CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS
Christopher Papadopoulos, Professor, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez
Kent Harries, Professor, University of Pittsburgh
HISTORY OF NOCMAT CONFERENCE SERIES
2022 marks the 18th NOCMAT conference and the 38th year of the NOCMAT conference series!
NOCMAT was initiated by Professor Khosrow Ghavami in 1984 and first held in Rio de Janeiro. With the continued support of ABMTENC, it has circled the globe since:
The organisers are please to host 2022 from Puerto Rico and the United States.
NOCMAT 2022 SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Honorary Chair of Scientific Committee and founder of NOCMAT series of conferences:
Khosrow Ghavami, Professor Emeritus, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
Felipe J. Acosta |
University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez |
Puerto Rico |
José Barroso Aguiar |
University of Minho |
Portugal |
Marie-Ange Arsene |
Université des Antilles |
French West Indies |
Normando Perazzo Barbosa |
Universidade Federal da Paraiba |
Brazil |
Lola Ben Alon |
Columbia University |
USA |
Ulisses Targino Bezerra |
Instituto Federal de Educacao, Ciencia e Technologia - Paraiba |
Brazil |
Daniel Mauricio Chacon |
University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez |
Puerto Rico |
Ernesto Villar Cociña |
Central University of las Villas |
Cuba |
Juan F. Correal |
Universidad de Los Andes |
Colombia |
Chunping Dai |
University of British Columbia |
Canada |
Hanan ElNouhy |
Housing and Building National Research Center |
Egypt |
Beatriz Garzón |
FAU UNT - CONICET |
Argentina |
Guillaume Habert |
ETH Zurich |
Switzerland |
Said Kenai |
University Blida1 |
Algeria |
A. Manzano-Ramirez |
CINVESTAV, QUERETARO |
Mexico |
Dan Maskell |
University of Bath |
United Kingdom |
Luisa Molari |
Università di Bologna |
Spain |
José María Monzó |
Universitat Politécnica de Valencia |
Spain |
Ayman Mossallam |
University of California, Irvine |
USA |
Ian Nettleship |
University of Pittsburgh |
USA |
Esther Obonyo |
The Pennsylvania State University |
USA |
Pierre Ohayon |
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro |
Brazil |
Germana Rocha |
Federal University of Paraiba |
Brazil |
Holmer Savastano Junior |
University of São Paulo |
Brazil |
Bhavna Sharma |
University of Southern California |
USA |
O. Marcelo Suarez |
University of Puerto Rico - Mayagüez |
Puerto Rico |
David Trujillo |
Coventry University |
United Kingdom |
Humberto Varum |
University of Porto |
Portugal |
Pete Walker |
University of Bath |
United Kingdom |
Jianzhuang Xiao |
Tongji University |
China |
Proceedings of NOCMAT 2022 Conference
held virtually 7-23 June 2022.
hosted jointly by University of Pittsburgh and University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez
Conference co-chairs: Christopher Papadopoulos (UPRM) and Kent A. Harries (PITT)
NOCMAT is the international forum for researchers and practitioners who seek to apply non-conventional materials and technologies in the service of providing safe, sustainable, and affordable construction in a manner that respects local customs and promotes ecological harmony.
USING ZENODO TO SEARCH NOCMAT 2022 PROCEEDINGS
Searches may be conducted on any key word or phrase (title, abstract and keywords) or author name.
In order to find all papers given in a particular session, enter that session designation into the search bar. Entering "4A" will return all papers in Session 4A.
Read moreThis community is a conference proceedings containing only accepted papers submitted to NOCMAT 2022. All papers have received at least two peer reviews and have been revised accordingly prior to acceptance. Papers are posted by the conference co-chairs.
The proceedings are now complete; no new submissions or revisions will be added [16 August 2022]