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#8. Social Event #1: "Ice-Breaker" (Royal Society of Edinburgh) – all welcome: 18.30 Mon 8th June 2026

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#11. Social Event #3: (optional) "Conference Banquet" (Royal Scots Club) - by ticket - 19.00 Wed 10 June 

#12. Conference closes (The Royal Society of Edinburgh) - 17.00 Thursday 11th June 2026

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Structural Faults + Repair-2026 Conference: 9-11 June 2026

Extended Abstract Deadline: 28 February 2026: Click & Submit here 

Keynotes

• CHALLENGES OF REPAIRING LANDMARKED CONCRETE STRUCTURES, A Harrer, Pl Gaudette, Wiss, Janney, Elstner Assoc Inc., Pasadena CA, USA
• MUON TOMOGRAPHY FOR VISUALIZING INTERNAL DEFECTS IN CONCRETE STRUCTURES, R Sakamoto, T Shiotani, Kyoto Univ, A Sato, Osaka Univ, N Kume, T Fujimaki, Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions, Japan

Extending the Life of Buildings & Civil Structures

• SHEAR STRENGTH OF NON-PRESTRESSED SLENDER BEAMS WITH REINFORCEMENT CORROSION DAMAGE, T Mohammed, M Salmerón, S Dyke, J Ramirez, Purdue Univ, Lafayette IN, USA.
• EFFECTS OF RECYCLED CONCRETE AGGREGATES AS INTERNAL CURING AGENT ON SHRINKAGE AND SELF-SEALING IN CEMENTITIOUS MATERIALS, A Darquennes, R Hao, K Hannawi, Univ Rennes, INSA Rennes, LGCGM, France
• REFINED LOAD RATINGS OF CAST-IN-PLACE REINFORCED CONCRETE BOX CULVERTS IN MINNESOTA, L Linderman, J Degonda, J Hull, Univ of Minnesota – Duluth, B Dymond, B Hedegaard, Northern Arizona Univ, Flagstaff AZ, USA
• REPAIR & REINFORCEMENT OF 2 CONCRETE SILOS STORING COAL FOR LONG-TERM USAGE & OPERATION, J C Sagarnaga, Jenike & Johanson, Tyngsborough MA, USA
• DATA-DRIVEN MIX DESIGN METHOD FOR LOW-CARBON CONCRETE, L Pan, Y Fu, Research Institute of Highway, Beijing, China
• ONSHORE WIND TURBINE FOUNDATION DEFECTS & REPAIRS, M Burrows & D Crabtree, Balvac Ltd, Warrington, UK
• FROM ASSESSMENT TO REHABILITATION: EXTENDING THE SERVICE LIFE OF DERRING HALL K Sheridan, WDP & Associates, Manassas VA, USA

Masonry Structures

• CHALLENGES & ADVANTAGES OF STRUCTURAL PRESERVATION OF A HISTORIC MASONRY UNIV BUILDING IN A DEVELOPING COUNTRY IN WEST AFRICA, D Harvey, Atkinson-Noland & Associates, Boulder CO, USA
• ASSESSMENT, DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION OF REPAIRS TO AGED MASONRY FLOOD WALLS ON THE TIDAL RIVER THAMES, R Norwood-Grundy, Jacobs Solutions Inc, London, UK
• NEW ADVANCES IN SUSTAINABLE & REVERSIBLE RETROFITTING METHODS FOR IN-PLANE MASONRY BUILDINGS UNDER SEISMIC ACTIONS, M Corradi, G Castori, A Borri, Huddersfield Univ, UK
• DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS & SEISMIC RESPONSE OF THE ICONIC SPIRE OF THE DUOMO, A Saisi , C Gentile, Poli di Milano, Italy
• MODELLING OF BRICK STRENGTH FOR SEISMIC RISK ASSESSMENT OF MASONRY STRUCTURES, M B Suhaib, Z Rashid, Central Univ of Kashmir/University of Edinburgh, UK

Extending the Life of Concrete + CFRP & GFRP

• EXTENDING THE LIFE OF CONCRETE, L Luke, Construction Management Inspection LLC, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
• CALIBRATING AN IMPROVED I-EFFECTIVE METHOD FOR PRESTRESSED CONCRETE BEAMS STRENGTHENED WITH FRP, K Kramer, H Rasheed, Kansas State Univ, Manhattan KS, USA
• STRUCTURAL CONDITION ASSESSMENT & RETROFIT OF P-T ROOF STRUCTURE TO SUPPORT NEXT GENERATION AIRCRAFT LOADING, N l Rende, Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc, Northbrook IL, USA
• MACHINE-LEARNING–BASED RISK INDEX FOR EVALUATING FRP–CONCRETE BOND PERFORMANCE, A Shah, Central Univ of Kashmir, S Khan, S Sholla, Islamic Univ of Science & Awantipora, India
• REPAIR OF SEVERELY CORRODED RC COLUMNS WITH CFRP SHELL & HEADED STEEL BARS, C Pantelides, S Shrestha, Univ of Utah, Salt Lake City UT, USA
• FRP WRAPPING FOR AXIAL RETROFITTING OF RC COLUMNS ACROSS VARYING CONCRETE GRADES, H Agrawal , N K Sukhla , S Muhammad, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India.
• EXPTL FATIGUE PERFORMANCE OF REINFORCED BEAM STRENGTHENED WITH NEAR-SURFACE TITANIUM-ALLOY HOOKED BARS, K Sener, MA Islam, A Schindler, Auburn Univ, Alabama Al, USA
• LOCALISED CONFINEMENT OF CONCRETE CYLINDERS UNDER UNIAXIAL COMPRESSION - AN EXPTL STUDY, H Riaz, D Fernando, HK Chai, F Chen, S A Papanicolopulos, Univ of Edinburgh, UK

Conservation of Structures

• INTEGRATION OF NDT & AI FOR STRUCTURAL ASSESSMENT OF TIMBER IN HISTORICAL BUILDINGS, N R Mora, I P Zaforteza, R M Ruiz Univ Poli de València, M Á Abián, AIDIMME, Valencia, Spain
• A STEP TOWARDS AI-BASED PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE: EXPTL SHM WITH FIBER OPTIC SENSORS IN CONCRETE BEAMS, M Hernández-Rivera, PA Calderón, I Paya-Zaforteza , Univ Poli de Valencia, Spain
• DAMAGE CHARACTERIZATION OF IN-SERVICE DAM USING AE PARAMETER ANALYSIS & 3-D TOMOGRAPHY RECONSTRUCTION, T Suzuki, K Shibano, Niigata Univ, H K Chai, Univ of Edinburgh, UK
• DISCOVERING THE ROYAL MEDIEVAL ABBEY OF DUNFERMLINE BY USING GPR COMBINED WITH HISTORICAL SOURCES, E Utsi, EMC Radar Consulting, Cambridge & M Penman, Univ of Stirling, UK
• RED MUD IN MAGNESIA-BASED CEMENTS: FOR REPAIR APPLICATIONS, K Ansari, S M Mohamed, SU Al-Dulaijan, A Hanif, KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, H R Khalil, Northumbria Univ, Newcastle, UK

NDT of Structures

• AE-BASED EVALUATION OF INTERNAL INTEGRITY OF RAILWAY CONCRETE STRUCTURES, H Takamine, T Usui, K Ueno, K Watabe , Toshiba Corporation, K Chikami, East Japan Railway Company, Saitama, Japan
• IDENTIFYING DEFECTS IN CONCRETE THROUGH AUTOMATED ANALYSIS OF IMPACT-ECHO DATA, A Schindler, Auburn Univ, Alabama AL, Z Coleman, Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc, Northbrook IL USA
• NON-DESTRUCTIVE IDENTIFICATION OF EXECUTION ERRORS IN SURFACE-HARDENED INDUSTRIAL CONCRETE FLOORS, M Moj, Wroclaw Univ of Sci & Tech, Poland
• TOWARDS FULLY AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER INFRASTRUCTURE ASSESSMENT: ROBOTICS & AI INTEGRATION, X Yang, M Moustafa, New York Univ, Abu Dhabi, UAE
• DYMOND SOFTWARE FOR VIBRATION-BASED STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING, C Gentile, M Pirrò , P Borlenghi, Poli di Milano, Italy
• UHP CONCRETE DAMAGE & SELF-HEALING MONITORING BASED ON AIR-COUPLED ULTRASOUND, Y Tamimi, G Lefever, D Aggelis, Vrije Univ Brussel, V Cappellesso, N De Belie, Ghent Univ, Belgium
• DEVELOPMENT OF AN INHOMOGENEITY INDEX FOR CONCRETE STRUCTURES USING ELASTIC WAVE TOMOGRAPH, N Ogura, CORE Institute of Technology Corp, T Kishi, Univ of Tokyo, Japan
• AUTOMATED SURFACE CRACK DETECTION IN CONCRETE STRUCTURES USING MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES, G N Subramanian, M Nidhi, National Institute of Technology Puducherry, India
• AE INDICATORS FOR DAMAGE ASSESSMENT IN COAL–ROCK, G Lacidogna, Poli di Torino, Italy, G Jing, Xinjiang Inst, Ürümqi, China, L F Friedrich, Univ Federal, Alegrete, I Iturrioz, Univ Federal, Brazil
• SEGMENTATION OF CONCRETE PARTICLE STACK IN X-RAY CT VOXEL BY 3D DEEP LEARNING, K Ikeda, K Shibano, M Mukai, T Suzuki, Niigata Univ, Japan
• EVALUATION OF TIME-SERIES CORRELATION BETWEEN AE AND DIC IN RC BEAMS UNDER INCREMENTAL CYCLIC LOADING, K Shibano, T Suzuki , Niigata Univ, Japan, N Alver, Ege Univ, Izmir, Turkey
• BATTERY-LESS VIBRATION-BASED MONITORING OF TUNNEL LIGHTING FIXTURES USING MEMS ENERGY HARVESTING, K Hashimoto, Hokkaido Univ, T Shiotani, Kyoto Univ, Japan
• EVALUATION OF AIR PERMEABILITY OF CONCRETE COVER SIMPLE TEST METHOD, T Watanabe, Tokushima Univ , N Yasui, MARUI Co LTD. Japan

Case Studies of Structural Faults

• ARCO CEGO TRAM STATION RECONVERSION PROJECT – REHABILITATION OR REPLACEMENT OF THE EXISTING STRUCTURE, A Gomes, F Virtuoso, IST, Lisbon, Portugal

• LEVERAGING INSTRUMENTATION FOR COLUMN JACKING & LOAD TESTING OF POST-TENSIONED SLABS IN A RESIDENTIAL HIGH-RISE,N Rende, AP Irizarry, Wiss, Janney, Elstner Assoc, Inc, Northbrook IL, USA

• ASSESSMENT & REPAIR OF CONCRETE STRUCTURES: RESPONSIBILITIES & SUSTAINABILITY CONSIDERATIONS, P Stivaros, GEI Consultants, Inc., P.C., New York NY, USA

European Bridge Conference: 9-11 June 2026

Extended Abstract Deadline: 28 February 2026: Click & Submit here

Keynotes

• UNCERTAINTY OF BRIDGE PERFORMANCE & MAINTENANCE, Dr Hazel McDonald, Transport Scotland, Glasgow, UK
• OVERCOMING THE CHALLENGES OF DESIGNING BRIDGES TO THE LIMITS OF CODE RULES, C Hendy, C Gowda, AtkinsRéalis, Epsom, UK
• REMEDIATION OF BRIDGE CABLES: HYDROGEN INDUCED CRACKING v. VISUAL CORROSION, Dr K Mahmoud, BTC Inc, NYC, NY, USA
• NATIONAL HIGHWAYS "STRUCTURES MOONSHOT": OUTCOMES FROM PHASE 3 (IN SERVICE TRIALS), C Mundell, AtkinsRealis, Birmingham, UK

Cable Supported Bridges

• FORTH ROAD BRIDGE STIFFENING TRUSS CHORD STRENGTHENING, E Snaith, D Bishop, B Stewart, BEAR Scotland, S Queensferry, UK
• PRESERVATION OF SUSPENSION BRIDGES IN THE USA & CANADA, B Colford, J Pudlein, J Mandala, AECOM, Philadelphia PA, USA
• AMBIENT VIBRATION RE-TESTING AND MODAL IDENTIFICATION OF A CABLE-STAYED BRIDGE, C Gentile, Poli di Milano, R Gentile, STAG Consulting Engineers, Milan, Italy

Concrete Bridges

• Invited Lecture: LESSONS LEARNED FROM INSTRUMENTING, MONITORING & LOAD TESTING OF ADVANCED REINFORCED CONCRETE & PRESTRESSED BRIDGES, J Myers, Missouri Univ of Science & Technology, Rolla MO, USA
• CATHODIC PROTECTION (CP) ON PRESTRESSED BRIDGE JOINTS, T Eichler, suicorr AG, Dietikon, Switzerland & D Oberhaensli, CORR-LESS GmbH & Co. KG, Teltow, Germany
• DATA ANALYSIS OF A NOVEL GALVANIC CORROSION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR THE PROTECTION OF HALF-JOINTS, C Stone, Loughborough Univ, S Wheelhouse, A Bale, Concrete Preservation Technologies, UK
• DENVER BRIDGE HEALTH INDEX: EVOLUTION, DEVELOPMENT & APPLICATION, R Gulannavar, F Banaei-kashani, K Rens, Univ of Colorado at Denver, P Bergman, C Shepard, City & County of Denver DOT, Colorado USA
• PERFORMANCE OF PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE REINFORCED WITH GFRP UNDER LIVE LOAD TEST, J Myers, Missouri Univ of Science & Technology, Rolla MO, USA
• STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY ANALYSIS OF SOIL STEEL GRID REINFORCED BRIDGE MSE Walls, N Yazdani, Z Momani, E Beneberu, Univ of Texas at Arlington, TX, USA
• CFRP-CONCRETE INTERFACE PERFORMANCE WITH NANOHYBRID RESINS IN AGGRESSIVE ENVIRONMENT, N Maheswaran, N Bill, R Maddalena, Cardiff Univ, UK,
• EVALUATION OF BRIDGE LOAD RATINGS USING LFR & LRFR METHODS FOR CONCRETE, STEEL & PRESTRESSED CONCRETE BRIDGES IN MISSOURI, T Ganesh, T Branigan, J Finke, R Cheriyout, Univ of Missouri Kansas City, J Myers, Missouri Univ of Sci & Tech, USA
• PREDICTING THE STRENGTH OF CONCRETE IN EXISTING RC BRIDGES, M Hatoum, A P Fantilli, B Chiaia, Poli di Torino - DISEG, F Buttarazzi, TECNE Gruppo Autostrade per l'Italia - Roma, Italy
• REPAIR OF REINFORCED CONCRETE BRIDGE DECKS CONSTRUCTED WITH PARTIAL-DEPTH PRECAST PRESTRESSED CONCRETE PANELS, C Pantelides, D Briggs, S Neupane, Univ of Utah, Salt Lake City USA
• REPAIR & PROTECTION OF REINFORCED CONCRETE BRIDGE HALF JOINTS, M Burrows, A Higson, D Jordan, Balvac Ltd, Warrington, UK
• OVERVIEW OF THE BRIDGE DECK PRESERVATION TOOL (BDPT), M ElBatanouny, Wiss, Janney, Elstner Assoc, Inc. J Nelson, Iowa DoT, R Ailaney, Federal Highway Administration. McClean VA, USA

Pre & Post tensioned Bridges

• STRENGTHENING OF A DS-T SEGMENTAL BRIDGE USING THE POST-TENSIONING METHOD, A Svoboda, L Klusáček, M Olšák, Brno Univ of Technology, M Jaroš, I Kusák, VIAPONT s.r.o., Czech Republic
• REAL-TIME MONITORING, & VALIDATION OF PRESTRESS LOSSES IN BRIDGE GIRDERS, H Jayaseelan, Cedarville Univ, A Acheli, WPM, TX, B Russell, OK State Univ, W Peters, OK DOT, C Filip, WDC Tulsa, USA
• SEISMIC PERFORMANCE & ANALYSIS OF POST-TENSIONED BRIDGE BENT WITH REPLACEABLE ANCHORS, C Pantelides, S Neupane, Univ of Utah, Salt Lake City UT, USA
• EXPTL EVALUATION OF STRENGTH & FLEXURAL PERFORMANCE OF GROUTED P-T CONCRETE GIRDERS TREATED WITH CORROSION INHIBITOR, G Consolazio, T Hamilton, M Yumnam, Univ of Florida, Gain, USA
• RECENT ADVANCES IN THE BEHAVIOR AND DESIGN REQUIREMENTS FOR STABILITY BRACING OF STEEL I-GIRDER BRIDGES, T Helwig, Univ of Texas at Austin, USA
• SELF-CENTERING POST-TENSIONED CONCRETE COLUMNS REINFORCED WITH STEEL/GFRP BARS & GFRP SPIRALS, C Pantelides, D Tran, Univ of Utah, Salt Lake City UT, USA
• INSPECTION & REMEDIATION OF VOIDING IN GROUTED POST TENSIONED TENDON DUCTS USING ADVANCED NDT, W Horne, VCS Engineering - NDT Division, Sterling MA, USA

NDT of Bridges

• APPLICATIONS OF NDT TECHNIQUES IN POST-TENSIONED BRIDGE INSPECTIONS, G Rapaport, Ramboll Finland Oy, Finland
• A COMPREHENSIVE INSPECTION PLAN FOR RAIL-CARRYING BRIDGES, W Ying, M Fatakdawala, PMP
• ULTRASOUND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY FOR TENDON DUCT INSPECTIONS IN CONCRETE BRIDGES, C Udell , D Sollberger , F Lindner , C Boehm, Mondaic AG, Zurich, Switzerland
• ACOUSTO-ULTRASONIC NDT METHOD FOR INSPECTING CABLE BRIDGE ANCHORAGES, R Johannes, L Gaillet, Univ Gustave Eiffel, Bouguenais, N Godin, INSA de Lyon, Villeurbanne, France
• USE OF SMARTPHONE BASED DIGITAL IMAGE CORRELATION FOR BRIDGE ASSET MANAGEMENT, J Winkler, I Rogers, M Masoud, AtkinsRéalis
• COVER TESTING FOR SERVICE LIFE, C Petersen, Germann Instruments A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark
• ACOUSTIC DIGITAL TWIN FOR PRESTRESSED CONCRETE BRIDGES, G Zaripova, S Pirskawetz, BAM, Berlin, N Brinkman, P Marty, Mondaic, Switzerland, H Trattnig, Vallen Systeme GmbH, Wolfratshausen, Germany

Steel Bridges

• NORTH BRIDGE REFURB - PRESERVING EDINBURGH'S HISTORIC INFRASTRUCTURE, K Sivkov, J Verma, AtkinsRéalis, B Isherwood, Currie & Brown, R McFadden, Balfour Beatty, J James, The City of Edinburgh UK
• BEHAVIOR OF SKEWED STEEL I-GIRDER BRIDGES UNDER LOADING, TRUCKS & THERMAL EFFECTS, R Dorado, J LaFave, L Fahnestock, UIUC, S Zhou, Univ of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg TX, USA
• EVALUATION & CALIBRATION OF RATING METHODS FOR PIN-AND-HANGER BRIDGE CONNECTIONS, C Higgins & J Liu, Oregon State Univ, J Montgomery, Kleinfelder Inc, Beaverton OR USA
• INTEGRATED FRAMEWORK FOR DATA-DRIVEN ASSESSMENT OF STEEL I-GIRDER BRIDGE PERFORMANCE, R Dorado, L Fahnestock, J LaFave, UIUC, S Zhou, Univ of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg TX. USA
• POST-IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF DAMAGED STEEL BRIDGE I-GIRDERS USING TERRESTRIAL LASER, L Schissler, A Ibrahim, J LaFave, L Fahnestock, UIUC, A Elbanna, Univ of Southern California, USA
• REHABILITATION OF EXISTING STEEL BRIDGES IN ROMANIA, A I Juravle, C Bratu, Univ Poli of Timisoara.
• REDUNDANCY IN STEEL BRIDGES & HOW TO RELIABLY ACHIEVE IT, R Connor, Purdue Univ, USA
• THE INFLUENCE OF PACK-OUT CORROSION ON THE FATIGUE STRENGTH OF RIVETED BUILT UP MEMBERS, R Connor, C Korkmaz, S McGuinness, Purdue Univ, Lafayette IN, USA

Timber Bridges

• PATHOLOGY & PROPOSED INTERVENTION IN THE 2013 TIMBER ZAMUDIO BRIDGE, F L Gayarre , A L Martínez-Luengas, C López-Colina, F Á Rabanal, M A Martinez, Univ of Oviedo, Spain
• OPTIMIZING THE REINFORCEMENT SCHEME FOR THE SHI YI BRIDGE IN ANHUA, Y He, S Liu, Hunan Prov Inst of CR & Archlgy, China, F Augelli, Poli di Milano, Italy, J Jiang , NJ, USA, Z Zhang, Huaihua Musm, China

Masonry Arch Bridges

• DECODING THE HISTORY OF MOVEMENT & IT'S CAUSES IN AN 18TH CENTURY MASONRY AQUEDUCT, H Harvey, P Barry, Bill Harvey Associates Ltd, Bristol, UK
• FROM DETAIL TO GLOBAL RESPONSE: 3D NUMERICAL MODELLING OF FRCM INTRADOS STRENGTHENING ON MASONRY ARCH BRIDGES, G Ferlito, L Contrafatto , Massimo Cuomo, Univ of Catania, F Messali, J G Rots, TU-Delft
• THE STORY OF THE MARS SYSTEM, R Falconer, Goldhawk Bridge Restoration, Slough, UK