Application of Codes, Design and Regulations: (10 6th International Congress on Global Construction)

Concrete is at something of a crossroads: there are many opportunities and some threats. For these opportunities to change into beneficial practice, engineers, material scientists, architects, manufacturers and suppliers must focus on the changes that are required to champion concrete and maintain its dominance within the global construction industry. The Concrete Technology Unit (CTU) of the University of Dundee organised this Congress to address these changes, under the theme Global Construction: Ultimate Concrete Opportunities 5-7 July 2005.

Table of Contents:
Preface Introduction Organising Committee Scientific Organisations With Exhibition Exhibiting Organisations Supporting Institution Opening Paper Developing Codes and Regulations to Protect the Public from Fools and Rascals THEME 1 GLOBAL ISSUES Keynote Paper The Roles of International, Regional and National Standards in the Global Market Using EN 1990 to Improve Consistency of Safety for Structural Building Materials The Weakest Link for Achieving Quality: Codes, Models, Certificates or Men? Innovations of Croatian Codes for Bridges The Bond Stress in Brazilian Standard The Current Status of Concrete Standards and Guidelines for the Concrete Specifier in the Gulf Region Development and Implementation of Eurocode on Concrete (EC2) Quality of Concrete Structures Through Standards Application Application of Quality Control Concept in Construction Engineering Works to Prepare Roofing Suggesting System for Building Projects in Iraq Physical Properties of Composites Made from Secondary Cementitious Materials With Reference to their Suitability for Water Filters Proposal of a Change in the Brazilian Splitting-Tension Test Set Up Slip Measurement at the Steel-Concrete Interface in Push-Outs Tests Deformational Properties of High Strength Concrete Predicted According to Eurocode 2 THEME 2 SERVICE LIFE AND DURABILITY DESIGN Keynote Paper Durability Design of Concrete Structures in Japan - Present and Future Cover to Reinforcement - Getting it Right Why Does Our Concrete Still Crack and Leak? Chloride Concentration in 25-Year-Old Concrete Corrosion in Pre-stressed Concrete Interaction of Concretes with Atmospheric CO2 at the Stage of Their Making Residual Structure Service Life Depending on the Steel Corrosion Rate Bond Characteristics of Corroding Reinforcement in Concrete Beams Probabilistic Approach for Local Chloride Heterogeneity Near Reinforcement The Carbonation of Reinforced Concrete Buildings in Brazil Micro-structural Change of Blast Furnace Slag Cement Paste Due to Carbonation Combined Chloride Penetration and Carbonation-Evaluation of Element Distribution and Their Model Micro-Scale Investigations of Cement-Based Materials with Increased Resistance to Altered Thermal Conditions Proposal for Prognosis of Composite Materials Durability on the Basis of Accelerated Tests Sulfate Attack of Above Ground Components of Highway Structures Effect of Reinforcement on AAR Expansion in Concrete Ten Year Study into the Effectiveness of GGBS at Preventing ASR Salt Weathering Effect on the Mechanical Properties of Durable Concrete Numerical Simulation of Cement Based Materials Time Dependent Behaviour Durability of Concrete Protected by an Acrylic Painting Chloride Diffusion Coefficient Determination for Specifications Chloride Ingress in Concrete: Simulations of Examples from Practice THEME 3 FIRE AND SEISMIC DESIGN Keynote Paper Capturing an Earthquake and Other Odd Pursuits in California Mechanochemical Synthesis of Mullite and Mullite-Silicon Carbide from Secondary Mineral Resources Used as an Aggregate for Fireproof Concretes Prognostic Models for Creating the New Composite Fireproof Concretes and Masses from Secondary Mineral Resources Influences on the Fire Resistance of Concrete Analysis of Heat Transfer Problems by Coupling of Finite and Infinite Element Explosion Load in a High-Rise Building Design Mechanical Properties of Concrete After Long-Term Action of Loads and Fire Temperatures High Temperature Properties of Fibre Reinforced Cement Composites Residual Properties of Hybrid Polypropylene-Steel Fibre Reinforced HPC Exposed to High Temperatures Performance of Blended Cement Concrete at High Temperatures Strength of Concrete at Elevated Temperatures Rocking of 12-Storey Frame Fixed and Flexible Foundations Subjected to Different Earthquake Excitations THEME 4 DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABILITY, BUILDABILITY AND QUALITY O