Cements Division


The Cements Division of The American Ceramic Society is involved with the research, development, manufacture, and sale of cements, limes, and plasters. Developments in Portland cement occupy much of the Division members’ efforts.


Division Chair

Paramita Mondal

Assistant Professor
205 N Mathews Avenue

Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois
Urbana, IL 61801
paramita@northwestern.edu

P: (217)333-2069

 

Chair-Elect

Benjamin Mohr

Tennessee Tech University
Department of Civil & Environmental Eng.
1020 Stadium Drive, Box 5
Cookeville, TN 38505-0001

bmohr@tntech.edu
P: (931) 372-3546

Secretary

Kyle Riding
Assistant Professor
Kansas State University
2118 Fiedler Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506
riding@ksu.edu

P: (785) 532-1578

Trustee

Joseph J. Biernacki

Professor

Tennessee Technological Univ.

Box 5013

Cookeville, TN 38505

jbiernacki@tntech.edu

P: 931-372-3667


Meetings

Materials Challenges in Alternative and Renewable Energy

February 26-March 1, 2012
Hilton Clearwater Beach Resort
Clearwater, Florida, USA

 

3rd Advances in Cement-based Materials: Characterization, Processing, Modeling and Sensing

June 10-12, 2012

The University of Texas at Austin

Austin, Texas, USA

* Abstracts are due February 28, 2012. Submit yours now.

 

ICC4-International Congress on Ceramics, including 3rd Ceramic Leadership Summit Track

July 15-19, 2012
Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers
Chicago, Illinois, USA

 

Materials Science & Technology 2012 Conference and Exhibition - MS&T’12 combined with the ACerS 114th Annual Meeting

October 7-11, 2012 in Pittsburgh, PA, USA

 

All ACerS Meetings


Awards

Brunauer Best Paper Award
This award is presented each year for the best scientific paper on the topic of cement and concrete published by ACerS during the previous year.

 

2010 Winning Paper:
“First-Principles Study of Elastic Constants and Interlayer Interactions of Complex Hydrated Oxides: Case Study of Tobermorite and Jennite”
Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 92 (10) 2323-2330(2009)
by Rouzbeh Shahsavari, Markus J. Buehler, Roland J.-M. Pellenq, and Franz-Josef Ulm


L.E. Copeland Award
This award recognizes an individual for outstanding contributions to the development and understanding of cement and concrete science. Presentation of this award is considered whenever the Copeland Award Committee feels that there is a suitable candidate.


Della Roy Lecture and Award

The Della Roy lecturer is selected each year by the division executive committee. The recipient does not need to be a member of the Cements Division or the Society at large.

 

2011 Della Roy Lecturer:
Karen Scivener, Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Construction Materials at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland).
Lecture title: Modelling Hydration Kinetics of Cementitious Systems



Job Opportunities
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