KeynoteSpeakers

Professor Ben Young

Professor Ben Young is Chair Professor of Steel Structures at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Professor Young’s research interests include cold-formed steel structures, testing and design of steel structures, high-strength steel structures, stainless steel structures, aluminium structures, structural stability, fire resistance of metal structures and engineering education. He is currently a Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Constructional Steel Research.

Keynote title:
New developments in cold-formed high strength steel tubular T- and X-joints

Professor Brian Uy

Brian Uy is Scientia Professor of Structural Engineering in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of New South Wales. Brian has delivered over 100 plenary/keynote/invited lectures and has been involved in research in steel and composite structures for over 30 years. He has co-authored over 700 publications including over 250 refereed journal articles. Brian is Chairman of the Standards Australia Committee BD-032 on Composite Building Structures and BD90-06 on Steel and Composite Bridge Structures. He is currently Vice President of the Institution of Structural Engineers (Australasia and South-East Asia) and the Australian Chairman of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Engineers. Brian is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Engineers Australia, Institution of Structural Engineers, Institution of Civil Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers and the International Association of Bridge and Structural Engineers. He was awarded the Sir John Holland Civil Engineer of the Year Award in 2019 and the John Connell Gold Medal for Structural Engineering in 2021, both from Engineers Australia.

Keynote title:
Australasian advances in steel-concrete composite bridge and building structures

Professor Emad Gad

Professor Emad Gad is the Dean of the School of Engineering at Swinburne University of Technology. He is a civil engineer with extensive experience in structural dynamics, residential construction and structural connections. His applied research has contributed to the development of several standards and codes of practice. He is the Chair of the Board of the Australian Engineered Fasteners and Anchors Council (AEFAC), Co-Editor of the Australian Journal of Structural Engineering, appointment member of the Victorian Government Building Advisory Council (BAC), Director on the Board of the Australian Steel Institute (ASI) and Fellow of Engineers Australia.

Keynote title:
Application of blind bolts in steel moment connections

Professor Guo-Qiang Li

Professor Guo-Qiang Li is currently Professor at the College of Civil Engineering at Tongji University, a fellow of The Belgian Royal Flemish Academy of Sciences and Arts, the director of Research Centro of Education Ministry of China for Steel Construction and the director of National Research Centro of China for Pre-fabrication Construction. He is also a vice-chairman of Chinese Society of Steel Construction and a vice-chairman of Chinese Association of Construction Standardization. Professor Li’s research has been mainly in the area of hazard mitigation for steel structures, including earthquake-resistance, fire-resistance and blast-resistance.

Keynote title:
Early-Warning of Fire-Induced Collapse of Steel Buildings

Professor J.Y. Richard Liew

Professor Richard Liew is Professor and Head of Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the National University of Singapore. He is a fellow of Singapore National Academy of Science, a Chartered Engineer in UK, a Professional Engineer in Singapore, and a Chartered Professional Engineer of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. He is an Honorary Fellow and the Past President of Singapore Structural Steel Society. He serves on the editorial boards of 8 international journals. He is a key person responsible for the development of Singapore’s codes of practices for steel structures and steel-concrete composite structures. He is at the forefront of pioneering research and educational initiatives in the domains of climate change mitigation and technologies associated with the advancement of smart city development.

Keynote title:
Innovative Steel-Concrete Composite Systems for Multistorey Modular Buildings

Professor John L. Wilson

Professor Wilson is Emeritus Professor at Swinburne University of Technology. He is the past joint recipient of four Chapman Medals and one Warren Medal. He was the Victorian Division Chairman of Engineers Australia in 2002, Chairman of Judges for the Victorian Engineering Excellence Awards since 2011, Chairman of BD6/11, the committee responsible for the earthquake-loading standard for Australia and a member of ACI307 Committee. He is an expert in structural systems, earthquake engineering, structural dynamics and has consulted widely in these fields.

Keynote title:
Design of Steel Structures in regions of lower seismicity using displacement principles

Professor Kim J.R. Rasmussen

Professor Kim Rasmussen is Challis Professor at the University of Sydney. He is also a member or chairman of numerous Standards Australia committees and a member of the editorial boards of most of the leading journals in his field. Kim's main research areas are theoretical and experimental structural mechanics with particular expertise in various steel structural members and systems. He was awarded the 2016 Shortridge Hardesty Award by the Structural Engineering Institute for his contributions to the development of practical design provisions and advanced analysis guidelines in the field of structural stability.

Keynote title:
Connections - the full-range Generalised Component Method

Professor Keh-Chyuan Tsai

Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Prof. Keh-Chyuan Tsai received his bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from Taiwan University (NTU) in 1977 and a master of science degree from Stanford University in 1980. From 1980 to 1984, he worked as a structural engineer in the San Francisco office of Skidmore Owings Merrill. He completed his Ph.D. degree in the University of California at Berkeley in 1988. Prof. Tsai is a registered civil and structural engineer in Taiwan and California, USA. He has joined the faculty members in the Department of Civil Engineering of NTU since 1989. Prof. Tsai served as the director of the NCREE from 2003 to 2010. He has conducted research for more than 30 years on design, testing and analysis of steel structures subjected to earthquake loads.

Keynote title:
Buckling Restrained Braces using Truss-Frame as the Restrainer

Professor Leroy Gardner

Professor Leroy Gardner is Professor of Structural Engineering at Imperial College London. His principal research interests, in respect of which he has co-authored five textbooks and some three hundred papers, lie in the areas of structural testing, numerical modelling and the development of design guidance for steel structures. He is a member of the European and BSI Committees responsible for Eurocode 3 and Fellow of both the Institutions of Civil (FICE) and Structural (FIStructE) Engineers. He is Editor-in-Chief of Structures and the International Journal Steel Structures. Professor Gardner was awarded the IABSE Prize in 2017.

Keynote title:
3D Printed Steel – Exploring Opportunities for Optimised and Hybrid Structures

Professor Lin-Hai Han

Professor Han is the first and second-level candidate of the first batch of National Millions of Talents Project, Chair Professor of Chang Jiang Scholars Program of the Ministry of Education, and the Chief Scientific Communication Expert of the Country. Professor Han won the Outstanding Contribution Award of the China Steel Construction Society Association for Steel-Concrete Composite Structures (CSCS-ASCCS). He is the Associate Editor of several international journals, including Journal of Structural Engineering, Structures and China Civil Engineering Journal. His research interests include encased and mixed structures.

Keynote title:
Concrete-filled double-skin steel tubular structures: theory, application and standard

Professor Luís Simões da Silva

Professor Luis Simões da Silva is Professor of Steel Construction at the University of Coimbra. He is also the president of CMM (Portuguese Steelwork Association, chair of the Technical Management Board of ECCS (2007-2013) and president of ECCS (2011-2013). He involves in large number of Technical and Scientific Committees in the field of Steel Construction, and actively involved in many internationally-funded R&D projects. He is also the author of more than six hundred scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences.

Keynote title:
Design and behavior of beam-to-column joints connected to the column web or the faces of a tubular column

Professor Ronald D. Ziemian

Professor Ron Ziemian serves on the American Institute of Steel Construction, American Iron and Steel Institute, and Aluminum Association Specification Committees. His research on applying advanced methods of computational analysis to better design for the stability behavior of metal structures has been recognized with several awards, including the ASCE Norman Medal, ASCE Shortridge Hardesty Award, AISC Special Achievement Award, AISC TR Higgins Award, and SSRC Lynn Beedle Award. Ron is currently Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Constructional Steel Research.

Keynote title:
Design of Steel Structures with Nonsymmetric Sections by the Direct Analysis Method

Professor Todd A. Helwig

Professor Todd Helwig is an international expert on the stability aspects of bridge construction with a focus on the design and behavior of steel structures. His research has been recognized with several awards including the ASCE Collingwood Research Prize, the ASCE Moisseiff Award, and the ASCE Shortridge Hardesty Award. Professor Todd's work on stability bracing systems in steel bridges was recognized at the North American Steel Construction Conference with a Special Achievement Award. He was also recently selected as the recipient of the 2017 T. R. Higgins Lectureship Award from AISC.

Keynote title:
Effective Bracing for Stability of Steel Girders