Photograph: Helix Bridge, Singapore. Courtesy of: Christopher Frederick Jones
Organised by:
Contacts:
- For queries about the seminar programme and papers: Nancy Baddoo
- For queries about travel, visas and accommodation: Lis Oliver
Dates:
- Submission of Abstract:
30 August 2012 - Submission of Paper in Pre-Publication Format:
8 November 2012 - Submission of Presentation:
29 November 2012 - Experts Seminar:
6-7 December 2012
The Seminar will be held in Sunningdale Park, a large conference centre set in over 65 acres of landscaped gardens. Sunningdale Park is a 30 minute taxi drive from Heathrow Airport, and a five minute walk from The Steel Construction Institute's offices.
Sunningdale Park
Larch Avenue, Ascot, Berkshire SL5 0QE
Tel: + 44 (0) 1344 634395
Fax: + 44 (0) 1344 634233
Location map for Sunningdale Park
Accommodation is also available at Sunningdale Park. A special discounted cost has been negotiated for the Seminar of £75.00, including breakfast, per night.
To book a room, either call the Sunningdale Park Reservations Team on +44 1344 634395 and say you are attending the SCI Event or email Lis Oliver who can make the booking on your behalf.
There is a restaurant on-site at Sunningdale Park called "The Steam, Bake and Grill" which you may want to use on the night of 5th December. It may be advisable to book a table at the Sunningdale Park reception.
There will be a Seminar dinner on the evening of the 6 December.
Thursday 6 December 2012
09.00 | Registration and Coffee | ||
09.30 | Stainless Steel in Structures Experts Seminar: History and Vision | ||
09.40 | Stainless steel in structures: recent projects | G. Gedge | Presentation |
Material behaviour |
Chair: Esther Real |
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10.00 | Comparative study in analytical expressions for the modelling of stainless steel behaviour | E. Real, I. Arrayago & R. Westeel | Paper Presentation |
10.15 | Residual stress influence on material properties and column behaviour of stainless steel SHS | M. Jandera & J. Macháček | Paper Presentation |
10.30 | Notched strip tests to determine the yield characteristics of stainless steel | J. Becque, A. Oyawoye, M. Guadagnini & S-S Huang | Paper Presentation |
10.45 | Experimental study on the constitutive relation of stainless steel 316 under monotonic and cyclic loading | Y.Q. Wang, T. Chang, Y.J. Shi, H.X. Yuan & D.F. Liao | Paper Presentation |
11.00 | Refreshment Break | ||
Design of Members (1) |
Chair: Dinar Camotin |
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11.30 | The continuous strength method for structural stainless steel design | S. Afshan & L. Gardner | Paper Presentation |
11.45 | Stub column tests of stainless steel built-up sections | H.X. Yuan, Y.Q. Wang, Y.J. Shi & L. Gardner | Paper Presentation |
12.00 | Column Curves for Stainless Steel Columns Subjected to Flexural Buckling | G.P. Shu & B.F. Zheng | Paper Presentation |
12.15 | Numerical verification of stainless steel overall buckling curves | P. Hradil & A. Talja | Paper Presentation |
12.30 | Structural performance of cold-formed lean duplex stainless steel columns | Y. Huang & B. Young | Paper Presentation |
12.45 | Lunch | ||
Design of Members (2) |
Chair: Stephen Quach |
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13.45 | Using Eurocodes to Design Stainless Steel Bridges | I. Davis & G. Gedge | Presentation |
14.00 | Two calculation methods for overall stability coefficients of stainless steel welded I-section beams | Y.Q. Wang, Y.J. Shi, H.X. Yuan & L. Yang | Paper Presentation |
14.15 | Shear design recommendations for stainless steel plate girders | N. Saliba, E. Real & L. Gardner | Paper Presentation |
14.30 | Tests on stainless steel continuous beams | M. Theofanous, N. Saliba, O. Zhao & L. Gardner | Paper Presentation |
14.45 | Numerical Modelling of Duplex Stainless Steel Structures | P. das N. Pereira; W. Pereira; I.P. Gueiros, L. Lima, P. Vellasco & J. da Silva | Paper Presentation |
15.00 | Refreshment Break | ||
Connections |
Chair: Ben Young |
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15.30 | Lap shear tests of bolted and screwed ferritic stainless steel connections | A. Talja & M. Torkar | Paper Presentation |
15.45 | Structural behaviour of cold-formed stainless steel bolted connections | Y. Cai & B. Young | Paper Presentation |
16.00 | Structural Evaluation of Carbon and Stainless Steel Plates with Staggered Bolts Subjected to Tension Forces | J. de J. Santos, P. Vellasco, L. Lima, S.A.L. Andrade, A.T. Silva & J.G.S. Silva | Paper Presentation |
16.15 | Strength and ductility of slotted and gusset plate welded tubular member connections in stainless steel | G. Kiymaz & E. Seckin | Paper Presentation |
16.30-16.45 | Experimental investigation on stress concentration factors of cold-formed stainless steel tubular X-joints | R. Feng & B. Young | Paper Presentation |
19.00 | Experts Seminar Dinner |
Friday 7 December 2012
Design of Thin-walled Members (1) |
Chair: Leroy Gardner |
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09.30 | Structural applications of ferritic stainless steels | K. Cashell | Presentation |
09.45 | Stainless steel in structures in view of sustainability | B. Rossi | Paper Presentation |
10.00 | Strength and Ductility of Corner Materials in Cold-Formed Stainless Steel Sections | W.M. Quach & P. Qiu | Paper Presentation |
10.15 | Stub Column Tests and numerical simulations on Cold Formed Stainless Steel Lipped C Members | S.G. Fan, G.P. Shu, F. Liu & B.F. Zheng | Paper Presentation |
10.30 | Study of web crippling in ferritic stainless steel cold formed sections | M. Bock, E. Real, I. Arrayago & E. Mirambell | Paper Presentation |
10.45 | Refreshment Break | ||
Design of Thin-walled Members (2) |
Chair: Pedro Vellasco |
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11.15 | Cold-worked austenitic stainless steel in passenger railcars and in other applications | W. Jaxa-Rozen | Paper Presentation |
11.30 | Experimental Investigation of the Distortional-Global Interaction Buckling of Stainless Steel C-beams | S. Niu, K. Rasmussen & F. Fan | Paper Presentation |
11.45 | Numerical Study and Design of the Distortional-Global Interaction Buckling of Stainless Steel C-Beam | S. Niu, K. Rasmussen & F. Fan | |
12.00 | GBT-Based Elastic-Plastic Post-Buckling Analysis of Stainless Steel Thin-Walled Members | M. Abambres, D. Camotim & N. Silvestre | Paper Presentation |
12.15 | Influence of Variation in Material Strength on Ultimate Strength of Stainless Steel Plates under In-Plane Bending and Compression | S. Nara and Y. Miyazaki | Paper Presentation |
12.30 | Lunch | ||
Performance at elevated temperatures |
Chair: |
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13.30 | Stainless steels in hot climates and fire | H. Groth | Presentation |
13.45 | Mechanical Properties of Ferritic Stainless Steels at Elevated Temperatures | T. Manninen & J. Säynäjäkangas | Paper Presentation |
14.00 | Class 4 stainless steel beams in case of fire | N. Lopes & P. Vila Real | Paper Presentation |
14.15 | Web Crippling Behaviour of Cold-Formed High Strength Stainless Steel Tubular Sections at Elevated Temperatures | F. Zhou & B. Young | Paper Presentation |
14.30 | Refreshment Break | ||
Stainless Steel Design Standards |
Chair: Kim Rasmussen |
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15.00 | Development of an AISC Design Guide for Structural Stainless Steel | N. Baddoo & P. Francis | Paper Presentation |
15.15-16.30 | Discussion:
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Including prepared contributions from Eurocode, Australian, US, Japanese and Chinese standards. | Presentation 1 Presentation 2 Presentation 3 Presentation 4 Presentation 5 |
The current list of speakers is as follows:
Name | Organisation | Country |
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Gang Shi | University of Tsinghua | China |
Zhou Feng | Tongji University | China |
Ben Young | University of Hong Kong | China |
Shuang Niu and Feng Fan | Harbin Institute of Technology | China |
Ganping Shu, S.G.Fan and Zheng Baofeng | Southeast University, Nanjing | China |
Stephen Quach | University of Macau | Macau |
Kim Rasmussen | University of Sydney | Australia |
Satoshi Nagar | Osaka University | Japan |
Luciano Lima and Pedro Vellasco | University of Rio de Janeiro | Brazil |
Wladyslaw Jaxa-Rozen | Bombardier | Canada |
Guven Kiymaz | Fatih University | Turkey |
Barbara Rossi | Liege University | Belgium |
Asko Talja and Petr Hradil | VTT | Finland |
Jukka Saynajakangas | Outokumpu | Finland |
Esther Real | UPC, Barcelona | Spain |
Hans Groth | Outokumpu | Sweden |
Marios Theophanous | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki | Greece |
Dinar Camotin | Technical University of Lisbon | Portugal |
Nuno Lopes and Paulo Vila Real | University of Aveiro | Portugal |
Leroy Gardner | Imperial College | UK |
Jurgen Becque | University of Sheffield | UK |
Katherine Cashell and Nancy Baddoo | SCI | UK |
The Elsevier Journal Thin-Walled Structures has agreed to publish papers presented at the Experts Seminar in a Special Issue. Each paper will be subject to a formal review process by two referees and only those papers which meet the required standard of quality, novelty and contribution to research advancement will be accepted for publication in the Special Issue.
Please prepare your papers in accordance with the Guide for Authors for this journal.
Submission of Abstract:
A 100 word abstract should be sent to Nancy Baddoo by 30 August 2012.
Submission of Paper:
A pdf version of your manuscript, prepared in accordance with the instructions in the Guide for Authors, should be sent to Nancy Baddoo by 8 November 2012. At the Experts Seminar, all delegates will be given a copy of the pdf version of each paper. After the Experts Seminar, final versions of manuscripts will be submitted to Thin-Walled Structures in accordance with their standard online procedure.
Upon arrival at your airport:
Taxis
We recommend the use of Windsor Cars who offer a meet/greet service. Prices are as follows and are based on a cash only, meet and greet service.
- Heathrow to Ascot = £35
- Gatwick to Ascot = £68
- Stansted to Ascot = £95
Their direct contact details are:
- Tel: +44 (0) 1753 677677
- bookings@windsorcars.com
- www.windsorcars.com
Train
- For information on train times: www.nationalrail.co.uk
- For information on the London Underground: www.tfl.gov.uk
The nearest station to Sunningdale Park is Sunningdale, on the SouthWest Train Service from London (Waterloo) to Reading line (a 45 minute journey). Alternatively if you are arriving late in the evening, it is advisable to go onto the next station which is Ascot, as there is a Taxi Rank and taxis run all night from this station.
Sunningdale Park is approximately a 30 minute walk from Sunningdale Station or a 5 minute taxi ride. From Ascot Station it is unadvisable to walk - a taxi to Sunningdale Park will take approximately 10 minutes.
From London Heathrow - www.heathrow.com
Take the 285 bus from Heathrow Airport Central to Feltham interchange Station (approximate travel time 10 minutes). At Feltham Station take the SouthWest train service London (Waterloo) to Reading and get off the train at Sunningdale.
From London Gatwick - www.gatwickairport.com
Take the Gatwick Express from Gatwick to London Victoria station (approximately travel time is 30 minutes and trains run every 15 minutes).
From Victoria station take the Underground - Circle and District Line - (eastbound) to Embankment and change to the Northern Line (southbound) to Waterloo (approximate travel time is 20 minutes).
From Waterloo take the South West Train Service from Waterloo to Reading, getting off at Sunningdale.
From London Stansted - www.stanstedairport.com
Take the Stansted Express to London (Liverpool Street Station); approximate journey is 45 minutes and trains run every 15 minutes.
Take the Central line underground from Liverpool Street to Bank (westbound), change to the Waterloo-City line (southbound) to Waterloo Station (approx travel time 20 minutes).
From Waterloo take the South West Train Service from Waterloo to Reading, getting off at Sunningdale.