Prof. Kamal Henri Khayat from Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) visited the Department of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University on May 15, 2018. Prof. Khayat is Fellow of ACI and RILEM. He serves as director of the Center for Infrastructure Engineering Studies at Missouri S&T and director of the Tier-1 University Transportation Center for Research on Concrete Applications for Sustainable Transportation. He is the recipient of some ACI Medals and Awards.

Prof. Khayat gave a comprehensive presentation titled “Recent Advances in Pumping of High Perance Concrete”. In his presentation, Prof. Khayat represented the state-of-the-art research of the measuring method of lubrication layer in pumping pipe, prediction method of pumping pressure and applicability of the analytical models.

After the presentation, Prof. Khayat had a further discussion with the attendance on the rheology and pumpability of High perance concrete and visited the laboratory of Building Materials.

Dr. Khayat is a chair professor of Missouri S&T, meanwhile, Prof. Khayat is an adjunct professor of Hunan University. His research efforts and professional services have been recognized with several honors and awards. Prof. Khayat has authored and co-authored over 200 publications and advised 20 Ph.D. students, 45 Masters students, as well as 15 post-doctoral fellows and visiting scholars. He has been featured as keynote speaker at several International Symposia. Some of his more note-worthy awards have come from CANMET/ACI, ASTM Sanford Thompson, Concrete Producer Magazine, the Quebec Concrete Association, The Ministry of Municipal Affaires of Quebec, ASCE, and the US Army Corps of Engineers. He was elected fellow of ACI in 2004.