Azichem at the International Conference at Tor Vergata (Rome): "The New Boundaries of Structural Concrete"

The research activity carried out in collaboration with the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Brescia, under the coordination of Prof. Eng. Fausto Minelli, continues apace.

Studies are evaluating a range of new structural mortars, characterized by very high physical-mechanical performance, made using significant proportions of recycled materials.

The use of recycled materials represents an important challenge to bring greater environmental sustainability to high-performance products used for rehabilitation and reinforcement works in our building heritage. This philosophy also meets the new national and European directives on environmental action plans aimed at reducing the exploitation of natural resources.

Ongoing research is bringing absolutely interesting results that were presented by engineer Matteo Lamberti in a keynote at the International Conference "The New Boundaries of Structural Concrete - ACI NBSC, Rome September 2024."

The paper presented "Properties of high performance fiber reinforced concrete containing electric arc furnace slags" focuses on some of the results obtained and charts the course on future research developments, which will continue with full-scale tests of structural elements reinforced with ultra-high performance fiber reinforced castable mortars.

The paper, published in the conference proceedings, was written by Matteo Lamberti (*), Fausto Minelli (*), Roberto Rosignoli (**) and Matteo Stancari (**).

(*) University of Brescia, Department of Civil Engineering Environment Territory Architecture and Mathematics
(**) Azichem srl, Technical Management - Research and Development