A workshop on Transport Properties & Concrete Quality was held at the campus of Arizona State University on October 10-12, 2005. During this meeting, scientific aspects of the relevant relationships between materials, mechanisms, processes, and service life were discussed. Areas covered at the workshop included field observations, fundamentals, and applied state-of-the-art, all communicated in terms of the relationship between transport properties, durability, and quality of concrete infrastructure. Approaches that combined different techniques, disciplines, and length-scales were combined to study the inter-relationships among permeation, diffusion, microstructure, pore structure, and transport mechanisms. Other aspects discussed during the meeting involved hydration mechanisms and the role of supplementary materials, deterioration, mathematical and computer modeling, testing, specifications, and field experience.
