International Conference on Infrastructure Management, Assessment and Rehabilitation Techniques

The Third International Conference on Infrastructure Management, Assessment and Rehabilitation Techniques (ICIMART’19) will be held at American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, from March 5 to 7, 2019. The focus of the conference will be on innovation, sustainability and infrastructure resilience. The conference will provide a forum for scientists and engineers engaged in research and development to convene and present their latest work on infrastructure resilience, management, assessment and rehabilitation techniques. The conference will also include distinguished keynote lectures and technical sessions covering the state-of-the-art advances for the topics and theme of the conference.

The call for papers is now open for ICIMART'19. Please use the menu link for more information.

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The paper template is available in PDF and MS Word format.

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in English to the conference paper submission system
 

Dr. Nenad Gucunski is a professor and Chairman of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rutgers University. He is also Director of Infrastructure Condition Monitoring Program at Rutgers’ Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation (CAIT). His expertise is in NDT/NDE of transportation infrastructure and has published more than 150 publications on various aspects of the NDE/NDT technologies development, application and automation. He is/was leading a number of important infrastructure related research projects. These include the NIST-TIP (National Institute of Standards and Technology-Technology Innovation Program) ANDERS project on the development of a systems of devices for local and global NDE assessment and rehabilitation of bridges, SHRP 2 (Strategic Highway Research Project 2) project on NDE for Bridge Decks, the Lead of the NDE Team for FHWA’s Long Term Bridge Performance (LTBP) Program, and several other projects for state and federal government and industry. He is an active member of a number of societies and he is the past Chair of the ASCE’s Geophysical Engineering Committee.  Dr. Gucunski and his team are the recipient of the 2014 ASCE Charles Pankow Award for Innovation for the development of RABIT (Robotics Assisted Bridge Inspection Tool) for bridge decks.

B.F. Spencer, Jr. received his Ph.D. in theoretical and applied mechanics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1985. He worked on the faculty at the University of Notre Dame for 17 years before returning to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he currently holds the Nathan M. and Anne M. Newmark Endowed Chair in Civil Engineering and is the Director of the Newmark Structural Engineering Laboratory. His research has been primarily in the areas of structural health monitoring, structural control, cyberinfrastructure applications, stochastic fatigue, stochastic computational mechanics, and natural hazard mitigation. Dr.  Spencer has directed more than $50M in funded research and published more than 700 technical papers/reports, including two books. He was the first to study and design magnetorheological (MR) fluid dampers for protection of structures against earthquakes and strong winds, overcoming the inherent limitations of existing passive energy dissipation systems, as well as power-dependent active control systems, which are in common use today. He led NSF's George E. Brown Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) system integration project, which constituted the nation's first engineering cyberinfrastructure initiative. He was the PI on the NEES MUST-SIM facility at the University of Illinois focusing on hybrid simulation. His most recent research on structural health monitoring systems and smart wireless sensors integrates advanced computing tools with smart sensors, to provide a functional platform with self-interrogation capabilities. He led the Jindo Bridge monitoring project in South Korea, which constitutes the world's largest deployment of wireless smart sensors to monitor civil infrastructure to date. Dr. Spencer has received numerous awards, including the ASCE Outstanding Instructor Award, the ASCE Norman Medal, the ASCE Housner Structural Control and Monitoring Medal, the ASCE Newmark Medal, the Zhu Kezhen International Lectureship Award, the ANCRiSST Outstanding Senior Investigator Award, the Structural Health Monitoring Person of the Year Award, the J.M. Ko Medal of Advances in Structural Engineering, IASCM Takuji Kobori Prize, and the Raymond & Sidney Epstein Structural Engineering Faculty Award.  Dr. Spencer is a Fellow of ASCE, a Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the North American Editor in Chief of Smart Structures and Systems, the Executive Managing Editor of the journal of Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration, the past president of the Asia-Pacific Network of Centers for Research in Smart Structures Technology, and a Designated Foreign Expert by China's State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs.

Mahmoud Reda Taha is Professor, Regents’ Lecturer and Chair of Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering at the University of New Mexico. He is a Fellow of the American Concrete Institute. He is the Founding Director of the UNM Resilience Institute and the Director of the Structural Engineering Laboratory at the Department of Civil Engineering, University of New Mexico. Dr. Taha's research is focused on crossing the gap between structural and materials engineering for integrating nanotechnology, structural health monitoring and 3D printing in concrete and other composite materials to develop resilient infrastructure systems. Taha’s research was funded by all major funding agencies in the US for more than $12M in the last 15 years including NSF, DOE DOD, AFOSR, ARO and FHWA. Dr. Taha has published more than 300 articles in technical journals and refereed conference proceedings and has advised more than 45 graduate students as their major advisor towards their MS and PhD and has more than 10 filed and 3 issued US patents under his name. He is Associate Editor of ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering and Chairman of ACI Committee on Polymers and Adhesives in Concrete. He is a licensed professional engineer and has participated as a structural consultant in many projects worldwide.

Conference Chair

Dr. Mahmoud Taha

Technical Co-Chairs

Dr. Sherif Yehia

Dr. Akmal Abdelfatah

Organizing Committee

Dr. Akmal Abdelfatah, Conference Technical Co- Chair, Track Chair

Dr. Sherif Yehia, Conference Technical Co-Chair, Track Chair

Dr. Mohamed Hassan, Registration and Publication Chair

Dr. Nasser Qaddoumi, Track Chair and Local Arrangement

Advisory Board

Salah Abdulatif Al Dilimi, Roads and Transport Authority, UAE

Sami Rizkalla, North Carolina State University, USA

Asma Al Jasmi, Department of Transport, UAE

Fouad Fanous, Iowa State University, USA

Khalifa Bin Hadda, Sharjah Municipality, UAE

Abdullah Al Numan, Sharjah Public Works, UAE

International Scientific Committee

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