The Concrete Society of Southern Africa is proud to be the Endorsing Partner of the 2016 African Construction and Totally Concrete Expos. The growing success of this event over the past 3 years has illustrated the great need for a single platform where industry issues can be shared and debated. Such issues as infrastructure investment […]
The objective of this symposium is to collect and disseminate state-of-the-art and new, emerging techniques and developments on pavement mechanics including characterization, modeling and simulation of pavements and pavement materials. We anticipate four to five sessions of presentations. Topics of interest include, but not limited to: Discrete and finite element modeling of the response of […]
Aggregates (Gradation Fundamentals) (60–90 min.) Tues., May 31, 2016, at 12:00 PM (noon) CDT Presenter: Gary Fick This course focuses on the need for a good combined gradation of aggregates for concrete mixture optimization, and how that may be achieved. The course describes why a poor combined gradation can negatively impact the workability of concrete mixtures for paving […]
