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23 April 2014

Time Events

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Le Royal Hotel

Welcome Reception and Registrations

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8:00-9:20 Registration

9:30-10:00

The official opening “Philadelphia Hall “

Prof. Lambis Baniotopoulos (AUTH and UoB)

Professor Yahia Qawasmi ( Dean of Engineering)

H.E. Maria Marinaki Greece Ambassador

H.E. Prof. Amin Mahmoud Minister of Higher Education

10:00-10:45

Keynote Speaker: Georgios E. Stavroulakis

Non-Destructive Structural Test Using Waves And Soft Computing. Case Study: Pile Integrity Inspection Using Genetically Optimized Neural

Networks

10:45 – 11.15 Coffee Break

Parallel Sessions

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Time Events “Hammurabi Hall B3 Floor“ Events “ Azure Hall 10th Floor “

Chairman Prof. Yahia Qawasmi Chairman Prof. Fouad Garaibeh

Structure 1 Material

11:20 -11:40

Murad Y. Abu-Farsakh, Sungmin

Yoon, Da Ha, W. Allen Marr, Zhongjie

Zhang, and Ching Tsai

Design of a Smart Structural Health

Monitoring System for The New I-10

Twin Span Bridge over Lake

Pontchartrain

Minxi Bao, Jian Yang, Charalampos

Baniotopoulos, Yuan Tian, Jie Liu

Experimental Study on The Aging

Performance of Secondary Silicone

Sealant of Insulating Glass Units

11:40-12:00

Nafsika Stavridou, Evangelos

Efthymiou, Simos Gerasimidis and

Charalampos C. Baniotopoulo

Steel Wind Turbine Towers with

Internal Ring Stiffeners: Analysis and

Numerical Investigation

Emmanouil Kalogerakis and Marina L.

Moretti

Behavior of Concrete Confined by

Glass and Carbon Fibers

12:00-12:20 H. R. Abdul Salam Al-Ani Effect of Partial Through Crack Depth

Size on Strength of Shell Structures Olga Rio and Viet Duc Nguyen

Innovative Material for Tunnel

Segments

12:20-12:40

Themistoklis N. Nikolaidis, George

Moutsanidis, Charalampos C.

Baniotopoulos

Optimal Design of Curtain-Wall

Systems

Siham Amirou , Abdelatif Zerizer ,

Antonio Pizzi

Feasibility of Using Date Palm Waste

in the Production of Particleboard

Parallel Sessions

12:40-13:00 Charis J. Gantes and Vasileios E.

Melissianos

Buckling and Post-Buckling Behavior

of Beams on Elastic Foundation

Modeling Buried Pipelines E. ELBAHI , S.M.A BOUKLI HACENE

influence of the supplementary

cementitious materials on the dynamic

properties of concrete

13:00-13:20 Samer Barakat, Ahmad Al Mansouri,

Salah Altoubat

Shear Strength of Steel Beams with

Trapezoidal Corrugated Webs Using

Regression Analysis

13:20-13:40

Eugenijus Gudonis, Darius Bacinskas,

Gintaris Kaklauskas, Aleksandr K.

Arnautov, Aleksandr Sokolov and

Viktor Gribniak

Experimental Investigation on Long-

Term Deformations of Tensile Rc

Members

Asad-ur-Rehman Khan and Tatheer

Zahra

Performance of Different Types of

Cements In Marine Environment

13:45-14:45 LUNCH LUNCH

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Time Events “Hammurabi Hall B3 Floor“ Events “ Azure Hall 10th Floorloor “

Chairman Prof M. Abdel-Halim Chairman Prof. G. Abu-Farsakh

Structure 2 Geotechnical

14:45 -15:00

James J. Kingman, Konstantinos

Daniel Tsavdaridis and Vassili V.

Toropov

Applications of Topology

Optimization in Structural

Engineering

Murad Y. Abu-Farsakh, Md. Nafiul

Haque and Qiming Chen

A case study on instrumenting and

testing full-scale test piles

for evaluating set-up phenomenon

15:00-15.20 Antonia Psychari, Isabella

Vassilopoulou and Charis J. Gantes

Sensitivity of a Steel Arch Road

Bridge to Imposed Foundation

Displacements And Rotations

Mohammed Y. Fattah, Mohammed J.

Hamood, and Ibtihal A. M. Al-

Nakdy

Dynamic Response of Machine

Foundation Resting on end Bearing

Piles

15:20-15:40

G. Kaklauskas, V. Gribniak, A.

Meskenas, V. Gelazius and A.

Rimkus

Inverse Technique for Investigation of

the Post-Cracking Behavior of SFRC

Members in Flexure

Laouar med salah

Contribution to the Experimental

Identification of the Collapse

Potential of Soils

15:40-16:00 Konstantinos Fekas and Marina L.

Moretti

Shear Resistance of Interfaces

Between Existing and New RC

Elements

Mohammed Y. Fattah , Mohammed

A. Al-Neami and Nora H. Jajjawi

Resonance Frequency of Machine

Foundations Resting on Saturated

Sands

16:00-16:20 R. Blok, P. Teuffel Indicators for Functional Service Life

of Building Structures Thamer M. Ahmed

Pressure Distribution on the

Upstream Face of Tunnel Gate With

Different Lip Shapes

16:20-16:40 Y. Y. S. GERASIMIDIS, G. DEODATIS,

M ETTOUNEY

Global-Loss-of-Stability Progressive

Collapse Mechanisms of 3d Steel

Frame Buildings

Ghazi A. Abu-Farsakh , Amin H.

Almasri

Investigation of Failure Progress

Composite Laminates

16:40-17:00 Majd Nafez Attar

Displacement Based Design (DBD),

Nonlinear Static Pushover Analysis to

Verify the Proper Collapse

Mechanism of Structures

17:15-20:00

Visit Amman Center

20:30 – 22:30

Dinner at Ward Restaurant

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Time Events

8:00 am Moving to Petra

Bus cost 20JD

11:00 am Arriving Petra

11:00 to 17:00 Visiting the Archeological place

Entrance 50 JD

17:00 to 18:00 Dinner at Crown Plaza Hotel

18:00 Leaving to Amman

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Time Events

Keynote Speaker “Philadelphia Hall “

09:00-10:00

Polat Gülkan

How Well Do Seismic Performance Assessment Methods Perform in the Light of Field Data?

10::00 – 10.30 Coffee Break

Parallel Sessions

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Time Events “Hammurabi Hall B3 Floor“ Events “ Azure Hall 10th Floor “

Chairman Prof. Hanan Al-Nimry Chairman Prof. Hashem Al-Masaeed

Structure 3 Transportation

10:30 -11:00 Amjad Abbashar, Mr. Ragy Saro

UNISDR Regional Office

Making Cities Resilient Campaign –

Vision & Achievements

Murad Abu-Farsakh, Qiming Chen

,Xiaochao Tang, and Shadi Hanandeh

Evaluating the Performance of

Geosynthetic Reinforced Pavements

over Weak Subgrade

11:00-11.30 Jürg Zumstein, Nayef Khouri

Disaster Risk Reduction Domain –

Regional Vision & Contributions by

SDC

Jabar M. Rasul, Michael P. N. Burrow,

Gurmel S. Ghataora

The Effect of Wetting and Drying on

Resilient Modulus Behavior and

Pavement Responses of Lime-Cement

Stabilized Subgrade Soils

11:30-11:50

Theodoros G. Theodosiou1,

Aikaterini G. Tsikaloudaki

Dimitrios K. Bikas

Thermal bridging analysis on cladding

systems For building facades Ninouh Tarek, Rouili Ahmed

The Quality of the Materials and

Techniques used to Achieve the Roman

Roads in Algeria

11:50-12:10 Yu Hu, Charalampos C.

Baniotopoulos and Jian Yang

Structural Design Optimization for

Wind Turbine Towers Using Advanced

Fem Models Netusil M. and Eliasova M.

Polymer Adhesives with Enhanced

Properties Suitable for Assembling of

Structural Glass

12:10-12:30

Mark Slotboom , Arnold

Robbemont, Arjan Habraken,

Patrick Teuffe

Safety and Redundancy of Adaptive

Buildings Structures

Loucif Ahlem, Ninouh Tarek

Influence of the Nature of the

Aggregates on the Stability of

Bituminous Mixtures

12:30-12:50 Ayman A. Al-Quraan, Ted.

Stathopoulos and P. Pillay

Estimation of Urban Wind Energy -

Equiterre Building Case in Montreal Mohammad Khasawneh

Estimation of Asphalt Pavement

Surface Characteristics using Image

Analysis Technique

13:00-14:00 LUNCH

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14.00 – 14.30 Keynote Speaker “Philadelphia Hall “

14.00 – 15.00

Antonio Capsoni

Damping Models in Continuum Methods for Dynamic Analysis of Buildings

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Time Events

Chairman Prof. Khaldoon Bani-Hani

Structure 4 “ Azure Hall 10th Floor “

15:00-15:20 O. Rio, K. Nguyen, A. Rodriguez, F.

Abril Updating a High Building's Finite Element Model Based on the Experimental Modal Parameters

15:20-15:40

Karolos J. Kontoleon, Dimitrios K.

Bikas, Dimitrios G. Aravantinos,

Aikaterini G. Tsikaloudaki,

Theodoros G. Theodosiou

Assessment of Walls’ Thermal Response from a Proportional and a Relative Point of View

15:40-16:00 Abdulkareem D. Mahmood and

Sherwan M. Zaki

Punching Shear Strength of Fibrous High Strength Reinforced Concrete Flat Plate Slabs with Eccentric

Loading

16:00-16:20 Faris Rashied Ahmed , Bayan S. Al

Numan Experimental Investigation and Prediction of Punching Shear Strength of High Strength Concrete Slabs

16:20-16:40 B. Chikh, L. Moussa, Y. Mehani and

A. Zerzour Ductility Spectrum Method to Estimate Seismic Demands for Structure

17.00- 21.00

Dead Sea

Dinner at Dead Sea Spa Hotel

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8:15 – 9.15 From Hotel to JUST

09:30-10:30

Keynote speaker

Professor Luís Bragança

Criteria for a Sustainable Built Environment 10:30 – 11.00 Coffee Break

Al-Karamah Auditorium

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Chairman Prof. Amin Almasri

Structure 5

11:00 – 11:20 H. Al-Nimry, M. Resheidat and M.

Al-Jamal Fundamental Period of Vibration of Infilled RC Frame Buildings in Jordan

11:30 -11:50 Thalia Mantopoulou- Panagiotopoulou

Towards a Sustainable Preservation of the Post-Byzantine Monuments of Cappadocia

11:50-12.10

C. Anagnostopoulos, A. Sextos, D.

Bikas, K. Stylianidis, D. Angelides,

I. Avramidis Preserving the Byzantine Antiquities while Retaining the Operability of the Venizelou - Thessaloniki Metro Station: Contribution Towards a Common Consensus

12:10-12:30

Themistoklis N. Nikolaidis, Athanasios L. Kontis, Charalampos

C. Baniotopoulos On the Sustainable Restoration Design of a Historical Steel Railway Bridge

12:30-12:50

Susan E. Lee, Peter Braithwaite,

Steve Severance, Joanne M. Leach and Chris D.F. Rogers

A Tale of Two Cities: A Study of The Energy Systems in Birmingham, an Industrialized Uk City, and Masdar City, a

Developing City in the Middle East

12:50-13:10 Öget N. Cöcen, Dimitrios Bikas, Charalambos C. Baniotopoulos

Environmental Sustainability Assessment Methodology Proposal for Heritage Buildings’ Restoration

13:10-13:30

Dimitrios N. Kaziolas, Iordanis

Zygomalas, Georgios Stavroulakis and Charalambos Baniotopoulos

Factors and Issues Related to the Environmental Impact Caused by the Life Cycle of Timber Building Construction Projects

13:20 – 13:50

Dimitrios K. Bikas, Dimitrios G.

Aravantinos, Katerina G.

Tsikaloudaki, Theodoros G. Theodosiou and Karolos J.

Kontoleon

The Synergy Project: A Study of High Energy-Efficient Building Elements Assessed under Integrated Protection Criteria and

Life Cycle Design Aspects

13:50 – 14:20

The celebration of the appointment of Honorary Professor

Professor G. Stavroulakis

Professor C. Baniotopoulos

14:20 – 15:00 LUNCH

15:10 -16:10 Lab Visit

16:10- 19:00 Moving to Um-Qais

20:00-22:00 Con. Dinner Lebanese House Jarash