Venue Presenter

Dresden, host city to the Summer School and capital of Saxony, is a special place in many ways: it welcomes its visitors with a unique constellation of the river Elbe in harmony with www.tu-dresden.de the city centre’s development. You can still experience traditional Dresden dating back to the Baroque era with famous sights such as the Zwinger, Semperoper, cathedral, the recently rebuilt Frauenkirche and many famous art collections (e.g. Grünes Gewölbe). Local organizing committee

Viktor MECHTCHERINE Jörg R. NOENNIG Dresden International Martina AWASSI Iurie CUROSU Steffen MÜLLER Egor SECRIERU Summer School (DISS)

Accommodation

Free accommodation will be provided to HIGH-PERFORMANCE international participants in the International FIBRE-REINFORCED Guest House of the TU Dresden, which is within walking distance of the Summer CEMENT-BASED School facilities. In well justified cases COMPOSITES (HPFRCC) German participants will be offered rooms The Technische Universität Dresden, the free of charge as well. FOR FUTURE venue of the Summer School, is one of Further information INFRASTRUCTURE eleven German Universities of Excellence since its being named as such in June 2012. Further information can be accessed through Its roots date back to 1828. Nowdays, it is the event homepage the home of learning for about 35,000 www.tu-dresden.de/biw/ifb/diss2015, students, offers scientific education through or you may contact our school secretary: Dresden 14 different faculties and serves industry with Ms Martina AWASSI its vast resources. Institute of Construction Materials Faculty of Civil Engineering 26-31 July 2015 The lectures at the Summer School will be Technische Universität Dresden held in Room E02 at Georg-Schumann-Str. 7. DE-01062 Dresden, Germany The exercises will be carried out in the Alfred- Phone: +49 351 463 36311 Hütter-Laboratory of the Inst. of Construction Fax: +49 351 463 37268 Materials at Georg-Schumann-Str. 7a. email: [email protected]

Summer School of Excellence Lecturers Application

The use of new types of fibre-reinforced The Dresden International Summer School is Well-qualified PhD students and Post-Docs concrete could revolutionise the planning, offered as a series of interactive lectures by are encouraged to apply for participation in development, dimensioning, structural and leading international experts in the field, such the Summer School by April 30, 2015. The architectural design, construction and as: applications will be reviewed by a jury at the renovation of building structures in many Prof. Michael Kaliske (TU Dresden) TU Dresden. Decisions on participation will be areas of application. The International Prof. Minoru Kunieda (Gifu University) made by Mai 15, 2015. Please note that due Summer School focuses on novel high- Prof. Viktor Mechtcherine (TU Dresden) to the limited number of participants not all performance fibre-reinforced, cement-based Prof. Barzin Mobasher (Arizona State Univ.) applicants can be invited to join the Summer composites (HPFRCC) for new construction Prof. Marco di Prisco (Politecnico di Milano) School. In cases of equivalent qualifications as well as for the strengthening and repair of Prof. Volker Slowik (HTWK Leipzig). the person(s) applying first will be preferred. buildings and infrastructure. The Summer The lectures will be followed by theoretical The application should include: School is part of the TU Dresden's and practical exercises. • CV Institutional Strategy funded by the • Motivation letter Excellence Initiative of the German Federal • Recommendation letter by your professor. and State Governments..

Scope

The goal the Summer School is to bring PhD students and post-doctoral candidates working with novel HPFRCC together and give them a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art research in the field of the material design and testing of such materials as well as of their use in new construction and for the strengthening and repair of buildings and infrastructure. The focus will be Fees and sponsoring on textile-reinforced concrete (TRC) and Participants, completion strain-hardening cement-based composites Participation in the Summer School includes (SHCC). Lectures and exercises will be The number of participants will be limited to an attractive cultural program which is free of offered to the following topics: 30 top, mostly international PhD students and charge to all participants. Beyond that, TU  Production and early age properties Post-Docs. At the conclusion of the Dresden will cover the travel and  Mechanical characterisation and material International Summer School session a accommodation costs of international modelling certificate of participation will be issued to all applicants up to 100%. In well grounded  Structural design: New structures and participants. Credit points, if desired, will be cases partial support can be offered German strengthening certified as well to the participants who participants as well. The event is supported  Durability and durability design submit a written report either on the results by RILEM (www.rilem.org), fib  Building physics and architectural design. and evaluation of lab exercises or on the (www.fibinternational.org.), IA-FraMCoS solution of theoretical tasks. (framcos.org), and DAfStb (www.dafstb.de).