Farmington Hills, Michigan, United States (October 24, 2018)—The American Concrete Institute (ACI) has announced the winners of its 2018 Pervious Concrete Cylinder Student Competition. The competition took place at the recent Concrete Convention and Exposition in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. The first, second and third place winners in the cylinder performance and cementitious efficiency categories receive cash awards of $750, $500 and $250, respectively.
Teams were challenged to apply sustainability concepts and to use their knowledge of concrete-mixture design by producing pervious concrete that balanced permeability and splitting tensile strength. Teams were additionally challenged to develop a mixture design that demonstrated cementitious efficiency; that is, maintaining the overall performance of the mixture with the lowest amount of cementitious material. The winners are as follows:
Cylinder Performance Category
- 1st Place—University of Sherbrooke, Canada
Students: Cedric Gauthier, Philippe Dubois, Anthony Côté, Sebastien Cloutier,
Raphael Gosselin, Antoine Lamontagne-Dalphond
Advisor: Ammar Yahia - 2nd Place—Centro de Investigación Multidisciplinaria Aragón, Mexico
Students: César Apolinar Valencia Alonso, Eduardo Popocatl Sánchez, Ulises Alfredo
Zarza Orozco, Mario Alberto Ramirez Franca, Vanessa Itzel Perez Lamadrid
Advisor: José Paulo Mejorada Mota - 3rd Place—Universidad de Cuenca, Ecuador
Students: Andrés Asmal, Pablo González, Victor Samaniego, Pablo Vasquez,
Esteban Zeas, María Ojeda
Advisor: Daniel Mogrovejo
Cementitious Efficiency Category
- 1st Place—Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Peru
Students: José Miguel Yataco Huamán, Ronald Bryan Valderrama Castro, Junior Juan
Carlos Ricaldi Estrella, Jhonnathan Franck Lazo Carhuaz, José Luis Ramos Delgado, Eduardo Raul Alarcon Bastidas,
Jean Pierre Gomez Perez, Angel Fermín Román Jiménez
Advisor: Carlos Alberto Villegas Martínez - 2nd Place—Pittsburg State University, U.S.
Students: Jonah Lies, Garret Gross, Gabriel Blair
Advisor: Seth O'Brien - 3rd Place—Centro de Investigación Multidisciplinaria Aragón, Mexico
Students: César Apolinar Valencia Alonso, Eduardo Popocatl Sánchez, Ulises Alfredo
Zarza Orozco, Mario Alberto Ramirez Franca, Vanessa Itzel Perez Lamadrid
Advisor: José Paulo Mejorada Mota
Winners of the Concrete Projects Competition were also announced at the ACI Convention. The winners are as follows:
Concrete Projects Competition
- 1st Place—The Effect of Rock Wool and Curing on Some Properties of Ferrocement Mortar
Authors: Aseel Sami Najaf and Safa Jasim Khudhair, University of Technology, Iraq
Faculty Advisor: Assistant Lecturer Ziyad Majeed Abed - 2nd Place—Properties of High-Strength, Self-Compacting Concrete (HSSCC) Containing Waste Ceramic Powders as Supplementary Cementitious Material
Authors: Abdullah Karim Mohammed and Eman Ibrahim Faris, Iraq University College
Faculty Advisor: Assistant Lecturer Ahmed Nasrat Mohammed - 3rd Place—Behavior of Self-Compacting Concrete Produced from Recycled Aggregate
Authors: Qasim J. Salim and Younis Y. Younis, Northern Technical University, Iraq
Faculty Advisor: Assistant Professor Dr. Eethar Thanon Dawood
ACI is currently accepting applications for the Concrete Construction Competition and James Instrument NDT Competition. The Eco Concrete Competition and Mortar Workability Competition will be held at the next ACI convention in Québec City, Québec, Canada, March 24-28, 2019. For more information on ACI’s student competitions, please visit concrete.org.
