Conference Agenda

Session Overview

Date: Thursday, 24/Apr/2025
8:00am - 6:00pm	Registration
9:00am - 9:40am	PL3: Plenary Lecture Location: EI 7 Chair: Günther Meschke
9:40am - 10:10am	Coffee Break
10:10am - 12:10pm	MS03-4: Monitoring of fracture in heterogeneous media Location: EI 8 Chair: Nathalie Godin Chair: Dimitrios G. Aggelis	MS09-2: Concrete and concrete structures in fire Location: EI 2 Chair: Christian La Borderie	MS10-1: Discrete modeling of mechanical and coupled processes in quasi-brittle materials Location: EI 7 Chair: Jacek Tejchman Chair: Gianluca Cusatis	MS11: Coupling transport and cracking in concrete under harsh environments Location: EI 9 Chair: Syed Yasir Alam Chair: Gilles Pijaudier-Cabot This session explores latest research on the interaction between transport processes and fracture in cement-based materials, with a focus on durability, degradation mechanisms and structural performance under coupled actions.	MS13-1: Advances in the design and assessment of materials and structures for performance, safety, durability, and sustainability Location: EI 10 Chair: Alfred Strauss Chair: Túlio Bittencourt	TT-C2: Computational modeling Location: EI 5 Chair: Beatriz Sanz Chair: Reijo Kouhia
12:10pm - 1:30pm	Lunch Break
1:30pm - 2:10pm	PL4: Plenary Lecture Location: EI 7 Chair: Philipp Preinstorfer
2:10pm - 2:20pm	Transition to Parallel Sessions
2:20pm - 3:40pm	MS01-1: Next-generation reinforced concrete: brittle behaviour and fracture mechanics assessment Location: EI 10 Chair: Federico Accornero	MS02-1: Fatigue behavior of concrete and fiber reinforced concrete Location: EI 5 Chair: Rostislav Chudoba Chair: Miroslav Vořechovský	MS05-1: Application of advanced computational models to challenging engineering problems Location: EI 2 Chair: Matthias Neuner	MS06-1: Small scale testing of mechanical and time-dependent behavior of cementitious materials Location: EI 8 Chair: Hongzhi Zhang	MS08-1: Advances in forward and inverse damage simulation of complex materials and structures Location: EI 9 Chair: Savvas Triantafyllou Chair: Junqi Zhang	MS15-1: Engineered/Strain-Hardening Cementitious Composites (ECC/SHCC) Location: EI 7 Chair: Iurie Curosu
2:30pm - 5:00pm	RILEM TC-QPA meeting Location: Meeting room of Rectorate
3:40pm - 4:10pm	Coffee Break
4:10pm - 5:30pm	MS06-2: Small scale testing of mechanical and time-dependent behavior of cementitious materials Location: EI 8 Chair: Jiri Nemecek	MS08-2: Advances in forward and inverse damage simulation of complex materials and structures Location: EI 9 Chair: Savvas Triantafyllou Chair: Junqi Zhang	MS15-2: Engineered/Strain-Hardening Cementitious Composites (ECC/SHCC) Location: EI 7 Chair: Jing Yu	TT-E: Novel cementitious and/or other quasi-brittle materials Location: EI 10 Chair: Anne Zora Gierth Chair: Philipp Preinstorfer
5:30pm - 6:30pm	IA-FraMCoS General Assembly Location: EI 7
7:30pm - 11:00pm	Conference Banquet Location: Volkshalle, City Hall