MAIN TOPICS OF IF CRASC ’15
Legal issues in Engineering:
- Mediation Procedures
- Investigation Procedures
Civil Forensic Engineering:
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Environmental Pollution and Sanitary Engineering
Noise Pollution and Vibrations
Unauthorised Construction and Land Development
Buildings and Infrastructure Issues
Geotechnical Issues (Slope Stability, Tunnels, Foundations, etc.)
Economic loss assessment
Contract and Construction Management
Structural and Land Monitoring
Survey and Computer-Aided Drawing Techniques
Industrial Forensic Engineering:
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Chemical Accidents
Plant and Electrical Network Issues
Aeronautical Accidents
Railway Accidents
Naval Accidents
Road Accidents
Risk areas, Major Accidents and Disasters
Information Technology Forensic Engineering:
- Computer Security
- Telecommunication Network Issues
- Electronic System Issues
Structural Forensic Engineering:
- Structural Failures and Collapses
- Urgent Remedial Measures
- Serviceability Loss of Large Facilities and Infrastructures (Dams,
Tunnels, Bridges, Harbour Facilities, Industrial Sites, etc.)
- Extreme Load Modelling (Fires, Explosions, Impacts, etc.) and
Structural Response Analysis (Progressive Collapse, etc.)
Structural Reliability:
- Risk Analysis and Identification of Contingent Scenarios
- Probabilistic and Heuristic Methods
- Time-Dependent Behaviour of Structures (Life Cycle, Material
Degradation, Fatigue, etc.)
- Multi-Hazard Situations and Chain Events, Structural
Robustness, Dependability
Structural Retrofitting:
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Modelling and Analysis of Retrofitted Structures
Protection of Cultural and Archaeological Heritage
Sustainability of Retrofit Interventions
Innovative Techniques
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Nicola Augenti (Chair)
Franco Bontempi
Antonio Borri
Alessandro De Stefano
Lorenzo Jurina
Gaetano Manfredi
Pier Giorgio Malerba
Andrea Prota
Mauro Sassu
Enzo Siviero
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Nicola Augenti
Franco Bontempi (Chair)
Stefania Arangio
Chiara Crosti
Konstantinos Gkoumas
Fulvio Parisi
Francesco Petrini
Luca Sgambi
SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME
ITALIAN ASSOCIATION OF
FORENSIC ENGINEERING
IF CRASC ’15
Third Congress on
Forensic Engineering
Sixth Congress on
Collapses, Reliability
and Retrofit of Structures
PATRONAGE
The Congress will take place under the auspices of
several institutions and associations
SPONSORS
StroNGER s.r.l. research spin-off company
PRE-REGISTRATION FORM
A pre-registration form is available at www.aifitalia.it.
Congress delegates must fill in the pre-registration form
and sent it to:
segreteria.aif@pec.it and ifcrasc15@stronger2012.com
School of Civil and Industrial Engineering
Sapienza University of Rome
Aula del Chiostro - Via Eudossiana 18
14–16 May 2015
First Announcement
ORIGIN OF THE IF CRASC CONGRESS
OFFICIAL LANGUAGES
The IF CRASC congress series originated from the
institution of a second level Master programme (postgraduate programme) on Forensic Engineering at the
University of Naples Federico II, Italy. Such a Master
programme was the first one in Europe and includes
subjects of both Civil and Industrial Forensic Engineering.
Beside the traditional sector of Structural Forensic
Engineering (mainly focused on failures and collapses), in
the last years, academics, professionals and public
institutions have shown a growing interest not only in legal
issues of engineering practice (e.g., procedures and
responsibilities), but also in forensic fields of Industrial
Engineering and Information Technology. This led to an
extension of the topics covered by past Congresses on
Collapses, Reliability and Retrofit of Structures to additional
sectors of Forensic Engineering.
The outstanding success of the past IF CRASC
Congresses, as well as of other initiatives promoted in Italy
and abroad on similar subjects since 2009, has allowed the
Italian Association of Forensic Engineering (AIF) to organise
the IF CRASC '15 Congress in Rome.
Italian and English
ABSTRACT AND PAPER SUBMISSION
Abstracts should be submitted by e-mail as PDF files to
segreteria.aif@pec.it
and
ifcrasc15@stronger2012.com
together with the pre-registration form. Abstracts should
not exceed one A4 page and should be written in
accordance with the “Abstract Template AIF” (MS Word
file),
which
can
be
downloaded
from
www.aifitalia.it/homeenglish.html.
Full papers should not exceed twelve A4 pages and
should be written in accordance to the “Paper Template
AIF” (MS Word file). This template will be available on the
Congress website after the second announcement.
Corresponding authors should submit their full papers
along with a copy of the bank transfer receipt covering the
registration fee.
CONGRESS FORMAT
OBJECTIVES OF IF CRASC’15
The main aim of the 2015 edition of IF CRASC Congress is
to promote the exchange of knowledge and experience
among academics, professionals, public administration
managers, private company employees, jurists, and judges in
the civil, industrial and information technology fields of
Forensic Engineering.
Special interest will be given to:
- Situations affected by human activities, also in terms of
fault and malicious actions in design, construction,
management and control of civil facilities, industrial
processes, and both computer and electronic networks.
- Extreme actions (e.g., fires, explosions, impacts) and
their complex effects (e.g., progressive collapse
phenomena, cascade disasters, catastrophic events).
- Holistic design criteria for systems, structures and
infrastructures: resilience, dependability, robustness,
sustainability.
The Congress sessions will also cover emerging issues
highlighted in the last years in Italy and abroad.
The Congress will include general keynotes, invited
lectures, oral presentations and a round-table session
focused on major legal, technical and scientific issues in
Forensic Engineering. Different teams of experts will help to
produce guidelines on specific topics.
Sapienza University of Rome,
School of Civil and Industrial
Engineering
14–16 May 2015
Delegates will present their research and case studies
during oral and poster sessions.
DEADLINES
14 July 2014: Abstract submission
14 September 2014: Abstract acceptance
14 March 2015: Full paper submission
CONGRESS FEES
Past Congresses
- CRASC’01 in Venice, 2001
- CRASC’03 in Naples, 2003
- CRASC’06 in Messina, 2006
- IF CRASC’09 in Naples, 2009
- IF CRASC’12 in Pisa, 2012
Registration fees will be communicated in the second
announcement in autumn 2014.
Different registration fees will be defined for full delegates,
authors not attending the Congress (paper fee for the
publication in the Congress proceedings), as well as
undergraduate students, PhD students, post-doctoral
fellows and AIF members (reduced fee).
INFORMATION
Guidance on accommodation and transportation, as well
as further information concerning the Congress, will be
provided with the second announcement.
Any request of information to the Organising Committee
should be emailed to ifcrasc15@stronger2012.com.