2022 Best Student Poster Award and Outstanding Poster Awards

At the 76^th RILEM Annual Week and ICRCS2022 last week in Kyoto, the winners of the Poster Competition were announced.

The Best Student Poster Award went to Suhas Suresh JOSHI, recently granted a Ph.D. at the University of Tokyo, who presented a poster titled “Analytical investigation of corrosion cracking factors in multi rebar concrete panels using 3D-mesoscale simulation”. Dr Joshi received a prize of 500 EURO from RILEM and a complimentary registration for the 77^th RILEM Annual Week in Vancouver, Canada, next year.

Six more complimentary registrations for the 77^th RILEM Annual Week next year were awarded to six young delegates for the quality of their posters (outstanding poster award):

• Mahmudul Hasan Mizan, Hokkaido University, "Effectiveness of Using Silica Fume with PCM to Enhance Concrete-PCM Interfacial Bonding Performance"
• Thi Nhan Nguyen, Belgium Nuclear Research Centre, "Leaching resistance of metakaolin-based geopolymers under accelerated conditions"
• Zhe Zhang, National University of Singapore, "The Origin of Strength of Calcium Silicate Hydrate"
• Hyo Eun Joo, The University of Tokyo, "Mechanical behaviors of concrete damaged by alkali silica reaction considering crack-filling effect of gel"
• Pakpoom Limtong, The University of Tokyo, "Bottom-up modeling of ion diffusivity from two-scale pore networks"
• Dulce Elizabeth Valdez Madrid, Ghent University, "

  3D structural characterization and performance assessment of lime-cement mortars during salt damage".

All winners also received a Japanese traditional towel for wiping, wrapping, fashion, decoration and others, representing a Kyoto traditional festival.  

The jury members in charge of the RILEM Poster Awards were:

• Prof Tetsuya Ishida, The University of Tokyo
• Dr Yuya Takahashi, The University of Tokyo
• Dr Tomoko Fukuyama, Ritsumeikan University
• Dr Miguel Azenha, University of Minho
• Dr Luan Yao, Saitama University
• Dr Wang Tiao, The University of Tokyo
• Dr Shingo Asamoto, Saitama University.

RILEM would like to acknowledge the on-going and kind support of the organisers of the Poster Awards, and in particular that of Dr Shingo Asamoto, Saitama University.