Joost Walraven

Joost Walraven (born February 6, 1947 in Breda ) is a Dutch civil engineer.

Walraven studied civil engineering at the TU Delft with a diploma in 1972. He then went to the Stevin Laboratory at the TU Delft and received his doctorate in 1980 (Aggregate Interlock: an experimental and theoretical analysis). From 1981 to 1985 he worked for the Corsmit engineering office in The Hague . In 1985 he became professor at TU Darmstadt and in 1989 at TU Delft.

He dealt with different aspects of concrete and concrete structures such as creep and shrinkage of concrete, shearing, punching through, crack width control, rotation ability of concrete structures, behavior of precast concrete parts and recently with the development of new types of concrete (high-strength concrete, self-compacting concrete, high-performance fiber concrete, low-cement concrete) .

In 1998 he received the fip medal and in 2014 the Freyssinet medal . From 2000 to 2002 he was president of fib . He was chairman of the committee that published Eurocode 2 (concrete structures) in 2004. He also headed the fib high-performance fiber concrete working group. In 2009 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Kassel.

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