Table of Contents

Foreword 1. Keynote lectures (Z.P. Bažant & Q. Yu, Modeling of concrete creep and hygrothermal deformations, and computation of their structural effects; S.L. Billington, Alternate approaches to simulating the performance of ductile fiber-reinforced cement-based materials in structural applications; A.E. Huespe, J. Oliver, G. Díaz & P.J. Sánchez, Recent developments on computational modeling of material failure in plain and reinforced concrete structures; J. Mazars, F. Dufour, C. Giry, A. Rouquand & C. Pontiroli, Concrete under various loadings, way to model in a same framework: Damage, fracture and compaction; B. Pichler & C. Hellmich, Upscaling quasi-brittle strength of cement-based materials: A continuum micromechanics approach; F.-J. Ulm, R.J.-M. Pellenq & M. Vandamme, C-Crete: From atoms to concrete structures) 2. Constitutive and multi-scale modelling 3. Advances in numerical methods 4. Time-dependent and multi physics phenomena 5. Modelling of concrete structures 6. Hazards, risk and safety (fire, blast, seismicity)

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Nenad Bicanic, René Borst, Herbert Mang, Gunther Meschke