5^th International Conference on Steel and Concrete Structures August 29-30, 2018 Tokyo, Japan

Dr Cemal Eyyubov was born in Zakatala region in Republic of Azerbaijan. He graduated from the Faculty of Civil Engineering of Azerbaijan Technical University in 1961. Between 1995 and 2002 he worked as a member of academic teaching staff and head of the Department in the Department of Civil Engineering of Yozgat Engineering Faculty in Erciyes University-Turkey. Presently he is working as a member of academic teaching staff in the Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering in Erciyes University in Kayseri-Turkey.Cemal Eyyubov published over 150 scientific papers and seven books on Engineering Seismology, Earthquake Resistant Structures, Steel Structures, Reinforced Concrete Structures and Seismic Behaviour of Soils in Russian, English and Turkish. List of some of the recent publications are given in the end.Cemal Eyyubov appointed as referee and scientific committee member in numerous meetings, symposiums, conferences and congresses.

“Theoretical and Experimental Investigations of Strength and Stability Analysis of Prefabricated Structural Elements and Joints”, “Research and Determination of Dynamic Parameters of Buildings and Engineering Structures”, “Forming the Continuous Engineering Sismometric Service in the Buildings and Engineering Structures”, Investigation of Structural Safety of Buildings and Engineering Structures due to Seismic and Dynamic Parameters of the Structures”, “Seismic Isolation of Buildings and Engineering Structures”, “Theoretical and Experimental Investigations of Strength and Stability Analysis of Steel Structural Systems of Buildings and Engineering Structures”, “Investigation of the Behaviour of Reinforced Concrete and Steel Structures During Destructive Earthquakes”, “Construction and Experimental Investigation of Shear Walls in High Rise Buildings” and “Earthquake Resistance of Buildings Built from Local Materials - Case Study of Rural Building”.

Dr Mohamed A. ElGawady, Ph. D., is Benavides Associate Professor at Missouri University of Science and Technology (formerly University of Missouri-Rolla) with 20 years of experience in extreme loading and sustainability. Previously, ElGawady has held positions at Washington State University, University of Auckland, University of South Australia, and Tokyo Institute of Technology. He worked also as a structural engineer for three years. His research addresses the performance of existing structures under man-made and natural hazard. He also develops innovative structural systems and sustainable materials to mitigate extreme events. He is heavily involved in different design and construction codes such as The Masonry Society building code, American Concrete Institute Code, and Transportation Research Board. He co-authored 60 referred papers published in tier one journals and 120 conference papers published in top national and international venues. Dr. ElGawady received funding from different agencies including Missouri DNR, DOT, Federal Highway Administration, University Transportation Center, Mid-America Transportation Center, Transportation Northwest, MoDOT, and WSDOT. His excellent and hard work has been recognized by Missouri S&T through the inaugural Benavides Endowment Award, Joseph H. Senne, Jr. Academy of Civil Engineers Faculty Achievement Award, and Missouri University of Science and Technology Faculty Excellence Award.

• Seismic behavior of masonry and concrete structures • Rehabilitation of structures using FRP • Concrete filled FRP tubes • Sustainable concrete structures

Dr. Muhd Fadhil Nuruddin is a professor of Concrete at Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia. He has had more than 33 years of working experience. He began his career as a Site Engineer at a construction company before joining the academic world in 1985. He is a registered Professional Engineer (PEng) and a Corporate Member of the Institution of Engineers Malaysia (MIEM). He is also a Fellow and a Council Member of the Concrete Society of Malaysia (FCSM). He was the President of the Concrete Society of Malaysia between 1997 and 2002. At present he also holds the position as the President of the Malaysian Geopolymer Society.

• Geopolymer Concrete • Cement replacement materials • Structural Integrity and durability of Concrete • Construction Engineering

Dr. Lin’s research is in the field of structural engineering, and focuses on the improvement of the design and performance of buildings, bridges and infrastructure systems under dynamic loads including earthquake and blast loads. In addition to her research expertise, she has extensive practical experience in the design of buildings and bridges. She has received two teaching excellence awards from Concordia University, i.e., the President’s Teaching Excellent Award in 2014, and the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science Teaching Excellence Award in 2015.

• Seismic performance of buildings and bridges • Performance-based earthquake engineering • Development of seismic fragility curves for buildings and bridges • Development of improved intensity measures for probabilistic seismic demand analysis • Seismic risk assessment using HAZUS-MH • Characterization of seismic ground motion

Dr Ali Kheyroddin obtained his MS degree from Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran, and his PhD degree from McGill University, Canada at 1996. Currently, he is a professor of Structural Engineering in Civil Engineering Faculty at Semnan University, Iran, and he is also the member of Center of Excellence for Engineering and Management of Civil Infrastructures, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. He was an invited visiting scholar in the University of Texas at Arlington, USA (2015), and he was the chancellor of the Semnan University for 8 years. His research interests include design of reinforced concrete structures, tall buildings, rehabilitation of existing buildings and design of earthquake resistant buildings. He is the author of ten books, more than 150 ISI and ISC journal papers, and more than 330 conference papers. He has four patents, and he has also supervised numerous PhD and MS degree theses. He is also Editor in Chief of Journal of Rehabilitation in Civil Engineering (JRCE, in English).

• Reinforced Concrete Structures • Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Structures • Tall Buildings (Analysis and Design) • Composite Structures • High Performance Fiber Reinforced Concrete (HPFRC) • Rehabilitation and Seismic Retrofitting • Progressive Collapse • Neural Networks

Dr Ray Su is associate professor in structural engineering at the University of Hong Kong. His current research interests lie in the development of new theories suitable for seismic assessment and design of concrete and masonry structures, strengthening concrete members using external steel plates, fracture analysis of MEE materials and evaluation of fracture properties of concrete and graphite. Since 2000, he has been awarded 7 research grants on fracture mechanics, seismic behaviour and strengthening of concrete structures from the HK Research Grants Council. He has authored and co-authored more than 110 SCI cited journal papers and 80 conference papers. His research articles have been independently cited over 1600 times in top international journals and have achieved an h-index of 20 (Google Scholar 9/2016). He is an editorial panel member for the Journal of Applied Mathematics, Structural Engineering and Mechanics, Advances in Concrete Construction, among others. He is an honorary secretary of The Structural Discipline, The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers and was an honorary Treasurer for The Institution of Structural Engineers (Hong Kong Branch).

Reinforced concrete building structures (shear/drift capacities, tension softening curve, concrete fracture, strut-and-tie model, transfer/composite structures, seismic/fragility/vibration/corrosion analyses); Fracture mechanics (various materials: isotropic/anisotropic, concrete, graphite, functionally graded, bi-material, magneto-electro-elastic, piezoelectric, superconductor; various responses: static/dynamic/transient)

Dr SL Chan is one of the contributors for research, development and codification of the new structural design method, namely the second-order P-D-d or Direct Analysis which allows design of structures without assuming effective lengths. The method now appears in many design codes worldwide while he is among the few designing practical steel structures without effective length assumption required in the traditional design method, which include the recently completed single layer steel dome in Macau with one of the world’s longest clear span. He also won awards by professional institutions including the Joint Institution of Structural Engineers U.K. and Hong Kong Institution of Engineers in 2013 and by the Geotechnical Division in 2016 and by his university for technology transfer. His developed program NIDA is used by numerous universities for teaching of structural stability and by consultants for second-order direct analysis and design of steel and composite structures.

• Nonlinear Structural Analysis and Design • Steel and Steel-concrete Composite Structures • Finite Element Method • Buckling and Stability • Structural Mechanics and Analysis

Dr Weiwei LIN is a member of the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, holding the associate professorship. He has authored and co-authored over 100 academic papers, proceedings, and technical articles dealing with the problems of the structural mechanics and bridge engineering, especially for the steel structures and steel-concrete composite structures. He has co-authored the book entitled: Bridge Engineering: Classifications, Design Loading, and Analysis Methods published by Elsevier. He is a member of several engineering committees, like ASCE, JSCE, IABSE, IABMAS, and IALCCE etc. He is the recipient of IABMAS YOUNG PRIZE of 2014.

Steel and Steel-Concrete Composite Structures, Retrofit and Rehabilitation of Existing Structures, Redundancy and Robustness Evaluation of Bridge Structures, Structural Health Monitoring, Smart Infrastructures, Numerical Simulation and Finite Element Analysis, Dynamic Response of Bridge Structures

Dr Wan Hamidon Wan Badaruzzaman is currently the Chairman of the Smart and Sustainable Township Research Centre (SUTRA), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. He is also a Professor in Structural Engineering at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. His main research areas in terms of publication output are on composite structures especially on Profiled Steel Sheeting Dry Board (PSSDB), a lightweight structural composite system that has been applied as floor, wall and roof panels in buildings; infilled cold formed steel tube structural elements strengthened with CFRP sheets; and composite plate girders. He has published over 200 journal and conference articles. Prof. Wan has won numerous research awards including the Winner of CIDB Construction Innovation and Design Award (2001), Gold Medal for 26th International Exhibition of Inventions, Geneva, Institute for Industrial Patents of Switzerland (Association Suisse des Conseilsen Propriete Indust) (1998), International National Inventor’s Award, MOSTE (1998), Gold Medal for the Best Overall Invention, MINDEX/INNOTEX Design & Invention Exhibition, WIPO (1997), and Design & Invention Exhibition, MOSTE, SIRIM, and MINDS (1997). He was also the past Director of the Engineering Accreditation Department, Board of Engineers Malaysia.

• Structural Engineering • Composite Materials • Steel Sheet and Concretes • Finite Element Method • Beams and Girders • Geopolymers

Dr Sharadkumar Purohit is a Professor at Civil Engineering Department, Institute of Technology, Nirma University, Ahmedabad-India. He holds bachelor degree in Civil Engineering and has earned M. Tech. (Structural Engineering) & Ph. D. degrees from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITBombay), Mumbai-India. His area of research interest is Structural Response Control, Experimental Studies of Concrete/Steel/Composite Structures, Earthquake Resistant Design and Fiber Reinforced Composite. He is actively involved in Academics and Consultancy related to Structural Engineering. Presently, he is working on couple of externally funded Research Projects. Journal Papers, Book Chapters and Conference Papers are also on his credit. Currently, he is coordinating activities related to Postgraduate programme in Structural Engineering for the Department. He is a Life Member of many eminent professional bodies of his country.

• Concrete/Steel/Composite Structures • Earthquake Engineering • Structural Dynamics • Structural Analysis & Design • Experimental Techniques

Dr Fadzli Mohamed Nazri is currently an Associate Professor in Structural and Earthquake Engineering at the School of Civil Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia. He received the PhD degree in civil engineering from the University of Bristol, in 2012. His areas of expertise include earthquake engineering, structural analysis and numerical simulation/modelling. He has published four books in Earthquake Engineering Mathematics and more than 30 journal articles.

• Earthquake Engineering • Seismic Hazard • Structural Analysis • Numerical Simulation/Modeling

Dr Chung-Che Chou received the Ph.D. degree in structural engineering from the University of California, San Diego, Calif, USA, in 2001. After a two-year stay as an Assistant Project Scientist working for the New San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge project at the University of California, San Diego, he joined the Department of Civil Engineering at the National Chiao Tung University, Hsin Chu, Taiwan. He joined the Department of Civil Engineering at the National Taiwan University, where he became a Full Professor in 2011. Currently, Professor Chou serves as the Director of the Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (CEER), National Taiwan University, Taiwan. He is an Editorial Panel Member for the International Journal of Earthquakes and Structures, NZSEE Bulletin (New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering Inc.), and the Scientific World Journal, among others. He is also a Member of the Institution of Structural Engineers and the Taiwan Institution of Engineers. His research has been centered on the seismic testing, analysis, and design of civil engineering structures, especially for steel and posttensioned self-centering structures.

• Steel Structure • Bridge Engineering • Large Structure Test • Earthquake Resistance Design • Post-tensioned Self-centering Structures

Dr Sunday Nwaubani is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in South Africa. Prior to his current appointment, Professor Nwaubani had been a Senior Lecturer in the United Kingdom for over 20 years at Anglia Ruskin University and the University of Surrey. He is a Senior Fellow of the prestigious UK Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). His main research areas, in terms of publication output, are concerned with the properties, durability and microstructure of construction materials, structural concrete, blended cements, clinckerless cements, polymer-concrete, use of waste materials in construction, sustainability, corrosion and corrosion mitigation issues. His works in these areas of research is substantiated by a large body of journal publications, a book on Construction Materials, as well as, numerous book chapters. He currently serves as international technical committee member for three other reputable international Conferences.

Properties, durability and microstructure of Construction Materials, structural concrete, blended cements, clinckerless cements, polymer-concrete, use of waste materials in Construction, sustainability, corrosion and corrosion mitigation issues

Dr. Meng-Hao Tsai received his PhD degree in civil engineering from the National Taiwan University in 1998. After graduation, he had worked as a short-term post-doctoral research associate in the State University of New York at Buffalo and Tokyo Institute of Technology. He entered the Structural Engineering Sector (II) of Taiwan CECI Engineering Consutant Inc. in 2002. After two years industrial experience, he joined the Department of Civil Engineering at the National Pingtung University of Science and Technology in 2004.

• Earthquake resistant analysis and design • Passive structural control • Progressive collapse analysis of building structures

Norazura Muhamad Bunnori (PhD) has been involved in Acoustic Emission (AE)technique since 2004 while she was pursuing her PhD study at Cardiff University, Wales, UK. She was graduated from Cardiff University in 2008 and continues with the AE research area in Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Malaysia. Currently she is working as a Senior Lecturer at School of Civil Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) since 2009. The research covered several topics of AE applications and analysis (quantitative and qualitive). The aim is to continue the AE study especially in Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) research area and to discover more in this potential area. The passion towards AE is deep and she believes that there are a great number of information can be studied and discovered with this tool.

• Structural Engineering • Structural Health Monitoring • Non Destructive Testing and Evaluation • Acoustic Emission (AE) Technique in Damage Assessment Evaluation

Dr Mohd Haziman Wan Ibrahim is an Associate Professor and Deputy Dean (Academic and International) in the Department of Sructural and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia. His research expertise is in the Recycling Waste Materials, Construction Materials, Brickwork and Concrete Technology. He has published one book and 100 journal publications, technical reports and international conference papers. He is also a Vice President of the Concrete Society Malaysia.

• Advanced Structural Analysis • Bridge Engineering • Concrete technology

Dr. Zahiraniza Mustaffa is an Associate Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP) for nearly 15 years. She obtained her PhD majoring in Pipeline Reliability from Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, Master of Science in Water Resources Engineering, from the University of Alberta, Canada and Bachelor of Engineering (Hons.) in Civil Engineering from the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. Dr. Zahira specializes in the field of pipeline engineering as well as hydraulic engineering, covering the aspects of urban hydraulics and probabilistic structural designs. Her research capability in the pipeline engineering field is portrayed through the cumulative research grant values of RM 2 mil. secured from various international, national and consultancy resources. She has also developed a software and training module for PETRONAS on the reliability assessment of corroded pipelines using probabilistic approaches. Dr. Zahira received a prestigious research grant from the Schlumberger Foundation and currently an Ambassador for the Faculty for the Future of the foundation in promoting women into science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. Recently, the Sumitomo Foundation, Japan research grant was awarded to her which aims at comparing and strengthening women involvement in STEM university research between the Malaysian and Japanese.

• Probabilistic structural designs • pipeline engineering • Hydrology

Dr David Chua Kim Huat is a registered professional engineer in Singapore and is currently a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the National University of Singapore. He is also Vice Dean at the Faculty of Engineering. He obtained his PhD degree in 1989 from University of California, Berkeley, USA, majoring in construction management. His research interests in the recent years have been in lean construction, computer integrated and IT-based construction management, BIM, construction simulation, risk management and construction safety. He has written over 180 technical publications, editor for two books, and contributed a chapter to two books. He is appointed member of BCA’s 2nd International Panel of Experts on BIM.

• Construction Management • Risk Management and Construction Safety

Dr Chao-Hsun Huang is an Associate Professor in Structural Engineering at National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan. His main research areas include reinforced concrete and masonry structures, seismic assessment and retrofit, and dynamic behaviors of building and other structures. He is the author of several books as well as a number of journal and conference papers. His most current research is mainly on seismic retrofit of concrete buildings using combination of column jacketing and supplemental beams.

• Structural Engineering • Reinforced concrete and masonry structures • Seismic assessment and retrofit

Dr N Umamaheswari is currently working as Associate Professor in Department of Civil Engineering at SRM Institute of Science and Technology in INDIA. She possesses more than 25 years of professional experience. Her research areas include steel-concrete composite structures, cold-formed steel structures and finite element analysis. She has published about 30 research articles.

• Steel-Concrete Composite Structures • Cold formed Steel Structures • Finite Element Analysis