11th Euroseminar
on Microscopy Applied to Building Materials
June 5-9, 2007,
University of Porto, Portugal
Tuesday 5th June
08.30
Registration
open
09.30 Workshop The importance of sample
preparation for petrographic study tbc
Maarten
Broekmans NGU, Norway
12.30 Lunch*
14.00 Workshop Forensic examination of concrete
tbc
Michael
Thomas (Organizer), University of Brunswick, Canada
Paul
Bennett-Hughes - STATS, UK
Maarten
Broekmans NGU, Norway
17.00
Technical visit:
The granite, the stone and the city
19h00 Ice-breaking party at Porto Solar (www.ivp.pt)
Wednesday 6th June
09.00
Welcome address and Plenary
Session
10.00 Keynote speaker:
Diagnosing
Delayed-Ettringite Formation in Concrete Structures
09.45
Cement
and concrete
Technical
sessions
12.30 Lunch*
14.00 Technical sessions
18.30 Porto sightseeing
by boat Cruise of the six bridges (http://www.douroacima.pt/)
Thursday 7th June
09.00
Keynote speaker:
Jens Götze, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany
Application of Nomarski DIC and cathodoluminescence
microscopy to
building materials
09.45 Microscopy and
complementary techniques
Technical sessions
12.30 Lunch*
14.30 Stone
as a building material. Repair of historic buildings
Technical
sessions
19.00 Euroseminar dinner at Taylors Cellars (http://www.tresseculos.pt/)
Friday 8th June
09.00 Keynote speaker:
Benoit Fournier, CANMET-MTL, Canada
How reliable are the laboratory tests methods for evaluating potential
alkali-reactivity of concrete aggregates and preventive actions against AAR?
09.45
Aggregates
Technical sessions
12.30 Lunch*
14.00 Technical
sessions
16.30 12th
EMABM, 2009
17.00 Summary,
discussion and close of Euroseminar
Saturday 9th
June
08.00 Technical visit:
Stone deterioration
Concrete: Alkali-silica reaction
09.00 Coimbra Stone
deterioration in historical monuments
12.00 Departure to Pracana Dam (tbc)
13.30 Lunch
15.30
Visit to the dam with EDP (Electricity of
Portugal technicians)
21.00 Arrival at Porto
*Lunches
will be served to the participants from Tuesday, June 5th to Friday, 8th
June next to the Conference auditorium.
Please indicate your intension to attend the workshops and the technical visits, all included in the Euroseminar registration fee.