XV International Congress on the Chemistry of Cement (ICCC 2019)

The statistics of reports of the XV international Congress on the Chemistry of Cement, held in Prague on September 16–20, 2019, is presented. The analysis of the presented reports by thematic sections, on the basis of which the main world direction of research – development and application of alternative binders is obvious, was carried out. The table of distribution of reports by countries and co-authorship reveals the leaders of cement science. These are China (63 reports), Germany (60 reports), Spain (33 reports), the USA and France (32 reports each). It is also concluded that international cooperation is expanding – more than 50% of the reports have authors from different countries. Statistics show that research in the chemistry of cement and materials on its basis is concentrated not only in universities, but is actively carried out in specialized institutes of building materials, construction institutes, own research centers of large industrial corporations, as well as military establishments. There was a threefold decrease in the participation of Russian scientists in the Congress relative to the previous event. Only four reports from Kazan and Ufa were submitted from Russia.

R.Z. RAKHIMOV, Doctor of Sciences (Engineering)
N.R. RAKHIMOVA, Doctor of Sciences (Engineering)

Kazan State University of Architecture and Engineering (1, Zelenaya Street, Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan, 420043, Russian Federation)

1. The XIII International Congress on Chemistry of Cement. Stroitel’nye Materialy [Construction materials]. 2011. No. 11, pp. 66–67. (In Russian).
2. Rakhimov R.Z., Rakhimova N.R. XIV International congress on the chemistry of cement. Tsement i ego primenenie. 2015. No. 3, pp. 102–105. (In Russian).
3. Сement and Concrete Research, Volume 124F, 2019, Keynote Papers of International Conference on Cement Chemistry, 2019, Prague.