News: Conferences and Symposia

News: Conferences and Symposia

1. International Convention on Temperature Effect on Concrete and Asphaltic Concrete organised by the National Centre for Construction Laboratories, Ministry of Housing and Construction, Iraq, to be held in Baghdad, Iraq, from 16-18 March 1981. Contact: Dr. M. Samarai, National Centre for Con- struction Laboratories, Mousa Bin Naseer Square, Tel Mohammed, Baghdad, Iraq.

2. Third International Conference on Cement Micro- scopy organised by the International Cement Microscopy Association to be held in Houston from 16-19 March 1981. Deadline for abstracts 15 December 1980. Contact: Dr. George R. Gouda, Manager, Cement Technology, Fuller Company, PO Box 2040, Bethlehem, PA 18001, U.S.A.

3, International Conference on Fatigue organised by the Society of Environmental Engineers, Fatigue Group, to be held from 24-27 March 1981 at the University of Warwick. Contact: J. B. Sturgeon, Materials Department, Building R50, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, Hants. GU14 6TD. 4, International Conference on Cryogenics Concrete organised by the Concrete Society in association with The British Cryogenics Council and The Institution of Gas Engineers to be held at Gosforth Park Hotel, New- castle upon Tyne, on 25-26 March 1981. Contact: Julia Headley-Neill, The Concrete Society, Terminal House, Grosvenor Gardens, LondonSW1WOAJ.

5. Fifth International Conference on Fracture to be held in Cannes, France from 29 March-3 April 1981. Contact: J. Poirier, CEA-DMECN-ICF5, BP. No. 2, 91190, GIF-SUR-YVETTE, France.

6. 1981 European Conference on Building Materials, Albany Hotel, Glasgow, Scotland, 9-10 April 1981. Contact: Vijay Mohan Bhatnagar, Alena Enterprises of Canada, P.O. Box 1779, Cornwall, Ontario K6H, 5V7, Canada.

7. Second International Conference on Concrete Pave- ment Design, Indianapolis, Ind., 14-16 April 1981. Contact: Professor Eldon J. Yoder, Civil Engineering Building, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. 47907, U.S.A.

8. Conference on Reliability- risks, resources, rewards, National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, 29 April-1 May 1981.

Contact: A. Cross, National Centre of Systems, Relia- bility, Wigshaw Lane, Culcheth, Warrington, Cheshire.

9, 1981 International Convention and Exposition, sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers to be held at New York Hilton Hotel, from 11-16 May 1981. Contact: Maureen Rafferty, Conventions and Exhibits, American Society of Civil Engineers, 345 East 47th Street, New York, NY10017.

10. Third International Congress on Polymers in Con- crete to be held in Koriyama, Japan from 13-15 May 1981. Contact: Polymer Congress 1981, Secretariat, c/o Dr. Yoshihiko Ohama, Department of Architecture, College of Engineering, Nihon University, Koriyama, Fukushima-ken 963, Japan.

11. International Symposium on the Mechanical Be- haviour of Structured Media to be held at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada from 18-21 May 1981. Contact: Professor A. P. S. Selvadurai, Department of Civil Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa. Ontario K1S 5B6, Canada.

12. Colloquium on Advanced Mechanics of Reinforced Concrete to be held at Delft, The Netherlands, 2-4 June 1981. Contact: IABSE Secretariat, ETH-Honggerberg, CH-8093, Zurich, Switzerland.

13. Second International Conference on Super-plastici- zers in Concrete to be held at the Chateau Laurier Hotel, Ottawa, Canada from 10-12 June 1981. Contact: Mohan Malhotra, CANMET, 405 Rochester Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A OG1.

14. International Joint Conference on Thermophysical Properties featuring symposia on thermophysical pro- perties, thermal conductivity and thermal expansion to be held at the National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, Maryland, from 15-19 June 1981. Deadline for abstracts, 1 December 1980. Contact: Kathy Stang, B-348, Materials Building, National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC20234, U.S.A.

15. ICP/RILEM/IBK International Symposium on Plas- tics in Material and Structural Engineering, to be held in Prague, Czechoslovakia, from 23-25 June 1981. Contact: ICP/RILEM/IBK International Symposium 1981 Prague, Secretariat, c/o Dum techniky Cs VTS, Gore- koho nam 23, Prague 1, 112 82 Czechoslovakia.

16. Third International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability, ICOSSAR '81, to be held at Trondheim, Norway, 23-25 June 1981. Contact: ICOSSAR '81, Studieadministrasjonen, The Norwegian Institute of Technology, N-7034 Trondheim- NTH, Norway.

17. Second Australian Conference on Engineering Materials to be held at the University of New South Wales, from 6-8 July 1981.

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Contact: Dr. D. J. Cook, School of Civil Engineering, University of New South Wales, PO Box 1, Kensington, NSW 2033, Australia.

18. Nervi International Symposium on Ferrocement sponsored by RILEM, ACI and lASS to be held at Ber- gamo, Italy from 22-24 July 1981. Deadline for abstracts 30 November 1980. Contact: Professor Ing. Guido Oberti, Instituto Speri- mentale Modelli E. Strutture, Viale Giulia Cesare 29, 24100 Bergamo, Italy, or ProfessorS. P. Shah, University of Illinois Chicago Circle, Department of Materials Engineering, P.O. Box 4348, Chicago, Illinois 60608, U.S.A.

19. International Conference on Composite Structures sponsored by Paisley College of Technology in associa- tion with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the National Engineering Laboratory to be held at Paisley from 16-18 September 1981. Contact: Dr. I. H. Marshall, Conference Director, Paisley College of Technology, Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering, High Street, Paisley, Scotland.

20. International Seminar and Exhibition on Modern- isation of Concrete Construction Techniques in India sponsored by the Structural Engineering Research Centre, Madras, to be held at Madras from 21-24 January 1982. Contact: Mr. Zacharia George, Assistant Director, Struc- tural Engineering Research Centre, MADRAS-600020, India.

21. International Symposium on Concrete Roads to be held at The Royal Lancaster Hotel, London from 13-16 September 1982, organised by the Concrete Society, PIARC and CEMBUREAU. Contact: Anthea Wright, The Concrete Society, Terminal House, Grosvenor Gardens, London SWlW 0AJ.

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