About the Conference

Over the past three decades, extensive deterioration has been reported in numerous concrete structures, notably in Canada, the USA and Ireland, due to eleterious oxidation reactions in sulfide-bearing aggregates (SBA) and subsequent internal sulfate attack. This conference will focus on discussing, evolve diverse ideas and try to address these issues to better concrete buildings. It is vital to identify additional crucial issues and help understand why they occur.

In addition to dramatically impacting the life of people/families working/living in the buildings affected, this serious concrete pathology triggered extensive scientific research and engineering developments to better understand the mechanisms involved and identify the critical influential parameters, to develop practical solutions to deal with structures affected and to develop recommendations for preventing potential (future) cases.