Brian Uy is Professor of Structural Engineering and Director of the Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety (CIES) in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The University of New South Wales in 2013. He has co-authored over 600 publications including over 150 journal articles. He has delivered over 250 conference papers in 35 countries, including over 60 keynote/invited lectures in 15 countries and has been involved in research in steel and composite structures for over 20 years. Brian is Chairman of the Standards Australia Committee BD32 on Composite Structures which is currently preparing the Australian/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS2327 on composite structures for buildings. He has been the Chairman of the Australia Regional Group of the Institution of Structural Engineers since 2012 and the Chairman of the Australia Group of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) since 2015. Brian is Chief Editor (Asia-Pacific) for Steel and Composite Structures and serves on the Editorial Board of Journal of Constructional Steel Research and Advanced Steel Construction. He also currently serves on the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) Task Committee 5 on Composite Construction and the IABSE Working Commission 2 on Steel, Timber and Composite Structures

Steel-Concrete Composite Structures, Steel Structures, Structural Engineering, Civil Engineering

M.Manikandan is the Sr. Structural Engineer at Gulf Consult-Kuwait with responsibility for Designing and Construction Consultation of the tall buildings, Colleges, Shopping Complexes, Multi story Car Parks, Hospitals, Bridges and Deep Underground structures by considering the Structural requirements and adequate construct able systems to complete the projects within allocated budget and time schedule. Prior to joining Gulf Consult-Kuwait, he has worked as Structural Engineer at several companies, including RECAFCO-Kuwait, SAEED HADI ALDOOSARY EST-Saudi Arabia, Where he has completed many Precast Structures and treatment plant including the deep underground structures with heavy equipment. Notable he is in the construction industry since past 15 years and has completed many land mark projects in Kuwait as well in Saudi. He is pursuing PhD in Risk Management in International Construction Projects as an External Part time researcher with Vels University Chennai-India and expected completion on end of 2015 and He has been received Civil Engineering Degree from Kamraj University Madurai-India on April, 2000 following that he has received MBA in Project Management from Sikkim Manipal University-India in 2012.

Designing and Construction Consultation of the tall buildings, Colleges, Shopping Complexes, Multi story Car Parks, Hospitals, Bridges and Deep Underground structures

Prof. Mensinger is Chair of Metal Structures at TUM. After studying civil engineering at TU Karlsruhe and working as a structural engineer at Phillip Holzmann AG in Neu-Isenburg, Prof. Mensinger did his doctorate under Prof. Bode at the University of Kaiserslautern. His topic was fatigue problems in composite bridge building. He also worked as a structural engineer in the plant and power station construction section at Voss u. Kamb Partner GmbH in Kaiserlautern. In 2001, he joined the management team of H. Wetter AG in Switzerland. From 2003, he had the dual role of lecturer and Head of the Institute of Structural Engineering at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. In 2006, he accepted the position of Chair of Metal Structures at TUM. Prof. Mensinger is a registered inspector and testing engineer for metal structures and a member of the board of the engineering firm Büchting + Streit AG in Munich.

Prof. Mensinger explores the area of extremal impact on steel structures (e.g. fire and explosion), the robustness and stability of steel and aluminum structures, glass structures and the sustainable use of metal construction materials.

Dr. Cheng Yu is Professor of construction engineering technology and is the coordinator of the construction engineering technology program. He has extensive research and teaching experiences in light framed construction, structural design, building information modeling, and risk management in construction. Dr. Yu is the founder of the Nuconsteel Materials Testing Lab at UNT's Discovery Park. His research interests are: innovative high-performance cold-formed steel shear walls for mid-rise construction; analytical models of wood-based shear panels; next generation design methodology for web cripping strength; sustainable engineering in buildings; loss control and prevention in construction; and advanced test bed for developing sustainable construction materials

Dr. Yu's research focuses on Thin-Walled, Cold-Formed Steel Structures, Computational Mechanics, Earthquake Engineering, Structural Dynamics and Control, Structural Stability, Building Information Modeling, and Construction Technology

Professor Hassan Al Nageim is a Professor of Structural Engineering. His; BSc (Hons) in Civil Engineering from University of Baghdad, MSc in Structural Engineering University College Cardiff, UK and PhD in Civil and Structural Engineering from Heriot-Watt University, UK. In 1977-1979, he has established the new Technology Department at Babylon (Hilla) Technical Institutions, Iraq and worked as a Head of Department. 1983 -1985, he worked as a consultant structural engineer at the Kuwait National Petroleum Company representing the British Inspection X-Ray company. 1989-Date, he worked as a Senior Lecturer, Reader (Associate Professor) in Structural Engineering and in 2003-to date promoted to full Professor in Structural Engineering at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. With main roles of taking the lead of Advanced Structural Design and Pavement Engineering subject area, including design and analysis of steel structures, bridges, concrete structures, pavement engineering: design, evaluation and materials developments. Professor Al Nageim is a regular speaker and keynote speakers at different national and international conferences and a consultant to many companies worldwide in the field of structural design and materials innovations and developments. He has published more than 140 scientific conference and journal papers and two books entitled: Structural Mechanics published by Pearson Education; Steel Structures: Practical Studies published by Taylor and Francis. Professor Hassan main research interest’s area is in structural & pavement engineering design and evaluations including innovations in materials technology. Professor Al Nageim is also: A Chartered Engineer and a member of the British Engineering Council, the Founder and Chief Editor of the International Journal of Pavement Engineering & Asphalt Technology, established in 2001, ISSN 1464-8164, the Founder and Chairman of the international annual conference on Pavement Engineering, Asphalt Technology, Sustainable Materials, and Infrastructures, A Fellow of the British Institution of Non-Destructive Testing, UK and a Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation UK. Professor Al Nageim also supervised over 16 successful UK PhD students as a director of studies and external examiners for more than 25 successful PhD students from the University of: Anna University, India,Visvesvaraya Technological University, India, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Italia, University of; Nottingham, Greenwich, Portsmouth, Coventry, Salford, Liverpool and Ulster of the UK and University College Dublin. Adjunct Dean to the Gahan Polytechnic and of external examiners and advisor for two academic degree courses in Wolverhampton University and the University of Ulster of the UK. Professor Al Nageim has also extensive experience in managing and development of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in; civil engineering, building maintenance management and building surveying at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. Professors Al Nageim also playing a major roles as a member of the strategic planning educational and council memberships committees for two Engineering and Materials Institutions in the UK.

Professor Hassan Al Nageim research interests include pavement engineering, asphalt technology, steel and concrete structures

Dr. Hussam Mahmoud is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Colorado State University (CSU). He is also the Director of the Structural Laboratory at CSU and the Academic Advisor for the ASCE Student Chapter. He is affiliated with the School of Biomedical Engineering and the School of Advanced Materials Discovery. He received his BS and MS from the University of Minnesota and his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to arriving at CSU, he was Manager of the NEES Earthquake Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) where he oversaw and conducted various large-scale hybrid simulations. Prior to joining UIUC he was as a research scientist at Lehigh University where he managed and led various projects pertaining to fatigue and fracture assessment of steel structures through laboratory testing and structural health monitoring. Dr. Mahmoud’s research program has three major thrusts including assessing community resilience, quantifying building damage to extreme single and multiple hazards, and evaluating deteriorated infrastructure.

Dr. Mahmoud has led federal, state, and industry sponsored research totaling of well over $3,000,000. He has published various scholarly articles in journals such as the ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering and International Journal of Fatigue. He presents his work frequently at both national and international conferences as well as through invited seminars and workshops. Dr. Mahmoud is a technical reviewer for various journals including the ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering, the Journal of Earthquake Engineering, among others. He serves on many technical committees including ASCE on Fire protection and ASCE on Multi-Hazard Mitigation and he is a member of the Steel Bridge Task Force of The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI). He is currently the elected chair of the ASCE Committee on Fatigue and Fracture and the ASCE Committee on Steel Bridges. Dr. Mahmoud chaired many sessions at conferences including sessions on multi-hazard assessment and mitigations.

Dr. Mahmoud has experience teaching undergraduate and graduate structural engineering courses with focus of structural steel, and has developed two new courses with direct focus on Ph.D. level research in the area of fatigue and fracture and structural fire. The Fatigue and Fracture course covers various topics including high and low cycle fatigue and ductile and brittle fracture with application to steel, concrete, and hard human tissues including bone and teeth. The fire course covers a wide range of topics pertaining to fire Dynamics and structural fire engineering

• Community resilience quantification and assessment
• Hazards assessment, structural response and mitigation
• Structural performance under extreme multiple hazards
• Life-cycle of civil infrastructures as influenced by aging and deterioration
• Fatigue and fracture assessment of steel structures (including high cycle, low cycle and ultra-low cycle fatigue)

Dr. Mahamid is currently a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a structural Engineering consultant for multiple structural engineering firms in the US and abroad. He worked as a structural engineer at GRAEF and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) in Chicago. His experience covers the various building materials, including concrete, steel, wood, and masonry. His current research projects include analysis and behavior of steel connections, seismic and non-seismic, reinforced concrete slabs and joints, behavior of structural members subjected to fire, behavior and analysis of composite member, and analysis and behavior of cross-laminated timber.
Dr. Mahamid serves on several technical national committees; he authored and coauthored numerous journal and conference papers.
He is a licensed Structural Engineer (SE) in the State of Illinois and registered Professional Engineer (PE) in California, Washington, Wisconsin, and Michigan, a Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) in Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada and registered Civil Engineer in Israel. He is a Fellow of ASCE (F.ASCE) and ASCE’s Structural Engineering Institute (F.SEI).

Dr. Mahamid’s research areas and interest include behavior of steel structures with the focus on steel connections for seismic applications, behavior of concrete structures with the focus on reinforced concrete joints and connections for seismic applications, earthquake resistant design, computations & mechanics, structural mechanics, building codes and code development. As a practicing structural engineer, Dr. Mahamid is interested in studying the methods & techniques to bridging theory into practice, and Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools in structural engineering.

Dr Behzad Rafezy, PhD, PE is the director of Research and Development Department at SidePlate Systems, Inc. an Innovative Steel Connection Design Company. Prior to SidePlate, Dr Rafezy held the position of visiting professor of Structural Engineering at UCLA and also served as the Associate Professor of Structural Engineering at Sahand University of Technology and led research at all levels from MSc, through PhD to nationally sponsored research. Dr Rafezy has also served as associate lecturer at Cardiff University, UK where he conducted several research projects as part of his PhD and Postdoc studies between 2000 and 2006. Dr Rafezy has authored and co-authored over 70 peer-reviewed research papers including the best invited paper of the year awarded by the Institution of Structural Engineers of the UK in 2002. He is also the co-inventor of several national and international patents and the EEZ connection Panel Zone model published in SEAOC 2014 Convention in Indian Wells. As a structural engineer, Dr Rafezy had the privilege of working for more than 15 years as a lead structural designer and consulting engineer on various steel and concrete projects, covering commercial, residential and industrial projects.

Steel Structures, Concrete Structures