RILEM NEWSLETTER - JANUARY 2019  
 
 
News
72nd RILEM Annual Week
 

The 72nd RILEM Annual Week took place in Delft, the Netherlands and was organized in conjunction of the SLD4 conference & CONMOD2018 symposium on 27-30 August 2018. 
For the first time, 14 PhD students received a grant to attend the RILEM Annual Week. RILEM covereed their travel and accommodation expenses and the registration fees. Each of them was invited to present a paper during the conference. They also met with the RILEM Presidency during a special breakfast session.

The General...


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Honors and Awards 2018
 
The 2018 Robert L’Hermite Medal was awarded to Fernando Moreno-Navarro, University of Granada, Spain. He is the first Medalist coming from the RILEM asphalt community. He gave a lecture on "Designing more durable asphalt materials" on Wednesday 29 August. If you missed it, no worry!  The video is available on YouTube.   ***** The 72nd RILEM Annual Week was also the occasion to award Honorary membership and Fellow members. RILEM attributes the honorary title of RILEM...
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Upcoming Spring Convention, Rovinj, Croatia, Spain, 18-22 March 2019
 
  The second RILEM Convention will take place in Rovinj, Croatia. RILEM standing committee meetings will be on 18-19 March. On 20-22 March the conference International Conference on Sustainable Materials, Systems and Structures (SMSS2019) will take place. RILEM members are invited to register here for the standing committee meetings and TC meetings: https://goo.gl/forms/FNEIAmh8766eNqX23 For the conference registration and logistics details, please go to: ...
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Upcoming 73rd Annual Week, Nanjing, China, 26-30 August 2019
 
Mark your calendar for attending the 73rd RILEM Annual Week to be held in Nanjing, China! The International Conference on Innovative materials for Sustainable Civil Engineering (IMSCE) will take place on 27-29 August 2019. Besides the conference the 73rd RILEM Annual Week will take place on 26-28 August. All the standing committees and some of the active technical committees will meet. If your committee is interested to meet please contact the Secretariat. On 21-25 August, several doctoral...
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Publications on the website
 
New Recommendations, unedited STARs and proceedings are available for free downloading on the website:
  • Recommendation of RILEM TC 237-SIB:
    • Cohesion Test of Recycled Asphalt
    • Protocol for characterization of recycled asphalt (RA) materials for pavement applications
    • Affinity between aggregates and bituminous binders
  • Recommendation of RILEM TC 238-SCM on hydration stoppage by solvent exchange for the study of hydrate assemblages
  • Recommendation of RILEM TC 241-MCD on interface debonding testing...

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