Life Cycle Analysis and Assessment in Civil Engineering: Towards an Integrated Vision

Robby Caspeele obtained his Ph. D. degree in Civil Engineering from Ghent University in 2010. He was appointed professor in the field of Structural Reliability at Ghent University, Department of Structural Engineering. His main areas of expertise relate to full-probabilistic and semi-probabilistic structural reliability analysis and risk management of structures, structural robustness, analysis of concrete and steel structures, assessment of existing structures, production and conformity control, numerical simulation techniques and large-scale testing. He is Laureate of the Award Gustave Magnel edition 2010-2014. He is a member of several national and international standardization committees and working groups related to structural engineering, among which related to fib, CEN and JCSS. Luc Taerwe is a Senior Full professor in Structural Concrete at Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium). Since 1977 he has conducted research and teaching in the areas of reinforced and prestressed concrete, fire resistance, robustness of structures, tunnel linings, composite reinforcement (FRP), structural reliability, statistical quality control, high performance and fibre reinforced concrete etc. He is Pro Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, former Director of the Magnel Lab for Concrete Research and former Head of the Department of Structural Engineering of Ghent University. Moreover, he is a member of the Royal Belgian Academy of Technical Sciences, a National RPGE Chair Professor at Tongji University (Shanghai) and President of ie-net Society of Engineers. Since 2006 he serves as Editor-in-chief of the fib journal "Structural Concrete". He received awards from RILEM, IABSE, fib, ACI and IIFC. Dan Frangopol is the inaugural holder of the Fazlur R. Khan Endowed Chair of Structural Engineering and Architecture at Lehigh University. Before joining Lehigh University in 2006, he was Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he is now Professor Emeritus. He is recognized as a leader in the field of life-cycle engineering of civil and marine structures. He is the Founding President of the International Associations for Bridge Maintenance and Safety (IABMAS) and Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE). He is the Founding Editor of Structure and Infrastructure Engineering. He is the recipient of several prestigious awards from ASCE, IABSE, IASSAR, and other professional organizations. He holds 4 honorary doctorates and 12 honorary professorships from major universities. He is a foreign member of the Academia Europaea and the Royal Belgian Academy for Science and the Arts, an Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy, and a Distinguished Member of ASCE.

Fazlur R. Khan Lecture

Keynote Lectures

Mini-SymposiaMS1: Load testing of new and existing structures
MS2: Vibration-based Structural Health Monitoring, damage identification and residual lifetime estimation
MS3: Probabilistic assessment of existing structures
MS4: Risk and reliability acceptance criteria
MS5: Early BIM for Life-Cycle performance
MS6: Performance of concrete during Life-Cycle
MS7: Life-Cycle engineering for hydraulic structures, levees, and other water related infrastructure
MS8: IEA EBC Annex 72: Assessing Life-Cycle related environmental impacts caused by buildings
MS9: Multi-hazard resilience assessment in a Life-Cycle context
MS10: Next generation asset management of civil infrastructure systems
MS11: Life-Cycle performance of structure and infrastructure under uncertainty
MS12: Life-Cycle redundancy, robustness and resilience indicators for aging structural systems under multiple hazards
MS13: Advances in Structural Health Monitoring for real-world applications
MS14: Monitoring of structures for informed-decision making
MS15: Probability-based service life design of reinforced concrete structures exposed to reinforcement corrosion
MS16: Life-Cycle maintenance and management for urban infrastructures with big data
MS17: Life-Cycle management as focus area within asset management
MS18: Serviceability of underground structures
MS19: Circular economy to improve sustainability of infrastructure

Special SessionsSS1: Structural Health Monitoring and decision making for infrastructures in multi-hazard environment
SS2: Climate adaptation engineering
SS3: Quality control procedures on the Life-Cycle management of existing bridges
SS4: Modeling time-dependent behavior and deterioration of concrete
SS6: TRUSS ITN - Reducing uncertainty in structural safety
SS7: Application of probabilistic methods in fire safety engineering
SS8: Bespoke models for marine structural management
SS9: Novel materials and systems for Life-Cycle Structural Health Monitoring
SS10: Value of Structural Health Monitoring information for the Life-Cycle management of civil structures
SS11: Design for robustness of steel and steel-concrete composite structures
SS12: Repair and self-repair of concrete
SS13: Life-Cycle of slope and river bank protection system considering soil bioengineering as well as conventional structures
SS14: Advanced NDT for visualization and quantification of concrete deterioration and repair effects
SS15: PROGRESS - Provisions for Greater Reuse of Steel Structures
SS16: Life-Cycle asset management for railway-structures (LeCIE)
SS17: INFRASTAR - Fatigue reliability analysis of wind turbine and bridge structures
SS18: The impact of BIM and web technologies in the life-cycle of our built environment

General SessionsGS1: Probability theory & applied structural reliability methods
GS2: Durability
GS3: Concrete structures
GS4: Nonlinear analysis & structural optimization
GS5: Earthquake engineering
GS6: Traffic load modelling
GS7: Bridge engineering
GS8: Life-cycle assessment
GS9: Assessment of existing structures