Program

ICCSTE'23 Keynote Lecture - Physical

June 05 | 09:15 AM - 10:00 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Khaled Sennah, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), Canada

Assessment of Existing RC Bridges with Spatially-Variable Pitting Corrosion Subjected To Increasing Traffic Demand
Dr. Luigi Di Sarno, University of Liverpool, UK

Dr. Di Sarno holds a PhD in Structural Engineering, MSc in Earthquake Engineering and Structural Design and MSc in Structural Steel Design. Dr. Di Sarno is Visiting Professor at the Mid-America Earthquake Center, headquartered at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA, since 2002. He is Honorary Member Staff at the College of Engineering, University of Bristol, UK, since 2011 and Adjunct Professor in Seismic Engineering at INTEC, Dominican Republic. Dr. Di Sarno’s research interests include: (i) analysis, design and retrofitting of critical structures and infrastructure, (ii) use of innovative low-carbon materials for sustainable and resilient infrastructure (iii) engineering solutions for climate change adaptation and (iv) advanced experimental testing and numerical simulations, including digital twins for asset management. Dr. Di Sarno has authored about 250 research publications, including refereed journals, conference papers, research reports, book chapters and field investigation reports. He has co-authored with Professor A.S. Elnashai the book: Fundamentals of Earthquake Engineering, edited by Wiley & Sons. He is also Associate Editor of prestigious international journals by Elsevier and Springer. Dr. Di Sarno is member of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Performance Based Design for Structures Committee and also Seismic Effects on Structures Committee. He is also part of the prestigious Disaster Management Advisory Group of the Pan American Health Organization, part of the World Health Organization. Additionally. He is also a member of the Working Group 11 of the European Association for Earthquake Engineering dealing with the seismic design of bridges and member of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction of the United Nations. Dr. Di Sarno is the Founder and Leader of the Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructure Group at University of Liverpool, Department of Civil Engineering. He is also global consultant in disaster risk analysis and response mitigations. Further details on Dr. Di Sarno’s academic activities at the following link: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/engineering/staff/luigi-di-sarno/

RTESE'23 Keynote Lecture - virtual

June 05 | 9:15 AM - 10:05 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Mehrab Mehrvar, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), Canada

On The Importance of Airborne Nano-Size Particles: Air Quality, Health, Sustainability, and Climate Change
Dr. Parisa A. Ariya, McGill University, Canada

Professor Ariya is James McGill Chair in Chemistry, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. Her physical-analytical chemistry laboratories explore particles, bridging chemical, physical and biological-health processes in air, and interfaces with water/snow, soil, and building surfaces. This lab currently designs novel analytical chemistry technologies at McGill University to track individual single and clusters of particles, including airborne virus droplets and aerosols, without needing particle trapping in milliseconds. They also develop ultra-trace chemical detection capabilities and remote-sensed (AI) recyclable nano-sensors. This lab contributes to solving the pollution enigma by developing sustainable remediation-recycling methods and technologies for pollutants (gaseous and particles, including bioaerosols such as airborne viruses, and emerging contaminants) with zero-net energy. It allows understanding of feedback mechanisms between atmospheric, biogeochemical and microphysical processes. Dr. Ariya has published >150 internationally peer-reviewed publications, four patents, a book, and > 300 proceedings. She has presented >140 invited lectures on four continents. Several of her research contributions have been distinguished internationally. She has had the privilege of mentoring over 180 bright, highly qualified personnel in her laboratories who all follow their career of choice; many have become global leaders in academia (26 faculty members), governments, industries (4 CEO), or start-ups. Dr. Ariya has served in several leadership positions, e.g., the principal investigator of major grant applications, leading or acting as a member of grant agencies in Canada, the U.S., the EU, Asia and South America, notably serving as the chairperson of the Joint European Union Panel on Arctic Climate Change. She has served as an Editor and on the Editorial Boards of several international journals, including Analytical Chemistry (ACS), Cambridge Press and the Royal Society for Chemistry- CSR (U.K.). Dr. Ariya has also served as the chairperson of McGill’s Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. Professor Ariya has served as the lead author of two United Nations Environmental Protection (UN-EP) chapters on metal transformation in the environment. In addition, she has contributed to policy-related scientific reports on toxic contaminants, the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, the Clean Air Regulatory Agenda, an advisor to the House of Commons (CEPA revisions), Arctic assessment reports. Her numerous interviews have been distributed through major international mainstream and web-based media, from Spiegel and Washington times, translating science to the public and stakeholders.

ICCSTE'23 Keynote Lecture - Physical

June 05 | 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Khaled Sennah, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), Canada

Rock-Support Interaction for Transportation Tunnels in Squeezing Ground
Dr. Marte Gutierrez, Colorado School of Mines, USA

Dr. Marte Gutierrez is the James R. Paden Distinguished Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of the US DOT Tier 1 Center for Underground Transportation Infrastructure (CUTI) at Colorado School of Mines. Formerly, he was Post-Doctoral Fellow, Senior Engineer, and Program Leader at the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI), and Associate Professor/Professor at Virginia Tech. He was Founding Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, UAE. He has also held visiting professorship and researcher positions in China, Chile, France, Japan, and South Korea. He has published more than 360 papers in book chapters, journals, and conference proceedings, and has given keynote and invited lectures at several conferences. He has been involved in several landmark and groundbreaking Civil Engineering projects while working in Norway. He is an Associate Editor of three international journals and is an Editorial Board Member of four other international journals. He is the recipient of the Geotechnical Research Medal from UK’s Institute of Civil Engineers, the Peter A. Cundall Honorable Mention Award, the Applied Rock Mechanics Research Award from the American Rock Mechanics Association, the 18th Advanced Powder Technology Distinguished Paper Award from the Society of Powder Technology Japan, and the Kwanghua Visiting Professorship from Tongji University. Dr. Gutierrez has been a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Chile

LACP3'23 Keynote Lecture - Physical

June 05 | 10:05 AM - 10:50 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Mehrab Mehrvar, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), Canada

Photocatalytic Materials Immobilized On Recycled Supports as Alternative In the Degradation of Water Contaminants
Dr. Vicente Rodríguez-González, Institute for Scientific and Technological Research of San Luis Potosi, Mexico

Dr. Vicente is Senior Researcher at IPICyT (Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica A.C,). He has published more than 135 papers, cited 2631 times H index 31 scopus (cited 3115 times H index 34 google scholar). Research Interests: New nanostructures for green chemistry: heterogeneous catalysis, AOPs for water treatment; renewable energy and environment; Photocatalysis; nanomaterials for inactivation of pathogens and agricultural applications. He is a member of the editorial board of the Chemical Engineering Journal and was guest editor for journals such as Catalysis Today, Topics in Catalysis, and the Journal of Hazardous Materials.

ICCSTE'23 Plenary Virtual

June 05 | 11:05 AM - 11:55 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Khaled Sennah, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), Canada

Strategies for Enhancing Resiliency of Modern Concrete Structures under Fire Hazard
Dr. Venkatesh Kodur, Michigan State University, USA

Dr. Venkatesh Kodur, is a University Distinguished Professor and Director of the Centre on Structural Fire Engineering and Diagnostics at Michigan State University. He is an an internationally recognized scholar for his contributions in structural, material and fire engineering fields. His research interests include Fire resistance analysis and design of structural systems, material performance at elevated temperatures and Building collapse investigations. Dr. Kodur has published more than 500 peer-reviewed papers in journals and conferences, and has given numerous plenary and key-note presentations at major international conferences. As per Google Scholar, he has more than 17,300 citations with an “h” index of 72.

Dr. Kodur’s contributions to the Civil Engineering and Fire Protection Engineering professions have been recognized by peers through prestigious honors and awards. He has been elected as Fellow of six Institutes/Academies: Canadian Academy of Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Indian National Academy of Engineering, Structural Engineering Institute, American Concrete Institute, and the Society of Fire Protection Engineers. He is a professional engineer, Associate Editor of Journal of Structural Engineering, and Journal of Structural Fire Engineering, editorial board member of five leading journals, Chairman of ASCE(SEI)-SFPE 29 (Fire) Standards Committee, and a member of UK-EPSRC College of Reviewers. He has won many awards and prestigious appointments, including Michigan State University “University Distinguished Professor” Award; American Institute of Steel Construction Faculty Fellowship Award; MSU Distinguished Faculty Award; NRCC (Government of Canada) Outstanding Achievement Award; Fulbright Scholar award; “INFOSYS Visiting Chair Professor” appointment at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India; Government of India “VAJRA Faculty Award for Collaborative Research” at the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi; and NATO Award for collaborative research. Most notably, Dr. Kodur was part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and American Society of Civil Engineers/Society of Fire Protection Engineers high profile “Experts Team” that investigated the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings as a result of September 11 attacks.

LACP3'23 Keynote Lecture - Physical

June 05 | 11:10 AM - 11:55 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Mehrab Mehrvar, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), Canada

Photocatalysis A Sustainable and Versatile Technique for Indoor Air Purification
Dr. Iliana Medina-Ramírez, Universidad Autonoma de Aguascalientes, Mexico

Iliana E. Medina-Ramírez got her Ph.D. in chemistry (organometallic and materials chemistry) from Tulane University in 2005. She has more than 10 years of research experience in the field of nanostructured materials (metallic, metal oxides, and metal-chalcogenides), with a particular interest in photocatalytic materials for environmental remediation and biomedical applications. She has published 56 papers in international peer-review journals, 4 book chapters, and is the co-editor of the book “Photocatalytic Semiconductors. Synthesis, characterization, and environmental applications” Springer (Ed), She has participated in more than 40 international conferences. She has supervised 100 BSc students, 10 MSc students, and 6 doctorate students. She was awarded the best junior researcher prize (2007), advanced researcher award (2nd place, 2011) and consolidated researcher award (2019) at her current academic institution. She is a member of the System of National Researchers (Mexico) and co-organizer of the Mexico-China Workshop on Renewable Energy and Environment Remediation.

Session

June 05 | 11:55 AM - 01:10 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Khaled Sennah, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), Canada

Building Material I

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June 05 | 11:55 PM - 12:55 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Mehrab Mehrvar, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), Canada & Dr. Mohamed Hamouda, UAE University, UAE

Water & Waste Water Management & Treatment I

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June 05 | 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Khaled Sennah, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), Canada & Dr. Narinder Singh, University of Salerno, Italy

Building Material II

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June 05 | 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Mehrab Mehrvar, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), Canada

Water & Waste Water Management & Treatment II

RTESE'23 Keynote Lecture

June 05 | 3:15 PM - 4:00 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Khaled Sennah, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), Canada

The Role of Soil in Seismic Response of Bridges
Dr. Nawawi Chouw, Concordia University, Canada

Dr Nawawi CHOUW is an Associate Professor and was Director of the University of Auckland Centre for Earthquake Engineering Research. Before joining the University of Auckland, he worked at universities in Germany, Japan and Australia. He received his doctorate in Civil Engineering from the Ruhr University Bochum in Germany. He has twice been awarded the Gledden Fellowship of the University of Western Australia, the Fritz-Peter-Mueller Prize of the Technical University of Karlsruhe, Germany, the Best Research Award of Chugoku Denryoku Research Foundation, Japan, and received two recognitions for excellence in research supervision from Chinese Scholarship Council. He has been invited by the Chinese Ministry of Education, the New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, the Qatar Science Foundation, the SA National Research Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service and other European Research Institutions to assess applications and international standing of peers. He has published more than 400 publications including 138 international journal papers. He was invited to teach at several universities in Europe, China and Japan. He was guest editor of several journals, e.g., Protective Structures, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering. He is associate editor of Materials, Shock and Vibration and Frontiers in Build Environment – Earthquake Engineering and serves on the editorial board of several international journals. He was visiting and guest professor at several universities in China, Germany, Canada, Australia, Serbia, Macedonia and Japan.

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June 05 | 03:15 PM - 04:00 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Willie Nheta, UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG, South Africa

Air Pollution & Treatment

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June 05 | 04:20 PM - 05:35 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Khaled Sennah, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), Canada & Dr. Pan Lu, North Dakota State University, USA

Bridge Engineering

ICCSTE'23 Plenary Lecture - Physical

June 06 | 9:00 AM - 09:50 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Husham Almansour, National Research Council Canada (NRC), Canada

Recent Developments in Structural Health Monitoring
Dr. Tribikram Kundu, The University of Arizona, USA

Professor Kundu’s major research area is nondestructive testing and structural health monitoring. On this topic he has published 9 books and 386 technical papers – 202 of those in peer reviewed scientific journals with about 9000 citations according to Google Scholar with an h-index of 50 (Google Scholar), 43 (Scopus) and 37 (Web of Science). He received Humboldt Research Prize (Senior Scientist Award) in 2003 and Humboldt Fellowship award in 1989 and 1996, from Germany. He was also recognized through 2012 NDE Life Time Achievement Award from SPIE (the International Society for Optics and Photonics), 2015 Research Award for Sustained Excellence from ASNT (the American Society for Nondestructive Testing), 2017 Founders Award from Nondestructive evaluation, Diagnostics and Prognostics Division (NDPD) of ASME (the American Society of Mechanical Engineers), 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award and 2008 Person of the Year Award from the Structural Health Monitoring Journal, Satish Dhawan Chair Professorship from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and a number of Invited & Honorary Professorships from France, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, South Korea, Poland, Singapore, India, China and Japan. He is a Fellow or a Distinguished Fellow of six professional societies (ASME, ASCE, SPIE, ASNT, ASA & IIAV) and the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the ASME Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation, Diagnostics and Prognostics of Engineering Systems (JNDE). He has served as the Associate Editor of four other journals.

ICCSTE'23 Keynote Lecture - Physical

June 06 | 09:50 AM - 10:35 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Husham Almansour, National Research Council Canada (NRC), Canada

Multi-Level Modelling Strategies for Accurate Assessment of Masonry Arch Bridges
Dr. Lorenzo Macorini, Imperial College London, UK

Dr Lorenzo Macorini is a Reader in Structural Engineering with a particular interest in computational structural mechanics and the response of masonry structures. He joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London as a Marie Curie Research Fellow in 2008. Since then, he has been developing within the Computational Structural Mechanics (CSM) group at Imperial advanced modelling approaches for brick/block-masonry components at different scales of representation with robust strategies for the calibration of model material parameters. He led different research projects funded by research councils and industry, where the developed models were used for accurate simulations of masonry components and systems gaining an improved understanding of the complex behaviour under serviceability and ultimate loading conditions including dynamic actions induced by earthquakes.

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June 06 | 10:35 AM - 10:55 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Husham Almansour, National Research Council Canada (NRC), Canada

Posters Session

ICCSTE'23 Keynote Lecture - Physical

June 06 | 10:55 AM - 11:40 AM | Session Chair: Session Chair: Dr. Lorenzo Macorini, Imperial College London, UK

Resilience-Enhancement of Bridge Infrastructure in Changing Climate
Dr. Husham Almansour, National Research Council Canada (NRC), Canada

Husham Almansour, Ph.D., P.Eng. is a Senior Research Officer in the Sustainable Resilient Infrastructures and Communities Research Unit, the Construction Research Centre, National Research Council Canada, and an Adjunct Professor in the area of Structural Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, the University of Ottawa, and Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto. Dr. Almansour’s expertise is in the area of structural mechanics with a focus on the performance, protection, and rehabilitation of aging structures and infrastructure against extreme loads and innovative structural systems using advanced materials. He is leading the NRC research teams in the area of climate-resilient bridge infrastructure and the area of innovative high-performance structural systems using advanced materials. Dr. Almansour supervised more than twenty Ph.D. and M.A.Sc research theses. Dr. Almansour is a member of many national and international committees, including NBCC, CSA committees S6, S 850, S806, ASCE Blast and impact loads on structures, and TAC Structure Standing Committee.

Session

June 06 | 11:40 AM - 12:55 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Ying Huang, North Dakota State University, USA & Dr. Rohit Goyal, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, India

Geotechnical & Strutural Engineering I

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June 06 | 11:40 AM - 12:40 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Mehrab Mehrvar, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), Canada

Environmental Protection II

RTESE'23 Keynote Lecture - Virtual

June 06 | 01:25 PM - 02:10 PM | Session Chair: Session Chair: Dr. Mehrab Mehrvar, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), Canada

Hurricane Hazards and Risk in a Changing Climate
Dr. Ning Lin, Princeton University, USA

Ning Lin is an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University. Lin’s research areas include natural hazards and risk analysis, climate change impact and adaptation, wind engineering, and coastal engineering. Her current primary focus is hurricane risk analysis. She integrates science, engineering, and policy to study hurricane-related weather extremes, how they change with changing climate, and how their impact on society can be better mitigated. She has published in high-impact journals including Science, Nature Climate Change, and PNAS on these topics. Lin is a recipient of CAREER award from National Science Foundation (NSF), Natural Hazards Early Career Award and Global Environmental Change Early Career Award from American Geophysical Union (AGU), and and Huber Research Prize from American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Lin received her Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Princeton University in 2010. She also received a certificate in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy in 2010 from Princeton. Before rejoining Princeton as an assistant professor in 2012, she conducted research in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT as a NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow.

RTESE'23 Keynote Lecture - Virtual

June 06 | 02:10 PM - 02:45 PM | Session Chair: Session Chair: Dr. Mehrab Mehrvar, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), Canada

Integrated Water Management & Development of Yangtze River Simulator
Dr. Jun Xia, Wuhan University, China

Dr. Jun Xia is an Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and Chair Professor & Director, The Research Institute for Water Security (RIWS), Wuhan University. He has ample experiences on hydrology, water resources management in China and international since 1987, severed as the President of International Water Resources Association (IWRA, 2009-2012), Co-Chair, InterAcademy Council for Water Programme (2004-2010), Bureau Member of International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG, 2019-2023) etc. He was awarded “International Hydrological Prize -Volker Medal”, given jointly by IAHS, UNESCO and WMO in 2014, the 2017’s State Natural Science Award in China, 2019’s IUGG Elected Fellow and 2022’s ICWRER Lifetime Achievement Award.

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June 06 | 01:55 PM - 03:40 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Rohit Goyal, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, India & Dr. Satyendra Mittal, IIT ROORKEE, India

Transportation & Traffic Engineering II

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June 06 | 02:45 PM - 03:15 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Dimitrios Rakopoulos, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), Greece

Environmental Protection III

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June 06 | 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Narinder Singh, University of Salerno, Italy

Geotechnical & Strutural Engineering II