SLD4 is a conference on Service Life Design for Infrastructures which is jointly organised by
Delft University and Tongji University as part of the RILEM week 2018 in Delft, The Netherlands.
The conference builds on the success of the previous three events on this topic held in Shanghai
(2006), Delft (2010) and Zhuhai (2014). Service Life Design for Infrastructure is a very
broad topic involving aspects starting from the material properties and behaviour, via structural
performance, serviceability and durability to integral design and asset management. All
related topics from experimental research to modelling and from codes and standards to applications
are welcomed to the conference.
The conference consist of 3 key-note papers and 132 regular papers presented over 3 days.
Parallel to the SLD4 Conference a symposium on Concrete Modelling (CONMOD2018) and
a workshop honouring Professor Klaas van Breugel were organised with topics that are related
to Service Life Design.
In total more than 350 participants took part in the events organised during the RILEM week
2018
