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