Beton 2023 Congress Agenda Items

1. CIRCULAR ECONOMY AND SUSTAINABILITY IN CONCRETE

  • Life Cycle Analysis
  • Industrial Symbiosis Applications
  • Low Carbon Products
  •  The Usability of Recovered and
    Recycled Materials in Concrete
    Production
  • Climate Change and Concrete
  • Carbon Capture, Storage and Use

2. INDUSTRY 4.0 AND DIGITALIZATION IN THE READY MIXED CONCRETE SECTOR

  • Internet of Things, Sensors, Artificial
    Intelligence, etc. and Applications
  • Operational Efficiency Applications
  • Logistics and Delivery Applications
  • Digital Concrete, 3D Printable
    Concrete and Applications
  • Data Management

3. CONCRETE PROPERTIES, COMPONENTS, DESIGN AND TESTING

  • Fresh, Hardening and Hardened
    Concrete
  • Concrete Components
  • Current Approaches in Concrete Design
  • New Experimentation Methods

4. TYPES OF SPECIAL CONCRETES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS

  • Concrete Design and Applications in
    Megaprojects
  • Mass Concrete and Applications
  • Industrial Ground Concrete
  • Marine Concrete Structures
  • Ultra-High Performance Concrete
  • Architectural Concrete Applications
  • Other Special Concrete Applications

5. CONCRETE ROADS AND CONCRETE SAFETY STRUCTURES IN MAIN ROADS

  • Concrete Roads
  • Concrete Barriers
  • Noise Barriers
  • Airport Concrete
  • Permeable Concrete Coating

6. INNOVATIVE APPROACHES AND PRODUCTS IN CONCRETE

  • Use of Nanomaterials
    Self-healing Concrete
  • Self-cleaning Concrete
  • Geopolymer Concrete and Alkali Activated Concrete
  • Innovative Concrete and Bonding Agents
  • Concrete with Improved Properties
    (Conductivity, Fire Resistance,
    Electromagnetic, etc.)

7. CONCRETE QUALITY CONTROL AT THE PRODUCTION STAGE AND SITE

  • Quality Control in Manufacturing
  • Non-destructive Testing Methods
  • Core Sampling and Evaluation
  • Preparing Concrete Cylinder Molds
    for Pressure Testing
  • Curing Conditions and the Effects of
    Sample Size

8. DURABILITY AND INTERNAL STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES OF CONCRETE

  • Durability Problems in Concrete
  • Durability-based Concrete Design
  • Design Service Life
  • Concrete Behavior over Time (Shrinkage, Creep and Relaxation)
  • Multiscale Modelling of Cement based Materials (Nano-Micro-Mezo
    Macro)

9. RECENT DEBATES IN READY MIXED CONCRETE

  • Quality Assurance in Concrete
    Production Processes
  • Marketing and Sectoral Challenges
  • Standards and Legal Regulations
  • Production and Application Technologies
  • Environment and OHS

10. STRUCTURAL APPLICATIONS

  • Maintenance, Repair and
    Reinforcement Materials for Concrete
  • Precast Concrete and Concrete in Modular Structures