AIM: Collaboration of prestigiuos associations ACI, fib and RILEM aimed to harmonize design rules and jointly develop future code specifications in the emerging field of FRC and similarly of UHPFRC.

HISTORY: RILEM has been already active at the beginning of 1990s in FRC. Since 2010, the fib and ACI have been collaborating to strengthen ties between their technical communities. Their first focus area was Fibre Reinforced Concrete (FRC), where both organizations had active committee: ACI Commissions 544, 239, 549 and fib Task Group T4.1. These collaborations has led to a series of successful international workshops in the field of Fibre Reinforced Concrete - From Design to Structural Applications:

FRC 2014 - Montreal, Canada Fibre Reinforced Concrete - From Design to Structural Applications, Polytechnique Montreal. Proceedings published in:

ACI SP-310: Fibre-Reinforced Concrete: From Design to Structural Applications FRC 2014: ACI-fib International Workshop (Link)

Bulletin No. 79. Fibre-reinforced concrete: From design to structural applications.(Link)

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FRC 2018 - Desenzano, Italy Reinforced Concrete - From Design to Structural Applications. Proceedings published in:

ACI SP-343: Fibre Reinforced Concrete: From Design to Structural Applications (Link)

Bulletin No. 95. Fibre Reinforced Concrete: From Design to Structural Applications. Proceedings of the ACI-fib-RILEM International Workshop - FRC2018. (Link)

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FRC 2023 - Arizona State University, USA Website (Link) Publications forthcoming

The foundation for these workshops date back to 2004 with the first International Workshop on Advances in Fibre Reinforced Concrete held in Bergamo, Italy, organized by Giovanni Plizzari and Marco di Prisco during BEFIB 2004. This event, supported by ACI, focused on developing structural design methodologies for FRC (Editors: S. Ahmad, Marco di Prisco, Christian Meyer, Giovanni Plizzari, Surendra Shah).

Catania, Italy, 2007 - FRAMCOS 6 Workshop, chaired by Carpinteri, Ferro, and Giovanni Plizzari. Published in Materials & Structures (2009, Special Issue).

Budapest, Hungary, 1999 - Early conference on FRC, organized by György L. Balázs, bringing together international researchers on Fibre Reinforced Concrete - from research to practice Proceedings link.