2nd International conference on Structural Engineering, New Technology and Methods (ICSENM'17)
April 2 - 4, 2017 | Barcelona, Spain
The 2nd International conference on Structural Engineering and Concrete Technology (ICSENM 2017) held on April 2 - 4, 2017 in Barcelona, Spain. ICSENM 2017 has been completed with great success and this would not have been possible without the dedication and help of the organizers, the chairs and keynote speakers, scientific committee members, and all participants. Many thanks for their continuous support.
ICSENM'17 is part of the 2nd World Congress on Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering (CSEE'17). For more information about the congress, please visit the website here: www.2017.cseecongress.com.
Submissions
Submissions were in the form of extended abstracts, short papers, and full manuscripts.
- all submitted papers were peer-reviewed
- the conference proceedings were published under an ISSN and ISBN number
- each paper were assigned a unique DOI number by Crossref
- the conference proceedings were indexed by Google Scholar
- the proceedings were permanently archived in Portico (one of the largest community-supported digital archives in the world).
Conference Chair


Keynote Speakers

Scientific Committee Members
Dr. Daniel P. Abrams, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Dr. Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Dr. Zdenek P. Bazant, Northwestern University, USA
Dr. Roberto Crocetti, Lund University, Sweden
Dr. Sherif El-Tawil, University of Michigan, USA
Dr. Mohamed Elchalakani, University of Western Australia, Australia
Dr. Kemal Hacıefendioğlu, Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi, Turkey
Dr. Christopher Higgins, Oregon State University, USA
Dr. Hong Hao, Curtin University Australia, Australia
Dr. Tuyoshi Ichimura, University of Tokyo, Japan
Dr. Thomas Keller, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Dr. Venkatesh Kodur, Michigan State University, USA
Dr. Akif Kutuk, Gaziantep University, Turkey
Dr. Chadon Lee, Chungang University, Korea
Dr. Qiusheng Li, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Dr. Jiri Nemecek, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Dr. Drahomir Novak, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Dr. Alan O'Connor, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Dr. Alfarabi Sharif, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia
Dr. Abdul Sheikh, Univeristy of Adelaide, Australia
Dr. Sri Sritharan, Iowa State University, USA
Dr. Ahmet Türer, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Dr. Yen-Po Wang, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan
Dr. Ben Young, University of Hong Kong, China
Dr. Xue Zhang, Dalian University of Technology, China
Best Paper Awards
We would like to congratulate the following authors for winning the Best Paper Award:
- For Dr. Harry Far
for the paper entitled: "Long-Term Structural Behaviour of Composite Sandwich Panels"
Venue
We are pleased to announce that the 2nd International conference on Structural Engineering, New Technology and Methods (ICSENM'17) will be held in Barcelona, Spain on April 3 - 4, 2017 at the Alimara Hotel Barcelona.
ICSENM'17 will be held at the Alimara Hotel Barcelona. Situated in the "iconic borough of Horta," the Alimara Hotel Barcelona is just 15 minutes from Barcelona's historical centre. The Hotel offers restaurants, garden, a fitness centre, internet Wi-Fi, laundry and ironing services and car parking.
For more information on the Alimara Hotel Barcelona, please visit:

This beautiful city is the second largest city in Spain with a population of 1.6 million within the city limits. Outside of the city limits, the population increases to approximately 5 million people, making it the sixth-most populous urban area within the European Union.
Barcelona is one of the most popular tourist vacation with its many attractions, such as Sagrada Familia by Antonio Gaudí, L'Aquarium de Barcelona, Barcelona FC Museum along with many others.
For more information on Barcelona, please visit: www.barcelonaturisme.com
Transporation methods
- A Taxi costs about 35 euros and takes 20-25 minutes. The taxi service in Barcelona are yellow and black cars. All taxis have licence number shown on the door and they need to use the taximeter at all time to calculate the fare rate. Rates are show on all taxis windows.
- The AEROBUS is a bus that departs from T1 or T2 and arrives at Catalunya Square, it takes about 20 minutes. Then take the green line metro to Mundet which takes about 10-15 minutes. The hotel is on the same street as the metro's stop. It costs 6 euros for the AEROBUS and 2.10 euros for the metro.
- Take the T2 train from the airport to Catalunya square or Sants station. From there, take the green line to Mundet. It costs 4 euros for the train and 2 euros for the metro.
ICSENM'17 Program
The Conference Program for the International conference on Structural Engineering, New Technology and Methods (ICSENM'17) is now available! Please follow the link below to access the program: