Key Topics

Advanced Steel Materials & Connections

  • High-performance steel materials
  • Novel steel sections and members
  • Bolted and welded connections
  • Member behaviour
  • Constitutive modelling
  • Extreme loading conditions

Composite Construction

  • Design Methods
  • Behaviour under various loading conditions
  • Demountable Structural Design
  • Encased beams design
  • Steel-Concrete floor joint – behavior and design
  • Numerical Modeling works
  • Concrete infilled steel beams and columns
  • Structural inspection
  • Hybrid design methods
  • Composite floor connection design
  • Steel concrete bond design
  • Mechanics and analysis of composite design

Smart, Seismic & Large-Scale Steel Structures

  • Artificial Intelligence in steel structures
  • Damage detection and health monitoring
  • Modular construction
  • Stability and dynamics
  • Buckling-restrained braces
  • Steel structures under seismic loading
  • Large-scale steel structures

Steel–Concrete & Emerging Materials

  • Steel–concrete composite structures
  • Performance-based design
  • Shape memory alloys
  • Stainless steels
  • Additive manufacturing
  • Fatigue and fracture
  • Welding residual stresses

Steel – FRP Composites

  • Joints in Composite structures
  • Retrofitting of Steel Structures using FRP
  • Design Criteria and Safety
  • FRP reinforced Concrete and Steel Structures
  • New Design for FRP Composite systems
  • Delaminations and Rupture analysis of FRP systems
  • Experimental Methods
  • Various Loading methods
  • Novel Application of Composites materials
  • Use of natural composites in Civil Engineering
  • New composite materials

Steel Structures under Extreme Conditions

  • Impact and blast loading
  • Fire behaviour of steel structures
  • Steel under elevated temperatures
  • Steel under low ambient temperatures
  • Advanced experimental methods
  • Advanced numerical analyses

Structural / Cold-formed Steel

  • Thin-walled Structures
  • Shells
  • Bolted Connections
  • Welded Connections
  • High Strength Steel & Other Steels
  • Cold-Formed Structures
  • Welding properties
  • Plates & Shells
  • Stability
  • Fatigue & Fracture
  • Fire
  • Seismic Resistance
  • Steel Buildings
  • Bridge Structures
  • Offshore Structures
  • Towers
  • Innovative Structures
  • Fabrication and Construction
  • Architectural Design & Case Studies