Call for Papers

To submit an abstract or session proposal, please click here.

 

How to Submit Session Requests and/or Paper Abstracts to Participate

You are invited to submit session proposals and/or paper abstracts for the 2009 STRUCTURES CONGRESS. Proposals should focus on topics consistent with the list published in this announcement. Session requests and paper abstracts should be no more than two printed pages per abstract and must be submitted through the SEI Website at www.SEInstitute.org.

SESSION REQUESTS need to include the session title and a short description of the session, name of proposed session chair and contact information (including email address), and name of the organizing/sponsoring committee (if applicable), as well as each presenter/author’s name and contact information (including email address), and each paper’s title. Each author/presenter in the proposed session MUST individually upload their abstract and select the proposed session as its topic (session MUST be uploaded first). Sessions organized by committees of SEI/ASCE are strongly encouraged.

HOW TO UPLOAD AN ABSTRACT AND CONNECT IT TO YOUR SESSION (This must be done by June 10th)

        •   Author creates an account
        •   Author logs-in
        •   Author selects upload abstract
        •   Author selects “invited session”
        •   Choose the session name that they were given by the session proposer
        •   Upload their abstract.
         

PAPER ABSTRACTS must include each author’s full name, credentials, affiliation, location, and contact information (including email address). Abstracts will be reviewed and should be sufficient to judge the quality and appropriateness of the work for the Congress. Any special comments, such as session, track, or topic for which the paper is best suited, should be written at the bottom of the abstract page.

EXPENSES All expenses related to preparing and presenting the papers, including camera-ready manuscripts and illustrations, are the responsibility of the authors and co-authors.

Format

Varied sessions are planned for the 2009 STRUCTURES CONGRESS targeted toward getting information to the practicing engineer. These sessions will cover areas that include:

  • Practical design information
  • Design applications in structural engineering
  • Landmark bridges
  • Disproportionate collapse
  • Performance-based design
  • Wind design and analysis
  • Codes and standards
  • Business and international engineering
  • State-of-the-art research and implementation
  • Enabling sustainable buildings through structural
  • design

Presentations and sessions will be selected from an open call and by invitation. Presenters must provide a maximum two-page abstract. Session proposals must include a list of participants as well as a desired session format. Individual presentations and full-session abstracts will be reviewed by the National Technical Program Committee before final acceptance.  Session formats may include but are not limited to:

  • Standard moderated speaker sessions (3 to 4 speakers
  • per session)
  • Panel discussion sessions
  • Poster sessions
  • “Ask-the-expert” mini-seminars and workshops

Suggested Technical Paper Topics

Bridge & Transportation Structures

  • Design Loads
  • Bridge Design Practice
  • Construction Issues
  • Innovations in Structural Design
  • Rehabilitation/Restoration
  • Inspection and Maintenance
  • Analysis and Material Issues
  • Monitoring and Serviceability
  • Safety of Bridges

Buildings

  • Codes and Standards
  • Design & Extreme Loads
  • Low & High Rise Buildings
  • Long Span Structures
  • Kinetic Structures
  • Construction Issues
  • Practical Design
  • Restoration and Repair ofExisting Structures
  • Structural Design Performance and Serviceability
  • Performance-Based Wind Design
  • Seismic Design Issues
  • Sustainability Issues
  • Safety of Buildings

Business & Professional Practice

  • Globalization
  • Professional Practice &
  • Engineering Management
  • Law and Ethics
  • HR Issues
  • Licensing and Certification
  • Project Delivery Systems
  • Risk Reduction and Management

Existing Structures

  • Extreme Event Loading
  • Evaluation, Monitoring, Serviceability
  • Historic Preservation
  • Unanticipated Loads
  • Rehabilitation and Reuse
  • Performance–Based Design
  • Analysis and Design for All
  • Materials

International

  • Business Practices across
  • Countries
  • Codes and Standards
  • Licensing and Regulations
  • Low-cost Structures for
  • Developing Nations
  • Structural Engineering Education

Multi/Cross-Discipline

  • Materials and Advanced
  • Technology and Methods
  • Architecture in Structural
  • Engineering
  • Forensic Structural Engineering
  • Innovation in Construction
  • Disproportionate Collapse
  • Fracture & Fatigue

Non-Building and Special Structures

  • Air-Supported & Fabric
  • Industrial Structures
  • Silos, Tanks, Dams
  • Offshore Structures

Research Advances

  • Fundamental, Analytical, and Theoretical Advances Education
  • Experimental Research Results
  • Health Monitoring and Sensor Networks
  • Large Research Projects
  • New Materials and Systems

Codes and Standards

  • Building Codes
  • Codes Complexity and the
  • Practicing Engineer
  • Masonry and Wall
  • Design Approaches for Different
  • Model Buildings Code
  • Connections

Proceedings

A CD will be published to document the proceedings of the 2009 STRUCTURES CONGRESS. Authors of accepted abstracts are strongly encouraged to submit 8- to 10-page papers for inclusion in the proceedings.