Cements Division

Volunteer spotlight: Shiho Kawashima

By Karen McCurdy / June 5, 2023

ACerS is pleased to announce Shiho Kawashima has been selected for Volunteer Spotlight, a program that recognizes a member who demonstrates outstanding service to The American Ceramic Society through volunteerism.…

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ACerS Division membership offers networking, leadership opportunities, and more, says ACerS Fellow

By Faye Oney / April 27, 2020

ACerS Fellow David Lange has been involved in the Cements Division since the early 1990s. He believes his Division experience has contributed to his career growth.

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Della Roy Lecture, student poster sessions contribute to successful Cements 2017

By Erica Zimmerman / July 6, 2017

Students, young professionals, and researchers gathered at Georgia Tech to learn, present, and network with others at the 8th Advances in Cements-Based Materials meeting, June 26–28, hosted by ACerS Cements Division. Highlights included the student poster session and Della Roy Lecture.

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ACerS Division meetings offer technical programming on state-of-the art in brick, refractories, and cement

By Eileen De Guire / February 7, 2014

ACerS Division meetings offer technical programming on state-of-the art in brick, refractories, and cement.

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September ACerS Bulletin: Innovation, refractories, and meetings galore

By Jim Destefani / August 19, 2013

  The September issue of the ACerS Bulletin should be in subscribers’ mailboxes soon, and it’s chock full of content sure to be of interest for readers.   Our cover…

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MIT Concrete hub updates work on sustainability research

By Eileen De Guire / March 5, 2013

World projected concrete demand. Credit: Karen Scrivener. Nature offers a new, free-access story by Ivan Amato that updates some of the efforts to lower CO2 emissions and the energy requirements…

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Internal curing standards and recent work on extending life of concrete structures

By Eileen De Guire / February 14, 2013

Credit: Purdue University and INDOT Joint Transportation Research Program. Many people in the field of high-performance cements and materials have been working on the goal of improving the performance of…

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Recap and photos from Cements Division meeting in Austin, Texas

By Eileen De Guire / June 22, 2012

Last week’s Cements Division meeting and symposium focused on computational tools applied to cement research and development. Here, David Lange, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, asks Ed Garboczi a question at…

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Solar cement — Solar-driven electrolysis for making lime and no CO2 emission

By Eileen De Guire / April 12, 2012

Conventional thermal decomposition of calcium carbonate for cement-making generates almost as much CO2 as lime. Solar-driven electrolysis of calcium carbonate yields calcium oxide and carbon (or carbon monoxide) and oxygen.…

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Scrivener describes CO2 and SCM challenges for cements research

By / July 29, 2011

Karen Scrivener, right, received the Della Roy Lecture Award from Maria Juenger at the Cements Division meeting in Nashville, Tenn. Credit: P. Wray, ACerS. At the recently concluded Advances in…

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