Symposium Proceedings

Thank you very much for attending "The International Symposium of Life Cycle Maintenance of Concrete Infrastructure", 24-26 September 2023. Your presence and participation helped make the event a success and we truly appreciate your support. The electronic version of the proceedings can be downloaded below: Download here.

The photos taken during the ACF committee meeting and the symposium can be found through the following link: Download here.

Aim of the Symposium

The premature deterioration of concrete infrastructures, especially those exposed to corrosive marine environment, is the cause for tremendous costs globally every year. This is a consequence of different physical and chemical actions during the structures’ service life, leading to a detrimental effect on structural performance and even structural collapse. Therefore, it is necessary to adopt a performance-based life cycle design and management approach to minimize the life cycle cost of the structure and improve sustainability. This requires a thorough understanding of various structural design and maintenance aspects, such as choice of materials, service life predictions and associated costs, condition monitoring, assessment, and maintenance strategies.

This symposium will be held in Hong Kong, China, on 24-26 September 2023. The symposium will be jointly hosted by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), Research Institute for Sustainable Urban Development (RISUD), Research Institute for Land and Space (RILS) of PolyU, and Asian Concrete Federation (ACF). The symposium aims to provide an international forum for Asian Concrete Community to exchange information related to recent advances in both research and practice and to strengthen international collaboration for the field’s future development.

Works focusing on but not limited by the following topics with regards to the life cycle performance and maintenance of concrete infrastructure, are invited for presentations in this symposium:

  • Durable materials under the saline environment
  • Mechanism of material deterioration
  • Progress of structural deterioration
  • Condition monitoring and assessment
  • Probabilistic modelling of deterioration processes in concrete structures
  • Prevention and repair of deteriorated structures
  • Probability-based design approaches for material and structural durability
  • Optimized life cycle management (LCM) strategy
  • Life cycle cost (LCC) assessment
  • Sustainability analysis
  • Codes of practice
  • Case study


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