Events for 09-2015

Speaker Prof. Abdul-Ghani OLABI Director, the Institute of Engineering and Energy Technologies Professor, the School of Engineering and Computing the University of the West of Scotland Abstract Targets established by the European Union for 2020, have introduced a huge attention for the electrical energy management, starting from its sustainable production, researching and developing new production technologies based on renewable power sources, to its correct use and storage. In base of different applications, and often in base of the concrete availability of these sources, there are several energy storage systems used today worldwide, each one based on a different electricity transformation principle (mechanical, thermal, electrical or chemical). During the last decades, a lot of technologies have been developed, using new materials ...

Speaker Prof. Jianzhuang XIAO Professor, Department of Structural Engineering, College of Civil Engineering Tongji University Abstract This report firstly presents a brief introduction on the current state of study on recycled aggregate concrete (RAC) in PR China, which includes mechanical property of RAC material, structural behavior of RAC load-bearing elements, and seismic performance of RAC frame structures. The experimental study results prove that it is feasible to apply RAC as a structure material in building structures. Secondly, this report presents an outline of Chinese technical codes for recycled aggregate concrete organized and edited by the speaker. Thirdly, it also puts forward some successful applications of RAC in building structures in the mainland of China which will be helpful to promote ...