The
7th International Conference on Arch Bridges (ARCH 2013) was held in
Split, Croatia from October 2nd to 4th, 2013, sponsored jointly by
Croatian Association of Structural Engineering Conference (SECON),
Zagreb university of Croatia, Fuzhou University of China, IUAV
University of Italy and Sapienza University of Rome.
The
International Conference on Arch Bridges provide a forum for
international scientists, engineers, enterprisers and infrastructure
managers to present and discuss the state-of-the-practice and recent
advances in arch bridge. The conference will also provide a platform for
exploring the potential of international cooperation.
The
proceeding of ARCH 13 contains a total of 95 papers written by authors
from around 30 countries worldwide. The contributions include 5 Keynote
Papers. In line with the aims of the ARCH conference, and as may be seen
from the List of Contents, the papers cover a wide range of topics
under a variety of themes.
In
the morning on October 3, 2013, as the chairman of the conference and
the host, Prof. Jure Radi? from Department of Civil Engineering in
Zagreb University chaired the opening ceremony and delivered a warm
welcome address (FIG. 1-4). Three keynote lectures with interesting
topics were followed by Prof. Jure Radic, Prof. Baochun Chen (China) and
Dr. Roland (Germany). Afterwards, the presentations were divided into
two parallel sessions according to the topics. Another two keynote
lectures were presented on the second conference day by Prof. Enzo
Siviro and Prof. Karl Humpf.
Figure 1 the scene of the opening ceremony
Figure 2 the committee on opening ceremony
Figure 3 Prof. Jure Radi on welcome address
Figure 4 Prof. Baochun Chen’s keynote lecture
Figure5 report of team discussion
During
the conference, the Scientific Committee decided to set up permanent
scientific committee for International Conference on Arch Bridges
(PSC-AB). The committee is responsible for the international conference
on arch bridge and the related international arch bridge academic
exchange activities. The Chair of the Organizing Committee of the next
“Arch Bridge Conference” will act as Chairman of the Body. A Secretariat
at the College of Civil Engineering of Fuzhou University (Fuzhou,
China) carries out the administrative work and the web-site (http://www.arch-bridges.cn) implementation and updating.
Post-conference technical tour was organized on Oct. 4th, 2013. Participants visited the Roman Viaduct Bridge, the Skradin Bridge and the Maslenica Bridge.
Figure 6 Technical visit
The
8th International Conference on Arch Bridges (Arch'16) will be held in
Warsaw, Poland by Warsaw University of Technology (Poland). Related
information will be released on the official website of PSC-AB: http://www.arch-bridges.cn