CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS

Abstracts:

Papers of original nature for presentation to SCAMI-2 are invited to be presented at the conference on the following topics, and to be included in the conference proceedings. Author(s) are invited initially to submit a one page (A4) abstract (around 300 words) in English with a paper title, authors’ name, affiliation, mailing address, telephone/facsimile numbers and E-mail address outlining the major content and conclusions. The papers should be submitted by authors by e-mail, fax, or mail to the conference secretariat. We strongly encourage the submission of abstracts electronically.

     

      Dr. Wei-Xin Ren

      School of Civil Engineering & Architechure

      Central South University

      22 Shaoshan South Road, Changsha

      Hunan Province 410075

      P.R. of China

      Tel: +86 (0)731-2654349; Fax: +86 (0)731-5571736

      E-mail: renwx@mail.csu.edu.cn  Website: http://bridge.csu.edu.cn

or

      Dr. Xinqun Zhu

      School of Civil & Resource Engineering

      The University of Western Australia

      35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009

      Australia

      Tel: +61 (0)8-64887051; Fax: +61 (0)8-64881044

      E-mail: zhu@civil.uwa.edu.au

 

IMPORTANT DATE

Abstract Submission	January 15, 2007
Abstract Acceptance	January 30, 2007
Submission of full papers	May 15, 2007
Paper Acceptance	June 15, 2007
Submission of final camera-ready papers	July 15, 2007
Pre-registration due	October 15, 2007

 

 

Special Sessions:

 

This conference (SCAMI-2) is intended to present several special sessions where each session will focus on a special topic or important issue in the area of structural condition assessment, monitoring and improvement (structural renewal). Anyone who is interested in organizing or chairing a special session is kindly invited to submit the proposal to the conference. Please directly contact with either of both Conference Chairmen.

 

The following special sessions will be presented at the conference:

·                       Vehicle-Structure Interactive Vibration (Organized by Prof. Y.B. Yang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, Email: ybyang@nyu.edu.tw )

·                      Train Derailment (Organized by Prof. Q.Y. Zeng, Central South University, China, Email:zzhyy@mail.csu.edu.cn)

·                      Operational Modal Analysis (Organized by Prof. R. Brincker, Aalborg University, Denmark, Email: rb@svibs.com 

	and Prof. L. Zhang, Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics, China, Email:lmzae@nuaa.edu.cn)

·                      Vibration-Based Structure Assessment (Organized by Prof. G.D. Chen, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA, Email: gchen@umr.edu)

·                      Vibration Measurements and System Identification (Organized by Prof. B. Xu, Hunan University, China, Email: binxu@hnu.cn)

Conference Proceedings:

 

All papers will be subjected to peer review except keynote and invited papers. Accepted papers will be published as hard cover books by an international publisher. Selected extended papers will be considered to be published in referred international journals as a special issue after the conference.