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Professor Marios Soutsos

School of Natural and Built Environment
Professor Marios Soutsos

Professor Marios Soutsos

School of Natural and Built Environment

Concrete Technology with particular interest in Cement Replacement Materials, e.g., Pulverized Fuel Ash, Ground Granulated Blast Furnace Slag, Condensed Silica Fume and Metakaolin, especially their use in Fast-Track Construction, Thermal Stresses in Concrete at Early Ages, Use of Construction and Demolition Waste as Aggregate in Concrete, Alkali-Activated Binder (Geopolymer) “Cementless” Concrete, Ultra High Performance Fibre Reinforced Concrete (UHPFRC) for Blast and Impact Resistant Concrete Structures.

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  • m.soutsos@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0) 28 9097 4023

Research Interests

Cementless “Geopolymer” Concrete for Sustainable Construction, Impact Resistance of Ultra High Performance Fibre Reinforced Concrete, Crack-inducing thermal stresses in safety-critical concrete structures, Structural Behaviour of Concrete Block Pavements, Ultra High Performance Fibre Reinforced Concrete for Bridge Structures

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Current Research Opportunities

  • Crack-inducing thermal stresses in safety-critical concrete structures
  • Impact Resistance of Ultra High Performance Fibre Reinforced Concrete
  • Structural Behaviour of Concrete Block Pavements: Finite Element Modelling of the effect of construction pattern and unit interlock
  • Ultra High Performance Fibre Reinforced Concrete for Access Floor Tiles
  • Cementless “Geopolymer” Concrete for Sustainable Construction
  • The use of decommissioned wind turbine blades as girders in bridges

Public outreach & key achievements

  •  The Circular Driven Economy symposium:  | 
  • 跡4: Reuse and recycling of materials and structures in energy efficient prefabricated elements for building refurbishment and construction”, EC-Horizon 2020 

Research students

PhD area Impact Resistance and Modelling of Ultra High Performance Fibre Reinforced Concrete (UHPFRC) Slabs
Name Yuanye He
Years of study 2017-2020
Country China
   
PhD area An investigation into the Rheology of superplasticized high performance concrete
Name Gary Boon
Years of study 2018 – 2024 (part time)
Country Australia

Alumni: Where are they now

Name Dr Le TrungThanh
Current Position President of Vietnam Institute for Building Materials, Ministry of Construction
   
Name Dr Kangkang Tang
Current Position Senior Lecturer in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, Design and Physical Sciences, Brunel University London

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