Topical Day | Cementitious materials in nuclear applications: a glimpse on coupled degradation processes affecting long-term durability
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Overzicht
Cementitious materials are essential elements in many nuclear facilities such as nuclear power plants or radioactive waste repositories. These materials are also frequently employed for waste immobilisation and encapsulation. More recently, alternative materials with cement replacements, such as recycled materials, supplementary cementitious materials or (non-nuclear) waste residues have found a more widespread use in these kind of applications.
Given the high requirements for materials durability in these application, it is of utmost importance to have a solid understanding of the mechanistic processes affecting this durability and of their effect on performance. Since many cementitious materials can be considered as heterogeneous, and are often chemically unstable with respect to their environment, understanding of these processes form a great challenge.
This Topical Day aims at bringing together students, scientists and professionals dealing with long-term concrete durability. The objectives are to give an overview of methods and views on these issues and to share experiences and future challenges in the understanding and assessment of long-term durability of cementitious materials in nuclear applications as well in any other application.
Onderwerpen
The Topical Day focuses on long-term degradation processes of ordinary Portland based cementitious materials as well as alternative (cementitious) systems, with the aim to address challenges in understanding different degradation processes and assessing the long-term durability. During the Topical Day, the following topics will be treated:
- Physicochemical degradation of these materials by irradiation, temperature, high concentrated solutions, natural environments and carbon dioxide leading to leaching, carbonation, sulphate attack and variable-saturated conditions including coupled degradation of any of these processes;
- Combined experimental and modelling studies to evaluate degradation processes including characterization of the evolution in microstructure, geochemical properties and effective properties.
Doelpubliek
- Students and researchers in (long-term) cement (or alternative cementitious) material behaviour;
- Operators of nuclear power plants, nuclear waste reprocessing centers and nuclear waste repositories;
- Regulatory authorities and their Technical Support Organisations.
Programma
Het volledige programma kan hier worden gedownload:
Prijs
Early-bird registration fee: € 80 (VAT incl, until August 10, 2018)
Late registration fee: € 100 (VAT incl. as from August 11, 2018)
Registration is free for:
- invited speakers;
- SCK•CEN Alumni members;
- university students.
Registratie
You can register by clicking on the orange registration button above until September 10, taking into account the availability of 100 places. Cancellation with total refund is possible until September 10, 2018.
Your registration is only final when you have made your payment by creditcard or bank transfer. You can use our E-terminal application (https://go.app.sckcen.be/eterminal) for paying by creditcard, or you can transfer the money to our bank account IBAN BE37 6790 0619 1428 of SCK•CEN, Herrmann Debrouxlaan 40, B-1160 Brussels. Name and address of the bank is BPOST, Centre Monnaie, B-1000 Brussels (SWIFT BIC-code PCHQBEBB). Please make sure that the payment should be made net of all bank charges and commission. Please indicate "TD cementious materials" and your name on the bank transfer.
SCK•CEN reserves the right to cancel a training course or event (e.g. in case of low number of registrations).
Accommodatie
This Topical Day will be held at the SCK•CEN Lakehouse.
Hotels in the vicinity:
- Hotel Corbie: www.corbie.be
- Hotel Alauda: www.alauda.be