Program

Key topics

  1. Steel Composite Structures  
  2. Reuse and Retrofitting of Structural Element  
  3. Design for fast execution and disassembling    
  4. Sustainability Assessment and design 
  5. High-strength, stainless and other special steels  
  6. 3D printing and additive manufacturing  
  7. Machine learning in engineering design and construction  
  8. Novel structural solutions  
  9. Bridge Construction and Structural Design  
  10. Masts and towers, Offshore Structures  
  11. Bolted Connections  
  12. Welded Joints and Connections  
  13. Stability of cross-sections, members and frames  
  14. Stability and Plasticity in plates and shells  
  15. Cold-formed Structures  
  16. Fire resistance and structural robustness  
  17. Seismic resistance, dynamics and vibration  
  18. Fatigue and fracture  
  19. Eurocode and international design codes  

Keynote speakers Tuesday

Prof.dr. Jacqueline Cramer
Professor – Utrecht University
Geosciences, sustainable innovation, concrete, steel and composite, steel construction covenant
Academic challenges for sustainable steel
Prof.dr. Olivier Vassart
Professor – University Catholic of Louvain
CEO Steligence®
Steel and composite construction, fire safety engineering, finite element modeling
Rethink the way we design buildings with less material and longer life cycle
Christoph Paech
Director – schlaich bergermann partner - sbp
Structural design, consulting engineer
Enabling re-use: stadium 974

Panelists Tuesday

Johannes Kreißig
World Green Building Council – Board of Directors
Life Cycle Assessment is the key to evaluate all developments towards truly sustainable construction
Torben Larsen
CEO – Give Steel
The steel contractor: Well-designed structures for CO2 reduction, Water-based paints, use of robot technologies, electricity-powered machinery and focus on recycled steel as raw material, are part of our green transition

Keynote speakers Wednesday

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ulrike Kuhlmann
Professor – University of Stuttgart
Prüfingenieurin – Bürogemeinschaft Nellingen
Steel, timber and composite structures, stability of members and plates, fatigue design, welded connections, hollow section joints
Steel and composite bridges – enabling sustainable solutions
Prof.dr. Haohui Xin
Professor – Xi'an Jiaotong University
Computational prediction methodology for fatigue/fracture
Recent progress in computational predictions on fatigue and fracture resistance of steel connection joints

Keynote speakers Thursday

Michael D. Engelhardt, Ph.D., P.E.
Professor – University of Texas at Austin
Steel and composite structures, earthquake engineering, structural-fire engineering, bridge engineering
Prequalified seismic-resistant steel moment connections in the U.S.
Dr. Sheida Afshan, Ph.D., CEng, MICE, FHEA
Associate professor in Structural engineering – University of Southampton
Steel, stainless steel, resilience, structural reliability, experimentation, numerical modelling
High performance metallic materials and structures for applications in infrastructure and energy sectors

Program

The final version of the program can be downloaded as pdf here. An alternative and the best way to access the program and a lot of other additional info about speakers and the conference is through our Eurosteel App, which can be downloaded and installed on your mobile phone using the QR code below.

Conference schedule

Three consecutive days in September Eurosteel 2023 will host lectures about steel and composite structures. Starting with plenary sessions in the morning, during the day there will be parallel sessions about various topics. See the program below. Click here or on the program to download the detailed pdf.

Conference app

The conference program can also be accessed through the Eurosteel App, available in the App Store and the Google Play Store. A Guidance Handout for installing and using the App can be downloaded here.

Markt Delft, photo: Mic Barendsz
Sports Center TU Delft, photo: Sport en Cultuur TU Delft

Post-conference event

The three-day conference is followed by a post-conference event, to be held at nearby TU Delft, with the title “Addressing future needs by new technologies and education in steel construction”, with presentations from TU Delft, ETH Zürich, RWTH Aachen and Univ. of Liege. Click here to download the program. Please use the registration form to register for the post-conference event. If you have already registered for the conference please add 'Just post-conference event' to the Remarks field. Did you already register? Please use this form to let us know which outdoor activity you will do.