Final Conference Program
The Conference program is available for download.
Final Program-July 18A.pdf
Technical Program
The CSCE’s International Short & Medium Span Bridge Conference has been held every four years in Canada since 1982 and has traditionally provided a worldwide state-of-the-art forum for all aspects of short and medium span bridge design, engineering, construction and maintenance. We expect excellent attendance by bridge engineers, consultants, contractors, administrators, and researchers from Canada, the United States, Europe and the rest of the world. We are delighted that the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering has again agreed to co-sponsor the conference.
The Technical Program is now available.
Click here to download a copy of the Assignment of Sessions and Rooms for each paper, listed numerically. The session is denoted by an upper case roman numeral, I to X, and the room temporarily by a letter, A to F.
Click here to download a copy of the Program of Concurrent Sessions. The session number is in the top left corner of each page, and the room number is shown in the left column.
We have tried to eliminate spelling mistakes and other typographical errors in these documents: please inform Mike Bartlett f.m.bartlett@uwo.ca immediately if you see any glitches.
Call for Posters
A room will be available at the 2010 Short and Medium Bridge Span Conference to display posters, and time will be made available in the conference schedule for poster authors to be present in the display room at their poster to discuss it with interested delegates. To date we have received 18 Letters of Intent to display posters, and I will be advising authors of the status of their letters of intent on or before 18 June 2010. A poster template will be available for downloading from the website by then too.
Posters will not be reviewed for technical content but will be checked to ensure they satisfy SMSB commercialism requirements:
Commercialism must be avoided. Products should be defined by their properties. Organization names or logos can appear only once. Product names can only be used once and only where they are associated with the definition of the properties. Succinct acknowledgement of sponsorship is both appropriate and acceptable. Posters that do not conform to this guideline will be removed from the display area and returned to the author.
You can confirm the acceptability of your poster by uploading it on the website before 15 July 2010.
If you want your poster to be included as a PDF document in the conference proceedings, it must be uploaded to the website in final form by 01 July 2010.
If you have questions, please contact Mike Bartlett at f.m.bartlett@uwo.ca
Paper Status
You can check the status of your paper online: go to www.bridgeconference2010.com, login, click on "papers" and check the status of each paper by clicking on the paper number. (The satus of each paper will be "incomplete" until the paper is received, accepted, the copyright form is completed, the presenter has submitted a biography and registered to attend the conference).
Themes:
1. Innovative Design & Construction
- Bridge Planning & Design Case Studies
- Integral & Semi-integral Abutment Bridges
- Culverts & Buried Structures
- Expansion Joints & Bearings
- Seismic Design
2. Inspection, Evaluation & Rehabilitation
- Inspection Methods & Inspector Training
- Load Testing, Instrumentation & Health Monitoring
- Evaluation & Rehabilitation Case Studies
- Fatigue Inspection & Evaluation
- Long-term Durability & Corrosion Protection
3. Advanced Materials in Bridges
- Fibre-Reinforced Polymers
- High-Performance Concrete
- High-Strength Steel
- Green Bridge Construction
4. Accelerated Bridge Construction
- Prefabrication of Bridges & Bridge Elements
- Heavy Lifting & Incremental Launching
- Contracting Strategies & Costs
5. Research and Development
- Bridge Safety & Reliability
- Lessons Learned from Bridge Failures
- Design Code Revisions & Issues
6. Management of Bridge Assets
- Bridge Inventory Management
- Innovative Project Delivery
- Analytical & Decision-making Tools
7. Bridge Aesthetics
- Signature Short & Medium Span Bridges
- Pedestrian Bridges
8. Engineering History
- Historic Bridge Preservation
- Bridge Engineering History
Submission and Notification Deadlines:
15 September, 2009: Deadline for short abstracts (300 words maximum) submitted electronically via the conference website. Abstracts are required for all submissions regardless of presentation formats.
31 October, 2009: Notification of acceptance of abstracts. Authors will be provided with detailed instructions for the submission of the paper(s).
31 January, 2010: First draft of paper(s) submitted electronically via the conference website. Use of the specified template is MANDATORY.
15 April, 2010: Authors will be notified of the acceptance of their paper(s) and given instructions for the submission of a camera-ready final version.
15 May, 2010: Deadline for receipt of final papers, to be submitted electronically via conference website. Pre-registration is MANDATORY and deposits are NOT refundable.
International Technical Committee Members:
Dr. Michel Bruneau, State University of New York at Buffalo, United States
Dr. Fernando Branco, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Mr. M. Myint Lwin, Federal Highway Administration, United States
Dr. Juan Sobrino, Pedelta, Spain
Technical Committee Members:
Dr. Thierry Chicoine, Buckland and Taylor Ltd.
Ms. Joanne McCall, Delcan Corporation.
Mr. Doug Dixon, McCormick Rankin Corp.
Dr. Roger Dorton, C.M.
Dr. Lisa Feldman, University of Saskatchewan
Dr. Paul Gauvreau, University of Toronto
Dr. Hanping Hong, University of Western Ontario
Dr. Peter King, Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Laboratory, Univ. of Western Ontario
Dr. Bruno Massicotte, Ecole Polytechnique
Mr. Bob Ramsay, AECOM
Dr. Khaled Sennah, Ryerson University
Mr. Wade Young, Ontario Ministry of Transportation.