Chair of the Local Organising Committee
Su Taylor is the Dean of Research for the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Science and a Professor of Structural Engineering at Queen’s University Belfast. She has been a member of the IIFC Council for several years and leads the Intelligent Infrastructure Group within Civil Engineering focusing on research, development, testing, and field application of FRP reinforcement for concrete structures with structural health monitoring.
Contact: s.e.taylor@qub.ac.uk Tel.: +44 28 9097 4635
Conference history and Local Organising Committee
This is the longest running conference series on the application of FRP in civil construction. FRPRCS commenced in Vancouver in 1993 and was last in the UK in Cambridge in 2001. Queen’s University Belfast is delighted to see that the IIFC and FRPRCS Committee have integrated for the management of the FRPRCS conference series to enable coordination of FRPRCS in odd numbered years and that the utilisation of IIFCs resources will ensure the longevity of FRPRCS. The proposed Local Organising Committee for FRPRCS-14 is composed of members from the two Universities in Northern Ireland, industry members from the Northern Ireland Centre for Advanced Composites and Engineering (NIACE) and our Knowledge Transfer Partners working in the area of FRP in Concrete, namely:
Prof Su Taylor
Prof Gerry Hamill
Prof JF Chen
Dr Esmaeel Esmaeeli
Dr Nikolaos Perogamvros
Dr Des Robinson
Dr Giuseppina Amato
Dr Mohammed Sonebi
Prof Ali Njai
Prof Adrian Murphy
Prof Brian McFarland ( McFarland Associates and RAEng VP)
Stathis Polydorou
Dr Tony Martin
Evdokia Gyftaki
Prof Ruth Morrow
Dr Philip Crossett (FP McCann)
Dr Peter Deegan (Banagher Concrete)
Simon Bullivant (Bullivant Taranto)
Rosyln McMullan (Moore Concrete)
Aaron Gillies (Thales group)
Abhey Gupta (Macrete Ltd)
International Scientific Committee
Australia
Prof. R. Al-Mahaidi, Swinburne University of Technology
Prof. T. Aravinthan, University of Southern Queensland
Dr. R. Gravina, RMIT University
Prof. T. Ozbakkaloglu, University of Adelaide
Prof. S.T. Smith, Southern Cross University
Prof. Y.F. Wu, RMIT University
Prof. T. Yu, University of Wollongong
Canada
Prof. R. El-Hacha, University of Calgary
Prof. A. Fam, Queen’s University
Prof. M.F. Green, Queen’s University
Prof. K.W. Neale, University of Sherbrooke
Prof. S. Sheikh, University of Toronto
China
Prof. G.M. Chen, Guangdong University of Technology
Dr J.G. Dai, The Hong Kong Polytehnic University
Prof. J.G. Teng , Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Prof. P. Feng, Tsinghua University
Dr. Rong Li, Central Research Institute of Building and Construction Co., Ltd of MCC
Prof. J.G. Teng , Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Prof. X. Wang, Southeast University
Prof. L.P. Ye, Tsinghua University
Prof. Q.R. Yue, Central Research Institute of Building and Construction Co., Ltd of MCC
Denmark
Prof. J.W. Schmidt, Technical University of Denmark
France
Dr. K. Benzarti, IFSTTAR
Prof. E. Ferrier, Université Lyon I
Germany
Prof. L. De Lorenzis, Technical University Braunschweig
Greece
Prof. T.C. Triantafillou, University of Petras
Israel
Dr. R. Eid, Shamoon College of Engineering
Japan
Prof. T. Ueda, Hokkaido University
Prof. Z.S. Wu, Ibaraki University
Dr. I. Yoshitake, Yamaguchi University
Poland
Dr. R. Kotynia, Technical University of Lodz
Portugal
Prof. J.R. Correia, University of Lisbon
Dr. J. Sena-Cruz, University of Minho
South Korea
Dr. Y.H. Park, Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology
Spain
Dr. C. Paulotto, Acciona
Switzerland
Dr. E. Ghafoori, EMPA
Turkey
Prof. Alper Ilki, Istanbul Technical University
UK
Prof. L. Bisby, University of Edinburgh
USA
Prof. A. Nanni, University of Miami
Prof. S. Rizkalla, North Carolina State University
Prof. C.E. Bakis, Pennsylvania State University
Prof. L.C. Bank, City College of New York
Dr. L. Cheng, University of California – Davis
Dr. M. Dawood, University of Houston
Dr. R. Gentry, Georgia Institute of Technology
Prof. N.F. Grace, Lawrence Tech University
Prof. I.E. Harik, University of Kentucky
Dr. K.A. Harries, University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Y.J. Kim, University of Colorado Denver
Prof. J.J. Myers, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Dr. R. Seracino, North Carolina State University
Dr. J.L. Wang, University of Alabama