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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2000-07-13 human Ailie Smith updated 2025-05-07 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/A000705b.htm corporateBody CSIRO Cement and Ceramic Section Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation AACR2 CSIR/O Cement Investigations 1941 1958 9 October 1958 10 April 1960 Start Place Australia Industrial or Scientific Research The CSIRO Cement and Ceramics Section can trace its origins within the CSIR/O Division of Industrial Chemistry to 1941 when it was known as Cement Investigations and sometimes referred to as the Cement Section. It became the CSIRO Cement and Refractories Section in 1960, and remained part of the CSIRO Chemical Research Laboratories.

From "CSIRO research for Australia" (1962) pdf pages 60:
"The study of cement began in the earliest days of the Laboratories, when manufacturers offered to support research into the problems of cement production and utilization, and a Cement Section was formed. At that time there had been some spectacular failures of overseas concrete structures attributed to a chemical reaction between the cement and the aggregates. The group was able to show how failures could be avoided by proper selection of aggregate. After the war, the Section entered the field of ceramics and demonstrated the suitability of Australian clays for whiteware manufacture. Shortly afterwards, one of Britain's largest tableware manufacturers set up a factory in Melbourne.

Since then, m·ost of the work on orthodox ceramic products has been transferred elsewhere, and the section's second interest is now in refractories and allied materials. The Section has accordingly been renamed the Cement and Refractories Section. "

From "CSIR Fifteenth Annual Report 1940-1941" page 71:
"(iv) Mineral Utilization. - . . . The first work has been on problems for which laboratory accommodation and equipment could be found; consequently it has been necessary to postpone research work in such desirable fields as cement, ceramics, refactories, and in the benefication of certain minerals at present imported until better facilities and increased staff are available."

From "CSIR Sixteenth Annual Report 1941-1942"
page 50: "Cement investigations have recently been commenced, the Cement Manufacturers' Association of Australia having undertaken to provide half the costs for a period of five years."
page 53: "6. Cement Investigations. In close collaboration with the Cement Manufactures' Association of Australia, which is to share the cost, investigations are being initiated into certain aspects of cement manufacture and concrete mixing. The field for possible work has been closely surveyed and a programme for investigational work submitted for consideration by the Association."

9 October 1958 10 April 1960 Operational event - Officer-in-Charge, Arhtur John Gaskin Chemical Research Laboratories - CSIRO, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1958 - 1970) CSIRO - Sections, Groups and Units, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1949 - 2014?) CSIR/O Division of Industrial Chemistry, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1940 - 1958) CSIRO Cement and Refractories Section, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1960 - 1962)

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 'CSIRO Cement and Ceramic Section', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology CSIRO Cement and Ceramic Section Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book: CSIRO research for Australia: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization CSIRO CSIRO research for Australia: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Canberra Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organisation 1962 Book: Historical Directory of Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, 1926-1976 Schedvin, C.B; Trace, K. Historical Directory of Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, 1926-1976 Canberra CSIRO 1978