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Four concrete research projects are receiving funding from the Concrete Research Council (CRC) this year. <\/span>
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The Concrete Research Council<\/a> (CRC) is providing research grants to promote progress, innovation, and collaboration within the concrete industry.<\/p>\n

CRC is a council of the American Concrete Institute\u2019s (ACI\u2019s) non-profit subsidiary, the ACI Foundation. The level of funding being provided for research grants was increased from $10,000 per project to $50,000, and this past year\u2019s call for proposals brought a high volume of submissions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe efforts of the CRC will boost the impact that the ACI Foundation\u2019s funding will have on the concrete industry,\u201d said Joe Bracci, CRC chair. \u201cThe increase in grant amount and a more competitive selection process has brought more proposals from researchers and more interest and support from ACI committees.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cUpdate to Guidelines for Performance-based Seismic Design of Tall Buildings,\u201d by Jack Moehle of the University of California Berkeley and Ron Hamburger of Simpson, Gumpertz, and Heger (SGH), is one of the projects getting funded. Their goal is to advance seismic design of tall buildings through performance-based design, review, acceptance, and construction of building materials, structural systems, and devices that may or may not be covered by the prescriptive provisions of today\u2019s building codes.<\/p>\n

\u201cTowards Mechanistic Pavement Design of Pervious Concrete Pavements,\u201d by Somayeh Nassiri and J. Daniel Dolan, professors at Washington State University, is also getting funded. This project explores pervious concrete pavement (PCP)\u2014a technology often desirable for city streets, bike lanes, parking lots, and sidewalks due to its fast infiltration of storm water. The researchers will perform field and lab testing on several PCP installments to study how it fatigues.<\/p>\n

The third and fourth funded projects are: \u201cEstablishing Unified Durability Guidance on Chloride Ion Limits, Freeze-thaw Performance, and External Sulfate Attack for ACI Documents,\u201d by Jason Ideker of Oregon State University, Kimberly Kurtis of Georgia Institute of Technology, Michael Thomas of the University of New Brunswick, and Anthony Bentivegna of CTL Group; \u201cDeformed Steel Fibers as Minimum Shear Reinforcement in Deep, Prestressed Concrete Hollow-core Slabs,\u201d by Gustavo Para-Montesinos of the University of Wisconsin\u2014Madison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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