ASSCCA'03
22 - 25 June, 2003
Powerhouse Museum, Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia

ASSCCA’03 is the union of
5th International Conference on Steel and Aluminium Structures (ICSAS)
7th International Conference on Steel Concrete Composite Structures (ASCCS)

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The conference is being arranged around the broad themes of steel, aluminium, analysis, composite, concrete filled tubes, concrete, seismic and fire.

Conference Booklet (PDF 143 kB)
You will receive the comprehensive conference booklet and the 2 volumes of proceedings when you register, but some participants may wish to see the complete conference information booklet before they arrive (updated 17 June).

Detailed Technical Program (PDF 143 kB)
Complete session details showing the papers and their authors for each session.  Please note this is a draft program as at 17 June 2003, and is liable to change.

Speakers & Session Chairs Instructions
To assist our speakers and chairpersons, a list of guidelines to aid in the preparation and delivery of your presentations is now available on the speakers instructions page.

Official opening by Dr. John Nutt,AM
John Nutt is a former long time Chairman of Ove Arup and Partners in Australasia. He is a Peter Nicol Russell Medalist, and a John Connell Gold Medalist for Structural Engineering of the Institution of Engineers Australia. He has been a teacher, a researcher, and a designer of buildings. He has been involved with a dazzling array of projects – Sydney Opera House, Governor Phillip Tower Sydney (62 Storeys), major Sydney 2000 Olympics facilities, stadia for the 1998 Asian Games, Bangkok, exhibition halls for Singapore. His interests have encompassed steel structures, prestressed concrete, buckling, fire safety engineering, sustainability, tall buildings, architecture, and construction.

Keynote Speakers
We are pleased to announce that the following leading figures in the fields of steel, concrete, composite and aluminium structures from both academia and industry have agreed to be our keynote speakers.

Dr Kourosh Kayvani - "Analysis and Design of Cable Supported Roof Structures"
Connell Mott MacDonald
Australia

Dr Kourosh Kayvani is an Associate Director of Connell Mott MacDonald (CMM) and leads CMM’s Advanced Analysis Group internationally. He has many years experience in analysis and design of complex structures including major sporting structures, nuclear facilities and tall buildings. Kourosh was involved in the design of many stadium roof structures for the Sydney 2000 Olympics, and led the design team on the roof structure of the new Wembley Stadium in London. Kourosh is also the Vice President of the Lightweight Structures Association of Australasia (LSAA).

Prof Roberto Leon - "Seismic Design of Trussed Girder Systems"
Georgia Instute Of Technology
USA

Roberto T. Leon is Professor and Interim Chair in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests center on dynamic behavior and design of structures with partially-restrained composite connections, bond of reinforcement under cyclic loads, testing of full-scale and model structures in the laboratory, and field instrumentation of structures. He is a member of the AISC Specification Committee and the BSSC Provisions Update Committee and an active member of other technical committees of ASCE, ACI, EERI, IABSE, BSSC, CUREE and SSRC.

Prof Pentti Mäkeläinen - "Influence of initial imperfections on the behaviour of lipped channel columns at high temperatures"
Helsinki University Of Technology
Finland

Prof. D.Sc.(Tech.) Pentti Mäkeläinen currently holds the positions of Professor, Helsinki University of Technology (HUT), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1989-. Prior appointments include: Research Assistant (HUT, Structural Mechanics) 1969-79, One month stipendium visit at TU Warsaw, Poland in 1973, Post- doctoral (DAAD) stipendiate at RWTH Aachen, Germany (IKV, Plastics Institute) 1977 (3months), Senior Research Fellow (The Academy of Finland) 1980-84, Associate Professor (HUT, Structural Mechanics) 1985-89, Visiting Professor at TNO-IBBC Delft, The Netherlands 1986-87, Professor (HUT, Steel Structures) 1989-, Visiting Professor at EPFL-ICOM (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland) 1992-93.Visiting Professor at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane Australia 2000-2001.

Prof Shosuke Morino - "Strength and Stiffness of CFT Semi-Embedded Type Column Bases"
Mie University
Japan

Shosuke Morino is Professor of Structural Engineering in the Department of Architecture, and Dean of Faculty of Engineering, Mie University. He graduated from Kyoto University with a B.E. and an M.E., both in Architecture. He received his Ph. D. in Civil Engineering from Lehigh University in 1970, and Dr. E. in Architecture from Kyoto University in 1985. His research activities include studies of instability problems of steel, concrete-filled steel tube and concrete-encased steel members and frames. He is author and co-author of more than 100 technical papers in Japan and abroad. Professor Morino is a member of AIJ (Architectural Institute of Japan) and IABSE, and President of ASCCS.

Prof Riccardo Zandonini - "Semi-Rigid Composite Structural Systems with Slim Floor Beams: design analysis and erection phases"
University Of Trento
Italy

Riccardo Zandonini, born in 1948, graduated from the Technical University of Milan, where he started his academic and research activity. Currently, he is the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Trento, he joined in 1986 as Professor of Steel Structures Design. His studies have been covering a range of topics related to the stability of steel and composite steel-concrete structures. In the recent years his work focussed mainly on the behaviour, modelling and design of joints in the framework of the "semi-rigid" design approach. He served in various National and International Committees. Currently, he is Vice-Chairman of the Working Commission 2 Steel and Timber Structures of IABSE. Since 1997 he is editor of the steel construction issue of the Wiley journal Progress in Structural Engineering and Materials.

ASSCCA enquiries: K.Rasmussen@civil.usyd.edu.au