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Conference Highlights
The Steel Bridge Forum is a national exchange of information
and innovative ideas that improve the life cycle costs of
steel bridges. This forum will address many of the most
significant steel bridge topics by several of the nations
leading bridge design experts. This pre-congress forum was
developed in cooperation with Jimmy Camp, New Mexico
DOT; Gregg Fredrick, WY DOT; Ken Hurst, Kansas DOT;
Mark Leonard, Colorado DOT; David Nazare, Utah DOT
and Calvin Schrage, Lincoln Steel Co.
LRFD Design of Elastomeric Bearings
LFD Curved Girder Specifications
LRFD Design and Software
(AISIsplice) for Bolted Field Splices
LFD Design and Software (AISIbeam) for Short
Span Bridges
How Can Designers and Owners Take
Advantage of HPS Properties?
Innovative HPS Bridge Design
Optimized Design of an HPS MO DOT Bridge
Cost-Effective Design and Details
Design and Performance of Integral Abutments
Forum fees include continental breakfast, lunch, and program materials.
Member ASCE/SEI: $100; Non-Member: $160
For more information on Steel Bridges, please
visit www.steel.org/infrastructure/bridges
Tour of CPP’s Wind Tunnel Testing Laboratory
Cermak Peterka Petersen, Inc. (CPP) operates a
commercial wind tunnel testing laboratory with
two boundary-layer wind tunnels and associated
instrumentation. Upon arrival at the Fort Collins
laboratory, attendees will enjoy a short presentation
on wind tunnel testing, learn about projects
currently being conducted in CPP wind tunnels,
and talk with company engineers about the
process. Even if you’ve been involved in projects
where wind tunnel testing was used, you may
have never visited an operational wind tunnel
facility. Don’t miss this opportunity.
The bus for this field trip will leave the hotel at 12:00 noon and travel—
approximately 1.5 hours north to Fort Collins. The bus will then return to the
hotel at 5:00 pm in time for the 150th Anniversary Celebration. This tour
includes a boxed lunch. Registration fee: $25
Welcome Reception
Network and meet structural engineering
colleagues from around the world during the
congress’ official Welcome Reception. Ticket
required and included with all Full Registrations.
Diversity in Structural Engineering Breakfast
Take this opportunity to network on issues of
diversity in the workplace. All are invited to
participate in discussions on how to promote
diversity within the civil engineering profession.
This full breakfast event is hosted by the ASCE
Committee on Diversity and Women in Civil
Engineering. Ticket required at $29 per person.
( See Congress Registration Form )
ASCE’s 150th Anniversary Celebration
Special Business and Professional Practice Seminars
We have scheduled more sessions than ever focused
on business issues for the practicing structural engineer.
Learn practical tips to do it easier, faster, and better.
You’ll learn time saving tips for designing with
structural steel, light gauge steel, timber, concrete,
masonry, and foundations. Plus, you’ll explore practical
design guides, the latest concepts for performance-based
structural engineering, and current practice
issues:
Performance-based design is slowly transforming the
look and feel of structural engineering by providing
all engineers the promise of designing structures to
achieve desired levels of performance. It can be used
to better protect our infrastructure from extreme events
such as tornadoes, great earthquakes, and indeed, terrorist
attacks. Performance-based design has gained broad-based
acceptance from design professionals as well as
regulators and other key stakeholders. The keynote
address will track the development of
performance-based design, highlight current applications,
and forecast its transformation to everyday use.
Maryann Phipps has applied performance-based
approaches in the design and rehabilitation of a wide
range of buildings to resist seismic forces. After more
than 18 years with Degenkolb Engineers, she is now
President of her own consulting firm, ESTRUCTURE.
At the annual Awards Luncheon, SEI recognizes
outstanding leaders in the field of structural
engineering. After lunch, Professor Louis F.
Geschwindner, Ph.D. P.E., Professor of Architectural
Engineering at Pennsylvania State University, will
provide a historical perspective of the World Trade
Center and the remarkable technical advances
represented in its design and
construction. The World Trade Center
introduced leading-edge structural
engineering that is still advanced by
today’s standards. Tickets required. Additional tickets
available at the Congress Registration Desk: $39 per
person.
Wrapping up the
Plenary Session, SEI
President, John
Tawresey, and
Executive Director,
John E. Durrant, will
report on the
Institute’s progress
since the last
Business Meeting in
Washington D.C., in
April 2001, and
announce plans for
the future.
Bonus:
Attend briefings by members of the
Building Performance Teams who
inspected the Pentagon and World
Trade Center after the
September 11 attacks. The
remarkable
performance of the
WTC Towers in
surviving tremendous
structural damage and
fires provides a unique
glimpse of structures
extreme loads.
Similarly, the Pentagon provides the opportunity to
consider how changes over the past 60 years in the
design of buildings with more ordinary proportions
might affect the performance in such an event, as
well as the chance to examine the performance of
remedial technologies for blast resistant facades put
to an unusual test. Gain critical insights into structural
performance and rational approaches to mitigating
new threats to our nation’s infrastructure. In addition
to the Award Luncheon, a special session will be held
Friday evening on the ASCE-FEMA Performance Team
Reports and a session on Saturday at 1:30 pm.
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