COMPOSITE CONSTRUCTION IN STEEL AND CONCRETE VI   Engineering Conferences International
	July 20-24, 2008 Devil's Thumb Ranch, Colorado (USA)

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Room Reservation Form (February 6, 2008)

Final Paper Format (February 6, 2008)

List of Papers and Authors (April 28, 2008)

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Transition zone between a reinforced concrete and steel structure

(photo courtesy of S.D. Lindsey and Assoc., Atlanta (USA))      

This is the sixth in an international series of conferences intended to highlights developments in the area of composite steel-concrete construction.  It follows the highly successful one held at Kruger National Park in South Africa in 2004 (see bottom of this page).  The conference is organized around morning and evening technical sessions, leaving the afternoons free for discussion and relaxation.

The venue for this year is in the beautiful, cool Colorado Rockies (www.devilsthumbranch.com) with easy access from Denver.  As all ECI events, this conference is limited to a small number of participants; if you are interested in participating, please complete the Pre-Registration as soon as possible and return it to ccvi@ce.gatech.edu .

In the past, these conferences have covered a wide variety of topics, including composite bridges, composite slabs, shear connectors, composite columns, innovative composite structural systems, and fire and seismic resistance of composite structural elements. For the 2008 conference, in addition to those topics, papers in the following areas are particularly encouraged:

• Harmonization of design rules from throughout the world

• Analytical tools for composite structures

• Seismic and fire design provisions

• Stability and robustness of composite structures

• Composite structures in megacities

• Tall buildings and unusual composite structures

• Utilization of new materials in combination with steel and concrete

Abstracts will be due October 1, 2007

Final papers will be due March 28, 2008 (format instructions are here)

The abstract format is here. Please submit Submit your abstract online here (or http://ccvi.ce.gatech.edu/submissions/)  following the "Submit a Paper" button.

Organizing Committee

Dr. Roberto T. Leon, Georgia Institute of Technology

Dr. W. Samuel Easterling, Virginia Tech

Dr. Gian Andrea Rassati, University of Cincinnati

Dr.  Jerome F. Hajjar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Professor Jorg Lange, Technical University of Darmstadt

Scientific Committee   

Professor Ulrike Kuhlmann, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Professor K. C. Tsai, NCREE, Taipei, Taiwan

Professor Bahram Shahrooz, U. of Cincinnati, USA

Professor Brian Uy, University of Wollangong

Jim Harries, Harris and Assoc., Denver, USA

Toko Hitaka, University of Kyoto, Japan

Kent Harries, University of Pittsburg, USA

Yan Xiao, Hunan University, China, University of Southern California, USA

Robert Tremblay, Ecole Plytechnique, Montreal, Canada

Oreste Bursi, University of Trento, Italy

Mario Fontana, ETH, Zürich

Wolfgang Kurz, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany

Dr. Dennis Lam, University of Leeds, UK

History

This will be the sixth on a series sponsored  by the United Engineering Foundation (UEF) and supported initially by the USA National Science Foundation (NSF).    After a US-Japan conference on composite and mixed construction held in Seattle in 1978, the previous UEF conferences were held in Henniker (New Hampshire, USA) in 1987, Potosi (Missouri, USA) in 1992, Irsee (Germany)  in 1996, Banff (Canada) in 2000 and Kruger National Park (South Africa).  The proceedings of those conferences, consisting of over 4500 pages from over 370 authors on different aspects of composite construction, are available at https://www.asce.org/bookstore/

Photos from Last Conference at  Kruger National Park (ZA) 2004

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Delegates hard at work