U.S.-Pakistan Workshop: On Advanced Cement-Based Composites, December 2007, Karachi, Pakistan

[0710807 . Mobasher]该奖项支持将于2007年12月在巴基斯坦卡拉奇举行的“美巴先进水泥基复合材料研讨会”。组织者是亚利桑那州立大学的Barzin Mobasher博士和巴基斯坦卡拉奇NED工程技术大学的Sarosh Lodhi博士。该研讨会将在12月12日至14日在巴基斯坦拉合尔（http://www.acbm.aci.org）举行的先进水泥基材料及其在民用基础设施中的应用国际会议之前举行。知识价值：混凝土是美国广泛使用的建筑材料之一，预计其在巴基斯坦和整个亚洲的使用将大幅增加。因此，讲习班的目标是确定关键的研究障碍，以改进最先进的水泥基复合材料，使其能够在工业化国家和发展中国家得到广泛的全球应用和可持续性，这是非常及时的。这一领域的进步将有助于节省不可再生材料，也将有助于减少二氧化碳的排放。多尺度建模方面，它集成了材料性能和结构性能，并与更高效和经济的设计联系在一起，也将推动艺术的发展。美国和巴基斯坦的参与者将带来强大而多样的专业知识，这可能会为所有人带来协同效益。更广泛的影响：该研讨会将成为促进两国研究人员之间合作的催化剂。美国研究小组还有机会与大量将出席研讨会的巴基斯坦研究人员进行互动，会议将在研讨会结束后举行。计划将年轻和代表性不足的少数民族研究人员纳入参与者。在这一领域进行研究的一个主要潜在好处将是改善巴基斯坦及其邻国严重地震易发地区的住房结构。该项目得到了国际科学与工程办公室和土木、机械和制造创新司的支持。

0710807 Mobasher This award supports a "US-Pakistan Workshop on Advanced Cement-Based Composites", to be held in Karachi, Pakistan in December 2007. The organizers are Dr. Barzin Mobasher, Arizona State University and Dr. Sarosh Lodhi, NED University of Engineering and Technology in Karachi, Pakistan. The workshop will held be just prior to the International Conference on Advanced Cement-Based Materials and Applications to Civil Infrastructures, to be held December 12-14 in Lahore, Pakistan, http://www.acbm.aci.org. Intellectual Merit: Concrete is one of the widely used construction material in the U.S. and its use is expected to increase substantially in Pakistan and in all of Asia. Thus the goal of the workshop, to identify key research hurdles to improving state-of-the-art advanced cement-based composites to enable broad-scale global application and sustainability in both industrialized and developing countries, is very timely. Advancement in this field will contribute in savings of non-renewable materials and also will help in reducing carbon-dioxide emission. The multi-scale modeling aspect, which integrates material properties and structural performance and is tied to more efficient and economical design, will also advance the state of the art. The U.S. and Pakistani participants will bring strong and varied expertise that is likely to result in synergistic benefits for all. Broader Impacts: The workshop will act as a catalyst to increase the collaboration between the researchers in both countries. The U.S. team also has an opportunity to interact with a large number of Pakistan researchers who will be attending the conference which will be held right after the workshop. There are plans to include young and under-represented minority researchers among the participants. A major potential benefit of research in this area would be better housing structures in the seriously earthquake-prone regions of Pakistan and neighboring countries. This project is being supported by the Office of International Science and Engineering and the Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation.