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The International Concrete Abstracts Portal is an ACI led collaboration with leading technical organizations from within the international concrete industry and offers the most comprehensive collection of published concrete abstracts.
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Document:
CI4801_Mizer
Date:
January 1, 2026
Author(s):
Jennifer Mizer
Publication:
Concrete International
Volume:
48
Issue:
1
Abstract:
Admixtures are not just additives—they are performance enhancers that can improve workability, accelerate or reduce setting times, prevent cracking, enhance durability, and extend service life. By collaborating with trusted material suppliers and staying informed about developments in admixture technology, project teams can develop mixture designs that are tailored to site conditions.
DOI:
10.14359/51749388
CI4711EngagingGlobally
November 1, 2025
47
11
In September 2025, ACI brought together international voices from ACI chapters during its International Chapter Roundtable held in conjunction with the 3rd International Workshop on Durability and Sustainability of Concrete Structures in Naples, Italy. Participants represented the United States, Canada, Italy, Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Iraq, the United Kingdom (Institute of Concrete Technology), and Greece. The 2025 edition of Jeddah Construct featured a panel discussion titled “Defining Green: Perspectives on Sustainability in Concrete Construction.” The session was moderated by Ahmad Mhanna, ACI Director for the Middle East and North Africa Region.
10.14359/51749283
CI4711Kalousdian_TS
Aram Kalousdian
Resistivity can be implemented in quality assurance and quality control operations to assess concrete durability. This article describes a U.S. Department of Transportation Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program project Callentis Consulting Group and Penn State University collaborated on to develop a practical device for measuring pore solution resistivity (PSR) and mixture resistivity and to provide direct calculation of formation factor (FF).
10.14359/51749282
SP366_12
October 1, 2025
Carmen Andrade
Symposium Papers
366
Concrete is an efficient material in terms of mechanical strength and functionality, but whose durability is one of present challenges that need particular attention to preserve the reinforcement absent of corrosion during the nominal service life. Present trends on modelling by performance make more complex the quality control testing and lengthens the characterization of new low carbon cement concretes. In present work is presented concrete resistivity as the single parameter able to characterize both corrosion periods through the corresponding mathematical expressions. Resistivity is a non-destructive test which could qualify concrete from its early ages. Based in the relation between diffusivity-corrosion current and resistivity, an integral model based in the resistivity measured at short term in the same specimens than mechanical strength (cured humid), is described. It is also analysed the analogies between the diffusivity and corrosion current and the influence of climate in the resistivity for future challenge of predicting the impact of climatic change.
10.14359/51749240
SP366_04
Jose Pacheco and Kyle Stanish
ACI Committee 365 published a new Design Specification in 2024. The Design Specification was developed to provide requirements to the Service Life Engineer, a specialty engineer focused on durability, for performing service life predictions of new structures. The Service Life Engineer is responsible for predicting the service life performance of concrete elements and developing requirements for the verification of the service life prediction during construction. The Service Life Report, developed during or prior to construction, and a Service Life Record Report, delivered at the completion of construction, are deliverables prepared by the Service Life Engineer at the completion of the project. The requirements of the Design Specification aim to provide consistency to the practice of service life prediction of new concrete structures. The technical requirements for performing service life predictions following the Design Specification are discussed in this paper.
10.14359/51749232
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