Keynote Lectures
Professor Thanasis Triantafillou
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Patras, 26500 Patras, Greece
Lecture title: Seismic Retrofitting of Concrete and Masonry Structures with Textile Reinforced Mortar Jackets
(9:00 am, Dec.14, 2015)
Thanasis Triantafillou is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Patras, Greece, since 1993. He holds MSc (1987) and PhD (1989) degrees from M.I.T., where he served as Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, during the period 1990-93. He has 25 years of research and consulting activity in the field of strengthening and seismic retrofitting of concrete, masonry and timber structures with FRP and cement-based composites reinforced with textiles. He has received two medals (IIFC and Mirko Ros) and three best paper awards from ASCE journals. Prof. Triantafillou is member of various fib and RILEM committees. More details can be found in http://www.civil.upatras.gr/en/Proswpiko/faculty/entry/TriantafillouAthanasios/?PageNo=2
Professor Charles E. Bakis
Distinguished Professor of Engineering Science & Mechanics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Lecture title: Epoxy and Its Role in the Long-term Performance of Bonded FRP Material Systems
(9:40 am Dec 14, 2015)
Prof. Charles E. Bakis has been a member of the graduate faculty at Penn State since 1988 and currently holds the rank of University Distinguished Professor.He has also worked in the aerospace industry, at NASA Glenn Research Center, and at the US Army Research Laboratory.He received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University, and MS and PhD degrees in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech.He is a fellow of ASME, the Intl. Inst. for Fiber Reinforced Polymers in Construction (IIFC), and the American Society for Composites (ASC).He has received outstanding research and teaching awards from the Penn State College of Engineering and the ASC Award in Composites from the American Society for Composites.His research focuses on the design, manufacture, and evaluation of fiber reinforced polymer composites across many fields, including civil engineering, aerospace engineering, and mechanical engineering.Recently, he has worked on the durability of external and internal reinforcements for concrete, composite materials with adaptive stiffness and shape, composites with simultaneous structural and energy storage functions, and nano-reinforced composites. Prof. Bakis has advised or co-advised the theses of 34 MS students and 17 PhD students.He has edited 4 conference proceedings, over 150 refereed journal and conference papers and over 140 non-refereed conference papers. He has been principal investigator or co-principal investigator on roughly 90 externally funded research projects. Prof. Bakis directs the Composites Manufacturing Technology Center at Penn State, and has served as Editor-in-Chief of the ASCE J. Composites for Construction since 2003.He serves as President of ASC and Executive Committee Member-at-Large of IIFC.He chairs ACI subcommittee 440K on Fiber Reinforced Polymer Material Characteristics and is vice-chair of ASTM subcommittee D30.10 on Composites for Civil Structures. He has been a principal organizer of eight major conferences and symposia—most recently the technical chair of the 16th US National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in 2010 and the Chair of the 28th Annual Technical Conference of the American Society for Composites in 2013.
Professor Tamon Ueda
Professor, Division of Engineering and Policy for Sustainable Environment, Hokkaido University, Kita 13, Nishi 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan
Lecture title: General Design Approach for Ultimate Deformation of Members with FRP Strengthening
(8:30 am Dec 15, 2015)
UEDA Tamon is a Professor at Division of Engineering and Policy for Sustainable Environment of Hokkaido University. He obtained his Doctor of Engineering from University of Tokyo in 1982. His research interests are in numerical analysis of concrete and hybrid structures, prediction of life cycle of structures, upgrading of structures, seismic design and structural design methodology. He has received various national and international awards on his research achievements, such as Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE) Awards, Japan Concrete Institute (JCI) Awards, Japan Prestressed Concrete Institute (JPCI) Awards, The fib Medal of Merit and Awards from international journals (American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Journal of Composites in Construction, Journal of Advanced Concrete Technology, and Advances in Structural Engineering).He is currently Technical Council Member of the International Federation for Structural Concrete (fib), Advisory Committee Chair of International Institute of FRP in Construction (IIFC), Immediate-past President of Asian Concrete Federation (ACF),Chairman of ISO/TC71/SC7 (Maintenance and Repair of Concrete Structures), Chief Advisor of AUN/SEED-Net (ASEAN University Network/Southeast Asia Engineering Education Development Network), Chairman of Concrete Committee of Association for Civil Engineering Technology of Hokkaido, and Senior Director of International Activities Center of JSCE.
Professor Yufei Wu
Professor, School of Civil, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, RMIT University, GPO Box 2476V Melbourne 3001, Victoria, Australia
Lecture title: Development of Constitutive Models for FRP Confined Concrete Structures
(9:10 am Dec 15, 2015)
Yufei Wu is currently a Professor in Infrastructure Engineering and Metro Chair in the School of Civil, Environmental and Chemical Engineering at RMIT University. He received his BSc in 1983 and MSc in 1986 from Zhejiang University, China. He received MEng in 1994 from National University of Singapore and completed his PhD in 2002 from the University of Adelaide, Australia. He has more than ten years of industrial working experience in structural engineering as a professional engineer in consulting firms in China, Singapore and Australia and is a chartered professional engineer of New Zealand and Australia (MIPENZ, MIEAust, CPEng). He worked in Shanghai Jiao Tong University from 1989 to 1992 as a lecturer. Before joining RMIT University, he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at City University of Hong Kong from 2004-2015. His teaching and research involve concrete structures, structural design, composite structures, FRP structures and structural rehabilitation. Dr Wu has published more than 100 technical works, including 83 SCI indexed journal papers. He is the sole or 1st named inventor of several new structural technologies with six US patents granted.
Professor Rudolf Seracino
Professor and Associate Head of Department, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7533, USA
Lecture title:Inspection and Monitoring of bond defects, Debonding and Environmental Degredation of Externally Bonded CFRP-to-Concrete Systems
(9:50 am Dec 16, 2015)
Dr Seracino is a Professor and Associate Head in the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at North Carolina State University, USA. He earned B.A.Sc. and M.A.Sc. degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Toronto, Canada, and a Ph.D. from the University of Adelaide, Australia. His research interests include: the use of FRP systems to strengthen existing concrete or masonry infrastructure; the rapid repair of earthquake damaged concrete infrastructure with all FRP systems; internal FRP reinforcement and prestressing in new concrete construction; and the development of rapid and effective condition assessment of civil infrastructure using NDE techniques. He is a faculty member in the North Carolina State University site of the NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center on Integrating Composites into Infrastructure (CICI). He has developed and teaches a graduate course on FRP Strengthening and Repair of Concrete Structures. Dr Seracino has been a member of the International Institute for FRP in Construction (IIFC) since its inception in 2003. He currently serves as a Vice-President of the IIFC, was elected an IIFC Fellow in 2012, and received the IIFC President’s Award in 2010. Dr Seracino serves on the Editorial Board of the ASCE Journal of Composites for Construction, and is a voting member of the American Concrete Institute (ACI) Committee 440 on FRP Reinforcement. He is currently also Co-Chair of ACI Subcommittee 440M on FRP Repair of Masonry Structures. He has served as the Chair, or Co-Chair, of three international conferences including CICE2004 in Adelaide, Australia, FRPRCS-9 in Sydney, Australia, and FRPRCS-10 in Tampa, USA. He continues to serve on the International Scientific Committee of several FRP conference series. Dr Seracino has served as an external consultant to Departments of Transportation on the FRP strengthening or repair of several in-service bridges in both Australia and the United States.
Professor Zhishen Wu
Professor, International Institute for Urban Systems Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210096, China
Professor, Department of Urban and Civil Engineering, Ibaraki University, Hitachi, 316-8511, Japan
Lecture title: Performance-based design of civil structures with advanced fiber-reinforced polymers
(10:30 am, Dec.16, 2015)
Zhishen Wu is a professor at Southeast University, China and Ibaraki University, Japan. He received BS and MS from Southeast University, China in 1983 and 1986 respectively and PhD from Nagoya University, Japan in 1990. His research interests include structural/concrete/maintenance engineering, FRP (fiber reinforced polymers) composite technologies, industrial technologies on basalt fibers, advanced sensor technologies, and structural health/risk/disaster monitoring and control. He is the author or co-author of over 600 papers in refereed journals and int. conference proceedings including over 50 keynote or invited papers. He also holds 50 authorized patents of invention. Dr. Wu was awarded the JSCE Research Price from Japan Society of Civil Engineering in 1990, the JSCM Technology Award from the Japan Society for Composite Materials in 2005, 2009 SHM person of the year Award from SHM, An Int. Journal, and National Prize for Progress in Science and Technology(2nd) of China in 2012 etc. He is the chairman or board member of numerous national and int. societies, such as China chemical fibers association committee on basalt fibers as chairman, International Society for Structural health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure（ISHMII） as a vice president.He were elected as follows of ASCE, JSCE, ISHMII, and IIFC (International Institute of FRP in Construction). Moreover, he serves as an editor, associate editor, editorial board member for more than ten int. journals such as Int. J. of Sustainable Materials and Structural Systems as editor. He has led over 10 important research projects in both Japan and China, and is now leading a national 973 research project on “the use of FRP composites to achieve high performance and longevity for major engineering structures (2012-2017)”.
