Waste and Supplementary Cementitious Materials in Concrete

Rafat Siddique is Senior Professor of Civil Engineering & Dean of Research and Sponsored Projects and Former Dean of Faculty Affairs at the Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology (Deemed University), Patiala, India. He received his doctorate in 1993 from BITS Pilani, in India and his Post-doctoral Fellowship from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA. The major thrust of his research is the Utilization of Waste Materials and Industrial By-products in Construction Materials and Supplementary Cementing Materials. He is the author of over 230 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He has published four books including two by Springer on Waste Materials and By-products and Supplementary Cementing Materials. He is the Editor of the Journal of Construction and Building Materials (Elsevier). He is also an Associate Editor of the Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering (ASCE) and Journal of Sustainable Cement-Based Materials (Taylor & Francis) for five years (2012-2017). He has been a visiting/invited Professor to a number of Universities in France, Germany, Finland, UK, USA, and Mexico, Thailand and Australia. He has been rated amongst top 10 researchers in concrete technology by Google Scholar with Citations of 9500+ having H-Factor of 53.

Paulo Cachim is an Associate Professor with Habilitation at Civil Engineering Department of the University of Aveiro, Portugal. He received his doctorate in 2000 from the University of Porto, Portugal. He is the author of over 40 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and has published three books on timber and concrete. His research interests include, besides the use of recycled and waste materials in concrete, both as aggregate or supplementary cementitious materials, the development of multifunctional concrete with carbon for infrastructure monitoring and software development for structural analysis. He has also been a visiting/invited Professor to number of Universities in Brazil, Belgium, Lithuania, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia, and Poland.