The Cements Division of The American Ceramic Society is involved with the research, development, manufacture, and sale of cements, limes, and plasters. Developments in Portland cement occupy much of the Division members’ efforts.
Division Chair
Jeff Chen
Group Leader
Lafarge Centre de Recherche
95 Rue de Montmurier-BP 15, 38291 St Quentin Fallavier, France
Watch the video of Dr. Leslie J. Struble presenting the 2013 Della Roy Lecture. Dr. Struble presented her lecture at the Cements Division Annual Meeting, held July 8-10, 2013 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The lecture was titled: Effects of Calcium on the Geopolymer Reaction
Brunauer Best Paper Award This award is presented for the best scientific paper on the topic of cement and concrete published by ACerS during the previous year.
2013 Winning Paper:
“The Instantaneous Apparent Activation Energy of Cement Hydration Measured Using a Novel Calorimetry-Based Method”
Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 95 (10) 3291-3296 (2012)
2011 Winning Paper:
“New Insights into the Effect of Calcium Hydroxide Precipitation on the Kinetics of Tricalcium Silicate Hydration”
Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 93 (7) 1894-1903 (2010)
by Jeffrey W. Bullard and Robert J. Flatt
2010 Winning Paper: “First-Principles Study of Elastic Constants and Interlayer Interactions of Complex Hydrated Oxides: Case Study of Tobermorite and Jennite” Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 92 (10) 2323-2330(2009) by Rouzbeh Shahsavari, Markus J. Buehler, Roland J.-M. Pellenq, and Franz-Josef Ulm
L.E. Copeland Award This award recognizes an individual for outstanding contributions to the development and understanding of cement and concrete science. Presentation of this award is considered whenever the Copeland Award Committee feels that there is a suitable candidate.
The Della Roy lecturer is selected each year by the division executive committee. The recipient does not need to be a member of the Cements Division or the Society at large.
2014 Della Roy Lecturer:
Ellis Gartner, scientific director (chemistry), Lafarge Central Research, France
Lecture title: 40 Years a Cement Scientist – can this be Sustainable?
2013 Della Roy Lecturer:
Leslie J. Struble, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lecture title: Calcium in Geopolymers
Watch the video of Dr. Struble presenting the lecture “Effects of Calcium on the Geopolymer Reaction”
2012 Della Roy Lecturer:
Edward Garboczi, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Lecture title: The Computational Materials Science of Concrete: Past – Present – Future
2011 Della Roy Lecturer: Karen Scrivener, Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Construction Materials at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland). Lecture title: Modelling Hydration Kinetics of Cementitious Systems
2014 Student Poster Winners:
Ojas Chaudhari, Tennessee Technological University
William Hunnicutt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Alvaro Paul, Georgia Institute of Technology
Mohammad Rashidi, Georgia Institute of Technology
Peter Stynoski, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and US Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory
Raikhan Tokpatayeva, Purdue University
Christopher Galitz, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
