Concrete council to fund four research projects this year
by Katie Daniel | July 4, 2016 10:58 am
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The Concrete Research Council[1] (CRC) is providing research grants to promote progress, innovation, and collaboration within the concrete industry.
CRC is a council of the American Concrete Institute’s (ACI’s) non-profit subsidiary, the ACI Foundation. The level of funding being provided for research grants was increased from $10,000 per project to $50,000, and this past year’s call for proposals brought a high volume of submissions.
“The efforts of the CRC will boost the impact that the ACI Foundation’s funding will have on the concrete industry,” said Joe Bracci, CRC chair. “The increase in grant amount and a more competitive selection process has brought more proposals from researchers and more interest and support from ACI committees.”
“Update to Guidelines for Performance-based Seismic Design of Tall Buildings,” by Jack Moehle of the University of California Berkeley and Ron Hamburger of Simpson, Gumpertz, and Heger (SGH), is one of the projects getting funded. Their goal is to advance seismic design of tall buildings through performance-based design, review, acceptance, and construction of building materials, structural systems, and devices that may or may not be covered by the prescriptive provisions of today’s building codes.
“Towards Mechanistic Pavement Design of Pervious Concrete Pavements,” by Somayeh Nassiri and J. Daniel Dolan, professors at Washington State University, is also getting funded. This project explores pervious concrete pavement (PCP)—a technology often desirable for city streets, bike lanes, parking lots, and sidewalks due to its fast infiltration of storm water. The researchers will perform field and lab testing on several PCP installments to study how it fatigues.
The third and fourth funded projects are: “Establishing Unified Durability Guidance on Chloride Ion Limits, Freeze-thaw Performance, and External Sulfate Attack for ACI Documents,” by Jason Ideker of Oregon State University, Kimberly Kurtis of Georgia Institute of Technology, Michael Thomas of the University of New Brunswick, and Anthony Bentivegna of CTL Group; “Deformed Steel Fibers as Minimum Shear Reinforcement in Deep, Prestressed Concrete Hollow-core Slabs,” by Gustavo Para-Montesinos of the University of Wisconsin—Madison.
- Concrete Research Council: https://www.concreteresearchcouncil.org/
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