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Chairlady: Prof. Yao Yan
Secretary: Dr. Xinyu Shi
Address: China Building Materials Academy, Guanzhuang Dongli 1#, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100024, China.
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Dr. Roberto TORRENT

Last name
Torrent
Title
Civil Eng., PhD
First name
Roberto
Tel.
+41797740601
Country
Argentina/Switzerland
E-mail
torrent.concrete@gmail.com
Organization
Materials Advanced Services Ltd.
Address
Av. Libertador 3590, 1425 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Brief Curriculum Vitae
 
  • Civil Eng. (Univ. of Buenos Aires, Argentina), PhD (Univ. of Leeds, UK)
  • Head of Construction Dept., National Institute of Industrial Technology (Argentina)
  • Head of Materials Dept., Yacyretá Dam Project (Argentina-Paraguay)
  • Head of Concrete Technology Div., Holcim (Switzerland)
  • Technical Director, Portland Cement Institute, Argentina
 
  • Consultant in Technology of Cement, Concrete and Concrete Constructions
 
  • Associated Editor, Cement and Concrete Research
 
  • Former RILEM Bureau Member
  • RILEM Fellow
  • Presently RILEM MAC Member
  • Member of past RILEM TC 116-PCD “Permeability of concrete as a criterion of its durability”
  • Chairman of past RILEM TC 189-NEC “Non-Destructive Evaluation of the Penetrability and Thickness of the Concrete Cover” and co-editor of its State-of-the-Art RILEM Report No. 40.
  • Member of current RILEM TC 230-PSC ”Performance-based Specification and Control of Concrete Durability”
  • Past President and Honorary president of AAHES (Argentine Assoc. of Structural Concrete) and Past President of AATH (Argentine Assoc. of Concrete Technology)
  • Lecturer in several conferences and postgraduate courses
  • Some 100 publications
 
Research interests related to the TDC
 
  • Have the chance to exchange approaches for Experimental Service Life Design, based on testing
  • As developer of a non-destructive test method to measure the coefficient of air-permeability (Swiss Standard SIA 262/1-E:2003), I am interest to discuss its suitability for the aims of TC-TDC. Since the method is applicable to recently finished and aged structures alike, it should reflect the effect environmental and mechanical loads have on the permeability of the concrete cover (e.g. pore structure, cracks, etc.)
  • As a result of my past and present activities in RILEM TCs, I have a considerable amount of literature on test methods, mainly applicable on site, to measure the “penetrability” of the concrete cover. I already have an Annotated Bibliography on the test method I developed, with about 100 publications worldwide
  • At the moment, partly fulfilling a commitment of TC 230-PSC, I have been working on modeling service life based on non-destructive experimental determination of cover depth and air-permeability on site
  • I may act as liaison between TC-TDC and TC 230-PSC, if nobody is fulfilling that role so far
 
 
I intend to co-operate primarily in the following group during the initial phase:
□ Group A contributing to the literature review - YES
□ Group B contributing to the comparative test - YES
Relevant Publications
 
·         Dalimier, M., González, P. and Torrent, R., "Improvement in IRI Values of Concrete Pavements Constructed in Argentina with Slip-Form Pavers", 7th Intern. Confer. Concrete Roads, Orlando, 9-13 Sept. 2001.
·         Carbó, C., Fernández Luco, L., Moreno, S. and Torrent, R., "Self-consolidating concrete: design and performance", 1st North-American Confer. on the Design and Use of Self-Consolidating Concrete, Chicago, 12-13 November 2002.
·         Fernández Luco, L. and Torrent, R., “Diagnosis of a case of harmless alkali-silica reaction in a cracked concrete pavement", 6th CANMET/ACI International Conference on Durability of Concrete, Thessaloniki, Greece, June 1-7, 2003.
·         Fernández Luco, L., Pombo, R. and Torrent, R., “Shrinkage-compensating concrete in Argentina”, ACI Concrete International, May 2003, pp. 49-53.
·         Torrent, R., "Towards a Performance-based Specification and Conformity Control of Durability", fib Symposium “Structural Concrete and Time”, La Plata, Argentina, Sept. 2005.Torrent, R., "Performance-based Specification and Conformity Control of Durability", Intern. RILEM Workshop on “Performance Based Evaluation and Indicators for Durability”, Madrid, Spain, 19-21 March 2006.
  • RILEM TC 189 NEC, "Non-Destructive Evaluation of the Penetrability and Thickness of the Concrete Cover", Torrent, R. and Fernández Luco, L. (Eds.), RILEM Report 40, May 2007, 223p.
  • Di Pace G., Calo D. and Torrent, R., “Assessment of concrete permeability in tunnels”, SACoMaTIS 2008, Proc. of Intern. RILEM Confer. (Eds. L. Binda, M. di Prisco and R. Felicetti), Varenna, Italy, 1-2 September 2008, Vol. 1, pp. 327-336.
  • Jacobs, F. and Torrent, R., “Swiss Standard SIA 262:2003, a step towards performance-based specifications for durability”, RILEM Conference “Concrete in aggressive aqueous environments - Performance, Testing, and Modeling”, Toulouse, France, 3 - 5 June 2009
  • Denarié, E., Jacobs, F., Leemann, A., Teruzzi, T. and Torrent, R., “Specification and site control of the permeability of the cover concrete: the Swiss approach”, International Conference on Advances in Construction Materials through Science and Engineering, 65th RILEM Week, Hong Kong, China, 5-7 September 2011
  • Torrent, R., "Non-Destructive Air-Permeability Measurement: from Gas-Flow Modelling to Improved Testing", Paper 151, Microdurability 2012, Amsterdam, 11-13 April, 2012.
  • Torrent, R., Griesser, A., Moro, F. and Jacobs, F., "Technical-economical consequences of the use of Controlled Permeable Formwork", ICCRRR, Cape Town, South Africa, September 2012.
  • Torrent, R. and Ebensperger, L., " Measurement of the air permeability of concrete 'in situ': status quo", ICCRRR, Cape Town, South Africa, September 2012
 

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