Corneliu Bob
University Politehnica of Timisoara, Romania
Biography
Corneliu Bob graduated at the University Politehnica of Timisoara–Romania in 1961 and Ph.D. Civil Engineering in 1971 at the same University. In 1990 he became professor of R.C. Structures and Ph.D. – Scientific Coordinator at the Civil Engineering Faculty in Timisoara. From 1996 till 2004 he was the Head of the National Building Research Institute–Timisoara Branch. He has also been very active in the Romanian Associations for Civil Engineering: National Association Engineering for Structural Analysis, Bucharest, Romanian Concrete Commission, Romanian Academy–Material Science. Member of IABSE since 1992, at the same time he became the member in the Permanent Committee, Chairman of the IABSE Romanian Group and member of the SED Editorial Board. He has published 28 books, 300 papers in Journals and Proceedings of National and International Meetings and 8 Patents. The field of interest of works is rehabilitation of structures, analysis and design of structures, durability of buildings, new special concrete types. In the last period he has had a lot of important works on the “Building Sustainability”. He also played an important role in development of assessing of existing structures and in design of new buildings and he has devoted great energy in promoting the role of students and young engineers as designers and researchers
Abstract
Abstract : About the deterioration of concrete structures due to the shrinkage and temperature variation