CONFERENCE THEME

The scope of the conference will be broad, covering all the aspects of structural condition assessment, monitoring and improvement in engineering and construction. Specific topics will include, but not be limited to:

1     Innovation in civil infrastructures

2     Structural and system reliability

3     Structural and system integrity

4     System identification and damage detection

5     Local /global structural condition assessments

6     Performance evaluation and re-analysis by computer modeling

7     Critical issues for health monitoring

8     Remote sensing and wireless sensor networks

9     Instrumentation and sensors for structural appraisal

10   Signal transmission and data processing

11   Smart materials and structures

12   Temperature and other environmental compensation techniques

13   On-line damage identification and safety evaluation

14   Structural strengthening, repair and retrofitting

15   Structural renewal

16   Information technology, artificial intelligence and networking

17   Maintenance, management, life-cycle cost and insurance issues

18   System applications and field tests

19   Codes and guidelines

20   Case studies and histories

Special Sessions:

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

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

3.                  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)

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

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

Anyone who is interested in organizing a special session is kindly invited to submit the proposal to the conference. Please directly contact with either of both Conference Chairmen.