Structural Faults & Repair-2012, Edinburgh - Programme: V2.0 (updated on 17th June 2012) 

Day 1: Tuesday 3rd July 2012

08.45: Registration - Exhibition Hall

08.45 - 09.30 Coffee – Exhibition Hall

Chair: Predrag Popovic, President of IABSE & V-P, Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates Inc, Northbrook, IL, USA

Lecture Room 'A': Keynote Papers: Long-Span Bridges

• BEARING REPLACEMENT & STRENGTHENING OF FORTH ROAD BRIDGE APPROACH VIADUCTS, UK, B Colford, Forth Road Bridge, South Queensferry, C Hendy, M Chiarello & J Sandberg, Atkins, Epsom, UK

• CONDITION ASSESSMENT & STRENGTH EVALUATION OF CABLE-SUPPORTED BRIDGES, Dr K Mahmoud, Bridge Technology Consulting, New York, NY, USA

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee – Exhibition Hall

Lecture Room 'A'

Dr Y Kobayashi

NDT & Structural Health Monitoring of Bridges

• EXTENDING THE LIFE OF BRIDGES – THE BENEFITS OF CONDITION MONITORING, Dr D Pearson-Kirk, EnterpriseMouchel, Exeter, UK
• 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF BELFA – LOAD TESTS HELP TO EXTEND LIFETIME OF BRIDGES, Prof M Gutermann, & C Schröder, Univ of Applied Sci, Bremen, Germany
• ROLE OF STRUCTURAL MONITORING IN THE MANAGEMENT OF BRIDGES, M Anderson, J St Leger & J Gale, Strainstall UK Ltd, Bath, UK
• ACOUSTIC EMISSION TESTING OF GFRP BRIDGE DECKS, HR. Hamilton, R Asencio, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
• LONG-TERM MONITORING OF A PRESTRESSED CONCRETE BOX GIRDER BRIDGE BY ACOUSTIC EMISSION – PLANNING & EXECUTING, M Kalicka, T Vogel, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• MULTI-MODAL REMOTE SENSING SYSTEM FOR SURFACE & SUBSURFACE BRIDGE INSPECTION, T Yu, C Niezrecki, CP Lai, YJ Ren, S Ahmed, C Noris, Univ of Massachusetts Lowell. MA, USA

Concrete Diagnosis

• DIAGNOSIS OF CONCRETE STRUCTURES EXPOSED TO FIRE, E Annerel, L Taerwe, Ghent Univ, Belgium
• INFLUENCE OF CHLORIDE INDUCED CORROSION ON BOND STRENGTH OF CONFINED & UNCONFINED REINFORCED CONCRETE, T.C.K Molyneaux, D. Law, R.J. Gravina & D.L. Tang, RMIT Univ, Melbourne, Australia
• DETERIORATION OF HPC FROM ACCELERATED CARBONATION & CHLORIDE INGRESS, Y Wang, Prof M Basheer, S Nanukuttan, Y Bai, Queen’s Univ, Belfast, NI, UK
• STRUCTURAL PROBLEMS POSED BY BOND STRENGTH DETERIORATION DUE TO CORROSION, D Coronelli, Poli di Milano, Italy
• CHLORIDE-INDUCED DEGRADATION OF REINFORCED AUTOCLAVED AERATED CONCRETE SLABS, L-Y Li, Plymouth Univ, M Bueno del Carpio, Sandwell MBC, P Thomas, Dudley MBC, UK

• MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF ANCHOR-INFILL ASSEMBLY FOR STRENGTHENING OF CONCRETE STRUCTURES, T Tsubaki, Yokohama National Univ, Kanagawa, Japan

Metallic Bridges & Culverts

• DOUBLING SERVICE LIFE OF 100 YEAR OLD VICTORIA FALLS BRIDGE IN AFRICA, B N Lassen, Denmark & W Duckett, Ramboll, Southampton, UK
• APPLICATION OF A SIMPLIFIED RISK ANALYSIS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF STEEL CULVERTS, V Fardeau, C Cremona, SETRA, Sourdun, France
• DESIGN & INSTALLATION OF THE DYNAMIC MONITORING SYSTEM APPLIED TO PADERNO BRIDGE (1889), C Gentile, A Saisi, Poli di Milano, Italy
• EXTENDING THE FATIGUE LIFE OF STEEL BRIDGES USING A RESPONSE MODIFICATION SYSTEM, A Gastineau, S Wojtkiewicz & A Schultz, Univ of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

• EMPERATURE EFFECTS ON BOUNDARY CONDITIONS AND DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF A CABLE-STAYED BRIDGE, C Gentile, Poli di Milano, Milan, Italy

• SHEAR BUCKLING TEST OF STEEL GIRDER BONDED CARBON FIBER REINFORCED PLASTIC ON ITS WEB, T Miyashita, Y Okuyama, M Nagai, Nagaoka Univ of Technology, D Wakabayashi, Nippon Expressway Research Institute Co Ltd, N Koide, Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd, Y Hidekuma, A Kobayashi, Nippon Steel Composite Co, Ltd, W Horimoto, Kurabo Industries, Ltd, Japan

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• REHABILITATION OF ''ARS AVEI” BRIDGE, T Mirsad, Highway Institute, Belgrade & N Stojic, Kosovska Mitrovica, Serbia

• REPAIRING OF WELD DEFECTS USING FRICTION STIR WELDING TECHNIQUE, EF Abdel-Gwad, Port–Said Univ, Egypt

Recycled Materials-1

• EFFECTS OF RECYCLED CONCRETE AGGREGATE SURFACE TREATMENTS ON RECYCLED AGGREGATE CONCRETE, A E Geister, Atkinson-Noland & Assoc Inc, Y Xi, YC Liang, Univ of Colorado, Bolder, CO, USA
• EVALUATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS ON RECYCLING OF CONSTRUCTION WASTES, T Isoda, S Inazumi, H Ohtsu & T Shiotani, Kyoto Univ, Japan
• GRAC - Green Recycled Aggregate Concrete, Dr M Malešev & Prof V Radonjanin, Univ of Novi Sad, Dr S Marinković, AES El Malty, Univ of Belgrade, Serbia
• IMPACT OF VEGETABLE FRACTION TREATMENT ON THE SETTING TIME OF CONCRETES FORMULATED WITH BEET PULPS, P Monreal, LB Mboumba-Mamboundou, RM Dheilly, M Quéneudec, Univ de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France
• FIBROUS STIFF INSULATING MATERIALS 100% BIO SOURCED : INFLUENCE OF VEGETABLE NATURE ON THERMAL PROPERTIES, L.B. Mboumba-Mamboundou, L.Houssais, J.Houessou, R.M.Dheilly, M.Quéneudec, Univ de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France
• REUSE OF RECYCLED AGGREGATE RECLAIMED WASTE CONCRETE BY THE ELECTRIC PULSED POWER TECHNOLOGY, M Shigeishi, Kumamoto Univ, Japan

Civil & Structural Repair

• CASE STUDY ON THE REHABILITATION OF THE BELL ALIANT COMMUNICATIONS TOWER, J Percival, Fibrwrap Construction Canada Ltd, Coquitlam, BC, Canada
• FAILURES IN LARGE GLULAM MEMBERS – MAJOR CAUSALITIES & ADHESIVE BASED REPAIR, S Aicher, Univ Stuttgart, Germany
• MATERIALS & TECHNIQUES FOR THE RESTORATION OF HISTORIC LIGHTHOUSES, I Papayianni, V Pachta, Aristotle Univ of Thessaloniki, Greece
• CHAMBER OF VALVES IN THE ARENOSO RESERVOIR, Prof C J Cabanes, Poly Univ of Madrid, Spain

• ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY OF CONCRETE GRAVITY DAMS, R Folic, Univ of Novi Sad, D Zenunovic, Univ of Tuzla, Serbia

Cathodic Protection of Concrete

• INVESTIGATIONS ON THE SECONDARY PROTECTION MECHANISMS IN CATHODIC PROTECTION APPLICATIONS , T Eichler, B Isecke & Gerd Wilsch, BAM, Berlin, Germany
• CATHODIC PROTECTION TO HALF-JOINTS OF R.C. STRUCTURES – CASE STUDIES, SC. Das, A Sharifi & G Jewell, Amey, Birmingham
• INNOVATIVE CATHODIC PROTECTION OF STEEL IN CONCRETE USING ZINC RICH PAINT AS ANODE SYSTEM – FIELD TRIAL, S C Das, H S Pouya & E Ganjian, Amey, Birmingham, UK

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch – Exhibition Hall

Lecture Room 'A'

Masonry Bridges

• INSPECTION OF MASONRY ARCH ON RAILWAY BRIDGES WITH IMPACT-ECHO & IMPULSE RESPONSE, J S Clausen, S Duus, P Jackson, Ramboll, Kobenhavn, Denmark
• RE-ANALYSIS OF EXISTING MASONRY ARCH BRIDGES – MODELLING OF MATERIAL BEHAVIOUR & SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION, S Franck, S Lange, V Slowik, Leipzig Univ of Applied Science, Leipzig, Germany
• FE MODELLING OF FRP STRENGTHENED MASONRY ARCH STRUCTURES, Y. Tao, J.F. Chen, T.J. Stratford & J.Y. Ooi, Univ of Edinburgh, UK
• ARCHTEC – STRENGTH ASSESSMENT & STRENGTHENING MASONRY ARCH BRIDGES, Dr L. Mabon, C. L. Brookes, Ramboll UK Ltd, Southampton, UK

Conservation of Heritage Structures-1

• STITCHING THE PAST - “THE STRENGTHENING OF TWO HERITAGE MARINE STRUCTURES IN JERSEY WITH NEEDLING TECHNOLOGY”, S Hold, Arup, Cardiff, UK
• REPAIR OF PIERS, SLIPS & JETTIES, R Curtis, Historic Scotland, Edinburgh, UK
• REHABILITATION & REPAIR OF THE STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS OF INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS & FACILITIES, A Traykov, Univ of Architecture, Sofia, Bulgaria
• ELECTROKINETIC DESALINATION OF SALT INFECTED MASONRY OF A HISTORIC WAREHOUSE, L M. Ottosen & I V. Christensen, Technical Univ of Denmark

FRP in Concrete Repair - 1

• FIRE PROTECTION OF CONCRETE MEMBERS STRENGTHENED WITH FIBER REINFORCED POLYMERS, S Witt, Fyfe Company, USA & C Kolyvas, Fyfe Europe, Athens, Greece
• REHABILITATION OF CORRODED COLUMNS WITH CFRP JACKETS & EVALUATION OF HYBRID COLUMNS WITH GFRP SPIRALS IN A CORROSIVE ENVIRONMENT, C P. Pantelides, M E. Gibbons, & L D. Reaveley, Univ of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
• RETROFITTING OF RC BEAM-COLUMN JOINTS USING EXTERNAL PRE-STRESSING, E E. Etman, A Atta, H Afefy & N Kassem, Tanta Univ, Egypt
• REPAIR OF CONCRETE GIRDERS WITH FLEXURE-SHEAR CRACKS USING EXTERNAL POST-TENSIONED CFRP RODS, C P Pantelides, C A Burningham & L D Reaveley, Univ of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
• EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON SHEAR CAPACITY OF R.C T-BEAMS STRENGTHENED BY CFR PLASTIC, M S Tughar, Al Margeb Univ, Garaboli, Libya
 

Recycled Materials-2

• EFFECT OF WATER-REPELLENT TREATMENT ON THE PROPERTIES OF RECYCLED CONCRETE AGGREGATES, A. Djerbi Tegguer,V. Spaeth, Institut français des sciences et technologies des transports, de l'aménagement et des réseaux,Paris, France
• MICRO STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION & MECHANICAL/ DYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF EXPERIMENTALLY-OPTIMIZED PLAIN RUBBERISED CONCRETE (PRC), M R Hall & KB Najim, Univ of Nottingham, UK
• EXPTL VALIDATION OF PLAIN/ SELF-COMPACTING RUBBERISED CONCRETE (PRC/ SCRC) MIX DESIGNS FOR STRUCTURAL APPLICATIONS, K B Najim & M R Hall, Univ of Nottingham, UK

NDT of Concrete-1

• NONLINEAR ACOUSTICS METHOD FOR DETECTING ALKALI-SILICA REACTION (ASR) DAMAGES, F Moradi-Marani, P Rivard, S A Kodjo, C Philippe Lamarche, Univ de Sherbrooke, Canada

• MODIFIED NDT FOR INNER ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY MEASUREMENTS IN CEMENT-BASED COMPOSITES, NH El-Ashkar, MIS Elmasry & MAA Anndif, AASTMT, Alexandria, Egypt.

2.00-2.45 pm: Elsevier Reviewers Workshop

ELSEVIER REVIEWERS WORKSHOP, Led by Noel Blatchford and Louise Curtis, Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK

All welcome to attend !

2.45-3.30 pm EPSRC Research Funding: Future Infrastructure Forum (FIF)

EPSRC Funding discussion - led by Prof Mike Forde, University of Edinburgh

All welcome to attend !

15.30 – 16.00 Tea – Exhibition Hall

Lecture Room 'A'

Open Discussion Forum:

"Identifying Sub-Standard Bridges by Inspection" - Discussion Leaders:

Barry Colford, Bridge Master: Forth Road Bridge, Edinburgh, Scotland

Dr Khaled Mahmoud, Bridge Technology Consulting, New York, NY, USA

Dr Donald Pearson-Kirk, Enterprise Mouchel, Exeter, UK

All Delegates and Exhibitors to attend & contribute

19.00 pm Civic Reception at City Chambers, High Street, Royal Mile – ALL Delegates & Exhibitors Invited

Day 2: Wednesday 4th July 2012

08.45: Registration - Exhibition Hall

08.45 - 09.30 Coffee – Exhibition Hall

Lecture Room 'A': Keynote Papers; Structural Repair

• AVOIDING STRUCTURAL FAILURES IN CONSTRUCTION, PL Popovic, President of IABSE & V-P, Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc, Northbrook, IL, USA

• FRACTURE MECHANISMS OF CORROSION-INDUCED CRACKS IN REINFORCED CONCRETE BY BEM & AE-SIGMA, Y Kawasaki, T Okamoto, K Izuno, Ritsumeikan Univ, Shiga & M Ohtsu, Kumamoto Univ, Japan

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee – Exhibition Hall

Lecture Room 'A'

Concrete & Concrete Repair - 1

• CATHODIC PROTECTION OF STEEL IN CONCRETE – REPAIR WORK ON 10 HIGHWAY BRIDGES IN AUSTRIA, S Gieler-Bressmer, IGF GmbH, Sussen, Germany

• COMPARATIVE STUDY OF USE OF CEMENT SLURRY & EPOXY FOR INJECTION GROUTING, S.S.Kutumbale & H.I. Mehata, Kutumbale Consultants & Engineers Pvt. Ltd, Indore, India
• RELIABLE CONCRETE REPAIR-A CRITICAL REVIEW, Ma Luković, G Ye, K van Breugel, Delft Univ of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
• BIO-BASED MORTAR FOR CONCRETE REPAIR, MG Sierra-Beltran, HM Jonkers, Delft Univ of Technology, The Netherlands
• INFLUENCE OF CASTING CONSOLIDATION ON CONCRETE DURABILITY, Y.Fu,J.Q.Zhang, S.Q. Zhang, W.H. Li,MOT, Beijing, 1 W. Sun, Northeastern Univ, Nanjing, China
• EFFECT OF LIGHTWEIGHT AGGREGATE MOISTURE CONTENT ON INTERNALLY CURED CONCRETE, C Jones, DR Goad, WM Hale, Univ of Arkansas, USA
• RESTORATION OF DETERIORATED R.C. CANTILEVER SLAB, F A. Zaher Tanta Univ, Egypt.

Conservation of Heritage Structures-2

• STANDARDS FOR RESTORATION OF BUILT HERITAGE ENDANGERED BY N• EXTENDING THE LIFE OF A HISTORIC TERRA COTTA FAÇADE, P Plemic, Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc, Northbrook, IL, USA
• NDT TESTING OF MASONRIES OF HOLY SELPULCHRE COMPLEX, A Moropoulou, C Spyrakos, H Mouzakis, A Bakolas, M Karoglou, K Labropoulos, ET Delegou, D Diamandidou, NK Katsiotis, National Technical Univ of Athens, Greece.

• REHABILITAION OF STRUCTURES OF BUILDINGS OF THE BULGARIAN HISTORICAL HERITAGE – PROBLEMS, SOLUTIONS, RECOMMENDATIONS, M Traykova, Univ of Architecture, Sofia, Bulgaria

• INNOVATIVE PROTOCOLS FOR INTEGRATED DIAGNOSTICS ON HISTORIC MATERIALS & STRUCTURES, Prof A Moropoulou & A Kioussi et al, National Technical Univ of Athens, Greece.

• SUSTAINABLE REPAIR & REFURBISHMENT OF THE LION CHAMBERS IN GLASGOW, Dr B Dimitrijevic, Glasgow Caledonian Univ, Glasgow, UK
 

FRP in Concrete Repair - 2

• PREDICTION OF THE INTERFACIAL SHEAR STRESS OF EXTERNALLY BONDED FRP TO CONCRETE SUBSTRATE USING CRITICAL STRESS STATE CRITERION, H Toutanji, S Ueno & R Vuddandam, Univ of Alabama in Huntsville, AL, USA

• BONDING TECHNIQUES FOR FLEXURAL STRENGTHNING OF R.C. BEAMS USING CFRP LAMINATES, A M. Morsy, AASTMT, & E M. El-Tony, Alexandria Univ, Egypt.

• EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS OF RESEARCH PROGRAM ON RC SLABS RETROFITTED BY MIXED CFRP SYSTEM, S. C. Florut, V. Stoian, T. Nagy-Gyorgy, D Dan & D. Diaconu, Politehnica Univ of Timisoara, Romania
• EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON FLEXURAL BEHAVIOR OF RC BEAMS EXTERNALLY BONDED WITH CFRP STRAND SHEET, Y Takahashi, Hokkai Gakuen Univ, Japan
• FRP REPAIR FOR RC BEAMS PRE-DAMAGED IN SHEAR, N H El-Ashkar, KM Helmi, AM Morsy, AASTMT, Alexandria, Egypt
• STRENGTHENING OF RC FRAME STRUCTURE WITH INSUFFICIENT STRENGTH OF CONCRETE, P Štěpánek, I Laníková, P Šimůnek & M Zlamal, TU Brno, Czech Republic

• STRENGTHENING OF NON-PRISMATIC CONTINUOUS R.C.BEAMS USING CFRP, M Hussein, N Kassem, Tanta Univ, Egypt

NDT of Concrete-2

• VISUAL INSPECTION & NDT OF EXTENSIVELY CRACKED R.C FLOOR & REPAIR MONITORING USING IMPULSE – RESPONSE, N Zoidis, Geotest SA, E Tatsis, Univ of Ioannina, C Vlachopoulos, Geotest SA, A Gotzamanis, Ioannina, Greece, JS Clausen, Ramboll Denmark A/S, Copenhagen, D Aggelis & T Matikas, Univ of Ioannina, Greece
• HAMMER & MECHANICAL IMPEDANCE TEST METHOD FOR ESTIMATION OF COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH OF THE CONCRETE, T Sakai, Applied Research Inc, Ibaraki, G Kubo, He Kubo, Nitto Construction Co.Ltd., Hokkaido, Japan
• DETECTION OF INTERNAL DEFECTS OF CONCRETE STRUCTURES BY ANALYZING WAVE SPEED SCATTERING, K Yamashita Toyo research & measurement Inc, T Sakai, Applied Research Inc, K Gokudan, iTECS association. Ibaraki, Japan
• DETECTION OF REINFORCEMENT BREAKS: LAB EXPTS & AN APPLICATION OF MAGNETIC FLUX LEAKAGE METHOD, T Wolf & T Vogel, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
• IMPROVEMENT IN SIBIE PROCEDURE FOR SURFACE CRACKS BY EMPLOYING AE SENSOR, T Sonoda, Mo Yamada, S Aramaki & M Ohtsu, Kumamoto Univ, JAPAN
• ULTRASONIC INVESTIGATION OF (WC)NI+CO, (WC)+NI, (WC)NI +MG, (TIC)+(FE+NI) CERAMIC METAL COMPOSITES, İl H. Sarpun, H Bodur, M Erdoğan, AfyonKocatepe Univ, V Özkan, MuşAlparslanUniv, Si Tuncel,TÜBİTAK Marmara Research Center, Turkey.
• LASER INDUCED BREAKDOWN SPECTROSCOPY FOR FAST ANALYSIS OF INGRESS PROFILES OF IONS ON CONCRETE, G Wilsch & D Schaurich, BAM, Berlin, Germany

Concrete Behaviour-1

• BRIDGE FOR THE AIRBUS A-380 IN BARAJAS AIRPORT Prof C J Cabanes, Poly Univ of Madrid, Spain

• PUNCHING SHEAR STRENGTH OF TRANSVERSELY PRESTRESSED CONCRETE DECKS, S Amir, Dr. C. van der Veen, Prof. Dr. J. Walraven, TU-Delft, The Netherlands
• USE OF HORIZONTAL WEB BARS FOR UPGRADING RC BEAMS IN SHEAR, Dr J Motamed & Prof M Raoof, Loughborough Univ, UK

• REPLACEMENT & RELOCATION OF REINFORCED FRAME COLUMS USING PRESTRESSING CABELS, L Klusáček, Z Bažant, Jí Strnad, TU Brno, Czech Republic
• EXPTL ANCHORAGE BOND-SLIP TEST OF REINFORCING STEEL BARS ANCHORED IN REPAIR MORTARS, Prof. R Nsambu, Agostinho, Neto Univ, Luanda, Angola & Prof. A Gomes, Technical Univ of Lisbon, Portugal

• BEHAVIOR OF FLAT SLABS WITH OPENINGS ADJACENT TO COLUMNS, MAA Aziz, TM Fawzy & MH Mahmoud, Tanta Univ, Egypt

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• EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON THE CRACK PROGRESS OF HIGH STRENGTH SELF COMPACTING CONCRETE DEEP BEAMS, M Mohammadhassani, MZ Jumaat, Univ of Malaya, Malaysia

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch – Exhibition Hall

Lecture Room 'A'

Concrete & Concrete Repair - 2

• WATER EXTRACTION FROM PLANETARY SURFACES, H. Toutanji & C. Goff, Univ of Alabama in Huntsville, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Huntsville, AL, USA

• EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF R.C. SKEW HOLLOW CORE SLABS A-H Khalil,  T Fawzy,  S Taher, AT Baraghith, Tanta University, Egypt
• DETERMINATION OF THERMAL PROPERTIES OF HARDENING CONCRETE CONTAINING HIGH CALCIUM FLY ASH, G Knor, M A Glinicki, J Holnicki-Szulc, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
• EFFECT OF PRELOADING ON FLEXURAL BEHAVIOR OF RC CANTILEVER SLABS STRENGTHENED USING EXTERNAL PRESTRESSING, M. Hussein, Tanta Univ, Egypt

Masonry Conservation-1

• RECONSTRUCTION OF DRY STONE RETAINING WALLS USING COMPOSITE REINFORCED SOIL STRUCTURES, C Mundell, Atkins, Bristol, UK

• BRICK CHIMNEY REAL-TIME MONITORING REINFORCEMENT WITH AN EXTERNAL POST-TENSIONING SYSTEM, C C Corominas, VSL, Spain
• INVESTIGATION, SEISMIC REHABILITATION & ARCHITECTURAL RENOVATION OF 2 PUBLIC R/C BUILDINGS, S Sorace, Univ of Udine & G Terenzi, Univ of Florence, Italy

• STRENGTHENING OF MASONRY INFILLED FRAMES WITH FRP UNDER LATERAL LOAD, N Kassem, Tanta Univ, Egypt

FRP in Concrete Repair - 3

• STRENTHENING THIN-WEB PANNEL WITH & WITHOUT OPINING USING (CFRP) LAMINATE, N M Yossef, Tanta Univ, Egypt

• REPAIR OF PRE-LOADED R.C. COLUMNS USING EXTERNAL CFRP SHEETS & EMBEDED LONGITUDINAL STEEL REINFORCEMENT, AM Morsy, AASTMT & EM El-Tony, Alexandria Univ, Egypt.
• FLEXURAL BEHAVIOUR OF CONTINUOUS FRP REINFORCED CONCRETE SLABS, M. E M Mahroug, Dr AF Ashour & Prof D Lam, Univ of Bradford, UK
• EXPTL & ENVNTL INVESTIGATION ON NATURAL & POLYMER FIBER R.C., G Ozerkan & M AlMa’adeed, Qatar Univ, Doha, Qatar
 

NDT of Concrete-3

• USING THE SONREB METHOD FOR EVALUATION OF CONCRETE STRENGTH USING REBOUND HAMMER & ULTRASONIC TESTING, M Grantham, Sandberg LLP, London, UK
• VISUALIZATION OF INTERNAL DEFECTS IN DAMAGED CONCRETE STRUCTURES BY SIBIE & RADAR TECHNIQUE, K. Matsuyama, S Shimozono, Nippon Koei Co. Ltd, M. Yamada, M. Ohtsu, Kumamoto Univ, Japan
• IDENTIFICATION OF DIFFERENT FRACTURE MODES IN CEMENTITIOUS MATERIALS BY SIMPLE ACOUSTIC EMISSION PARAMETERS, DG Aggelis, A Mpalaskas, TE Matikas, Univ of Ioannina, Greece
• ESTIMATION OF COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH OF CONCRETE BY MEANS OF MECHANICAL IMPEDANCE, G Kubo, H Kubo, Nitto Construction Co, Ltd, Hokkaido, T Sakai, Applied Research Inc. Ibaraki, Japan

• MOIST SCAN – MULTILAYER MICROWAVE MOISTURE SCANS AT BUILDINGS, MASONRY & CIVIL STRUCTURES,.A Göller, hf sensor GmbH, Leipzig, Germany
• APPLICATION OF DECAT SYSTEM FOR DAMAGE EVALUATION OF CONCRETE IN DISASTER AREAS DUE TO THE GREAT EAST JAPAN EARTHQUAKE, T Suzuki, Niigata Univ & M Ohtsu, Kumamoto Univ, Japan

Concrete Behaviour-2

• FREEZING THAWING RESISTANCE OF CONCRETE WITH DELAY-ADDED DRYING SHRINKAGE REDUCTION AGENT, Prof M Sugiyama, HokkaI-Gakuen Univ, Sapporo City, Japan
• SHRINKAGE & CREEP BEHAVIOR OF HIGH‐VOLUME FLY ASH (HVFA) CONCRETE FOR INFRASTRUCTURE APPLICATIONS, B.T. Tucker, Prof. J.J. Myers & Prof. J.S. Volz, Missouri Univ of Science & Technology, Rolla, MO USA
• BOND BEHAVIOR OF HIGH‐VOLUME FLY ASH (HVFA) CONCRETE FOR NFRASTRUCTURE APPLICATIONS, T.J. Looney, Prof. J.S. Volz & Prof. J.J. Myers, Missouri Univ of Science & Technology, Rolla, MO, USA

• PROGRESSIVE COLLAPSE OF RC CONTINUOUS FRAMED BEAM SYSTEMS, HM El-Din Afeely, Tanta University, Egypt

15.30 – 16.00 Tea – Exhibition Hall

Lecture Room 'A'

Open Discussion Forum:

"Defective Concrete & Repair Technologies" - Discussion Leaders:

 Predrag Popovic, President of IABSE & V-P, Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc, Northbrook, IL, USA

Professor Masayasu Ohtsu, Kumamoto University, Japan

Professor Mike Grantham, Sandberg LLP, London, UK

All Delegates and Exhibitors to attend & contribute

Social Event - OPTIONAL - tickets may be purchased on the Registration Form

18.45 for 19.15: Conference Banquet

Royal College of Surgeons, Playfair Hall, Nicolson Street, Edinburgh
 

Royal Scots Regimental Association Pipe Band will perform after the Banquet

OPTIONAL - tickets may be purchased on the Registration Form & faxed to +44-(0)131-452 8596

Day 3: Thursday 5th July 2012

08.45: Registration - Exhibition Hall

08.45 - 09.30 Coffee – Exhibition Hall

Lecture Room 'A': Keynote Papers; Conservation

1. STANDARDS FOR RESTORATION OF BUILT HERITAGE ENDANGERED BY NATURAL HAZARDS, Professor N Kurtovic-Folic, Univ of Novi Sad, Serbia

2. NON DESTRUCTIVE INVESTIGATION FOR DIAGNOSIS OF MASONRY DAMAGED BY EARTHQUAKE & AS A SUPPORT FOR CHOICE OF REPAIR TECHNIQUES, L. Cantini, C. Tedeschi, P. Condoleo, L. Binda, Poli di Milano, Italy
 

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee – Exhibition Hall

Lecture Room 'A'

Post-Tensioned Bridges

• PERFORMANCE OF POST-TENSIONED BRIDGES, Dr D Pearson-Kirk, EnterpriseMouchel, Exeter, S Pottle, K Duguid, Transport for London, London, UK

Timber Bridges

• BRIDGE DAMAGES CAUSED BY THE FLOOD, N Stojić, Highway Inst. Belgrade, M Tarić, Kosovska Mitrovica, Serbia
• REHABILITATION OF THE HISTORIC THARWA TIMBER TRUSS BRIDGE, AUSTRALIA, Prof K Crews, Univ of Technology Sydney, M Prelog, Aurecon Consulting Engineers, Sydney, S Millie, Roads & Traffic Authority, NSW , Australia

Concrete & FRP Bridges-1

• CONDITION OF THE ABERFELDY FRP FOOTBRIDGE AFTER 20 YEARS OF SERVICE, Dr T Stratford, Univ of Edinburgh, UK

• ASSESSMENT & REPAIR OF A FIRE-DAMAGED CONCRETE BRIDGE, M De-Melo, K Harwood, M Gonzalez-Quesada, Arup, Solihull, UK
• SULFATE ATTACK OF ABOVE GROUND COMPONENTS OF HIGHWAY STRUCTURES, Dr D Pearson-Kirk, R Langworthy, EnterpriseMouchel, Exeter, UK
• REPAIR & STRENGTHENING OF DETERIORATED CONCRETE BRIDGES INCLUDING CASES FROM DENMARK & UK, U S Andersen, P Jackson, Ramboll UK &H O Nielsen, Danish Road Directory, Denmark

Masonry Conservation-2

• SUSCEPTIBILITY OF EXTERIOR STONE MASONRY WALLS WITH POORLY CONSTRUCTED COLLAR, BED & HEAD JOINTS TO LONG TERM FREEZE-THAW DETERIORATION, J. Eric Peterson, Whitlock Dalrymple Poston & Associates, P.C, Manassas, VA, USA

• CHARACTERISATION OF THE HIGH-PRESSURE WATER-JETS USED IN STONE CLEANING, Prof C A Fairfield, Edinburgh Napier Univ, UK

• PHYSICAL & CHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF MASONRY STONES DURING BUILDING CLEANING, B Zhang, H Reza, S Gu & N Gupta, Edinburgh Napier Univ, UK
• EVALUATION OF SHEAR STRENGTH OF MASONRY PANELS THROUGH DIFFERENT EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSES, A Borri, G Castori, M Corradi, Univ of Perugia, Italy

• APPROACHES TO DESIGN OF MASONRY VAULTS STRENGTHENED BY ADDITIONAL REINFORCEMENT, M Zlámal. P Štěpánek, TU Brno, Czech Republic

Concrete Behaviour-3

• TENSILE PROPERTIES & DESIGN OF REINFORCED MORTAR COMPOSITE STRENGTHENING SYSTEM, C Kolyvas, I E. Bal, A Bernakos, T Triantafillou, Fyfe Europe, Athens, Greece
• EFFECTS OF ELEVATED CURING TEMPERATURES ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF CONCRETE CYLINDERS, ER Giannini & J Zhu, Univ of Texas at Austin, TX, USA
• STUDY OF GROUT INJECTIONS IN POROUS MEDIA WITH DIFFERENT INTERNAL STRUCTURES, F Jorne, F M.A. Henriques, L G. Baltazar Univ Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal
• STRUCTURAL REPAIR & REHABILITATION TECHNOLOGIES OF RC WALL PANELS, C Todut, V Stoian, I Demeter, T Nagy-Gyorgy, Politehnica” Univ of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania
• MODIFIED SLANT SHEAR TEST TO ENFORCE ADHESIVE FAILURE, R Saldanha, D Dias-da-Costa, Univ of Coimbra, E Júlio, TU Lisbon, P Santos, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal
• INFLUENCE OF CURING ON SULFATE RESISTANCE OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE CONCRETE, S Zhang & Dr N Suksawang, Florida International Univ, Miami FL, USA,

NDT of Concrete-4

• SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY WITH ESTIMATION OF SOURCE LOCATION FOR CONCRETE STRUCTURES, Y. Kobayashi, Nihon Univ, Tokyo, Japan
• NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF PROPAGATION PHASE IN AN ACCELERATED CORROSION TEST IN CONCRETE, M.G Sohail, S Laurens, F Deby, JP Balayssac, Université de Toulouse; France;
• MONITORING OF THE E-MODULUS IN EARLY AGE CONCRETE SINCE SETTING TIME WITH EMBEDDED PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS, C. Dumoulin, G. Karaiskos, J. Carette, S. Staquet & A. Deraemaeker, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
• ACOUSTIC EMISSION & CYCLIC LOAD TEST CRITERIA DEVELOPMENT FOR PRESTRESSED GIRDERS, M ElBatanouny, J Mangual, F Barrios, Pl Ziehl & F Matta, Univ of South Carolina, USA
• ELASTIC PROPERTIES OF CONCRETE AT EARLY AGE: MONITORING OF THE E-MODULUS & POISSON’S RATIO WITH CYCLIC LOADINGS & ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENTS, C. Boulay, M. Crespini, IFSTTAR, Paris, France & B. Delsaute, J. Carette, S. Staquet, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
• ACOUSTIC EMISSION IMAGING ON CONCRETE STRUCTURES USING A PIEZOELECTRIC WAFER SENSOR ARRAY, L Yu, P Ziehl, Univ of South Carolina, USA
• IDENTIFICATION OF PC CABLES’ BREAKAGE BY MEANS OF ACOUSTIC EMISSION ACTIVITY, T Shiotani, Y Oshima & M Goto, Kyoto Univ, S Momoki, Tobishima Corporation, Chiba, Japan

NDT & Structural Health Monitoring

• GPR INVESTIGATIONS AT WESTMINSTER ABBEY, E Utsi, Utsi Electronics Ltd, Harston, Cambridge, UK
• CONDITION ASSESSMENT OF CIVIL STRUCTURES USING AMBIENT VIBRATION MONITORING, P Furtner, VCE-ISS, Vienna, Austria & D Fridline, VCE-ISS, New York, NY, USA
• QUANTITATIVE APPROACH FOR ASSESSMENT OF STRUCTURAL ROBUSTNESS AGAINST COLLAPSE, C Brett & Y Lu, Univ of Edinburgh

• MEASUREMENT OF INSULATION COMPACTION IN THE CRYOGENIC ROCKET FUEL TANKS AT KENNEDY SPACE CENTER BY FAST/THERMAL NEUTRON TECHNIQUES, RA Livingston, Univ of Maryland, College Park, MD, J.S. Schweitzer, Univ of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, A.M Parsons, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, E.E. Arens, John F. Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
• AXIAL STRESS EVALUATION OF GROUND ANCHORS WITH REFLECTION WAVES OF ULTRASONIC, K Iwamoto, Ti Shiotani, H Ohtsu, Kyoto Univ, S Yanagisako, T Hamasaki & Y Maeda, West Nippon Expressway Company Limited, Japan
• EVALUATING & ISOLATING GROUND BORNE VIBRATIONS IN BUILDINGS FROM HIGH SPEED TRAINS, D Connolly, A Giannopoulos, MC Forde, Univ of Edinburgh & PK Woodward, Heriot-Watt Univ, Edinburgh, UK

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch – Exhibition Hall

Lecture Room 'A'

Concrete & FRP Bridges-2

• FORMWORK COLLAPSE OF PRESTRESSED CONCRETE BRIDGE:RECOVERY OF BOTTOM SLAB USING PRESTRESSING CABLES & REPAIR WITH FRP, PP Mossone, Grandi Strutture S.r.l, Cagliari, Italy
• ASSESSMENT OF DAMAGED PRESTRESSED ADJACENT BOX GIRDER BRIDGES: A CASE STUDY, Prof KA Harries & JL Kasan, Univ of Pittsburgh, PA, USA
• MITIGATING SHRINKAGE CRACKING OF CONCRETE IN BRIDGE DECKS THROUGH INTERNAL CURING, D R Goad, C Jones, W. M Hale, Univ of Arkansas, USA
• TECHNICAL REPORT ON THE JOINTLESS METHOD FOR EXISTING CONCRETE BRIDGES, Y.Ishikawa, M.Aoyama, M.Nagai, T.Miyashita, Central Nippon Highway Engineering Nagoya Co Ltd, Ishikawa, Japan
• LIFE EXTENSION OF BRIDGE SUPERSTRUCTURE COMPONENTS WITH COMPOSITE PATCH-REPAIR, P.K. Basu O. Yapar & J.N. McNutt, Vanderbilt Univ, Nashville, TN, USA

Masonry Conservation--3

• SONIC TOMOGRAPHY APPLIED TO HISTORIC MASONRY STRUCTURES: VALIDATION BY DIFFERENT COMPUTER CODES, R Felicetti, L Cantini, L Zanzi, L Binda, S. Munda, Poli di Milano, MRValluzzi, Univ of Padua, Italy
• DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING OF WEATHERED STONE FOR DETERMINING THE OPTIMUM CLEANING LEVEL OF STONEWORK, R Humayun & H Zhang, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
• ON SITE INVESTIGATION & CRACK MONITORING OF AN ANCIENT BELL-TOWER, L Binda, P Condoleo & C Tiraboschi, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
 

NDT of Concrete-5

• EVALUATION OF SELF-HEALING EFFECT AGAINST FREEZING & THAWING DAMAGE IN FLY-ASH CONCRETE BY UT METHOD, T Watanabe, Y Fujiwara, C Hashimoto, K Ishimaru, Univ of Tokushima, Japan
• ANALYSIS OF EFFECTS OF DRYING & WETTING ON IMPROVING MICROSTRUCTURE OF COVERCRETE BY NEW SURFACE WATER ABSORPTION TEST, U Akmal, A Hosoda, K Hayashi, Yokohama National Univ, Japan
• SURFACE RESISTIVITY MEASUREMENTS AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE RAPID CHLORIDE PERMEABILITY TEST FOR ACCEPTANCE OF STRUCTURAL CONCRETE, TD Rupnow & P J Icenogle, Louisiana Transportation Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
• ESTIMATION OF CHLORIDE IONS IN COASTAL STRUCTURES USING ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE METHOD, H Ikeda, J Nojima, T Mizobuchi, Hosei Univ, Tokyo, Japan

15.30 – 16.00 Tea – Exhibition Hall

Lecture Room 'A'

Open Discussion Forum

"Conservation of Historic Structures" - Discussion Leaders:

 Prof Luigia Binda, Politecnico di Milano, Italy (Conservation Architect)

Prof Nadja Folić, University of Novi Sad, Serbia (Conservation Architect)

Mrs Eric Utsi, Utsi Electronics, Cambridge, UK (Archaeologist/Geophysicist)

All Delegates and Exhibitors to attend & contribute
 

Closing Comments: Professor M C Forde, FREng, FRSE, FACI, University of Edinburgh

17.30 Conference Closes