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Overview
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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After the great success of ICIMART’14 and ICIMART’16, the organizing committee would like to invite you to the Third International Conference on Infrastructure Management, Assessment and Rehabilitation Techniques (ICIMART’19), which will be held in the United Arab Emirates March 5–7, 2019. This cycle the focus is 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.
Papers and extended abstracts are invited in the tracks of infrastructure resilience, management, non-destructive techniques, and innovative materials and methods for infrastructure rehabilitation. More specifically, the conference topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
Track 1: Infrastructure Resilience, Rehabilitation and Management
- Infrastructure Resilience • Case Studies and Field Applications
- Infrastructure Rehabilitation • Accelerated Rehabilitation Techniques and Materials
- Decision Support Systems • Lifecycle Cost Analysis • Materials Recycle and Reuse
Track 2: Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation Techniques for Infrastructure
- Infrastructure Assessment and Condition Evaluation • Smart Materials and Structures
- Health Monitoring of Critical Infrastructure • Advanced Infrastructure Sensing Technologies
- Signal and Image Processing for Infrastructure Assessment
Track 3: Materials and Methods
- Substructure Rehabilitation • Superstructure Rehabilitation
- New Rehabilitation Materials • Advanced Rehabilitation Methods and Strategies
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
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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.
ICIMART’19 Registration Fee
Type of Registration |
Full Registration |
Student Registration |
Early Registration |
US $ 500 |
US $ 250 |
Late Registration |
US $ 650 |
US $ 325 |
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
Dr. Ebtisam Yehia Arab Academy for Science and Technology, Egypt |
Dr. Mani Golparvar-Fard, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA |
Dr. John Ma University |
Dr. Khaled Galal Concordia University, Canada |
Dr. Luc Courard University of Liège, Belgium |
Dr. Mahmoud Taha University of New Mexico, USA |
Dr. Ahmad Jrade University of Ottawa, Canada |
Dr. Michael Arvanitis Geophysical Survey Systems Inc., USA |
Dr. Sameh M. El-Sayegh American University of Sharjah, UAE |
Dr. Osama Mohamed Abu Dhabi University, UAE |
Dr. Sharon Huo Tennessee Tech University, USA |
Dr. Sami Tabsh American University of Sharjah, UAE |
Dr. Amr S. El-Dieb, UAE United Arab Emirates University |
Dr. Stephen O. Ekolu University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa |
Dr. Ioan Pepenar, Romania The Research Centre CERTINCON |
Dr. Tamer El Maaddawy, PEng United Arab Emirates University |
Dr. Osama Abudayyeh Western Michigan University, USA |
Dr. Hubo Cai Purdue University, USA |
Dr. Rami Hawileh American University of Sharjah, UAE |
Dr. Ikhlas Abdel-Qader Western Michigan University, USA |
Dr. Faiz Shaikh Curtin University, Australia |
Dr. Necati Catbas University of Central Florida, USA |
Dr. Sergey Kharkovsky, Australia Program Director, Infrastructure Health Monitoring |
Dr. Farid Abed American University of Sharjah, UAE |
Dr. Mohammad Iqbal Khan King Saud University, KSA |
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The Third International Conference on Infrastructure Management, Assessment and Rehabilitation Techniques (ICIMART'19) will be held at the campus of American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
American University of Sharjah (AUS) was founded in 1997 by His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan Bin Mohammad Al Qassimi, Member of the Supreme Council of the UAE and Ruler of Sharjah, who envisioned the university as a leading educational institution in the Gulf region. AUS is an independent, non-profit coeducational institution. AUS is a leading comprehensive coeducational university in the Gulf, serving students from the region and around the world.
Sharjah is a city of learning and the arts, as confirmed by it being named the 2014 Capital of Islamic Culture for the Arab Region and the 1998 UNESCO Cultural Capital of the Arab World. This context facilitates the university's intention to be an academic center at the intersection of ancient cultural traditions and contemporary intellectual currents. The city of Sharjah is home to more than 20 museums with splendid collections of artifacts and art as well as exhibits on science and natural history. Sharjah also hosts many cultural festivals, educational conferences, fairs and economic expositions. These resources permit the university to broaden students' formal education in a way not possible elsewhere in the region.
American University of Sharjah is located about 20 minutes' drive from downtown Sharjah and Dubai.
Citizens of the following countries can obtain a visa upon entry: Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brunei, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Holland, Iceland, Italy, Ireland, Japan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Monaco, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States and Vatican.
Citizens of other countries will require a visa to enter the United Arab Emirates. If you are flying to the UAE using Emirates Airlines or Air Arabia, the airline can get you the necessary visa if you make the request in advance.
If you elect to apply for a visa at the UAE embassy in your country, we will be glad to provide you with any supporting documents that you may need.
Secretary
Ms. Annie Rose Gregorio Regio
College of Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering
Tel +971 6 515 4931
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Conference Technical Chairs
Dr. Akmal Abdelfatah
Tel +971 6 515 2903
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Dr. Sherif Yehia
Tel +971 6 515 2892
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