H is the main phase controlling the performance of cement-based materials. These materials are so widely used that their production is the leading industrial source of greenhouse gases, contributing about 8% of global CO2 emissions despite very low emissions per kg. Engineering C-S-H growth for faster strength development and for improved performance, such as water transport that affects C-S-H durability, is key to further lowering the CO2 impact of construction.
The conference is co-sponsored by
ERICA, a project funded by the European Union under the Horizon 2020 – Marie Skłodowska-Curie – Innovative Training Network programme, is an innovative, five-nation project straddling materials science and engineering, physics and chemistry in diverse areas of experimentation and computational modelling.
The overarching aim of the ERICA project is to understand how to engineer hydrates at the nanoscale and to enable improved engineering applications. Read more…
About CASH II
Another way to reduce CO2 emissions is to partially replace Portland cement by Supplementary Cementitious Materials (SCMs) such as blast furnace slag, fly ash, silica fume or calcined clays. However, these SCMs cause changes in C-S-H composition.
CASH II is a Swiss-Danish research project investigating the effect of aluminum, potassium and sodium on the structure and solubility of C-S-H, using innovative experimental methods and computational modelling. Read more…
Scientific Committee
Mohsen Ben Haha, HTC, Germany
Villiam Bortolotti, UNIBO, Italy
Paul Bowen, EPFL, Switzerland
Paola Fantazzini, UNIBO, Italy
David Faux, USurrey, UK
Christian Hellmich, TU Wien, Austria
Barbara Lothenbach, EMPA, Switzerland
Peter McDonald, USurrey, UK
Bernhard Pichler, TU Wien, Austria
Karen Scrivener, EPFL, Switzerland
Preliminary programme
Invited Speakers
Jürgen ADOLPHS (Microtrac Retsch GmbH, Germany): Water vapor sorption and in situ determination of swelling and shrinkage of hardened cement paste
Natalia ALDERETE (Ghent University, Belgium): Importance of deformations for explaining anomalous capillary imbibition in cementitious materials
Jean François BARTHÉLÉMY (CEREMA, France): A numerical tool for an easy implementation of homogenization schemes: development and applications
Jean Francois DUFRECHE (Université de Montpellier, France): Multi-scale modelling of charged porous oxides
Christopher HALL (University of Edinburgh, UK): Contact time: capillary transport with material alteration
Ippei MARUYAMA (Nagoya University, Japan): Shrinkage of alite paste associated with a dynamic microstructure change under the first drying
Aslam KUNHI MOHAMED (ETH Zurich, Switzerland): Atomic-level structural features of C-(A)-S-H
Leo PEL (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands): NaCl ion transport and interaction in cementitious materials as observed by NMR
Matthieu VANDAMME (École des Ponts ParisTech, France): Modeling how fluids deform porous materials: application to drying shrinkage
Colin WALKER (Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Japan): C(-A)-S-H gel solubility model development and its application to high content fly ash silica fume cement (HFSC)
Mateusz WYRZYKOWSKI (Empa, Switzerland): Redistribution of water in hardened cement paste under thermal and mechanical loading
Documents
Registration and registration fees
Interested participants are requested to register online:
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Registration fees for online attendance of the meeting
Registration fee 50 €
Registration fee includes attendance of all sessions and Book of Abstract.
Cancellation policy
Cancellations must be submitted in writing
Up to October 31, 2020 full refund
Up to December 18, 2020 50% of fee
After December 18, 2020 no refund possible
Important dates
Abstracts
- Submission of 150 words abstracts August 31, 2020
- Notification of acceptance September 10, 2020
- Submission of two-page abstract October 31, 2020
Registration
- Early registration deadline September 15, 2020
- Registration deadline presenters October 31, 2020
- Conference dates January 25-27, 2021
Conference Management
- Martina Pöll (TU Wien, Austria)
- Ute Klötzer (HTC, Germany)
- Marie-Alix Dalang-Secretan (EPFL, Switzerland)
Further Information and contact
For further information on
- the ERICA project, please visit the website www.etn-erica.eu
- the CASH II project, please visit the page cashii project
or
- write an e-mail to info@erica-etn.eu
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