The detailed program will be published in January 2026.
TUESDAY (AUGUST 25TH)
WEDNESDAY (AUGUST 26TH)
THURSDAY (AUGUST 27TH)
FRIDAY (AUGUST 28TH)
SATURDAY (AUGUST 29TH)
8:30 am
Registration
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Registration
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Registration
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9:00 am
Conference Opening
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Keynote Lectures
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Keynote Lectures
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9:30 am
Post Conference Tour
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10:00 am
10:30 am
Coffee Break
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Coffee Break
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Coffee Break
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11:00 am
Keynote Lectures
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Parallel Session
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Parallel Session
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11:30 am
12:00 pm
12:30 pm
Lunch break
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Lunch break
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Lunch break
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1:00 pm
1:30 pm
2:00 pm
Parallel Session
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Parallel Session
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Parallel Session
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2:30 pm
3:00 pm
3:30 pm
4:00 pm
Pre Conference Tour
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Coffee Break
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Coffee Break
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Coffee Break
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4:30 pm
Parallel Session
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Parallel Session
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Closing Ceremony
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5:00 pm
5:30 pm
6:00 pm
6:30 pm
7:00 pm
7:30 pm
8:00 pm
Social Dinner
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8:30 pm
9:00 pm
9:30 pm
10:00 pm
10:30 pm
TUESDAY (AUGUST 25TH)
WEDNESDAY (AUGUST 26TH)
THURSDAY (AUGUST 27TH)
FRIDAY (AUGUST 28TH)
SATURDAY (AUGUST 29TH)
4:00 pm
Pre Conference Tour
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4:30 pm
5:00 pm
5:30 pm
6:00 pm
6:30 pm
7:00 pm
7:30 pm
8:00 pm
TUESDAY (AUGUST 25TH)
WEDNESDAY (AUGUST 26TH)
THURSDAY (AUGUST 27TH)
FRIDAY (AUGUST 28TH)
SATURDAY (AUGUST 29TH)
8:30 am
Registration
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Registration
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Registration
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TUESDAY (AUGUST 25TH)
WEDNESDAY (AUGUST 26TH)
THURSDAY (AUGUST 27TH)
FRIDAY (AUGUST 28TH)
SATURDAY (AUGUST 29TH)
9:00 am
Conference Opening
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9:30 am
10:00 am
TUESDAY (AUGUST 25TH)
WEDNESDAY (AUGUST 26TH)
THURSDAY (AUGUST 27TH)
FRIDAY (AUGUST 28TH)
SATURDAY (AUGUST 29TH)
10:30 am
Coffee Break
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Coffee Break
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Coffee Break
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4:00 pm
Coffee Break
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Coffee Break
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Coffee Break
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TUESDAY (AUGUST 25TH)
WEDNESDAY (AUGUST 26TH)
THURSDAY (AUGUST 27TH)
FRIDAY (AUGUST 28TH)
SATURDAY (AUGUST 29TH)
9:00 am
Keynote Lectures
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Keynote Lectures
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9:30 am
10:00 am
11:00 am
Keynote Lectures
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11:30 am
12:00 pm
TUESDAY (AUGUST 25TH)
WEDNESDAY (AUGUST 26TH)
THURSDAY (AUGUST 27TH)
FRIDAY (AUGUST 28TH)
SATURDAY (AUGUST 29TH)
12:30 pm
Lunch break
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Lunch break
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Lunch break
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1:00 pm
1:30 pm
TUESDAY (AUGUST 25TH)
WEDNESDAY (AUGUST 26TH)
THURSDAY (AUGUST 27TH)
FRIDAY (AUGUST 28TH)
SATURDAY (AUGUST 29TH)
11:00 am
Parallel Session
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Parallel Session
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11:30 am
12:00 pm
2:00 pm
Parallel Session
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Parallel Session
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Parallel Session
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2:30 pm
3:00 pm
3:30 pm
4:30 pm
Parallel Session
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Parallel Session
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5:00 pm
5:30 pm
TUESDAY (AUGUST 25TH)
WEDNESDAY (AUGUST 26TH)
THURSDAY (AUGUST 27TH)
FRIDAY (AUGUST 28TH)
SATURDAY (AUGUST 29TH)
8:00 pm
Social Dinner
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8:30 pm
9:00 pm
9:30 pm
10:00 pm
10:30 pm
TUESDAY (AUGUST 25TH)
WEDNESDAY (AUGUST 26TH)
THURSDAY (AUGUST 27TH)
FRIDAY (AUGUST 28TH)
SATURDAY (AUGUST 29TH)
4:30 pm
Closing Ceremony
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5:00 pm
5:30 pm
TUESDAY (AUGUST 25TH)
WEDNESDAY (AUGUST 26TH)
THURSDAY (AUGUST 27TH)
FRIDAY (AUGUST 28TH)
SATURDAY (AUGUST 29TH)
9:30 am
Post Conference Tour
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10:00 am
10:30 am
11:00 am
11:30 am
12:00 pm
12:30 pm
1:00 pm
1:30 pm
TUESDAY (AUGUST 25TH)
Pre Conference Tour
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WEDNESDAY (AUGUST 26TH)
Registration
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Conference Opening
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Coffee Break
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Keynote Lectures
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Lunch break
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Parallel Session
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Coffee Break
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Parallel Session
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THURSDAY (AUGUST 27TH)
Registration
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Keynote Lectures
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Coffee Break
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Parallel Session
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Lunch break
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Parallel Session
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Coffee Break
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Parallel Session
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Social Dinner
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FRIDAY (AUGUST 28TH)
Registration
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Keynote Lectures
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Coffee Break
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Parallel Session
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Lunch break
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Parallel Session
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Coffee Break
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Closing Ceremony
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SATURDAY (AUGUST 29TH)
Post Conference Tour
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Mini-Symposia
The call for mini-symposia is ongoing. Here you can find a detailed table of the mini-symposia that have already been accepted.
MS01 Structural health monitoring and assessment of aging railway infrastructures
organizers: Chao Wang (Luleå University of Technology, Sweden) Zhanchong Shi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Jaime Gonzalez-Libreros (Luleå University of Technology, Sweden)
MS02 Innovative bonded solutions for steel structure repair and retrofit
organizers: Yvonne Ciupack (Department of Steel Construction, TU Darmstadt, Germany) Björn Abeln (Institute of Steel Construction, RWTH Aachen, Germany) Matthias Albiez (Steel and Lightweight Structures, KIT Karlsruhe, Germany) Angelo Savio Calabrese (Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Pierluigi Colombi (Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Elyas Ghafoori (Institute for Steel Construction, LU Hannover, Germany) Elisabeth Stammen (Institute of Joining and Welding, TU Braunschweig, Germany)
MS03 Railway track monitoring – an essential basis for the optimization of railway infrastructure
organizer: Marc Wenner (MKP GmbH, Weimar, Germany)
MS04 Load testing of bridges
organizer: Gregor Schacht (MKP GmbH, Dresden, Germany)
MS05 Research on shape memory alloys in Germany
note: Although the Mini Symposium is mainly targeting the research and development of SMAs in Germany, it also welcomes other international contributions and presentations to target a broader audience worldwide.
organizers: Elyas Ghafoori (Institute for Steel Construction, LU Hannover, Germany) Thomas Niendorf (Institute of Materials Engineering, University Kassel, Germany) Hans Jürgen Maier (Materials Science, LU Hannover, Germany) Anja Weidner ( Institute of Materials Engineering, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany) Philipp Krooß (Institute of Materials Engineering, University Kassel, Germany)
MS06 Monitoring, assessment and design of lightweight metal façades
organizers: Felicitas Rädel (Department of Steel Construction, TU Darmstadt, Germany) Zbigniew Pozorski (Poznan University of Technology, Poland) Markus Kuhnhenne (Institute of Steel Construction, RWTH Aachen, Germany)
MS07 Distributed fiber optic strain sensing for bridge structural health monitoring
organizers: Bertram Richter (Institute of Concrete Structures, TU Dresden, Germany) Steffen Marx (Institute of Concrete Structures, TU Dresden, Germany)
MS08 Hybrid construction and strengthening with wire and arc additive manufacturing
organizers: Yvonne Ciupack (Department of Steel Construction, TU Darmstadt, Germany) Leroy Gardner (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London, UK) Elyas Ghafoori (Institute for Steel Construction, LU Hannover, Germany) Vittoria Laghi (Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental, and Materials Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy) Vlad Silvestru (Steel and Composite Structures, ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
MS09 Monitoring of structural health, noise and vibration of urban transportation infrastructure, and its assessment planning
organizers: Jia Liu (Institute of Transportation Infrastructure Engineering, TU Darmstadt, Germany) Duo Liu (Chair of Railway Track Engineering, TU Dresden, Germany)