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July 1, 2025

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November 12, 2025
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December 10, 2025
Deadline for submission full length paper or extended abstract
March 18, 2026

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Accepted full papers will be published open access (CC-BY-NC-ND license) in a dedicated issue of Procedia Structural Integrity (Elsevier) and indexed both in Scopus and Web of Science. Extended abstracts will be available at the conference homepage.

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Join one of the Mini-Symposia

The call for mini-symposia is ongoing. Here you can find a table of the mini-symposia that have already been accepted. If it fits, you can take part in one of these special sessions with your topic. Information about the responsible organizers can be found here (https://smar-2026.org/programme/).

MS01 Structural health monitoring and assessment of aging railway infrastructures

Main organizer: Chao Wang (Luleå University of Technology, Sweden)

MS02 Innovative bonded solutions for steel structure repair and retrofit

Main organizer: Yvonne Ciupack (Department of Steel Construction, TU Darmstadt, Germany)
MS03 Railway track monitoring – an essential basis for the optimization of railway infrastructure
Main organizer: Marc Wenner (MKP GmbH, Weimar, Germany)
MS04 Load testing of bridges
Main organizer: Gregor Schacht (MKP GmbH, Dresden, Germany)
MS05 Research on shape memory alloys in Germany
Main organizer: Elyas Ghafoori (Institute for Steel Construction, LU Hannover, Germany)
MS06 Monitoring, assessment and design of lightweight metal façades
Main organizer: Felicitas Rädel (Department of Steel Construction, TU Darmstadt, Germany)
MS07 Distributed fiber optic strain sensing for bridge structural health monitoring
Main organizer: Bertram Richter (Institute of Concrete Structures, TU Dresden, Germany)
MS08 Hybrid construction and strengthening with wire and arc additive manufacturing
Main organizer: Yvonne Ciupack (Department of Steel Construction, TU Darmstadt, Germany)
MS09 Monitoring of structural health, noise and vibration of urban transportation infrastructure, and its assessment planning
Main organizer: Jia Liu (Institute of Transportation Infrastructure Engineering, TU Darmstadt, Germany)
MS10 Advances and applications of vibration-based structural health monitoring
Main organizer: Álvaro Cunha (University of Porto, Portugal)
MS11 Monitoring of corrosion relevant parameters
Main organizer: Rebecca Achenbach (Institute of Building Materials Research, RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
MS12 Advanced fatigue assessment and life design of steel structures
Main organizer: Helen Bartsch (Institute of Steel Construction, RWTH Aachen, Germany)
MS13 Intelligent digital methods for extending the service life of structures beyond 100 years
Main organizer: Chongjie Kang (Institute of Concrete Structures, TU Dresden, Germany)
MS14 Post-disaster bridge assessment – an integrated approach from monitoring to number crunching
Main organizer: Michael Polter (Institute of Construction Informatics, TU Dresden, Germany)
MS15 Data-driven monitoring, modelling and assessment strategies for resilient infrastructure
Main organizer: Mohammad Shamim Miah (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
MS16 Carbon-negative compression dominant structures for decarbonized and deconstructable concrete buildings
Main organizer: Saim Raza (Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories of Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland)
MS17 Distributed fiber optical sensing (DFOS) in structural engineering research
Main organizer: Yasmin Lemcherreq (Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories of Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland)
MS18/19 Advances in monitoring, assessment and rehabilitation of timber structures
Main organizer (Part 1): Robert Jockwer (TU Dresden, Germany)
Main organizer (Part 2): Mike Sieder (Institute of Building Construction and Timber Structures, TU Braunschweig, Germany)
MS20 Earth observation and other remote sensing methods for infrastructure monitoring
Main organizer: Alois Vorwagner (Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria)
MS21 Bio-based materials for seismic retrofit of existing structures – enhancing structural performance and environmental sustainability
Main organizer: Antonio Formisano (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)
MS22 Advances in fiber optic sensing solutions for infrastructure, geotechnics, and earth sciences
Main organizer: Carlo Rabaiotti (OST – University of Applied Science of Eastern Switzerland, Switzerland)
MS23 Considering defects and damage effects on the safety of civil engineering structures
Main organizer: Matthias J. Rebhan (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
MS24 Non-destructive testing and monitoring of timber structures
Main organizer: Cristoforo Demartino (Roma Tre University, Italy)
MS25 Advancements in risk, reliability, and resilience assessment of existing structures
Main organizer: Edward Steeves (Dalhousie University, Canada)
MS26 Retrofitting, strengthening and strategies to extend the service live for concrete and masonry structures
Main organizer: David Sandmann (TU Dresden, Institute of Concrete Structures, Germany)
MS27 Machine learning methodologies for structural health monitoring
Main organizer: Yunus Emre Harmanci (Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories of Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland)
MS28 Impact of climate change on infrastructure
Main organizer: Julian Unglaub (TU Braunschweig, Institute of Steel Structures, Germany)
MS29 Distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) in civil engineering
Main organizer: Katarzyna Zdanowicz (FOLAB GmbH, Germany)
MS30 Video-based and Imaging techniques for structural monitoring
Main organizer: Ivan Roselli (ENEA, Italy)
MS31 Wave-based monitoring techniques for structural engineering
Main organizer: Kilian Tschöke (Fraunhofer IKTS, Germany)
MS32 Crowdsourced and indirect approaches to Structural Health Monitoring
Main organizer: Maria Pina Limongelli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
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