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Concrete
international
The Magazine of the Concrete Community

CONCRETE PROTECTION & DURABILITY

25 Everything is Bigger in Texas

How the Mega Slab went down
by Adrian Rojas

28 Effect of Water-Cement Ratio on Concrete Weight Coatings

Density and compressive strength are evaluated for three mixtures
compacted using two pressures
by Eugene Alymov

32 Specifying for Performance

Case studies show that cooperative efforts lead to success
by Karthik H. Obla, Daniel J. Gancarz, William R. (Rusty) Owings III,
Fouad H. Yazbeck, and David G. Tepke

ALSO FEATURING

15 ACI Officers and Board of Direction Members for

2018-2019
Lange, Coleman, and four new Directors elected

20 ACI’s Award-Winning Papers and Articles

Authors honored at The ACI Concrete Convention and Exposition –
Spring 2018
27
22 ACI Technical Committee Chairs Appointed

56 Concrete Q&A
Allowable Tolerances for Suspended Slab Edge

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Abstracts
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David A. Lange, FACI, is the 42 Chapter Reports
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Board of Direction
IN President Directors
David A. Lange Heather J. Brown William M. Klorman
Mark A. Cheek Neven Krstulovic-Opara
Delivery Systems Past President
Frances T. Griffith Tracy D. Marcotte
Board Members
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Sharon L. Wood
n this month’s CI, contributors Michael J. Schneider R. Doug Hooton Michael J. Paul
summarize four projects Khaled W. Awad Joe Hug Michelle L. Wilson
constructed under performance
specifications. The works include a
pavement replacement project for the Vice Presidents Executive Vice President
Randall W. Poston Jeffrey W. Coleman Ronald Burg
Illinois Tollway. This application of
performance criteria led to a lower bid
price for the owner and a bonus to the
Technical Activities Educational Activities Certification Programs
contractor. The project also served as a Committee Committee Committee
research platform, as data was acquired chair chair chair
to evaluate the formation factor, a Lawrence F. Kahn Thomas M. Greene Joe Hug
promising measure for quantifying secretary staff liaison staff liaison
penetrability and thus evaluating Matthew R. Senecal Kathryn A. Amelio John W. Nehasil
the durability of concrete. These are Michael C. Brown Diana Arboleda Bryan Castles
important lessons. First, initiating Harry A. Gleich Seamus Freyne William Ciggelakis
and maintaining change requires Fred R. Goodwin Arturo Gaytan Covarrubias Werner Hellmer
Kamal H. Khayat Joe Hug Augusto H. Holmberg
incentives for multiple stakeholders. Neven Krstulovic-Opara Kimberly Kramer Steve Lloyd
Second, research can be implemented Kimberly Kurtis Anthony Lamanna Warren E. McPherson Jr.
as an ongoing and unobtrusive part of Carl J. Larosche Jackie Sempel Christopher Robinson
the construction process. The Illinois Tracy D. Marcotte John B. Robertson Thomas L. Rozsits
Barzin Mobasher Ronald Vaughn Xiomara Sapon
Tollway should be commended for Michael Stenko David M. Suchorski
taking these initiatives. Bruce A. Suprenant Wayne M. Wilson
The works also include the Kit Andrew W. Taylor
Bond Bridge in Kansas City, MO. This
application of performance criteria took
place under a design-build contract, a
system in which the owner manages
only one contract with single point of
ACI Staff & Departments
responsibility. As this project delivery
Executive Vice President: Ronald Burg (ron.burg@concrete.org)
method gains market share in the United
Senior Managing Director: John C. Glumb (john.glumb@concrete.org)
States, performance specifications can be
expected to become more common. ACI Foundation: Human Resources:
Transportation infrastructure projects ann.daugherty@acifoundation.org lori.purdom@concrete.org
are inspected daily by the traveling Certification: Information Systems:
public—the ultimate success or failure aci.certification@concrete.org support@concrete.org
of their specifications will be evident to Chapter Activities: Marketing:
john.conn@concrete.org kevin.mlutkowski@concrete.org
all. Given that these projects are also in
relatively harsh environments, they are Engineering: Member/Customer Services:
techinq@concrete.org acimemberservices@concrete.org
bold statements of confidence in the use
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Sustaining Members
See pages 12-13 for a list of ACI’s Sustaining Members.
To learn more about our sustaining members, visit the ACI website at
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President’s
Memo
Our Common, Noble Cause
T
he Concrete Convention
and Exposition in Salt
Lake City, UT, was
especially memorable for me. The
many words of congratulations
for my upcoming year as ACI
President were encouraging and
inspiring. I intend to use the
presidential platform to share
ACI’s vision, affirm its technical
strength, and invite partnership
with open arms. ACI thrives
David A. Lange when its membership is strong
ACI President and active.
ACI is a great and healthy
organization. The Institute brings together the best minds of
industry, we have drawn the contributions of outstanding
researchers, we have an amazing following of energetic
students, and we have a top-notch professional staff under the
leadership of Ron Burg, ACI Executive Vice President.
Together we are the American Concrete Institute, the most
powerful advocate for concrete construction in the world. We
are joined by many organizations who are friends and allies in
the cause, but ACI stands out as a leader in its size, scale, and
reach. Our forward-looking attitude and commitment to
creating new knowledge places us in service to all the
communities of the world.
Every year, the incoming President is given the opportunity
to highlight important themes, so I would like to follow that
tradition.
The priorities I want to emphasize are urgent aspects of
the ACI strategic plan. As a university professor, I’m
inclined to frame these priorities in terms of research,
teaching, and service—the pillars of academic work and the
criteria universities commonly consider for promotion of
faculty members.
Research is priority one. If ACI aspires to be the
knowledge center for all things concrete, research should be a
cornerstone. Research embodies our curiosity, creativity, and
discovery of new ways of looking at old problems. ACI needs
to up the ante in support of research, and the plans to do so
are in motion today, by the infusion of additional resources
into the ACI Foundation. This research funding is directed to
address technical needs identified by ACI committees. The
potential long-term impact of funding from the ACI Foundation
is tremendous, and I encourage you all to see how you might
personally contribute to its success.
Research impacts everyone in ACI. Of course, there are
students and academics at ACI who conduct research projects,
but there are also leaders of industry who put research into
practice. Research is important to the industry because it can
improve design, reduce risk, and increase quality.
Things are a-changing in the concrete industry. Venture
capital is coming into the construction space because investors
believe opportunities exist for innovative products, increases
in productivity, and accelerated construction. Let’s help make
it happen.
Teaching is a priority because educating the next
generation is a core mission of ACI. ACI has enjoyed great
success in its certification programs, and ACI needs to
continue to build on that success. ACI has increased its
student membership and number of student chapters, and the
ACI Foundation has increased its scholarship levels. ACI staff
engineers are increasing their role at ACI Chapter meetings,
and the ACI Ambassador program is aiding our program for
professional development.
Service is a priority because helping others in pursuing the
best use of concrete provides a higher purpose for individual
members and the Institute. While international outreach has
been an ACI goal for some years, a new urgency is evident in
the dramatic expansion and investment seen in the
international marketplace. One immediate challenge is to
achieve successful launch of the new ACI international office
in Dubai in 2018. ACI has strong allies around the world and
we need to invest in those friendships. They include: our
friends at RILEM and fib in Europe; our friends at the
Concrete Institute of Australia; our new connections to
Vietnam; our loyal old friends in Canada, South America, and
Mexico; our friends in Korea at KCI and Japan at JCI; and our
strong international chapters in India and around the world.
We are ACI and our members represent the entire world.
As a final thought, I want everyone to see their work at
ACI as a noble cause that draws us together as a community
with common purpose. It is noble because at the end of the
day, we are all working to advance the quality of life of people
all around the world. Buildings, bridges, roads, and the rest of
the built infrastructure make commerce possible, jobs
possible, education possible, and health and safety possible.
We build the world, and we come together in ACI to do it at
the highest level.
David A. Lange
American Concrete Institute
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ACI Committee Document
Abstracts
The following ACI documents will soon be available:
“Practitioner’s Guide for Alternative Cements
(ACI ITG.10R)”
Reported by ACI ITG-10, Alternative Cementitious
Materials
Lawrence L. Sutter, Chair; Mary U. Christiansen,
Jonathan E. Dongell, James K. Hicks, R. Douglas Hooton,
Kevin A. MacDonald, Claudio E. Manissero, Anol K.
Mukhopadhyay, and Deepak Ravikumar, Members.
Abstract: This document reviews available and emerging
alternative cements, presenting guidelines and cast studies to
practitioners seeking to implement them. As performance
demands of concrete increase, and with the recent initiatives
to address sustainability of construction, alternatives to
portland cement for concrete are more sought after by owners,
architects, and engineers. An alternative cement is intended to
be a replacement for portland cement in certain applications.
In some cases, alternative cements are also used in
combination with portland or blended hydraulic cements.
“Specification for Inspection of Concrete
Construction (ACI 311.7-18)”
An ACI standard, reported by ACI Committee 311,
Inspection of Concrete
Michael C. Jaycox,* Chair; Tracy Grover, Secretary;
Joseph W. Clendenen, Mario R. Diaz, Robert L. Henry,
Venkatesh S. Iyer, Woodward L. Vogt, Claude E. Jaycox,*
ACI 318-14:
REORGANIZED
for greater
EASE OF
USE
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Robert S. Jenkins, Jose Damazo Juarez, David Savage,
George R. Wargo, and Michelle L. Wilson, Members;
Joseph F. Artuso, Ann Balogh, and Roger E. Wilson,
Consulting Members.
*
Task group preparing this specification
Abstract: This reference specification covers quality
assurance inspection services for preplacement, placement,
and post-placement of concrete construction. This reference
specification can be made applicable to a particular
construction project by citing it in the inspection services
contract. The specifier shall supplement the provisions of this
reference specification as needed by specifying individual
project requirements in the inspection services contract.
“Design Guide for Twisting Moments in Slabs
(ACI 447R-18)”
Reported by Joint ACI-ASCE Committee 447, Finite
Element Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Structures
Ganesh Thiagarajan, Chair; Jian Zhao, Secretary; Riadh S.
Al-Mahaidi, Ashraf S. Ayoub, Zdeněk P. Bažant, Allan P.
Bommer, Mi-Geum Chorzepa, Carlos Arturo Coronado,
Gianluca Cusatis, Mukti L. Das, James B. Deaton, Jason L.
Draper, Serhan Guner, Trevor D. Hrynyk, John F. Jakovich,
Song F. Jan, Ioannis Koutromanos, Laura N. Lowes, Yong Lu,
Yi-Lung Mo, Wassim I. Naguib, Dan Palermo, Gangolu Appa
Rao, Guillermo Alberto Riveros, Mohammad Sharafbayani,
Hazim Sharhan, Sri Sritharan, and Abbas Mokhtar Zadeh,
Members; Ahmet Emin Aktan, Sarah L. Billington, Johan
Blaauwendraad, Oral Buyukozturk, Ignacio Carol, Luigi
Cedolin, Wai F. Chen, Christopher H. Conley, Robert A.
Dameron, Filip C. Filippou, Kurt H. Gerstle, Walter H.
Gerstle, Robert Iding, Anthony R. Ingraffea, Feng-Bao Lin,
Christian Meyer, Hiroshi Noguchi, Gilles Pijaudier-Cabot,
Syed Mizanur Rahman, Victor E. Saouma, Frank J. Vecchio,
and Kaspar J. Willam, Consulting Members.
Abstract: This guide assists practitioners in understanding
twisting moments in two-way slabs, when twisting moments
are an essential consideration; methods that can be used to
account for twisting moments in design; and options
available for each method of the various system geometries.
Descriptions of twisting moments are provided theoretically
and visually in the guide, and six methods of accounting for
twisting moments in design are discussed. Applicability of
the various methods is evaluated through a comparison of
designs resulting from each method for a variety of two-way
slab types and geometries. The theories described in the
guide also apply to the design of two-way wall and two-way
dome systems.
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ACI Sponsors Building Safety Month 2018
ACI is supporting the International Code Council’s 2018
Building Safety Month. Specifically, ACI is a sponsor of the
week of May 1-5, 2018, focusing on partnering with code
officials to build stronger communities, improving education,
and promoting standards for a safer tomorrow. Week 1’s
purpose aligns with ACI’s mission of advancing the concrete
industry through the development, dissemination, and
adoption of its consensus-based codes, specifications, and
practices that detail concrete materials, design, and construction.
ACI documents, such as “Code Requirements for
Assessment, Repair and Rehabilitation of Existing Concrete
Structures (ACI 562-16),” parallel the topics of Building
Safety Month. ACI 562-16 was developed to provide a code
for design professionals involved in the assessment of existing
concrete structures for damage and deterioration and the
design of appropriate repair and rehabilitation strategies. This
code provides the minimum standards needed to ensure proper
assessment, repair, and rehabilitation of existing structural
concrete buildings, members, systems and, where applicable,
nonbuilding structures.
Learn more about Building Safety Month at www.iccsafe.org/
about-icc/building-safety-month/2018-building-safety-month.
engineering, with significant experience in prestressed
concrete, technical committee work, and technical writing/
editing. The Editor will work closely with the committee
officers to develop a plan and schedule for the work, manage
the work to the schedule, and advise the committee routinely
as to status. The Editor’s role will be primarily that of a
Senior/Technical Editor, organizing the work of up to 50
members of the PCI Industry Handbook Committee, who are
responsible for the development and review of the material.
The basis of the 9th Edition PCI Design Handbook will be
the 8th Edition PCI Design Handbook: Precast and
Prestressed Concrete, with updates based on IBC 2024, ACI
318-22, and ASCE 7-22. Target completion date is January
2024 for publication of the 9th Edition PCI Design Handbook,
which requires substantial completion of content by March 2023.
For a more detailed project description, contact Jason J.
Krohn, PCI Managing Director, Technical Activities, at
jkrohn@pci.org. Proposals for the work should be submitted
to PCI, attention J. Krohn, by no later than July 1, 2018.

Work Continues on ACI 318 Code Update

First published in 1908, ACI’s “Building Code Requirements
for Structural Concrete,” commonly known as ACI 318, has
been published every 3 years for the past several decades.
Concrete professionals may be wondering, “If ACI 318 was last
published in 2014, when will the next version be published?”
Due to changes in the International Code Council’s
schedule for reviewing and publishing the International
Building Code, a new version of ACI 318 is on track to be
published in Summer 2019. ACI 318-19 is expected to be
included as a referenced standard in the 2021 edition of the
International Building Code.
The 130+ members who serve on ACI Committee 318,
Structural Concrete Building Code, and its 15 subcommittees
are now updating the code requirements. A complete draft of
ACI 318-19 is expected to be available for public review by
early 2019, prior to its official publication in Summer 2019.
Additional information on ACI 318-19 will be made
available on www.concrete.org as details are finalized.

PCI Seeks Technical Editor for Design

Handbook Update
To support the development of the 9th Edition PCI Design
Handbook: Precast and Prestressed Concrete, the Precast/
Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) seeks a Technical Editor.
The individual (or firm) should be experienced in structural

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News
Winner of the Spring 2018 WACI Young
Professional Contest
The Women in ACI (WACI) are dedicated to sharing the
experience of professional and technical collaboration with
emerging leaders in the concrete industry by offering one full
registration to The ACI Concrete Convention and Exposition,
valued at $835. This award is available one to two times per
year based on available funds.
Catherine Chen, a Structural Engineer with Arup North
America in California, was the winner for the Spring 2018
contest. She received free registration to attend the ACI
Convention in Salt Lake City, UT.
“As a young professional, attending an
ACI Convention will be beneficial in that
it will allow me to stay up to date with
current concrete research and practice,”
Chen explained in her application.
In addition to networking, the Women
in ACI hosted a silent auction fundraiser
during the ACI Convention. Applications
for the next WACI Young Professional
Chen
Contest will be available at
www.concrete.org/aboutaci/honorsandawards/awards/
otherawards.aspx.
Cement Manufacturers Forecast Modest
Growth in 2018 and 2019
The Portland Cement Association (PCA) has released its
annual Spring Forecast, and it envisions modest growth for
cement consumption over the next 2 years. PCA’s Market
Intelligence Group estimates consumption to grow by 2.8% in
both 2018 and 2019, and then to climb by 4% in 2020, as
impacts from potential federal infrastructure spending are
likely to take effect. The analysis estimates consumption at
99.3 million metric tons in 2018, 102.1 million in 2019, and
106.1 million by the end of 2020.
A variety of positive factors—such as a strong economy, a
healthy job market, and an anticipated increase in infrastructure
spending—“suggest a modest acceleration in real GDP,
construction markets, and cement consumption,” said Ed
Sullivan, PCA Senior Vice President and Chief Economist.
The PCA analysis projects that robust infrastructure
spending is not likely to occur until the fourth quarter of 2019,
given the key steps that must occur—including passage of an
infrastructure bill, federal and state paperwork, bid letting and
review, and finally contract awards leading to construction.
Whatever infrastructure plan actually materializes, “it will
take time to implement a construction infrastructure program
from passage in Congress to the first shovel. This is an aspect
often neglected by many economists,” Sullivan noted. “PCA
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has evaluated the time each process takes to impact actual
construction activity. As a result, the timing of PCA’s impact
of an infrastructure program on actual construction is later
than most economists estimate.”
While interest rates and inflation are expected to see slight
increases, consumer debt is low, thereby adding to potential
growth in consumer spending. “These factors suggest a
modest acceleration in real GDP, construction markets, and
cement consumption,” said Sullivan. “Add in benefits from
tax reform and we will likely see the economy improving at a
more brisk pace.”
In Memoriam
ACI member Benjamin Koo passed away on March 1,
2018, in Toledo, OH, at the age of 97. Koo, a Professor
Emeritus of Civil Engineering at the University of Toledo,
Toledo, OH, was an inventor, and he designed dams and
bridges before his teaching career. He received his degree in
civil engineering from St. John’s University, Shanghai, China,
and his master’s and doctoral degrees in structural engineering
from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Koo was a licensed
professional engineer in Ohio and New York. He was a Fellow
of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
ACI Past President and Honorary
Member Russell S. Fling passed away on
March 23, 2018, at the age of 91. He was
an entrepreneur and engineer with an
appreciation for aesthetics. He spent most
of his life in Columbus, OH, where he
studied architecture and structural
engineering at The Ohio State University
(‘49), and where he began building his
Fling
engineering business, R.S. Fling &
Partners, in the 1950s.
Fling was always true to his passions as well as his
integrity. As ACI President in 1976, he declared in a
President’s Memo that “concrete is beautiful.” He made
technical contributions to the Institute as a member of ACI
Committees 301, Specifications for Structural Concrete; 318,
Structural Concrete Building Code; and 435, Deflection of
Concrete Building Structures. He also served on the ACI
Technical Activities Committee and the ACI Board of
Direction. Fling received the 1970 ACI Delmar L. Bloem
Distinguished Service Award and the 1981 ACI Wason Medal
for the Most Meritorious Paper. He was named a Fellow of
ACI in 1973 and an ACI Honorary Member in 1982.
For his business, Fling hired engineers from many
locations, making the firm truly a “world-class” operation. As
his clients expanded throughout the United States and
globally, he had opportunities to travel and interact with other
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cultures. He remained active in the Ohio Society of
Professional Engineers. He was pragmatic and practical in his
engineering and authored the book Practical Design of
Reinforced Concrete. After semi-retiring, Fling became an
expert consultant for many years.
ACI Honorary Member Mete A.
Sozen (1930-2018) died April 4, in
London, UK. Sozen was Kettelhut
Distinguished Professor of Structural
Engineering at Purdue University, West
Lafayette, IN. He helped shape the ACI
318 Building Code Requirements for
Structural Concrete, serving on ACI
Committee 318 for several years and as
Sozen
Chair in 1980 when the first set of
specifications for earthquake resistance was prepared. He was
active on many other ACI technical committees. Sozen was
also active with the American Society of Civil Engineers
(ASCE), the European Concrete Committee, the Prestressed
Concrete Institute (PCI), and the Earthquake Engineering
Research Institute (EERI), and he was Chair of the U.S.
National Committee on Natural Disasters. For research related
to earthquake issues, he served on the Joint U.S.-People’s
Republic of China Committee and the U.S.-Japan Committee.
He chaired the Joint U.S.-Japan Coordination Committee on
Urban Earthquake Disaster Mitigation Research and the
National Academy of Sciences Committee on Blast Effects.
Sozen received many awards during his career. His most
recent research focused on vulnerability assessment of
building, transportation, and massive structures; development
of numerical nonlinear models for spatial dynamic response of
reinforced concrete structures; effects of fire and explosions
on buildings; and uses of high-strength concrete in
earthquake-resistant design. Sozen received his undergraduate
education at Robert College, Istanbul, Turkey, and his
master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, where he served on the
faculty from 1957 through 1992.

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 are the foundation of our success.
To provide additional exposure to ACI Sustaining Members, Concrete
International includes a 1/3-page member profile and a listing of all Sustaining
Member organizations. All Sustaining Members receive the 1/3-page profile
section on a rotating basis.

Cantera Concrete provides concrete

Advanced Construction Technology
Services
American Society of Concrete
Contractors
Ash Grove Cement Company
Baker Concrete Construction, Inc.
Barrier-1, Inc.
BASF Corporation
Bauman Landscape & Construction
Boral Resources
Braun Intertec Corporation
Cantera Concrete Company
CHRYSO, Inc.
Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute
CTLGroup
Curecrete Distribution, Inc.
Dayton Superior Corporation
Doka USA Ltd
Ductilcrete Slab Systems, LLC
The Euclid Chemical Company
Full-Tilt Constructors, Inc.
Future Tech Consultants
GCP Applied Technologies
Keystone Structural Concrete LLC
Kleinfelder
Kryton International Inc.
LafargeHolcim (US) Inc.
Lehigh Hanson
Lithko Contracting, Inc.
Meadow Burke Products LLC
W. R. Meadows, Inc.
Metromont Corporation
Minova USA, INC.
Modern Technology Laboratories - MTL
Multiquip Inc.
Municipal Testing
North S.Tarr Concrete Consulting PC
Oztec Industries, Inc.
Penetron International Ltd
PERI Formworks Systems, Inc.
Portland Cement Association
Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute
QuakeWrap Inc.
Saudi Building Code National
Committee
Seretta Construction Inc.
Sika Corporation
Specialty Products Group, Inc.
STRUCTURAL
Structural Services, Inc.
Tekna Chem
TWC Concrete Services LLC
Twining Concrete Insight
Wacker Neuson
placement and preconstruction services
on projects throughout Arkansas, Texas,
Kansas, and Oklahoma. With headquarters
in Tulsa and a branch office in Oklahoma
City, Cantera continues to deliver
quality projects at an outstanding value.
By providing an array of services,
including foundations, flatwork,
structural, tilt-up, architectural, sitework,
and place and finish, Cantera consistently
maintains its award-winning reputation.
As a privately held company, Cantera
maintains a strong financial position
with virtually unlimited bonding
capacity. Their strong foundations have
allowed them to complete every contract
and continue to perform above industry
standards. The key factor in exceeding
those standards is Cantera’s commitment
to safety. They consider it the ultimate
measure of professionalism and pride
themselves on strict adherence to
maintaining a safety program that puts
their employees first by focusing on
education and prevention.
At Cantera, they want their clients,
suppliers, subcontractors, and employees
to know that they aim to provide the
highest quality concrete placement
services possible.
For more information about Cantera
Concrete, please visit their website at
www.canteraconcrete.com.

To learn more about our sustaining members, visit our website at www.concrete.org/sustainingmembers
 Municipal Testing is Accredited to
ISO/IEC 17020 and 17025 as a special
inspection agency, nondestructive
testing, engineering firm, geotechnical
firm and materials testing laboratory
headquartered in Hicksville, NY, with
offices in Florida and several eastern
states. Their primary focus is the
inspection, NDT, and testing of building
construction and transportation materials
for major construction, R&D, and new
technologies.
Established in 1960, Municipal
Testing is one of the oldest accredited
inspection agencies and construction
laboratories in the northeast. Accreditations
include ASTM C1077/E329, C1093/
E329, D3666/E329, C1093, and D3740/
E329. In Florida, they are authorized/
certified as an Engineering Firm and
Geotechnical Business. Their engineers,
inspectors, and technicians are certified
by nationally recognized certification
agencies.
Municipal Testing is proud to be
involved in the technician/inspector
training and certification programs as an
ACI Sponsoring Group, in technical
writing and committee work with the
American Concrete Institute (ACl) and
ASTM International, and in shaping new
building code revisions to improve the
quality of construction for the industry.
They offer their clients a vast
institutional memory and forensic technical
expertise in engineering, geotechnical,
inspection, testing, and construction for
all sizes of projects and types.
To learn more about Municipal
Testing, please visit their website at
www.mtllab.net or call +1-631-761-5555.
Multiquip Inc. is a manufacturer and
distributor of construction, power, and
lighting equipment. Founded in 1973,
with headquarters based in Carson, CA,
its principal manufacturing facility is
located in Boise, ID.
Recognized for its diverse range of
concrete finishing, compaction,
dewatering and power equipment,
Multiquip branded products are widely
utilized and highly respected within the
concrete and masonry construction
industry.
MQ Whiteman power trowels are
regarded as the industry’s premier line
of concrete finishing equipment and
have been in production for over 75 years.
The MQ Essick brand of mixers, in
continuous production since 1923, is the
leading plaster-mortar mixer among
masonry contractors. MQ Mayco
concrete pumps have been in production
since 1964.
Multiquip has a well-established
network of field service managers and
field application specialists, and
supports its equipment with a worldwide
network of distributors and authorized
service centers.
For more information about the
Multiquip family of products, visit their
website at www.multiquip.com or call
+1.800.421.1244.
Structural Services, Inc. was estab-
lished in 1988 to provide a full range of
concrete consulting services for on-
ground, suspended floor, and pavement
construction. For over 25 years, their
firm has pioneered the development of
new placing, finishing, and monitoring
procedures which make construction of
superior on-ground and suspended slabs
both possible and practical.
As a consultant in the area of
concrete construction, the SSI Team
works with owners, designers, general
contractors, concrete contractors, and
ready mix and materials suppliers
throughout the world. Defining excel-
lence, overcoming obstacles, and
delivering solutions is the SSI credo.
Consulting Services:
Preconstruction, construction, post
construction, educational seminars,
forensic/expert witness assignments,
and concrete colleges.
SSI Team
Rick Smith, President
Pat Harrison, Vice President
Jerry Holland, Vice President
Eldon Tipping, Vice Chairman
Bob Simonelli, Partner
Wayne Walker, Partner
Associates:
Denny Bartz, Joel Burgess, and
Blaine Nye
Tressie Escamilla, Office Mgr.
Jodi Trevino, Admin. Assistant
For more information about Structural
Services, Inc., please visit their website
at www.ssiteam.com.
Knowledge to Practice:
ACI Foundation is Growing
Members of ACI and the concrete industry inherently
understand the importance of concrete to our civilization and
how concrete is essential to safe, strong, and resilient
structures. Underlying the important work of ACI’s members
is knowing why you do what you do every day, which is
making our communities better. Over the last couple of years,
the ACI Foundation has positioned itself to more fully support
this work. I’m happy to share some exciting news for the
Foundation that show its transformation, growth, and how it is
positioning itself to inspire ideas and leadership, to lead
innovation, and to create legacy and community for the
concrete industry.
To facilitate financial growth, the ACI
Foundation has employed Jennifer
DeWall for a newly created position,
Development Director. DeWall will lead
the design and execution of the overall
fundraising strategy for the ACI
Foundation. Prior to joining the ACI
Foundation, she was with the American
DeWall Cancer Society as Development Manager.
As our opportunities for research,
innovation, and scholarship grow, we have
created a new position of Assistant
Director in the Foundation, and have
hired Ashley Mayra to take on this role.
Mayra will manage the current programs
and help to grow and create new
programs, as well as raise awareness of
the ACI Foundation and its mission. She
Mayra previously worked at ACI as the Exhibit
and Sponsorship Coordinator.
I welcome their experience, enthusiasm, and energy to the
ACI Foundation team.
ACI Foundation Receives Additional
Unanticipated Funding from ACI
Last year, we announced the unprecedented commitment
by ACI to contribute $500,000 annually to the Foundation for
5 years for our mission-based programs. Now, I am thrilled to
report that the ACI Board, in an unanticipated additional show
of support, approved an additional one-time contribution of
$364,000. The concrete industry and ACI will benefit from the
long-term impact of the infusion of new resources to bring the
industry together to collaborate on opportunities for:
•• Research, which can improve design and quality, while
reducing risk;
•• Innovative methods and products, which can improve
productivity; and
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•• Engaging inspired students and future leaders to our
industry and ACI.
ACI Foundation Announces New Trustees
The ACI Foundation is pleased to announce the addition of
two new trustees: Cary Kopczynski and Michael Paul.
Kopczynski is CEO and Founding
Principal of Cary Kopczynski &
Company. He has served on ACI’s Board
of Direction; Financial Advisory
Committee; ACI Committee 318,
Structural Concrete Building Code; and
Joint ACI-ASCE Committee 352, Joints
and Connections in Monolithic Concrete
Kopczynski Structures. He is also a Past President of
the Washington Chapter – ACI. An ACI
Fellow and recognized expert in the design of major urban
building structures, Kopczynski has received ACI’s Charles S.
Whitney Medal and Alfred E. Lindau Award.
Paul is a Principal Structural Engineer
for Larsen and Landis. He is an ACI
Fellow and has served on several ACI
committees, including the Board of
Direction, Financial Advisory Board, and
Membership Committee, along with ACI
Committees 120, History of Concrete; 124,
Concrete Aesthetics; 229, Controlled Low-
Paul
Strength Materials; and 533, Precast Panels.
The ACI Foundation is honored to have
these two outstanding ACI members as the newest ACI
Foundation Trustees.
Ann Daugherty is the Director
of the ACI Foundation, a not-for-
profit subsidiary of ACI. The
Foundation facilitates collaboration
among a cross section of concrete
industry leaders to problem-solve
technical issues, accelerate the
acceptance of innovative
technologies, and bring more young
people into the concrete industry. For more information,
contact ann.daugherty@acifoundation.org.
Have an idea for research that will benefit the concrete
industry or support an ACI document or code change?
Visit www.concreteresearchnetwork.org and fill out an
online concrete research need form.
ACI Officers and Board of
Direction Members for
2018-2019
Lange, Coleman, and four new Directors elected
A
s elected by the ACI membership, David A. Lange,
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
and Narbey Khachaturian Faculty Scholar at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, will
serve as ACI President in 2018-2019. He succeeds Khaled W.
Awad, Chairman and Founder of ACTS, Beirut, Lebanon.
Awad’s 1-year term as ACI President and Lange’s 2-year term
as ACI Vice President both expired at the conclusion of The
ACI Concrete Convention and Exposition – Spring 2018 in
Salt Lake City, UT.
Jeffrey W. Coleman, Principal, The Coleman Law Firm,
LLC, Minneapolis, MN, has been elected as ACI Vice
President. He fills the vacant seat that Lange previously held
and began a 2-year term as a Vice President at the conclusion
of the ACI Convention – Spring 2018. Randall W. Poston,
Senior Principal, Pivot Engineers, Austin, TX, is the Institute’s
other current Vice President. His 2-year term ends at the ACI
Convention – Spring 2019 in Quebec City, QC, Canada.
Four members have been elected to serve on the ACI
Board of Direction, each for 3-year terms that commenced at
the conclusion of the ACI Convention – Spring 2018. They are:
•• Heather J. Brown, Director and Professor, School of
Concrete and Construction Management at Middle
Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN;
•• Mark A. Cheek, Vice President, The Beta Group,
Engineering and Construction Services, Gretna, LA;
•• Michael J. Paul, Principal Structural Engineer, Larsen &
Landis, Philadelphia, PA; and
•• Michelle L. Wilson, Director of Concrete Technology,
Portland Cement Association, Skokie, IL.
The individuals leaving the Board of Direction after 3-year
terms are: JoAnn P. Browning, The University of Texas at
San Antonio, San Antonio, TX; Cesar A. Constantino,
Separation Technologies, LLC, a Titan America Business,
Deerfield Beach, FL; and Roberto Stark, Consultant, Mexico
City, Mexico.
ACI Board members who will continue to serve during
2018-2019 include: Frances T. Griffith, Center for Training
Transportation Professionals, Department of Civil
Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR;
H.R. Trey Hamilton, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL;
R. Doug Hooton, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON,
Canada; Joe Hug, The Monarch Cement Company,
Humboldt, KS; William M. Klorman, W.M. Klorman
Construction Corporation, Woodland Hills, CA; Neven
Krstulovic-Opara, ExxonMobil, Spring, TX; Tracy D.
Marcotte, CVM, King of Prussia, PA; and Antonio Nanni,
University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL.
With the conclusion of his term as ACI President, Awad
automatically assumes a position on the ACI Board of
Direction as a Past President member. In doing so, he replaces
William E. Rushing Jr., ACI President in 2014, who will no
longer be one of the three Past Presidents of ACI serving on
the Board. Awad will serve with Sharon L. Wood, ACI
President in 2015, and Michael J. Schneider, ACI President
in 2016, as stipulated by the Institute’s Bylaws.
The new ACI officers in 2018-2019 are:
President
David A. Lange, FACI, is Professor
of Civil and Environmental Engineering
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign, Urbana, IL. He joined the
faculty of the Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering in 1992. He
is Director of the Center of Excellence
for Airport Technology, a research center
working in partnership with the Chicago
Lange
Department of Aviation and the O’Hare
International Airport. A long-time ACI member, Lange has
served on the ACI Board of Direction and is a Past Chair of
the ACI Technical Activities Committee, the Publications
Committee, and the Board Outlook 2030 Task Group. Lange
has also served on the ACI Foundation Board of Trustees and
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Financial Advisory Committee. He currently is a member of
ACI Committees 236, Material Science of Concrete; 237,
Self-Consolidating Concrete; 241, Nanotechnology of
Concrete; 544, Fiber-Reinforced Concrete; S802, Teaching
Methods and Educational Materials; and S803, Faculty
Network. Lange received the 2003 and 2018 ACI Wason
Medal for Most Meritorious Paper.
Lange is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society (ACS)
and he received a J. William Fulbright Scholar Award in 2013.
He served as Associate Department Head for Civil and
Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign from 2004-2010.
Lange received his PhD in civil engineering from
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; his MBA from
Committee on Nominations
Six ACI members will serve on the Committee on
Nominations for 2018-2019. They are:
•• Scott M. Anderson, Keystone Structural Concrete,
LLC, Jersey Village, TX;
•• Tara Cavalline, University of North Carolina,
Charlotte, Charlotte, NC;
•• Heather Caya, Southern California Chapter – ACI,
Santee, CA;
•• James H. Hanson, Rose-Hulman Institute of
Technology, Terre Haute, IN;
•• Hani H. Nassif, Rutgers, The State University of New
Jersey, Piscataway, NJ; and
•• George W. Seegebrecht, Concrete Consulting
Engineers, LLC, Westchester, IL.
These individuals will join the three ACI Past
Presidents to comprise a nine-member Committee on
Nominations. The three ACI Past Presidents serving on
this committee will be Sharon L. Wood, President in
2015-2016; Michael J. Schneider, President in 2016-
2017, and Khaled W. Awad, President in 2017-2018. As
the second-year Past President, Schneider automatically
serves as the Chair of the Committee on Nominations.
The Committee on Nominations began deliberations at
the conclusion of the ACI Convention – Spring 2018 in
Salt Lake City, UT.
This new committee will nominate Institute officers
and Board of Direction members for terms starting at the
conclusion of the ACI Convention – Spring 2019 in
Quebec City, QC, Canada. Chosen annually, the
Committee on Nominations submits recommendations
for these positions: President, 1-year term; one Vice
President, 2-year term; four members of the Board of
Direction, each with 3-year terms; and 20 candidates for
the Committee on Nominations, all to serve 1-year terms.
The Committee’s nominations for the year 2019 are to be
submitted to the Executive Vice President before August 1,
2018, as provided in the Institute’s Bylaws.
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Wichita State University, Wichita, KS; and his BS in civil
engineering from Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN.
Lange and his wife Risë have three children plus a
granddaughter, and they are looking forward to the arrival of
another granddaughter in June.
Vice President
Jeffrey W. Coleman, FACI, is a
licensed professional engineer and
Attorney at Law and Principal Partner
of The Coleman Law Firm, LLC,
Minneapolis, MN. He has been an ACI
member for over 37 years. Coleman is the
author of the book Legal Issues in
Concrete Construction, published by
Coleman ACI in 2004 (second edition published in
2014), and previously authored the
“Concrete Legal Notes” section of Concrete International.
Coleman is a Past Chair and current member of ACI
Committee 132, Responsibility in Concrete Construction. He
is the Past Chair and a Trustee of the ACI Foundation Board
of Trustees, and a member of the ACI Financial Advisory
Committee, TAC Construction Standards Committee, and ACI
Committee 563, Specifications for Repair of Structural
Concrete in Buildings. He has also served on the ACI Board
of Direction and has been a member of the ACI Construction
Liaison Committee, TAC Specifications Committee, Convention
Committee, and ACI Committees 215, Fatigue of Concrete,
and 301, Specifications for Structural Concrete. He received
the 2016 ACI Delmar L. Bloem Distinguished Service Award.
Coleman received his BS in civil engineering in 1976 and
his MS in structural engineering in 1977 from Iowa State
University, Ames, IA. He is a licensed engineer in Iowa,
Minnesota, and Wisconsin, and a lawyer in Minnesota,
Wisconsin, North Dakota, and Iowa; he practices regularly in
other states through admission “Pro Hac Vice.”
After completing his law degree in 1984, Coleman served
as General Counsel for Ellerbe Associates, Inc. (later Ellerbe
Becket, Inc., and now part of AECOM). He started his own
firm in 1991, which was quickly merged and renamed
Coleman, Hull & van Vliet, PLLP. In 2013, he founded The
Coleman Law Firm, LLC—committed to continuing his
representation of engineers, architects, and the concrete
construction industry.
Coleman represents engineers, architects, concrete
contractors and suppliers, and building owners in all aspects
of construction. He is a Past President of the Minnesota
Concrete Council (MCC) and a former Board member. He
is also a Sustaining Member of the American Society of
Concrete Contractors (ASCC). Coleman served five terms
on the Board of Directors of the American Council of
Engineering Companies, Minnesota, and has recently been
appointed to a sixth term. He is one of the only two
nonpracticing engineers to receive the Tom Roach Award
for Outstanding Service and Motivation to the Consulting
Engineering Professional Community. Coleman is a past
member of the Minnesota Board of Architecture, Engineering,
Land Surveying, Landscape Architecture, Geoscience, and
Interior Design (the Minnesota Licensing Board), and the
University of Minnesota Concrete Conference Planning
Committee. He is a frequent lecturer on topics involving
construction law, but is also a regular practitioner
involved with construction disputes involving concrete.
Board of Direction
Heather J. Brown, FACI, joined the
Concrete Industry Management (CIM)
Program in August 2001 and is currently
Director and Professor of the newly
formed School of Concrete and
Construction Management at Middle
Tennessee State University (MTSU),
Murfreesboro, TN. She is a member of
Brown
the ACI Foundation Scholarship Council,
and ACI Committees 522, Pervious
Concrete, and C655, Foundation Constructor Certification.
She has also served on ACI Committee 544, Fiber-Reinforced
Concrete, and as a Student Chapter Advisor. Named a
Fellow of ACI in 2015, Brown also received the 2008 ACI
Walter P. Moore, Jr. Faculty Achievement Award.
Brown has authored and coauthored more than 30 papers
and has been published in Concrete International, ASTM’s
Journal of Testing and Evaluation, Transportation Research
Record, International Center for Aggregate Research Journal,
American Chemical Society Journal, and Tennessee Concrete.
She has been a presenter and guest lecturer on topics such as
factors affecting concrete strength, pervious pavements, fiber-
reinforced concrete, whitetopping pavements, high-
performance concrete, flowable fill, skid-resistant aggregates,
and concrete construction tolerances.
Brown has been honored as a recipient of the MTSU
Outstanding Grantsmanship, MTSU Overall Excellence, and
MTSU Faculty Who Make a Difference Awards. She was
named as one of the Influential Women in Business in
Rutherford County in 2015 and one of the Most Influential
People in Concrete Construction in 2017.
She received her BS, MS, and PhD in civil engineering, all
from Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN.
Her technical experience also includes 5 years of material
research for the Tennessee Department of Transportation as a
graduate student.

Congratulations to Award
Euclid Chemical’s 2018 ACI Winners

Bill Lyons
National Business
Development Manager
Chapter Activities
Act i vities Award
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Amir Bonakdar
Business Development
Manager, Western Region Mike Mahoney
ACI Young Member Award Director, Fiber Marketing
for Professional Achievement and Technology
ACI
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 Mark A. Cheek, FACI, is Vice
President of The Beta Group, Engineering
and Construction Services in Gretna, LA,
where he has served for 19 years. Cheek
has over 29 years of experience in the
construction industry, including
construction materials testing and
inspection and geotechnical and civil
Cheek engineering.
He has been an active ACI member
since 1991 and was named a Fellow of ACI in 2006. Cheek is
the Chair of ACI Committee C620, Laboratory Technician
Certification, and a member of ACI Committees 214,
Evaluation of Results of Tests Used to Determine the Strength
of Concrete; 228, Nondestructive Testing of Concrete; C610,
Field Technician Certification; E905, Training Programs; and
ACI Subcommittee C610-FQR, Field Testing Technician
Grade I Quality Reviewer. He previously served on the ACI
Certification Programs Committee; Chapter Activities
Committee; Convention Committee; Honors and Awards
Committee; International Project Awards Committee;
Membership Committee; Student and Young Professional
Activities Committee (of which he is a past Chair); and E702,
Designing Concrete Structures.
Cheek received the 2011 ACI Chapter Activities Award.
He has been a member of the Louisiana Chapter – ACI since
1989, serving on the Board and as President in 2001. He has
also been on the chapter’s certification committee since 1989
and currently serves as the committee’s Chief Examiner. He
received the Louisiana Chapter’s Chapter Activities Award in
2005 and the Distinguished Chapter Member Award in 2012.
Also, Cheek was Co-Chair of the 2005 and 2009 ACI
Conventions in New Orleans, LA.
He is a member of ASTM International Committee C09,
Concrete and Concrete Aggregates; American Society of Civil
Engineers (ASCE); and Concrete and Aggregate Association
of Louisiana (CAAL). Cheek is the Chair of CAAL’s
Technical Committee. He is also an Examiner for the National
Ready Mixed Concrete Association (NRMCA) Pervious
Concrete Contractor Certification program and an approved
NRMCA Plant Inspecting Engineer. He conducts training
programs for both ACI and NRMCA throughout Louisiana
and Mississippi.
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Cheek received his BS in civil engineering from the
University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, and is a
licensed professional engineer in Louisiana and Mississippi.
Michael J. Paul, FACI, is Principal
Structural Engineer in the Philadelphia, PA,
office of Larsen & Landis, where he
provides engineering for building
projects. With more than 40 years of
construction and engineering experience,
Paul’s work includes troubleshooting,
repair, restoration, and rehabilitation of
Paul concrete, in addition to the design of new
structures of all types. Brandywine Shoal
Lighthouse and the Caesar Rodney Monument are two of his
repair and restoration projects that have been featured in
Concrete International.
Paul is the Chair of the ACI Membership Committee and a
past Chair of the International Project Awards Committee and
Committee 124, Concrete Aesthetics, for which he continues
to edit the “Notable Concrete” series produced for ACI
conventions and excerpted in Concrete International. He
served on the editorial review panel for both Sustainable
Concrete Guides of the U.S. Green Concrete Council. He is a
member of several other ACI committees, including 120,
History of Concrete, as well as ASTM International
committees.
Concluding 20 years of undergraduate teaching, Paul
recently stepped down as coordinator for the Senior Design
capstone course in the Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering at the University of Delaware, Newark, DE. The
course received the National Council of Examiners for
Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) Engineering Award
Grand Prize in 2010. He was named Engineer of the Year in
2008 by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Delaware Section and has received numerous service awards
from professional, technical, and community organizations.
Paul received his MSCE and MArch from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, and
his BA from Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. He is a
licensed professional engineer, a licensed architect (American
Institute of Architects), and is LEED-AP accredited.
Michelle L. Wilson, FACI, is Director
of Concrete Technology at the Portland
Cement Association (PCA), Skokie, IL.
She has over 20 years of experience
relating to concrete materials, specifications,
performance, troubleshooting, and repair.
She is responsible for the development,
content, and delivery of PCA’s
Wilson educational programs and products
covering the entire spectrum of concrete
technology, and she is co-author of PCA’s Design and Control
of Concrete Mixtures. She has given numerous workshops and
presentations around North America including World of Concrete,
International Builder’s Show, and CONAGG/CON-EXPO.
Wilson is Chair of ACI Committee 301, Specifications for
Structural Concrete, and a member of the TAC Construction
Standards Committee, and ACI Committees 201, Durability of
Concrete; 329, Performance Criteria for Ready Mixed
Concrete; and E707, Specification Education; and serves as a
consulting member on ACI Committee 311, Inspection of
Concrete, and Joint ACI-ASCC Committee 117, Tolerances.
She received the 2008 ACI Young Member Award for
Professional Achievement and became a Fellow of the
Institute in 2011. Wilson is a member of ASTM International
Committee C09, Concrete and Concrete Aggregates, and
serves on the C09 Executive Committee.
Prior to joining PCA in 1999, she worked for Construction
Technology Laboratories (now CTLGroup), PCA’s sole
subsidiary, specializing in concrete evaluation and
troubleshooting on various projects throughout the United
States. Wilson has also worked as a field inspector performing
quality control for STS Consultants, Ltd., in Milwaukee, WI.
Wilson received her BS in architectural engineering from
Milwaukee School of Engineering, Milwaukee, WI, with an
emphasis in structural engineering and concrete materials.
Perspective.
Insight.
Opportunity.
Interact with others from around
the world.
ACI Leadership Training for Chapter Officers
May 21-22, 2018
ACI Headquarters
Contact Tosha.Holden@concrete.org
to register.
leadership
training
Board Committee Chairs
The following individuals will serve as Chairs of the
Standing Board Committees of ACI:
Joe Hug, Certification Programs Committee
William E. Rushing Jr., Chapter Activities Committee
James K. Wight, Codes and Standards Advocacy and
Outreach
Beverly Garnant, Construction Liaison Committee
Thomas M. Greene, Educational Activities Committee
Michael E. Ahern, Financial Advisory Committee
William E. Rushing Jr., Honors and Awards Committee
Neven Krstulovic-Opara, International Advisory
Committee
Anne M. Ellis, International Project Awards Committee
W. Jason Weiss, Materials Journal Editorial Board
Michael J. Paul, Membership Committee
William E. Rushing Jr., Standards Board
Robert J. Frosch, Structural Journal Editorial Board
Karla Kruse, Student and Young Professional Activities
Committee
Lawrence F. Kahn, Technical Activities Committee
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ACI’s Award-Winning
Papers and Articles
Authors honored at The ACI Concrete Convention and Exposition – Spring 2018
A
t The ACI Concrete Convention and Exposition –
Spring 2018 in Salt Lake City, UT, awards of
excellence were bestowed on 20 authors and
researchers for their published works. The Institute’s
annual paper awards include:
•• Wason Medal for Most Meritorious Paper, founded
in 1917 by ACI Past President Leonard C. Wason and
awarded each year to the author or authors of the most
meritorious paper published by the Institute;
•• ACI Construction Award, intended to enrich the literature
in construction practices and to honor the workers whose
resourcefulness produces a completed structure from
drawings and specifications;
•• ACI Design Award, given for advanced concepts and
techniques applied to a specific design project;
•• Chester Paul Siess Award for Excellence in Structural
Research, recognizing notable achievement in experi­
mental or analytical research that advances structural
engineering and, most importantly, recommends how
the research can be applied to design; and
•• Wason Medal for Materials Research, bestowed for a
peer-reviewed paper published by the Institute on original
research work on concrete materials and their uses, or a
discovery that advances the state of knowledge of materials
used in the construction industry.
The ACI Committee on Awards for Papers selected the
following manuscripts from the 2016 calendar year for honors:
“Field Measurements of SCC Lateral Pressure—
Toronto 2014”—winner of the Wason Medal for Most
Meritorious Paper
Authors: N.J. (John) Gardner, Lloyd Keller, Kamal H.
Khayat, David A. Lange, and Ahmed Omran
Published in: Concrete International, June 2016,
pp. 42-50
Abstract: A large-scale experimental investigation to
measure the form pressures exerted by self-consolidating
concrete (SCC) was performed in Toronto, ON, Canada.
The experimental program is described and measured lateral
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pressures are compared with values calculated using various
predictive approaches available in the published literature.
A key recommendation: Unless the stiffening characteristics
of the SCC mixture are prequalified and verified by field
measurements, formwork should be designed to resist full
hydrostatic pressure.
“The New NY Bridge Construction”—winner of the ACI
Construction Award
Author: Brian P. Cresenzi
Published in: Concrete International, September 2016,
pp. 29-34
Abstract: The existing Tappan Zee Bridge across the
Hudson River between Westchester and Rockland Counties
in New York State is being replaced with the New NY Bridge.
A central requirement of the project is to achieve a 100-year
service life without major rehabilitation. Cast-in-place
concrete is a major material in the new bridge and will be in
severe exposure conditions. The article discusses concrete
production and concrete quality organization, as well as
oversight testing and evaluation.
“An Insight into the Space Building Collapse”—winner
of the ACI Design Award
Authors: Luis E. García, Mete A. Sozen, Anthony E.
Fiorato, Luis E. Yamín, and Juan F. Correal
Published in: James K. Wight: A Tribute from his Students
and Colleagues, SP-311, September 2016, pp. 13.1-13.14
Abstract: On October 12, 2013, a 27-story building
collapsed in Medellín, Colombia, with no apparent evidence
of vertical or horizontal overload. The building was shaped
in plan as a circular arc whose gravity load-resisting
structure can be described as a three-dimensional structural
concrete moment resisting frame consisting of columns
and a grid of beams running in both radial and tangential
directions that meet at the vertical structural member
locations. The building structure was designed using the
Colombian NSR-98 Code1, which is based on the ACI
318-95 Code. An assessment of the structure, as built, was
performed by the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá,
Colombia. Material samples of concrete and reinforcing bars
were secured and tested for compliance with the materials
properties specified in the construction documents. An
evaluation of the strength of the structural members as built
was performed and a comparison with the gravity load
demands was performed. This evaluation identified a
strength deficiency of the vertical supporting elements of the
structure. The driving reason for the collapse of the structure
was that the self-weight of the structure resulted in axial
loads that were comparable to the nominal axial capacities
of the columns.
“Influence of High-Strength Bars on Shear Response
of Containment Walls”—winner of the Chester Paul Siess
Award for Excellence in Structural Research
Authors: Giorgio Talotti Proestos, Gwang-Min Bae,
Jae-Yeol Cho, Evan C. Bentz, and Michael P. Collins
Published in: ACI Structural Journal, September-October
2016, pp. 917-927
Abstract: Current ACI Code shear provisions include
some requirements that make the construction of complex
heavily reinforced concrete structures more challenging. In
particular, the 60 ksi (420 MPa) limit on the usable yield
strength of shear reinforcement means it is not permissible
to reduce shear reinforcement congestion by using high-
strength bars. To investigate the consequences of using
high-strength bars, 12 reinforced concrete specimens,
representing wall elements of nuclear containment
structures, were constructed with varying steel strengths
and were loaded under different combinations of shear
and biaxial stresses. The results demonstrate that high-
strength bars can be effectively used in place of lower-
strength reinforcement patterns.
“Preconditioning Method for Accelerated Testing of
Concrete under Sulfate Attack”—winner of the Wason
Medal for Materials Research
Authors: Hocine Siad, Mohamed Lachemi, Mustafa
Şahmaran, and Khandaker M. Anwar Hossain
Published in: ACI Materials Journal, July-August 2016,
pp. 493-504
Abstract: A new supplementary preconditioning
procedure that can accelerate the degradation process
of concrete specimens when exposed to sulfate attack is
described in this paper. Several specimens obtained from
30 and 60 MPa (4.4 and 8.7 ksi) strength concretes were
tested. Expansion, mass change, and ultrasonic pulse
velocity measurements were conducted for specimens
subjected to two primary methods of presaturation using
sulfate solution and desiccators, then immersed in sulfate
solution. A complementary microstructural analysis was
also carried out to define the degradation mechanism.
When compared to the control method, which had the same
immersion conditions without primary presaturation, test
results showed an important acceleration of the degradation
process with the use of supplementary preconditioning in
desiccators. In addition to the remarkable acceleration in the
degradation process, the microstructure study confirmed that
the degradation mechanism of concrete specimens subjected
to supplementary preconditioning by desiccators reflected
the field observations in sulfate attack environments.

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ACI Technical Committee
Chairs Appointed
B
efore The ACI Concrete Convention and Exposition –
Spring 2018, the ACI Technical Activities
Committee (TAC) selected Chairs for 44 ACI
technical committees. These actions became effective after
the convention.
New Appointments
120, History of Concrete: Richard Yelton, World of
Concrete, South Haven, MI; replaced Luke M. Snell,
Edwardsville, IL.
130, Sustainability of Concrete: Sean Monkman,
CarbonCure Technologies, Dartmouth, NS, Canada; replaced
Julie K. Buffenbarger, Beton Consulting Engineers, Medina, OH.
201, Durability of Concrete: R. Douglas Hooton,
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; replaced Thomas
J. Van Dam, Nichols Consulting Engineers, Reno, NV.
215, Fatigue of Concrete: Martin Noel, University of
Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada; replaced Clifford N.
MacDonald, FORTA Corporation, Inver Grove Heights, MN.
228, Nondestructive Testing of Concrete: John S.
Popovics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Urbana, IL; replaced Andrew J. Boyd, McGill University,
Montreal, QC, Canada.
233, Ground Slag in Concrete: Henry B. Prenger,
Baltimore, MD; replaced R. Douglas Hooton, University of
Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
236, Material Science of Concrete: Zachary C. Grasley,
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; replaced Maria
C.G. Juenger, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX.
306, Cold Weather Concreting: Erik Holck, Denver Water,
Denver, CO; replaced William J. Lyons III, The Euclid
Chemical Co., East Brunswick, NJ.
310, Decorative Concrete: Clark Branum, Diamatic USA,
Marysville, WA; replaced Larry Rowland, Lehigh White
Cement Company, Allentown, PA.
311, Inspection: Tracy Grover, Terracon, Tempe, AZ;
replaced Michael C. Jaycox, Municipal Testing Corp.,
Hauppauge, NY.
329, Performance Criteria for Ready Mixed Concrete:
J. Scott Keim, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO;
replaced David G. Tepke, SKA Consulting Engineers, Inc.,
Charleston, SC.
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345, Concrete Bridge Construction, Maintenance, and
Repair: Mark E. Williams, Walter P Moore and Associates,
Inc., Houston, TX; replaced Yail Jimmy Kim, University of
Colorado Denver, Denver, CO.
347, Formwork for Concrete: Jeffery C. Jack, RedBuilt
LLC, Boise, ID; replaced Robert G. McCracken, EFCO Corp.,
Des Moines, IA.
355, Anchorage to Concrete: Robert R. McGlohn,
McGlohn Engineering, Hoover, AL; replaced Lee W. Mattis,
CEL Consulting, Danville, CA.
370, Blast and Impact Load Effects: Ganesh
Thiagarajan, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas
City, MO; replaced David Kerins, ExxonMobil, The
Woodlands, TX.
408, Bond and Development of Steel Reinforcement
(Joint ACI-ASCE): Remy D. Lequesne, University of
Kansas, Lawrence, KS; replaced Lisa R. Feldman, University
of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.
423, Prestressed Concrete (Joint ACI-ASCE): Jeffery S.
Volz, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; replaced Carin L.
Roberts-Wollmann, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.
444, Structural Health Monitoring and
Instrumentation: Thomas Schumacher, Portland State
University, Portland, OR; replaced Hani H. Nassif, Rutgers,
The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ.
447, Finite Element Analysis of Reinforced Concrete
Structures (Joint ACI-ASCE): Jian Zhao, University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI; replaced Ganesh
Thiagarajan, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas
City, MO.
522, Pervious Concrete: Norbert J. Delatte, Oklahoma
State University, Stillwater, OK; replaced Narayanan
Neithalath, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
550, Precast Concrete Structures (Joint ACI-ASCE):
Suzanne Aultman, Metromont Corporation, Greenville, SC;
replaced Larbi M. Sennour, The Consulting Engineers Group,
Inc., San Antonio, TX.
551, Tilt-up Concrete Construction: Andrew S.
McPherson, Seretta Construction, Inc., Apopka, FL; replaced
Jeff Griffin, LJB, Inc., Oakwood, OH.
555, Concrete with Recycled Materials: Moncef L.
Nehdi, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada;
replaced Mohamed A. Mahgoub, New Structures: Mohammad S. Khan, High BASF Corporation, Cleveland, OH.
Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ. Performance Technologies, Inc., Oak 526, Autoclaved Aerated Concrete:
Hill, VA. Jennifer E. Tanner, University of
Reappointments 375, Performance-Based Design of Wyoming, Laramie, WY.
118, Use of Digital Technology: Concrete Buildings for Wind Load: 548, Polymers and Adhesives for
Rita K. Oglesby, St. Petersburg, FL. Esteban Anzola, WSP, Coral Gables, FL. Concrete: Mahmoud M. Reda Taha,
131, Building Information 440, Fiber-Reinforced Polymer University of New Mexico,
Modeling of Concrete Structures: Reinforcement: William J. Gold, Albuquerque, NM.
Christopher D. Brown, Skidmore
Owings & Merrill LLP, Chicago, IL.
132, Responsibility in Concrete
Construction: Kevin A. MacDonald,
Beton Consulting Engineers LLC, Prior
Lake, MN.
213, Lightweight Aggregate and
Formwork for
Concrete: Jeffrey F. Speck, Trinity
Lightweight, Kennesaw, GA.
229, Controlled Low-Strength
Concrete 8th Edition
Materials: Thomas H. Adams, American
Coal Ash Association, Bloomington, IN.
232, Fly Ash in Concrete: Lawrence L.
Sutter, Michigan Technological Updated to
University, Houghton, MI.
234, Silica Fume in Concrete:
 current standards.

Robert C. Lewis, Elkem Silicon

Materials, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Allowable strength
237, Self-Consolidating Concrete:
Anton Karel Schindler, Auburn  design, load, and
resistance factor
University, Auburn, AL. design examples.
240, Pozzolans: Robert E. Neal,
Lehigh Portland Cement Co.,
Richmond, VA. Chapter problems
241, Nanotechnology of Concrete:
Konstantin Sobolev, University of
 for classroom
study.
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI.
304, Measuring, Mixing,
Transporting, and Placing Concrete:
Tarek S. Khan, BASF Construction available at
Chemicals, Granite Bay, CA.
305, Hot Weather Concreting:
concrete.org
Oscar R. Antommattei, Kiewit Member Price: $149.00
Regular Price: $249.50
Engineering Group, Englewood, CO.
308, Curing Concrete: Lawrence H.
Taber, Black & Veatch, Overland Park, KS.
341, Earthquake-Resistant
Concrete Bridges: Kevin R. Mackie,
University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL.
342, Evaluation of Concrete
Bridges and Bridge Elements: Devin
K. Harris, University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, VA.
350, Environmental Engineering
Concrete Structures: M. Reza Kianoush,
Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
357, Offshore and Marine Concrete

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Everything is Bigger in Texas
How the Mega Slab went down
by Adrian Rojas
T
he Mega Slab placement at the General Motors (GM)
Arlington Assembly Plant, Arlington, TX, was a
successful exercise in planning. At 256,000 ft2 (23,780 m2)
and 8 in. (203 mm) thick, the slab placement was a massive
endeavor. To meet the scheduled completion date, Barton
Malow elected to make one large placement instead of
multiple 20,000 ft2 (1858 m2) placements that would be used
on a more typical job. The commitment to bringing the best to
the Mega Slab project—led by Barton Malow’s team of Brian
Willard, Superintendent; Ethan Uhl, Placement and Finish
Superintendent; Chris Hofe, Project Director; Josiah Goins,
Senior Project Manager; and Craig Lowell, Construction
Manager—was showcased throughout the weekend of
January 13-15, 2018.
The project required 6470 yd3 (4950 m3) of concrete
provided by Redi-Mix Concrete (Fort Worth, Dallas, and
Kennadale, TX). The concrete was a 4000 psi (27.6 MPa)
blended aggregate mixture with a mid-range water-reducing
admixture and a steel fiber content of 23 lb/yd3 (13.6 kg/m3).
Finishing operations involved nearly 33 consecutive hours of
placing, raking, leveling, troweling, and sawing. To do it,
Prior to the placement of the Mega Slab, the crew assembled inside GM’s Arlington Assembly Plant, Arlington, TX (photo courtesy of Jon Humphrey)
Barton Malow flew in crew members from Lloyd Concrete
Services, Inc., Lynchburg, VA; Unlimited Concrete Solutions,
LLC, Central Ohio; and its own team from Southfield, MI.
Structural Services, Inc. (SSI), Dallas, TX, served as a
consultant to help ensure every step of quality was covered.
According to John J. Raad, Project Manager at GM,
“Previously, GM limited placements to no more than 40,000 ft2
(3716 m2). By working as a team with SSI, a plan was crafted
and approved to make one pour separated into two lanes by
using an armor edge. This helped control the shrinkage and
pour geometry to give the team confidence to proceed.”
Planning for Quality
When the 62 concrete finishers, 42 laborers, eight carpenters,
seven equipment operators, four supervisors, four safety
representatives, two rodbusters, and two layout engineers
gathered at the jobsite, they joked and laughed about the
mundane: “Was that coffee too weak?” But they also bonded,
with comments such as: “Let’s make some history!” After
brief introductions, the workers listened to the project leaders
talk about toughness (“Don’t get complacent. Stick with the
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Preconstruction meeting before the Mega Slab placement (photos courtesy of Jon Humphrey)
Before each concrete truck entered the building, steel fibers were
added at a dosage of 23 lb/yd3 (13.6 kg/m3) (photo courtesy of Jon
Humphrey)
plan!”), the importance of safety, and the need for quality
control. By going over potential hazards and dutifully crossing
off each bullet point in their pre-task list, the team leaders set
the stage for something monumental.
Teams were assigned work positions according to a
color-coordinated pattern on the floor plan. They were also
assigned staggered times at the placement “front” to ensure
each worker was well-rested over the extended placement.
The job was divided into three 12-hour shifts. The first and
third shift required 53 workers each, while the second shift
called for 78 workers.
Jumping into Action
As the sun set on Saturday, planning turned into realization.
The project leaders gathered the first rotation of workers
together for a final safety reminder and a much-needed stretch
before the hard work got started. They then excitedly filed into
the jobsite—a multi-bay industrial building illuminated by
overhead LED fixtures. They walked the full length of the
building and then put on their kneepads and hardhats,
stopping for a group photo to commemorate the event, right
before it started.
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Project Credits
•• General Motors, Owner;
•• Lloyd ConcreteCompany,
Barton Malow General Contractor;
•• Solutions, LLC, Concrete Subcontractors;
Services, Inc., and Unlimited Concrete
•• Intertek PSI, Testing Agency;
•• Structural Concrete,
Redi-Mix Concrete Supplier;
•• Control Consultants; Floor System and Quality
Services, Inc.,
•• Bekaert, Steel Fiber Reinforcement Supplier;
•• Inc., Somero Enterprises,
Allen Engineering Corp., Husqvarna AB, Multiquip,
Inc., United Rentals, Inc.,
and Wacker Neuson Group, Construction Equipment
Suppliers;
•• Ram Tool Construction Supply Co., Construction
Materials Supplier; and
•• Teplis Travel Company, Travel Agency.
Then there was a familiar sound at the entrance—the
rumble of engines as dozens of concrete trucks awaited orders
to enter. Soon, traffic directors wearing head lamps on their
hard hats raised their batons and directed the trucks to the
workers. As the first trucks discharged their loads and left the
building, the relatively small floor area covered by each load
dramatically illustrated the immense size of the project.
Like a marching band in sync, the workers began an
intricate pattern of controlling the placement in preparation
for laser screeds to begin leveling. Although the Mega Slab
started with a relatively small section, nearly two-thirds of the
entire slab was in place by the next morning. The staggered
shifts ensured that everyone got the rest, food, and hydration
they needed before jumping back into the action.
As teams started the second half of the placement, concrete
finishers on ride-on trowels started blading their way across
the surface of the concrete that had been placed the night
before. As the trowels moved into adjacent bays, saws
soon followed, cutting joints in the slab on a 25 x 25 ft
(7.62 x 7.62 m) grid.
Throughout the Mega Slab placement, personnel intently focused on their tasks and equipment use was tightly coordinated (photo courtesy of
Jon Humphrey)

Four laser screeds were used during the placement, helping to

provide a slab surface that was within 3/16 in. (5 mm) of plane over The operators of 38 ride-on trowels made sure that the finished floor
the huge floor area (photo courtesy of Jon Humphrey) had high FF/FL numbers—achieved values were 56/42 (photo courtesy
of Jon Humphrey)

considering that 647 concrete trucks had driven across the

subgrade throughout the placement.
For the 131 workers and the project leaders, the Mega Slab
project was truly a unique event. For many, it felt like the
beginning of something even bigger. Nearing the end of the
project, one worker exclaimed that he was ready for another
enormous placement: “Man, I don’t wanna stop. Let’s do
500,000 ft2 next time.”

Selected for reader interest by the editors.

Curing of the finished Mega Slab was accomplished using
polyethylene sheeting with a saturated superabsorbent polymer
backing. The sheeting was left in place for 7 days (photo courtesy of
Jon Humphrey) Adrian Rojas is a resident of Detroit, MI,
and Communications Coordinator at Barton
Malow Company, Southfield, MI. Founded
Completing the Mega Slab in 1924, Barton Malow Company is a
By the morning of January 15, the work finished almost as contractor serving North America in market
specialties that include commercial,
abruptly as it began. And it was a massive success. Not only
industrial, education, energy, healthcare,
did the teams place 315 yd3 (241 m3) of concrete per hour,
manufacturing, sports, and entertainment
they completed a slab that achieved overall floor flatness and
facilities. With more than 2000 employees
levelness (FF/FL) numbers of 56/42. Moreover, a surveying
and 16 offices, the company’s core purpose is to “Build with the
crew found that the floor was within 3/16 in. (5 mm) of plane
American Spirit: People, Projects, and Communities.”
across the placement’s entire area—an impressive feat

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Effect of Water-Cement
Ratio on Concrete Weight
Coatings
Density and compressive strength are evaluated for three mixtures compacted
using two pressures
by Eugene Alymov
Z
ero-slump concrete is used for many applications,
including slipformed or roller-compacted pavement,
precast slab elements, and roller-compacted dams.
A less well-known application of zero-slump concrete is
for weight coating of steel pipes used for the underwater
transmission of natural gas. In this application, the concrete
provides both negative buoyancy and mechanical protection
for the pipe sections. While more common zero-slump
mixtures generally comprise locally available aggregates and
have modest cement contents, concrete weight coating (CWC)
mixtures comprise heavyweight aggregates—normally iron
ores but in some cases heavyweight slags—and high cement
contents—generally in the range of 450 to 550 kg/m3 (760 to
930 lb/yd3).1,2 These unique features are needed to ensure the
CWC achieves the required density and strength.
Application Methods
There are two methods used to apply CWC. In the wrap
coating process (Fig. 1(a)), zero-slump concrete is discharged
onto a moving belt called the applicator. Concrete falls
through a wire mesh onto polyethylene sheeting. Both the
mesh and the sheeting are attached to the pipe and are
wrapped around the pipe as it advances and rotates. Because
the mesh is tensioned, it is embedded in the concrete as the
pipe moves; however, the concrete is kept in place by the
outer wrap of polyethylene sheeting, which also serves as
a curing membrane.
In the impingement coating process (Fig. 1(b)), zero-
slump concrete is discharged between rapidly spinning
rollers that propel the concrete through a pre-installed
reinforcing cage onto the pipe. The thickness of concrete is
controlled by the height of the concrete feed gate on the belt
immediately prior to the rollers. As the pipe rotates and
advances, a scraper screeds the concrete, removing minor
surface imperfections.
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Quality Assessment
Most CWC specifications call for a minimum compressive
strength, a maximum water absorption, and an acceptable
density range. Specifications commonly call for a compressive
strength of 40 MPa (5800 psi), measured using cores extracted
from the concrete coating.3 Like any other concrete, the
compressive strength of CWC is affected by the gradations
and morphology of the aggregates, the amount of cement
paste, and the air content. In addition to the strength, these
factors affect the absorption and density of CWC. However,
the dominant factor is the amount of air entrapped in the
CWC, as the air content is normally about 9 to 10% but can
go even higher. Entrapped air thus presents the biggest
obstacle in the way of producing quality CWC, not only
because it can lead to low compressive strengths, but also
because it may force the producer to increase the heavyweight
aggregate content in the mixture to achieve the specified
density and negative buoyancy. Heavyweight aggregates are
much more expensive than sand, so lowering the air content
in the mixture will reduce costs as well as improve quality.
The present study is focused on CWC mixtures designed for
wrap coating. The water-cement ratio (w/c) is evaluated within
the typical range of 0.3 to 0.36, with the goal of finding the w/c
that results in minimal voids and acceptable concrete quality.
Materials
The study was performed using magnetite (iron ore),
produced by LKAB Minerals in the northern part of Sweden.
The magnetite aggregate has a specific gravity (SG) of 4.72,
and its grading is as indicated in Fig. 2 and Table 1. Other
constituents in the concrete include sand from Goodwood,
ON, Canada (SG = 2.65), and Type I/II cement from St Marys
Cement. As shown in Fig. 2 and Table 1, the sand falls slightly
outside the fine aggregate grading requirements of ASTM
C33/C33M, “Standard Specification for Concrete Aggregates.”
 (a) (b)
Fig. 1: Methods used to apply concrete weight coating (CWC) to steel pipe: (a) wrap coating; and (b) impingement coating (source of schematics:
Bredero Shaw website)

100
Procedures ASTM C33/C33M limits
To evaluate density and strength as functions of w/c,
Cummulative passing, %

80 Iron ore
concrete cylinders were made by using a compression testing Sand
machine to compact concrete into a 4 in. (102 mm) diameter 60
proctor mold (refer to ASTM D558, “Standard Test Methods
for Moisture-Density (Unit Weight) Relations of Soil-Cement 40
Mixtures”). Three mixtures were used (shown in Table 2), all
with a target density of 3040 kg/m3 (190 lb/ft3) and a target air 20
content (void content) of 9%. A slight adjustment of the ore/
sand proportions was needed to maintain the same target 0
density (Table 2). 0.15 0.3 0.6 1.18 2.36 4.75 9.5
No. 100 No. 50 No. 30 No. 16 No. 8 No. 4 3/8 in.
Two force levels were used to compact the mixtures in the
Nominal sieve size, mm (U.S. customary)
Proctor mold: 32 and 48 kN (7200 and 10,800 lb), resulting in
Fig. 2: Gradings of aggregates used in study
Table 1:
Sieve analyses of aggregates used in the study
Description Sieve size or cumulative amount passing, %
Sieve size, mm 0.15 0.3 0.6 1.18 2.36 4.75 9.5
Sieve size, U.S. customary No. 100 No. 50 No. 30 No. 16 No. 8 No. 4 3/8 in.
ASTM C33/C33M minimum 0 5 25 50 80 95 100
ASTM C33/C33M maximum 10 30 60 85 100 100 100
Sand 8.9 30.6 53.3 66.5 83.1 92.7 100
Iron ore 20.5 26.1 32.4 41 56.9 83 100

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Table 2:
Mixture proportions used in study
Mixture 1 Mixture 2 Mixture 3
Cement content, kg/m 3
470 470 470
w/c 0.30 0.33 0.36
Iron ore/sand, % of aggregate volume 61/39 65/35 68/32
Note: 1 kg/m3 = 1.7 lb/yd3

pressures of 3.9 and 5.6 MPa (570 and 810 psi), respectively.
The mass of concrete required to charge the mold was deter­­
mined by trials, using mixtures that were compacted to air
contents of around 10%. The selected mass was sufficient to
ensure that the compacted sample size was large enough for
subsequent coring.
After compaction, cylinder height was measured. Concrete
density was found by dividing the mass of the cylinder by the
calculated volume. Void content was found using:
Discussion
Conventional concrete loses compressive strength and
gains permeability with increasing w/c.4 However, experience
with roller-compacted concrete, which resembles CWC
applied using the wrap concrete coating method, shows that
paste volume increases with w/c, and this results in better
consolidation.5 The relationships between w/c, paste volume,
and void content are presented in Fig. 3.
One can observe from Fig. 3 that an inverse relationship
(albeit not a perfect one) exists between paste volume and
void contents at the three w/c values. Thus, compactability
of concrete increases with w/c, and this is likely due to the
associated increase in paste volume.
Although increasing w/c negatively affects compressive
strength and permeability in concrete mixtures with

Compressive strength was measured using three cores

(each 30 mm [1.2 in.] diameter) extracted from each cylinder.
Cores were cured in a standard curing environment for
27 days, followed by a day of air drying. Capping and
testing were performed at 28 days.

Results
The results of the study are summarized in Table 3. Exper­­
ience with plant-applied concrete has shown that a typical
mixture with w/c = 0.33 has a void content of about 10%.
Therefore, the 32 kN compaction force (3.9 MPa pressure) Fig 3: Effect of w/c on void content and paste volume. Specimens
resulted in a compaction level that is most represen­tative of compacted using 3.9 MPa (570 psi) pressure are considered
plant-applied concrete (9.9% void content at w/c = 0.33). representative of plant-applied concrete (Note: 1 MPa = 145 psi;
1 L/m3 = 0.96 fl oz/ft3)

Table 3:
Void content and compressive strength results
Change in void Change in strength
Compaction force, Calculated void content relative to Average compressive relative to
Mixture w/c kN content, % Mixture 1, % strength, MPa Mixture 1, %
1 0.30 32 11.6 — 55.3 —
2 0.33 32 9.9 −14.7 57.2 +3.4
3 0.36 32 7.3 −37.1 55.9 +1.1
1 0.30 45 10.4 — 59.1 —
2 0.33 45 7.9 −24.0 61.5 +4.1
3 0.36 45 6.7 −35.6 66.2 +12.0
Note: 1 kN = 225 lbf; 1 MPa = 145 psi

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conventional consistency,6 it results in decreasing voids in dry
mixtures such as CWC. As presented in Table 3, the net effect
is a nearly constant (or increasing) compressive strength as w/c
increases. The three mixtures compacted with 3.9 MPa pressure
had nearly equivalent compressive strength, and the three
mixtures compacted with 5.6 MPa pressure exhibited a 12%
increase in compressive strength over the tested w/c range.
The current study has significance for CWC on two fronts:
concrete quality and cost reduction. For example, if a certain
aggregate combination results in a mixture that is poorly
compactable or has low compressive strengths, an increase in
water content might result in concrete that meets density and
strength targets. There is a caveat to this, however, as the
workability of CWC mixtures will decrease when the concrete
becomes “sticky.” For the aggregate combination in the study,
the limiting w/c was estimated to be around 0.36. For mixtures
with a higher coarse aggregate content than those tested in this
study, a lower limiting w/c value will be required to avoid the
need for “manual work” to break up concrete clumps and
maintain production speed.
Cement and heavyweight aggregate are the most expensive
components of CWC. Cement content must remain at a
certain level to meet compressive strength and workability
requirements. If a plant can reduce the voids by using
mixtures with increased w/c, the target density can be
achieved using a smaller proportion of heavyweight
aggregate. This will lead to cost savings.
Summary and Conclusions
Lab-produced CWC mixtures were compacted in 4 in.
proctor molds using compaction pressures of 3.9 and 5.6 MPa.
Three w/c values were used for the tested CWC mixtures:
0.30, 0.33, and 0.36. The measured densities of the cylinders
were used to estimate the air content (void content).
The tests showed that specimen height, density, and void
content varied with compaction pressure and w/c. Specifically,
the void content decreased with increasing w/c. Further, a
nonlinear, inverse relationship was established between the
void content and paste volume. For specimens compacted
using 3.9 MPa pressure, compressive strength was unaffected
by changes in w/c. For specimens compacted using 5.6 MPa
pressure, compressive strength increased with increasing w/c.
The study showed that CWC can be applied at w/c values
that exceed the typical value of 0.33, as the resulting mixtures
exhibited improved concrete compressibility and strength.
Lastly, the improvements in compressibility provide the
opportunity for cost savings through reductions in the
proportion of heavyweight aggregate in CWC mixtures.
References
1. Kalantari, B., “Various Types of Portland Cement Concrete Used
in Pavement and Dam Constructions,” International Symposium on
Advances in Science and Technology, Mar. 2013, www.researchgate.net/
publication/319839604_Various_types_of_Portland_cement_concrete_
used_in_pavement_and_dam_constructions.
2. Burns, C., “Compaction Study of Zero Slump Concrete,” U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, Waterways Experimental Station, 1976, 10 pp.
3. “DNVGL-ST-F101 Submarine Pipeline Systems,” DNV GL,
Høvik, Norway, 2017, 520 pp.
4. Caldarone, M.A., High-Strength Concrete: A Practical Guide,
CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2008, 252 pp.
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Telford, London, UK, 2006, 314 pp.
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Quality on Fresh and Hardened Properties of Ternary Mixtures,” Report
No. DTFH61-06-H-00011 Work Plans 19 and 25, Federal Highway
Administration, Washington, DC, 2012, 55 pp.
Additional information on the ASTM standards discussed in this article
can be found at www.astm.org.
Selected for reader interest by the editors.
Eugene Alymov is a Civil Engineer and
a Professional Engineer in the province
of Ontario, Canada. He has worked for
a pipe coating company in Toronto, ON,
Canada, for 7 years and has taken part
in various research and concrete weight
coating improvement initiatives. He has
also actively participated in concrete
materials testing and approval for major
pipeline projects, focusing on quality and cost savings. He
received his BEng in civil engineering from Ryerson University,
Toronto, ON, Canada.
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Specifying for Performance
Case studies show that cooperative efforts lead to success
by Karthik H. Obla, Daniel J. Gancarz, William R. (Rusty) Owings III, Fouad H. Yazbeck, and David G. Tepke
A
design professional’s essential responsibility is to
ensure that a completed project will attain the level of
performance required by the owner. Globally
imposing overly conservative requirements (for example, using
the harshest environment to set the durability requirements for
an entire project) will add needless cost and detract from
sustainability goals. Rather, design professionals should define
performance-based requirements for the concrete used in the
project based on the use and exposure for specific portions.
This could be accomplished using a performance specification
in lieu of stating prescriptive requirements. For example,
Provision 1.10.1 of ACI 318-141 states:
“Sponsors of any system of design, construction, or
alternative construction materials within the scope of this
Code, the adequacy of which has been shown by successful
use or by analysis or test, but which does not conform to or is
not covered by this Code, shall have the right to present the
data on which their design is based to the building official, or
to a board of examiners appointed by the building official.
This board shall be composed of competent engineers and
shall have authority to investigate the data so submitted,
require tests, and formulate rules governing design and
construction of such systems to meet the intent of this Code.
These rules, when approved by the building official and
promulgated, shall be of the same force and effect as the
provisions of this Code.”
The mission of ACI Committee 329, Performance
Criteria for Ready Mixed Concrete, is to develop and
report information on performance criteria for ready
mixed concrete. This article provides summaries of four
projects discussed at a session, Case Studies of
Performance-Based Specifications, sponsored by
Committee 329 at The ACI Concrete Convention and
Exposition – Spring 2017 in Detroit, MI.
Performance is Fundamental
Performance-based specifications that meet explicit
durability goals can be successfully used on different types of
projects. The following sections describe four examples.
Pavement
Since 2008, the Illinois Tollway has been using
performance-based specifications for concrete mixture
proportions to ensure durability and sustainability while
minimizing cost. A recent example, completed in 2016, was a
portion of the $2.5 billion Jane Addams Memorial Tollway
(I-90) Rebuilding and Widening Project, from Roselle Road to
Illinois Route 53/I-290 in Schaumburg, IL.
Performance-related mixture and construction special
provisions were incorporated into the contract documents, and
an outreach program was implemented at the beginning of the
project to ensure that the stakeholders (Tollway representatives,
contractor, and concrete producer) understood and properly
implemented the provisions. The performance criteria for
mixture qualification included compressive strength, flexural
strength, and plastic and hardened air contents. Jobsite
acceptance tests for the concrete included compressive
strength and plastic air content. Jobsite acceptance criteria
also included edge-slump of the slip-formed pavement,
pavement thickness and smoothness, and dowel alignment.
Bulk resistivity testing was performed as a research effort to
determine the formation factor. The formation factor may be
included in future versions of the special provisions.
By using performance criteria, the Tollway allowed greater
use of cementitious materials and eliminated restrictions on
water-cementitious material ratio (w/cm). It also allowed the
implementation of nonstandard aggregate gradations, thus
encouraging the use of local materials. To ensure a high-
quality mixture, however, prescriptive limits were still placed
on specific supplementary cementitious material (SCM)
contents, aggregate grading, and aggregate susceptibility to
alkali-silica reaction (ASR).
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 The contractor chose to use a ternary cementitious material
mixture with an optimized aggregate gradation. Because the
selected mixture had 24% less portland cement and 15% less
total cementitious material than a typical Illinois pavement
mixture, the Tollway realized a lower bid price. The mixture
exceeded the performance criteria and, as a result, the
contractor received a bonus.
Bridge
The Christopher S. Bond Bridge was completed in 2010 in
Kansas City, MO. Parsons, the engineer for the project,
Jane Addams Memorial Tollway (I-90) Rebuilding and Widening
project credits: Illinois Tollway, Owner/Engineer; Walsh Construction
Company, Contractor; and Terrell Materials Corporation, Concrete
Supplier
Christopher S. Bond Bridge project credits: MoDOT, Owner; Parsons
Corp., Engineer; Paseo Corridor Constructors (a partnership of
Massman Construction Co, Clarkson Construction Co, and Kiewit
Construction Co), Contractor; and Fordyce Concrete, A Division of
Ashgrove Materials Corp, Concrete Supplier
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worked with Missouri Department of Transportation
(MoDOT) officials to develop the project using design-build
project delivery and a performance-based specification. To
achieve the specified performance requirements, the concrete
producer used mixture proportions with optimized aggregate
gradations and ternary blends of cement and SCMs.
Performance criteria on the project included:
•• Drilled shaft foundations—specified compressive strength
of 4000 psi (28 MPa) at 56 days, low heat of hydration
(158°F [<70°C] maximum per ASTM C150/C150M,
“Standard Specification for Portland Cement”), and slump
of 8 ± 1 in. (200 ± 25 mm) or spread flow of 26 ± 4 in.
(660 ± 100 mm);
•• Pylon (center vertical structure)—specified compressive
strength of 7000 psi (48 MPa) at 56 days, moderate
permeability (<2000 coulombs per ASTM C1202,
“Standard Test Method for Electrical Indication of
Concrete’s Ability to Resist Chloride Ion Penetration”),
ASR expansion below 0.08% at 16 and 30 days (ASTM
C1567, “Standard Test Method for Determining the
Potential Alkali-Silica Reactivity of Combinations of
Cementitious Materials and Aggregate (Accelerated
Mortar-Bar Method)”), and slump of 8 ± 1 in. or spread
flow of 26 ± 4 in.; and
•• Bridge deck—structural pour strips between precast panels
and the deck topping with specified compressive strength
of 8000 psi (55 MPa) at 56 days, low permeability (<1000
coulombs per ASTM C1202), ASR expansion below 0.08%
at 16 and 30 days (ASTM C1567), pass scaling resistance
(visual rating of 0-1 per ASTM C672/C672M, “Standard
Test Method for Scaling Resistance of Concrete Surfaces
Exposed to Deicing Chemicals”), microwave oven water
content test (AASHTO TP 23, “Standard Test Method for
Water Content of Freshly Mixed Concrete Using
Microwave Oven Drying”) on each day of placement, and
slump of 8 ± 1 in. or spread flow of 26 ± 4 in.
Each concrete mixture design was prequalified using
laboratory tests and tested as required per the project
specification from concrete placed for the structure (ASTM
C1202 and C672/C672M testing every 30 days, and ASR
testing every 6 months). The microwave test was required on
the first load for every placement for the deck structure
concrete mixture and had to be completed prior to allowing
the concrete to be placed. Testing was done at the plant and
the results were communicated to the team on site.
Initially, the contractor conducted quality control tests and
MoDOT conducted random quality assurance (QA) tests in
the field. This resulted in a lot of testing of concrete mixtures.
Effective communication and sharing of information was
important to keep on schedule and address any issues. The QA
testing program was relaxed after passing QA test results were
consistently reported. The performance specification led to
significant cost savings, as the contractor was able to use lower
cementitious material contents in comparison to prescriptive
mixtures from MoDOT’s standard specification.
Development
The 2012 project, Al Raha Beach Development – Phase 1,
Abu Dhabi, UAE, involved several types of structures
(infrastructure, seawalls, bridges, residential buildings, and
services and utilities). The project’s wide range of exposures
led to the use of performance specifications to streamline
production, testing, and acceptance of concrete. Another
motivation was the potential for reduction of waste due to
over-ordering or on-site breakdowns.
The performance requirements were two-fold, with
stringent testing for mixture qualification and identity testing
(mainly strength and some durability) at the time of supply.
All prescriptive requirements (minimum and maximum
cement contents, maximum w/cm, SCM types and dosage
limits, and aggregate grading limits) were removed to allow
mixtures to be designed as “fit for purpose.” The resulting
mixtures had elevated cement replacement levels to enhance
Al Raha Beach Development – Phase 1 project credits: ALDAR
service life and reduce the carbon footprint. Multiple Properties, Owner/Engineer; ALDAR Laing O’Rourke, Main
subproject specifications were replaced with a single Contractor; and ALDAR Readymix, Concrete Supplier
document that was enforced sitewide.
There was some reluctance to remove prescriptive
elements completely from the specification. This was
recognized early on, and some requirements (especially
durability testing on site) were incorporated into the
performance specifications to alleviate the concerns.
Many advantages were realized, including reduction of
waste, better consistency of concrete due to the reduction of
number of mixtures produced, and lower CO2 emissions due
to a high SCM content.

Steel column encasement

Lower-level columns of Hyperion Towers, North Myrtle
Beach, SC, were heavily corroded. The columns support a
seven-story condominium, so rehabilitation was urgent.
Concrete jacketing was selected as a practical method for
addressing structural concerns, and the engineer decided to
use a performance specification to obtain the necessary
concrete characteristics. Concrete that could adequately
protect and supplement steel, while providing durability for
the severe coastal environment, was needed. A team approach
was used—the engineer worked with the contractor to define
the QA process, including small batch testing, full-scale trials,
and mockup placements.
A self-consolidating concrete (SCC) was used on the
project. Some of the key mixture qualification requirements
included:
•• Minimum compressive strength of 5000 psi (35 MPa);
•• Minimum 28-day to 7-day compressive strength ratio of 1.3;
•• Maximum rapid indication of chloride-ion penetrability
(RCP) of 1200 coulombs (7-day standard cure followed by
21 days at 100°F [38°C]), per ASTM C1202;
•• Maximum shrinkage of 300 microstrain (7-day cure
followed by 28-day drying) per ASTM C157/C157M,
“Standard Test Method for Length Change of Hardened
Hydraulic-Cement Mortar and Concrete”;
Hyperion Towers project credits: Hyperion Towers Homeowners
Association, Owner; SKA Consulting Engineers, Inc., Engineer; Heard
Ratzlaff Construction, Inc., Contractor; and Ready Mixed Concrete
Company, Concrete Supplier
•• Maximum ASR expansion of 0.10% at 14 days per ASTM
C1260, “Standard Test Method for Potential Alkali
Reactivity of Aggregates (Mortar-Bar Method)”;
•• Maximum column static segregation of 10% per ASTM
C1610/C1610M, “Standard Test Method for Static
Segregation of Self-Consolidating Concrete Using Column
Technique”;
•• Maximum Visual Stability Index (VSI) value of 1 per
ASTM C1611/C1611M, “Standard Test Method for Slump
Flow of Self-Consolidating Concrete”; and
•• Minimum air content of 5% per ASTM C231/C231M,
“Standard Test Method for Air Content of Freshly Mixed
Concrete by the Pressure Method.”

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 A level of training was required to provide relevance for
the types, implementation, importance, and execution of
specifications and tests. Specifications were set up such that
performance characteristics were required, but prescriptive
provisions were included to provide guidance on meeting
performance. This allowed the construction team to price the
work adequately and consult with the engineer during the
mixture development phase. The SCC mixture meeting
specifications included 30% Class F fly ash, 5% silica fume,
optimized gradation of locally available aggregates, and
shrinkage-reducing admixture, with a slump flow of
approximately 25 to 28 in. (640 to 710 mm).
References
1. ACI Committee 318, “Building Code Requirements for Structural
Concrete (ACI 318-14) and Commentary (ACI 318R-14),” American
Concrete Institute, Farmington Hills, MI, 2014, 519 pp.
Note: Additional information on the ASTM and AASHTO standards
discussed in this article can be found at www.astm.org and www.
transportation.org, respectively.
Selected for reader interest by the editors.
Karthik H. Obla, FACI, is Vice President
of Technical Services at the National
Ready Mixed Concrete Association
(NRMCA), Silver Spring, MD. He serves
on several ACI committees, including
ACI Committees 201, Durability of
Concrete; and 329, Performance Criteria
for Ready Mixed Concrete. He is a
recipient of ACI’s Young Professional
Achievement Award and served as
President of the San Antonio Chapter – ACI. He received his BS
in civil engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU),
Varanasi, India, and his MS and PhD in civil engineering from the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
ACI member Daniel J. Gancarz has
been with Applied Research Associates,
Inc., since 2013 as an On-Site Project
Engineer with the Materials Group
at the Illinois Tollway. He supports
design and construction reviews for
materials and pavements and leads the
Tollway’s review and approval process
of concrete mixture designs. Gancarz
is a member of ACI Committees 325,
Concrete Pavements, and 329, Performance Criteria for Ready
Mixed Concrete. He received his BS and MS in civil engineering
from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL.
He is a licensed professional engineer in Illinois.
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ACI member William R. (Rusty) Owings III
is Quality Control General Manager at
Geiger Ready-Mix Co., Inc., Kansas City,
KS. He has over 18 years of experience
working in the design and construction
industry, specifically with concrete related
projects. He is a member of ACI
Committee 329, Performance Criteria for
Ready Mixed Concrete. He is also a
member of NRMCA’s Research and Specification Committee and
Chair of the Kansas Ready Mixed Concrete Association’s Technical
Quality Committee. Owings is the Past President of the Kansas
Chapter – ACI. He received his bachelor’s of architecture from the
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, and is a licensed architect.
ACI member Fouad H. Yazbeck is
Technical and Commercial Director at
Unimix, LLC (Universal Concrete Products
Co.), Dubai, UAE, with over 20 years of
experience in the concrete industry. He is
a member of the ACI International
Advisory Committee and Committees 130,
Sustainability of Concrete; 207, Mass and
Thermally Controlled Concrete; 234, Silica
Fume in Concrete; and 329, Performance
Criteria for Ready Mixed Concrete. He is a founding member of
Lebanon Chapter – ACI and UAE-Dubai Chapter – ACI, and a
member of the Beirut Order of Engineers. He received his civil
engineer diploma from Saint Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon,
and MBA from ESSEC Business School, Cergy-Pontoise, France.
ACI member David G. Tepke is Building
Solutions Group Manager and Senior
Engineer at SKA Consulting Engineers
Inc., Charleston, SC. He is Secretary of
ACI Committee 222, Corrosion of Metals
in Concrete; and immediate past Chair
of ACI Committee 329, Performance
Criteria for Ready Mixed Concrete. He
is also a member of ACI Committees
201, Durability of Concrete, and 301,
Specifications for Structural Concrete. He is a NACE International
Certified Corrosion Specialist and Protective Coating Specialist.
Tepke received his BS and MS in civil engineering from the
Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, and is a licensed
professional engineer in several states.
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Practice
Minnich M-Box
The Minnich M-Box is a controlled speed, high-cycle power
converter that enables high-cycle vibrator operators to control the
speed/vibrations per minute (VPM) of up to two vibrators. The
M-Box minimizes time and cost associated with patching structural
concrete surface blemishes caused by excessive vibrator speeds.
Operators can select from speeds of 6000, 8000, and 10,800 VPM.
The product converts the 230-volt, single-phase outlet of a 3500-
watt generator to 230-volt, three-phase output, allowing the operator
to choose a uniform and compatible constant speed under different
concrete loads.
—Minnich Manufacturing, www.minnich-mfg.com

Nightstick DICATA XPP-5462 Series Cyclo

Intrinsically Safe Headlamp
With heavy-duty rubber straps and a low-profile
design, Nightstick DICATA™ XPP-5462 headlamps are
ideal for hard hats. Each has an LED spotlight and
floodlight designed to optimize output. With a beam
distance of 120 m (394 ft), the spotlight emits 275
lumens, and the floodlight emits 205 lumens. When
operating simultaneously in dual-light mode, the
headlamp emits 310 lumens. An independently controlled
amber rear-facing light helps identify team members in
dark, hazardous places. Two large front-mounted buttons
allow users to easily toggle through the high/low beam
options or have the spot and floodlight on simultaneously,
even when wearing gloves.
—Bayco Products, Inc., www.baycoproducts.com
Cyclo is a high-performance collision avoidance
system for drones (unmanned aerial systems [UAS]).
Size, weight, power, computation, cooling, and cost can
be minimized, without sacrificing performance. Cyclo
can be employed as a software module implemented in
hardware by drone manufacturers. The system allows
true 360- or 720-degree collision protection—even
during high-speed flight under adverse lighting
conditions—using only a single passive camera and the
drone’s built-in processor. Cyclo extends collision
avoidance capabilities to small, low-cost drones, and it
requires no calibration.
—Binderr, www.binderr.co

Brokk 500 Demolition Machine

The Brokk 500 has 40% more breaking power than its
predecessor. The machine delivers 1086 ft-lb (1472 J) with each
blow of the 1510 lb (6.7 kN) Atlas Copco SB 702 hydraulic
breaker. Brokk’s three-part arm system reaches 24.3 ft (7.4 m)
vertically and 23 ft (7 m) horizontally. The Brokk 500 retains
most of the compact proportions of the Brokk 400 and weighs
11,464 lb (5200 kg). All the tools and attachments used for the
Brokk 400 can also be used on the Brokk 500. It includes Brokk
SmartPower, an intelligent electrical system that maximizes
power output of the machine based on both environmental and
operating factors. SmartPower is designed for the extremely
tough operating environments of a demolition robot. In addition,
it helps the operator start the machine on a poor power supply
while simultaneously protecting the machine from harmful
faulty power.
—Brokk Inc., www.brokk.com

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Products & Practice

Spot-r EquipTag
Triax Technologies’ Spot-r EquipTag tracks operator
identity, equipment location, and equipment use both
indoors and outdoors and in areas without clear line of
sight to the sky. The plug-and-play, non-GPS solution
integrates with the company’s Spot-r network and its
wearable sensor technology to provide digital visibility
into worker and equipment activity, location, and safety
in real-time and without restrictions such as equipment
size or indoor/outdoor location. EquipTags work with
Spot-r Clips to identify worker certification information
Wagman Metal Products Mondo Poly Brush
Wagman Metal Products’ Mondo Poly Brush features stiff
and send immediate alerts if there is an unknown or
polypropylene bristles for general scrubbing on smooth
unauthorized operator. Spot-r Clips layer in workforce
concrete including cleaning floors after tilt-up construction
and certification data, showing how the equipment is
and applying densifiers. The brush will not rust and is resistant
being operated across the jobsite and by whom. The
to many chemicals. The Mondo Poly brush can be used on 36
Spot-r EquipTag adheres to any piece of equipment to
and 46 in. (914 and 1168 mm) walk-behind as well as 6 and
track activity and data to help users coordinate rentals,
8 ft (1.8 and 2.4 m) ride-on power trowels. The 11 in. (279
optimize schedules, and improve safety and compliance.
mm) size can be used on the Wagman LP230.
—Triax Technologies, Inc., www.triaxtec.com
—Wagman Metal Products Inc., www.wagmanmetal.com

Spancrete Plotter
Fully automatic and battery driven, the Spancrete Plotter runs on top of the casting bed rails and draws marks for
straight cuts, angle cuts, electrical sockets, slab number, manufacturer logo, and different cut-outs on fresh concrete.
Software systems can remotely send files to the Spancrete Plotter to provide for full automation and immediate production
capabilities. The plotter can drill weep holes. It can print on the top and side of products and on concrete and steel.
—Spancrete, www.spancrete.com

BinMaster 3DMultiVision
BinMaster’s 3DMultiVision software uses 3DLevelScanners to
identify the location of the center of gravity, display it graphically,
and send an alert when the center of gravity falls outside of a
predefined area. A 3DLevelScanner is mounted on the roof of the
silo in an optimal location to view the material surface in the silo.
Level measurements are used to determine the X, Y, and Z
coordinates of the center of gravity based upon the material
topography. The coordinates are processed in the 3DMultiVision
software via a proprietary RS-485 communication protocol. Users
define the alert parameters and accepted area into which the center
of gravity must fall. A 3D visual will indicate where the center of
gravity is located and show the acceptable area. The preventive
maintenance tool alerts the need for inspection or cleaning and can
be used over time to prolong silo integrity and create a safer
environment by alerting operators to potential structural stress
caused by uneven loading.
—BinMaster, www.binmaster.com

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 Products & Practice

Web Notes GSSI Launches New Website

Geophysical Survey Systems, Inc. (GSSI),
launched a website that features a product
configurator, training class calendar, and news and updates, including recent case studies and
videos. The Innovation Lab section spotlights GSSI’s engineering initiatives and custom
solutions. The product pages feature equipment action pictures and explanations of
applications for which it is most useful. Users will find data examples for each application and
product, detailed product specifications, and support materials. The expanded training section,
now called GSSI Academy, includes an enhanced class schedule, trainer bios, training request
form, and ground-penetrating radar explanations and electromagnetic induction technology.
The website also features an expanded support page, which includes direct access to user
manuals and software updates.
—Geophysical Survey Systems, Inc., www.geophysical.com

Fiber Reinforced Cement and Concrete Composites

Book Notes by Antoine E. Naaman
Fiber Reinforced Cement and Concrete
Composites stresses the fundamental understanding
of behavior and modeling of fiber-reinforced cement (FRC) composites, and provides readers
with a strong basis to design FRC composites and structures with FRC composites. The book is
organized into 15 chapters. Chapter 1 presents a general background and overview of historical
evolution of fibers and FRC composites. The following three chapters address the question: What
do fibers do to concrete as a material? They provide information on the behavior and properties
of the resulting composite. Chapter 5 describes different classes of applications, their purpose,
and examples to answer the question: What do fibers do to structural concrete? Chapter 6 deals
with fabrication methods and mixture design of FRC composites; potential challenges in
manufacturing the composite, including proper fiber dispersion and mixture workability; and
suggested solutions. Chapter 7 develops the fundamental relationships associated with fiber and
matrix volumes or weights and their fractions, fiber count, fiber spacing, specific surface, equivalence relations, and the like.
Chapters 8 to 14 focus specifically on analytical modeling, and Chapter 15 offers a look at the challenges ahead.
—Techno Press 3000, www.technopress3000.com
Price: $200; 765 pp.; ISBN: 978-0-9674939-3-0

Products&Service
Literature&Videos
ASTM C1851-18
Standard Practice for Determining the Extent of Cracking in a Sealant using the Difference
between the Compressive and Tensile Modulus
ASTM C1851-18 outlines a way to quantitatively determine the extent and causes of cracking in a building sealant
by evaluating the difference between the measured compressive and tensile modulus of a sealant relative to an
unexposed or uncracked version of the same sealant. During measurements, cracks will reduce the area of the sealant in
the tensile test, but they will not change the area of the sealant in the compressive test. Manufacturers could use the new
standard to determine and ultimately enhance durability. The standard was developed by ASTM International
Committee C24, Building Seals and Sealants.
—ASTM International, www.astm.org

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Product
Showcase
Coatings, Sealers, &
Surface Preparation
KARNAK 321 K-NRG Seal VP
KARNAK K-NRG Seal™ VP is a liquid-applied, elastomeric membrane designed to provide a vapor permeable air and
water barrier when applied to above-grade wall assemblies. This product is a single-component, water-based acrylic
coating that cures to a monolithic rubber-like membrane with expansion and contraction properties, which resists air
leakage. K-NRG Seal VP incorporates antimicrobial technology to produce a mold-resistant membrane.
—KARNAK, www.karnakcorp.com

W. R. MEADOWS CEM-KOTE FLEX ST

W. R. MEADOWS’ CEM-KOTE FLEX ST is a two-
component, breathable, fiber-reinforced cementitious
coating. Designed for positive and negative dampproofing,
CEM-KOTE FLEX ST can be used in new construction and
restoration projects. It can be applied by brush or sprayed to
suit the application. CEM-KOTE FLEX ST provides
excellent adhesion and crack bridging and is an approved
NSF/ANSI 61 barrier material. This permeable membrane
allows substrate moisture to escape.
—W. R. MEADOWS, www.wrmeadows.com

Watco Cold Set Coating

Watco Floors’ Cold Set Coating is a floor paint designed to withstand wear and tear from heavy warehouse traffic.
The coating can be applied to most concrete surfaces at temperatures as low as 14°F (−10°C), and it is ready for foot
traffic after 24 hours at 32°F (0°C). Cold Set Coating is a polyaspartic floor paint that provides stain resistance and is
low in VOCs. It can be applied indoors or outdoors. It resists fading or yellowing due to UV radiation and can be used
in areas with direct sunlight exposure.
—Watco Floors, www.watcofloors.com

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 Product Showcase

APV NeverFade Exterior Coatings

APV NeverFade® Exterior Coatings are water-based and
low-VOC façade restoration coating systems. The topcoats
contain Kynar Aquatec® PVDF resin, a tough, engineered
thermoplastic that maintains high stability when exposed to
harsh thermal, chemical, and ultraviolet environments.
NeverFade contains complex inorganic pigments and UV
blocking additives to inhibit fading and extend lifecycles of
building façades. The chemistry also resists staining, dirt
pickup, and mold growth. NeverFade can be color matched to
bold colors, even metallic tones. APV offers a 15-year warranty
on color performance when applied by a certified contractor.
—APV Engineered Coatings, www.neverfadecoatings.com

Hempadur Multi-Strength 35530

Hempadur Multi-Strength 35530 is a solvent-free, two-
component, high-build, polyamine adduct cured epoxy paint.
It cures to a coating with good resistance to abrasion,
seawater, and fresh water. It can be applied as a lining in
potable water tanks and pipelines.
—Hempel, www.hempel.com

SCOFIELD SelectSeal Plus

SCOFIELD® SelectSeal Plus™ waterborne concrete
sealer produces a gloss with low odor. It can be used
within most buildings. This high-solids formulation
provides wet slip resistance while forming a tough stain-
and abrasion-resistant finish. The sealer can be used on
interior or exterior colored or uncolored concrete. SelectSeal
Plus can be applied using a brush, roller, or sprayer.
—SCOFIELD, www.scofield.com

STARSEAL GUARD DC
Vexcon Chemicals STARSEAL GUARD DC can be used
as a penetrating water-repellent sealer and a dissipating white
curing compound for fresh concrete. This water-based product
forms a temporary film that restricts moisture loss. After the
curing compound wears off, the concrete remains protected
from freezing-and-thawing cycles, salts, and deicer chemicals.
It meets ASTM C309 curing requirements and the chloride
ion penetration requirements of NCHRP 244.
—Vexcon Chemicals, www.vexcon.com

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Chapter
Reports
Southern California Chapter –
ACI Sam Hobbs Service
Award
The Southern California Chapter –
ACI donated $10,000 to the ACE
Mentor program in Los Angeles, CA, at
the Sam Hobbs Service Award event
January 18, 2018. This is an annual
donation from the chapter. The Sam
Hobbs Service Award was founded in
1973. The award honors Sam Hobbs,
who was one of the founders of the ACI
chapter system and the moving force in
establishing the first chapter.
The Sam Hobbs Service Award is
given to an individual who has
dedicated years of service to the chapter
and to the concrete industry. Each year,
the previous winner chooses the
recipient of this great honor. This year’s
Sam Hobbs recipient is Neal Lynch,
who recently retired from Cemex in
the Los Angeles area.
Rob Graine, Southern California Chapter –
ACI President, presented ACE Mentor
representative Steve Smith with a donation
Southern California Chapter – ACI Sam
Hobbs Service Awardee Neal Lynch with his
wife and two sons
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Nebraska Chapter – ACI
Elections and Project Awards
The Nebraska Chapter – ACI
announced its 2018 Officers and Board
Members at the chapter’s 2017 Awards
of Excellence Banquet, held in Omaha,
NE, on February 2, 2018. The officers
and board members are:
•• Officers—Josh Kankovsky,
President, Thiele Geotech, Inc.; Kyle
Poff, President Elect, Kearney
Concrete Company; Tom Trumble,
Vice President, Olsson Associates;
Bryan Kratky, Secretary, Lamp
Rynearson; Michael Willman,
Treasurer, W. R. Grace; Kristi
Nohavec, Past President, Leo A.
Daly; and Jereme Montgomery,
Executive Secretary, Stephens &
Smith Construction.
•• Board Members—Jiong Hu,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln;
David Thibault, Stephens & Smith
Construction; Tyler Jensen, Ash
Grove; Kelly Naslund, Paulsen
Concrete; Paul Kostal, Beatrice
Concrete; and Cal Splattstoeser,
Nebraska Department of Transportation.
The chapter also acknowledged
outstanding projects at the banquet. The
chapter’s Awards of Excellence
competition recognizes concrete
construction and practices completed in
2016-2017 within the state of Nebraska.
Five projects were granted “Outstanding
Achievement” awards, and three
projects were granted the chapter’s
“Award of Excellence,” the highest honor.
The 2017 Outstanding Achievement
winners were:
•• University of Nebraska Scott
Campus Parking Structure, Omaha,
NE—University of Nebraska Omaha,
Owner; HDR, Architect; AGA
Consulting, Structural Engineer;
Sampson Construction, General
Contractor; Stephens and Smith,
Concrete Contractor; and Ready
Mixed Concrete Co. Omaha,
Concrete Supplier;
•• East Norfolk Avenue Paving and
Bridge Improvements Project,
Norfolk, NE—City of Norfolk,
Owner; Olsson Associates, Structural
Engineer; Dixon Construction
Company, Contractor; A&R
Construction, Concrete Contractor;
and Gerhold Concrete Company,
Concrete Supplier;
••FLOOD, Omaha, NE—Mike Nesbit
Studio, Owner; Enterprise Precast
Concrete, Inc., Structural Engineer;
and Ross Miller, Contractor;
••Stenciled Concrete Drive, Private
Residence, Lincoln, NE—Private
Residence, Owner; Stephens &
Smith Construction Company,
Concrete Contractor; and Ready-
Mixed Concrete Co., Inc. – Lincoln,
Concrete Supplier; and
••Central Community College,
Kearney Center, Kearney, NE—
Central Community College –
Kearney, Owner; Wilkins ADP,
Architect; Lange Structural Group,
LLC, Structural Engineer; Sampson
Construction, Contractor; Bigzby
Concrete Inc., Concrete Contractor;
Ready Mixed Concrete Company –
Kearney, Concrete Supplier; and
Enterprise Precast Concrete, Inc.,
Precast Supplier.
The 2017 Award of Excellence
winners were:
••Pelican Bay Backyard Remodel,
Lincoln, NE—Lynn Leach, Owner;
Loeck Design, Architect; Lincoln
Concrete, Specialist General
Contractor; and Husker Ready-Mixed
Concrete, Concrete Contractor;
••UNMC Fred & Pamela Buffett
Cancer Center, Omaha, NE—
University of Nebraska Medical
Center, Owner; HDR, Architect and
Structural Engineer; Kiewit Building
Group, Contractor; Daedalus
Construction Company, Concrete
Contractor; and Ready Mixed
Concrete Co.- Omaha, Concrete
Supplier; and
 Chapter Reports

•• Omaha Marriott Downtown at the Capitol District, Omaha,

NE—Shamrock Development, LLC, Owner; LEO A
DALY, Architect and Structural Engineer; JE Dunn
Construction, Contractor; Chad Springborg Construction, Inc.,
Concrete Contractor; Ready Mixed Concrete Co., Concrete
Supplier; and Coreslab Structures, Inc., Precast Supplier.
The Nebraska Chapter – ACI congratulates all the project
participants for their contributions to the advancement of the
concrete industry. The chapter also thanks the 2017 awards
banquet sponsors: Shamrock Development LLC and Boral
Resources, as well as annual sponsors: Ash Grove Cement
Company; Kearney Concrete Company; Stephens & Smith
Construction Company, Inc.; GCP Applied Technologies;
ECONSTRUCT USA; LLA; BASF Construction Chemicals; Nebraska Chapter – ACI 2018 Officers and Board Members: (back
Nebraska Concrete and Aggregates Association; Lyman- row, from left) Jiong Hu, David Thibault, Josh Kankovsky, Bryan
Richey Corporation; Paulsen, Inc.; Brett Admixtures; Thiele Kratky, and Kristi Nohavec; (front row, from left) Jereme Montgomery,
Geotech; and Thrasher, Inc. Michael Willman, Kelly Naslund, and Tom Trumble; (not pictured)
For more information, visit www.acinebraska.org. Kyle Poff, Tyler Jensen, Paul Kostal, and Cal Splattstoeser

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ASTM C187 – Normal Consistency ASTM C1437 – Flow of Mortar

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On the
Move
Sanders
David Sanders, FACI, joined Iowa State University
(ISU), Ames, IA, as Chair of the of Civil, Construction and
Environmental Engineering Department. He was recently
Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, at the University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV.
Sanders received the 2017 ACI Joe W. Kelly Award. He is
also a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers
(ASCE) and the ASCE Structural Engineering Institute. He
received his BS from ISU, and his MS and PhD from The
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. Sanders is Chair
of ACI Subcommittees 318-E, Section and Member
Strength, and 445-A, Shear & Torsion-Strut & Tie. He also
serves on ACI Committees 318, Structural Concrete
Building Code; 341, Earthquake-Resistant Concrete Bridges;
369, Seismic Repair and Rehabilitation; the Structural
Journal Editorial Board; and Joint ACI-ASCE Committees
423, Prestressed Concrete; and 445, Shear and Torsion.
ACI member Pete Fosnough is Managing Director of The
Epoxy Interest Group of the Concrete Reinforcing Steel
Institute (CRSI). Fosnough will be responsible for all
operations of the Epoxy Interest Group, promoting the
interests and advantages of epoxy-coated reinforcing steel to
the user community. Prior to joining CRSI, Fosnough was
with Harris Rebar, Auburn, IN, where he managed the
installation and start-up of the company’s Bourbonnais epoxy
coating operation. Fosnough received his BA in computer
science/mathematics from DePauw University, Greencastle,
IN, and his MSM in operations and strategic management
from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. Throughout his
career, Fosnough has been active on industry technical
committees supporting sustainability, codes, and standards
initiatives. He serves on ACI Committee 222, Corrosion of
Metals in Concrete; Joint ACI-ASCC Committee 117,
Tolerances; and Joint ACI-CRSI Committee 315, Details of
Concrete Reinforcement.
Doug Leng joined Vector Corrosion Technologies as Vice
President, Business Development (Marine/Waterfront). Leng
received his degree in metallurgical engineering from
Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI. He has
over 25 years of corrosion experience and is a member of
NACE International, serving on 15 technical committees.
Leng is also a member of the International Concrete Repair
Institute (ICRI) and ASCE.
iQ Power Tools appointed Jim Mackall to Vice President
of Sales. Mackall will be responsible for the company’s
nationwide sales team, new business development, and
expansion of existing markets. He has previously served in
Fosnough Wood Kim
leadership and sales roles at US LBM Holdings, Steeler,
BlueLinx, and Hitachi Power Tools. Mackall has over
15 years of experience in sales and regional development.
Honors and Awards
Sharon L. Wood, FACI, Dean of the Cockrell School
of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, was
honored by ASCE as the 2018 Outstanding Projects and
Leaders (OPAL) award-winner in education. The ASCE
OPAL awards honor outstanding civil engineering leaders
for their lifetime accomplishments. Wood leads a school
with nearly 8000 students and 280 faculty. She has
promoted project-based learning in the undergraduate
curricula, launched a new 10-year strategic research plan,
and initiated BS programs in environmental engineering
and computational engineering. For ASCE/SEI, she has
served on the Department Heads Council Executive
Committee, as Chair of the Task Committee on
Accreditation of Structural Engineering Programs, and on
several other committees. Wood received the 1993 ASCE
Alfred Noble Award, and the following year she was
recognized with the Director’s Award for Distinguished
Public Service by the U.S. Army Construction Engineering
Research Laboratory, Champaign, IL. She received her
BS in civil engineering from the University of Virginia,
and her MS and PhD from the University of Illinois. An
ACI Past President (2015-2016), Wood serves on various
ACI committees.
Yail Jimmy Kim, FACI, Professor in the Department of
Civil Engineering at the University of Colorado Denver,
Denver, CO, was inaugurated as President of the Bridge
Engineering Institute. Kim is organizing the Bridge
Engineering Institute Conference 2019, to be held in
Honolulu, HI, July 22-25, 2019, along with the Organizing
Committee and the International Scientific Committee.
Kim’s research interests encompass advanced composite
materials for rehabilitation, structural informatics, complex
systems, and science-based structural engineering, including
statistical, interfacial, and quantum physics. Kim is a
Council Member of the International Institute for FRP in
Construction, and he serves as an Associate Editor/Editorial
Board Member for two international journals. He is Chair of
ACI Committee 345, Concrete Bridge Construction,
Maintenance, and Repair; and ACI Subcommittee 440-I,
FRP-Prestressed Concrete. He also serves on ACI
Committee 342, Evaluation of Concrete Bridges and Bridge
Elements; ACI Committee 440, Fiber-Reinforced Polymer
Reinforcement; Joint ACI-ASCE Committee 343, Concrete
Bridge Design; and various subcommittees of ACI 440.
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Calls for
Papers
Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent
Infrastructure
Meeting: 9th International Conference on Structural
Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure (SHMII-9),
August 4-7, 2019, in St. Louis, MO; organized by Missouri S&T.
Solicited: SHMII-9 will address the theme of “Transferring
Research into Practice.” Abstracts and papers are solicited to
report research on emerging technologies, approaches to
facilitate technology transfer, and the unique field
demonstrations of existing and new technologies. Preference
will be given to papers focused on transferring research into
practice. Visit https://shmii-9.mst.edu for more information.
Deadline: Abstracts are due by June 1, 2018.
Technical inquiries: Genda Chen, SHMII-9 Conference
Chair, e-mail: gchen@mst.edu, telephone: +1.573.341.4462.
Sustainable Construction Materials and
Technologies
Meeting: Fifth International Conference on Sustainable
Construction Materials and Technologies (SCMT5), July 14-17,
2019, Kingston University London, Kingston Hill Campus,
Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, UK; sponsored by Coventry
University, the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Center for
By-products Utilization, and local hosts.
Solicited: Technical themes are efficient and sustainable
use of construction materials, technological advances for
sustainable practice, designing structures and building for
sustainability, and regulatory framework and government
initiatives. Visit www.scmt.org.uk for more information.
Requirements: Abstracts of 200 to 300 words as a
Microsoft Word file are invited.
Deadlines: Abstracts are due by June 30, 2018; final
papers are due by March 11, 2019.
Send to: kingstonuniversityeventsSEC@kingston.ac.uk.
Notable Concrete in Las Vegas and Vicinity
Document: Compendium of notable concrete in Las Vegas and
vicinity for e-publication at The ACI Concrete Convention and
Exposition – Fall 2018 in Las Vegas, NV, October 14-18, 2018;
compiled by ACI Committee 124, Concrete Aesthetics, and
co-sponsored by the Las Vegas Chapter – ACI, AIA Las Vegas/
AIA Nevada, and SEASoN. The document will also be available
as an electronic file on the ACI website, and may be excerpted in
Concrete International. Images submitted will be stored and
available as electronic files on the ACI website and may be used in
ACI educational and promotional materials. Exceptional images
may merit placement on the cover of Concrete International.
Solicited: Image and brief description of notable concrete
(cast-in-place, precast, post-tensioned, masonry, or tilt-up) in all
types of uses—buildings, monuments, pavement, silos, bridges,
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Calls for Papers: Submission Guidelines
Calls for papers should be submitted no later than 3 months prior to the
deadline for abstracts. Please send meeting information, papers/presentations
being solicited, abstract requirements, and deadline, along with full contact
information to: Keith A. Tosolt, Managing Editor, Concrete International,
e-mail: keith.tosolt@concrete.org. Visit www.callforpapers.concrete.org for
more information.
crypts, furniture, retaining walls, utility poles, tanks,
sculpture, culverts, plazas, and whatever else has caught your
attention. Significance may be historical, aesthetic,
sustainable, functional, structural, construction-related,
unusual use or application, or simply personal affection.
Requirements: 1) Name and location of submission;
2) image (photograph, drawing, or sketch) that is not
copyrighted; 3) brief description that establishes significance
and lists credits; and 4) submitter’s name, title, organization,
city and state, telephone, and e-mail address. Location
information should include zip code. Submit all information
in electronic format: image as JPG or TIFF file at least 1 MB
(but no more than 4 MB); text in e-mail or as Microsoft Word
document (120 words maximum). No PDF files, please.
Deadline: Materials are due by July 1, 2018.
Send to: Michael J. Paul, Larsen & Landis, 11 W. Thompson
St., Philadelphia, PA 19125, mpaul@larsenlandis.com.
Prestressed Concrete with Conventional and
Nonconventional Materials
Meeting: Technical session on “Prestressed Concrete with
Conventional and Nonconventional Materials” at The ACI
Concrete Convention and Exposition – Fall 2019, October 20-24,
2019, Cincinnati, OH; sponsored by ACI Committee 345,
Concrete Bridge Construction, Maintenance, and Repair.
Solicited: The special session will focus on the recent
advancement of prestressed concrete for bridges and structures
using conventional and nonconventional materials. Presentations
and technical papers will include the conceptual development
of innovative prestressed concrete, laboratory experiments,
numerical modeling, and case studies. State-of-the-art
prestressing techniques and nonconventional materials such as
fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites to address the
sustainable performance of concrete members will also be
considered. An ACI Special Publication will be published.
Requirements: 1) Presentation/paper title; 2) author/
speaker name(s), title, affiliation, and contact information; and
3) an abstract of 200 words.
Deadlines: Abstracts are due by July 31, 2018; final papers
are due by November 30, 2018.
Send to: Yail Jimmy Kim, University of Colorado Denver,
e-mail: jimmy.kim@ucdenver.edu; and Hiroshi Mutsuyoshi,
Saitama University, e-mail: mutuyosi@mail.saitama-u.ac.jp.
Self-Compacting Concrete and Rheology
Meeting: Ninth International RILEM Symposium on
Self-Compacting Concrete (SCC9) and second International
RILEM Conference on Rheology and Processing of
Construction Materials (RheoCon2), September 8-11, 2019, at
Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany. The event is

supported by RILEM, fib, ACI, Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft,
Deutsche Rheologische Gesellschaft, and DAfStb.
Solicited: The aim of these two parallel and closely
interconnected events is to exchange ideas and experience
about the development, testing, and applications of cement-
based and other building materials with their specific
rheological properties. The SCC9 conference is expected to
cover the following topics: material design and materials
science; rheology and workability; production and placement;
mechanical properties and structural design; durability and
sustainability; modeling and numerical simulations; and case
studies. In addition to contributions on concrete and
cementitious binders, RheoCon2 technical topics will include
grouts, renders, plasters, bitumen, paints, and adhesives. Visit
http://tu-dresden.de/bau/ifb for more information.
Requirements: Submit abstracts online at https://tu-
dresden.de/bau/ifb/das-institut/news/scc9-rheo2.
Deadline: Abstracts are due by October 30, 2018.
Contact: Martina Awassi, Conference Secretary, e-mail:
scc9@mailbox.tu-dresden.de.
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Calls for Papers
Bridge Engineering
Meeting: Bridge Engineering Institute Conference 2019
(BEI-2019), July 22-25, 2019, in Honolulu, HI; organized by
the Bridge Engineering Institute.
Solicited: The main theme of BEI-2019 is “Frontiers of
Bridge Engineering.” Abstracts are invited on topics including
construction materials; mechanics of materials; laboratory-
and large-scale testing; modeling and analysis; construction,
maintenance, repair, and rehabilitation; application of fiber-
reinforced polymer (FRP) composites; reliability
investigations; soil-structure interaction; dynamics, earthquake,
wind, impact, and vibration control; structural health
monitoring/nondestructive testing; design and innovation; and
accelerated bridge construction. Further details are available
at www.beibridge.org.
Requirements: Submit abstracts online at www.beibridge.org/
Submission_BEI2019.html.
Deadline: Abstracts are due by October 31, 2018.
Contact: Yail Jimmy Kim, University of Colorado Denver;
e-mail: jimmy.kim@ucdenver.edu.
ACI offers dozens of
FRP resources including
codes, standards,
SP documents, published
journal articles, and
ACI University
on-demand courses.
Learn more at concrete.org.
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Industry
Focus
Interstate 10 at 70 Years Celebratory Event
State legislators, leadership of the California Department
of Transportation (Caltrans), and construction industry leaders
gathered to commemorate the 70-year anniversary of a section
of Interstate 10 (I-10) between Ontario and San Bernardino,
CA. The concrete pavement freeway is a vital link to business,
commerce, and personal mobility in the region, and it is
crucial to the provision of goods and services nationwide. The
California Senate and State Assembly recognized the freeway
with a formal proclamation, calling attention to the pavement’s
longevity and remarkable service. The pavement was also the
first in the United States that was restored using diamond
grinding. The event was co-hosted by CalPortland, Caltrans
Region 8, California Nevada Cement Association, Southwest
Concrete Pavement Association, with additional support from
the American Concrete Pavement Association and Portland
Cement Association.
CMC Acquires Assets of MMFX Technologies
Corporation
Commercial Metals Company (CMC) announced that its
wholly owned subsidiary, CMC Steel Fabricators, Inc., has
acquired substantially all assets of MMFX Technologies
Corporation (MMFX). MMFX markets, sells, and licenses the
production of proprietary specialty steel products, including
its ChrōmX line of high strength, corrosion-resistant
reinforcing bars. MMFX operates out of Irvine, CA, and its
products are sold throughout the United States and Canada.
Schnabel Engineering Opens Seattle Office
Schnabel opened its first office on the West Coast in
Seattle, WA. Alex Rutledge and Robert Indri will relocate to
open the company’s 20th location. Both engineers have each
been with Schnabel’s Greensboro, NC, office for more than
10 years. Rutledge and Indri will be supported by a national
team of skilled technical professionals as they provide dam
and levee, geotechnical, and geostructural engineering design
services in the region.
DFI Winners of 2017 Student Paper Competition
and Young Professor Paper Competition
Sarah Mobley and Kelly Costello, graduate students in the
department of civil and environmental engineering at the
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, are the winners of the
2017 DFI and DFI Educational Trust Student Paper
Competition. Their paper, “The Effect of Slurry Type on
Drilled Shaft Cover Quality,” presented the findings of
laboratory experiments on 24 tremie-placed concrete
specimens designed to investigate the correlation between
slurry type (bentonite, polymer, and natural slurry) and
laitance channel formation. Two runners-up were also selected
for the 2017 Student Paper Competition: Jennifer Ostrowsky,
Utah State University, Logan, UT, for “A New Approach for
Evaluating the Ductility, Volumetric Stiffness and
Permeability of Cutoff Wall Backfill Materials,” and Martijn
van Wijngaarden, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the
Netherlands, for “Gravity Based Foundations for Offshore
Wind Turbines: Cyclic Loading and Liquefaction.” In
addition, four student papers received special recognition:
“Statistical Analysis of Design Method for the Axial Capacity
of Single Driven Piles in Glacial Tills,” by Markus Jesswein,
EIT, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada; “Physical
Modelling of Lime Stabilisation in Soft Soils Around Deep
Excavations,” by Jignasha Panchal, City, University of
London, London, UK; “Challenges Associated with the
Regional Calibration of Resistance Factors for Drilled
Shafts,” by Philippe Kalmogo, Iowa State University, Ames,
IA; and “Field Study of Blast-induced Liquefaction Dragloads
on Drilled Shaft Foundations,” by Elvis Ishimwe and Richard A.
Coffman, Associate Professor, University of Arkansas,
Fayetteville, AR.
The DFI and DFI Educational Trust 2017 Young Professor
Paper Competition winner is Arash Khosravifar, Portland
State University (PSU), Portland, OR. In the paper
“Development of a Design Guideline for Bridge Pile
Foundations subjected to Liquefaction-induced Lateral
Spreading,” Khosravifar and his co-author Jonathan Nasr,
graduate student researcher at PSU, describe new equivalent
static analysis (ESA) methods that combine inertial and
lateral spreading loads for estimating elastic and inelastic
pile demands.
The first runner-up of the Young Professor Paper
Competition is Hoyoung Seo, Texas Tech University,
Lubbock, TX. Seo, along with co-author Mintae Kim, of
Texas Tech University. Their paper is titled “Soil Plug
Behavior of Open-Ended Pipe Piles during Installation.”
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Conference on Deep Foundations in October 2017 in New
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Sinopsis en español

Todo es más grande en Texas
Rojas, A., Concrete International, V. 40, No. 5, mayo de
2018, págs. 25-27
La colocación de Mega Slab en la General Motors (GM, por
sus siglas en inglés) Arlington Assembly Plant, Arlington,
TX, fue un ejercicio exitoso de planificación y ejecución. El
proyecto, una losa de 203 mm de espesor que cubre 23,780
m2, requerido 4950 m3 de concreto para ser colocado y
terminado dentro de tres turnos de 12 horas. El primer y tercer
turno exigieron 53 trabajadores cada uno, mientras que el
segundo turno exigió 78 trabajadores. Juntos, completaron una
losa que alcanzó niveles excelentes de planitud y nivelación
del piso (FF / FL) de 56/42.
transmisión submarina de gas natural, principalmente para
proporcionar flotabilidad negativa para las secciones de
tubería. Este concreto se prepara usando agregados de peso
pesado (mineral de hierro) y típicamente tiene una relación
de agua-cemento de 0.33. Los resultados del estudio descrito
en este artículo indican que el contenido de vacío se puede
reducir usando relaciones de agua-cemento que exceden el
valor típico. Esto permitirá el ahorro de costos a través de
reducciones en la proporción de agregado pesado en la mezcla.
Especificando para el desempeño
Obla, K.H.; Gancarz, D.J.; Owings III, W.R.; Yazbeck,
F.H.; y Tepke, D.G., Concrete International, V. 40, No. 5,
mayo 2018, págs. 32-36

Efecto de la relación agua-cemento en el revestimiento de
peso de concreto
Alymov, E., Concrete International, V. 40, No. 5, mayo de
2018, págs. 28-31
Concreto de asentamiento cero puede ser usado para
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Concrete
Q&A
Allowable Tolerances for
Suspended Slab Edge
Q.
What are the allowable tolerances for an
exterior edge of an elevated concrete deck slab?
ACI 117-10(15), Provision 4.2.1,1 states that
“vertical elements” are allowed up to ±1 in. (25 mm) but also
says that “edge locations of all openings” are allowed only
±1/2 in. (13 mm). Would the exterior edge of slab be
considered a vertical element or would it fall under the more
stringent tolerance for edge location of all openings?
A.
Unfortunately, the current version of ACI 117 does
not explicitly identify the edge of a concrete slab
as an element with tolerances for horizontal
deviation. It also does not define the timing of measurements.
I expect that these issues will be clarified in the next edition.
As of now, the intent of ACI 117-10(15), with respect to slab
edges, is to consider them in the category of “other elements”
with horizontal tolerances of ±1 in.
That said, it is highly advisable that slab edge location be
one of the primary discussion points of the preconstruction
tolerance coordination meeting (refer to ACI 117-10(15),
Provision 1.1.3 and Commentary Provision R1.1.3). There is
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a lot to consider, including the effects of shrinkage and
post-tensioning. I have included a few references that provide
information on slab edge displacements over time. In general,
it is not unreasonable to anticipate that the combined effects
of shrinkage and post-tensioning can total about 1 in. in 100 ft
or 25 mm in 30.5 m (1/2 in. on each edge).2-5 It is also
important to discuss with the designers and system installers
the effect of long-term vertical deflection.
From understanding the initial tolerances and the behavior
of the slab after placement, an appropriate design can be
prepared with a comprehensive approach to slab edge
conditions. In my company, we frequently work with curtain
wall installers and have found that an initial tolerance of ±3/4 in.
(19 mm) works well. I have also seen tolerances specified by
other designers that allow the overall tolerance of ±1 in. but
restrict the relative deviation between adjacent floor levels.
References
1. ACI Committee 117, “Specification for Tolerances for Concrete
Construction and Materials (ACI 117-10) and Commentary (ACI 117R-10)
(Reapproved 2015),” American Concrete Institute, Farmington Hills, MI,
2010, 76 pp.
2. Suprenant, B.A., and Malisch, W.R, “Movements That Affect
Tolerance Measurements,” Concrete International, V. 38, No. 7, July
2016, pp. 27-32.
3. Bondy, K., “Shortening Problems in Post-Tensioned Concrete
Buildings,” SEAOSC Seminar Proceedings: Design Review and Inspection
of Prestressed Concrete Building Projects, Jan. 1989, 20 pp.
4. Aalami, B.O., and Barth, F.G., “Cracking in Prestressed Concrete
Structures,” Cracking in Prestressed Concrete Structures, SP-113, G.T.
Halvorsen and N.H. Burns, eds., Amercan Concrete Institute, Farmington
Hills, MI, 1989, pp. 157-202.
5. Allred, B., “Common Post-Tensioning and Construction Issues,”
Structure, July 2005, pp. 22-25.
Thanks to Eric S. Peterson, Webcor Builders, Knightsen, CA, Chair of
Joint ACI-ASCC Committee 117, Tolerances, for providing the answer.
Questions in this column were asked by users of ACI documents and have
been answered by ACI staff or by a member or members of ACI technical
committees. The answers do not represent the official position of an ACI
committee. Comments should be sent to rex.donahey@concrete.org.
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