Keynote Speaker: Professor Brian Uy
The University of Sydney, Australia
Talk Title: Structural engineering research in high performance steel and composite structures
Biography of the Speaker: Professor Brian Uy commenced as Professor of Structural Engineering and Head of the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Sydney in November 2016. He was previously Professor of Structural Engineering and Director of the Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety (CIES) in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The University of New South Wales from 2013-2016 and was awarded a Scientia Professorship from 2017-2022. Brian also holds an Adjunct Professor role within the School of Engineering and Information Technology at UNSW, Canberra (Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA)). More detail about the speaker is available on https://www.sydney.edu.au/engineering/about/our-people/academic-staff/brian-uy.html
Keynote Speaker: Professor Xiao-Ling Zhao
University of New South Wales, Australia
Talk Title: Fatigue of High Strength and Ultra-High Strength Steel
Biography of the Speaker: Professor Xiao-Ling Zhao is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering, a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia. Prof. Zhao was selected as Australia's Top Researcher in the field of Structural Engineering in 2019 and as Australia's Top Researcher in the field of Civil Engineering in 2021 by The Australian’s Research Magazine. More detail about the speaker is available on https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/professor-joshua-zhao
Keynote Speaker: Professor Hong Hao
Curtin University of Technology, Australia
Talk Title: Metaconcrete Structure to Resist Impulsive Loads
Biography of the Speaker: Professor Hong Hao's research focuses on earthquake engineering, blast and impact engineering and structural health monitoring. His work aims to develop both new and upgraded structures that can withstand short-duration, high-impact blast loads. Professor Hao is also investigating newer materials, including Carbon FRP, Glass FRP and various polymers to increase the strength, ductility and energy absorption capability of structures. More detail about the speaker is available on http://structuraldynamics.curtin.edu.au/
Keynote Speaker: Professor Jin Guan Teng
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Talk Title: TBA
Biography of the Speaker: Professor Jin-Guang Teng, President and Chair Professor of Structural Engineering of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), is a Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences. He received his BEng Degree from Zhejiang University in 1983 and his PhD degree from the University of Sydney in 1990. His main research areas include the structural use of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites in construction and steel structures. Many of his research findings have been adopted by relevant design codes/guidelines in China, Australia, Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States. The research awards he has received include the State Natural Science Award of China (Second Class) and the inaugural IIFC Medal from the International Institute for FRP in Construction (IIFC). More detail about the speaker is available on https://www.polyu.edu.hk/en/cee/people/academic-staff/prof-jin-guang-teng/
Keynote Speaker: Professor Riadh Al-Mahaidi
Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Talk Title: Enhancement of Safety of Structures under Extreme Events through Innovative Materials and Advanced Testing Techniques
Biography of the Speaker: Dr Riadh Al-Mahaidi is a Professor of Structural Engineering and Director of the Smart Structures Laboratory at Swinburne University of Technology. Prior to joining Swinburne in January 2010, he was the Head of the Structures Group at Monash University. Over the past 20 years, he focused his research and practice on the lifetime integrity of bridges, particularly in the area of structural strength assessment and retrofitting using advanced composite materials. He currently leads a number of research projects on strengthening of bridges using fibre reinforced polymers combined cement-based bonding agents, fatigue life improvement of metallic structures using advanced composite systems, and shape memory alloys. He recently started some projects on hybrid testing of structures. He received a BSc (Hon 1) degree in civil engineering from the University of Baghdad and MSc and PhD degrees in structural engineering from Cornell University in the United States. To date, Riadh published over 250 journal and 270 conference papers. He was awarded the 2012 Vice Chancellor's Internationalization Award, the WH Warren Medal 2017 for the best paper published by Engineers Australia in civil engineering in 2016, the RW Chapman Medals in 2005 and 2010 for best journal publication in Engineers Australia Structural Journal, best paper awards at ACUN-4 (2002) and ACUN-6 (2012) Composites conferences. Prof Al-Mahaidi and his research group won the 2016 Engineers Australia Excellence Award for Innovation, Research and Development (High Commendation) for the $2.1mil Multi-Axis Substructure Testing (MAST) System they built at Swinburne. For further information, visit https://www.swinburne.edu.au/research/our-research/access-our-research/find-a-researcher-or-supervisor/researcher-profile/?id=ralmahaidi
Keynote Speaker: Professor Rebecca Gravina
University of Queensland, Australia
Talk Title: Durability of FRP Strengthened Reinforced Concrete Structures
Biography of the Speaker: Professor Rebecca Gravina is the Queensland Government Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) Chair and Professor of Structural Engineering, in the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. She also held the position Professor of Civil and Infrastructure Engineering at RMIT University in Melbourne. Professor Gravina has over 25 years of experience in academia and consulting engineering. Her research field concerns the long-term performance and durability of reinforced concrete (RC) and prestressed concrete (PC) structures, sustainability of infrastructure, rehabilitation of existing structures with Fibre Reinforced Polymers (FRP), recycled materials in concrete, and engineering education. Professor Gravina is the Editor in Chief of the Australian Journal of Civil Engineering, President of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Australian Section (2020-2022), and Executive Committee Member of the International Institute for FRP in Construction (IIFC).
Invited Speaker: Professor Yan Zhuge
University of South Australia, Australia
Talk Title: Recent research progress on FRP/Fibre textile-reinforced UHPC Composites
Biography of the Speaker: Dr Yan Zhang is a Professor in Structural engineering and the Professorial leads in Research Education, UniSA STEM, University of South Australia (UniSA). She was appointed as the Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Expert since 2019. Yan has lectured in several Australian universities for more than 25 years. Her main research interests include green concrete materials, fibre composite materials and structures. She has published more than 200 SCI technical papers in the referred international journals and conferences and has been invited as a keynote speaker at Australia and international conferences. Yan has won several Australian government awards and fellowships and attracted funding from Australian Research council (ARC) and industry. She was the winner of 2018 South Australia Winnovation award in Engineering category.
Invited Speaker: Associate Professor Xinqun Zhu
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Talk Title: Recent developments on vehicle-assisted bridge structural health monitoring
Biography of the Speaker: Dr Xinqun Zhu obtained his PhD at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2001. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in Structural Engineering at University of Technology Sydney (UTS). His research interests include structural health monitoring and condition assessment, Steel-Concrete Composite Structures, physics-informed machine learning, and advanced signal processing and sensor technology. Dr Zhu has been a Chief Investigator (CI) of over 20 research projects including three ARC Discovery Grants (DP110101328, DP160103197, DP220102045). He has published over 200 articles including two research books and 147 referred journal papers. His journal papers have been well-cited with a Google Scholar h-index of 39. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the Executive Committee of Australian Network of Structural Health Monitoring and the Structural Health Monitoring and Control Committee in Engineering Mechanics Institute of ASCE. He is also an Associate Editor of international Journal of Advances in Structural Engineering.
Invited Speaker: Associate Professor Dr Siti Aminah Osman
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
Talk Title: Experimental Behavior of Twin-Layer Flat Steel-Sheet Composite Wall System (TFSCWs) with Opening under In-Plane Lateral Cyclic Loading
Biography of the Speaker: Dr Siti Aminah Osman (S. A. Osman) graduated from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in 1992 with BEng (Hons) in Civil Engineering, MSc in Structural Engineering from Unversity of Bradford, United Kingdom (1995) and PhD in Civil & Structural Engineering from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (2006). She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) and is actively involved in research on structural dynamics for earthquake and wind loading, industrial building systems (IBS) and engineering education as well. She has more than 20 years of experience in teaching, training, research, publication and administration. She has published many papers related to her work internationally and locally. Currently, she is the Deputy Dean of Networking and Alumni of the faculty and is quite active in the activities with the industries and communities which is in line with her portfolio. She is also a member of the Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM) and the Society of Engineering Education Malaysia (SEEM).