Steel conference at IIT Hyderabad

nIndian Institute of Technology Hyderabad will be hosting a three-day ‘Indian Structural Steel Conference (ISSC)’ 2020 from 25 to 27 March.

The ISSC 2020 is a unique international conference covering various fields of steel structures, PEB Buildings, sustainable materials, high strength steel, coldformed steel structures, natural composites, renewable materials, structural assessment, Composite construction and rehabilitation of structures.

Interested participants can register for this conference at www.issc2020.com. The last date for the registration is 7 March.

Highlighting the importance of this conference, Dr. Mahendrakumar Madhavan, Organizing Secretary of ISSC 2020 and Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Hyderabad, said, “This conference is focused on creating a forum where researchers and industrial experts having explicit backgrounds but encountering similar challenges on infrastructural development, joining together, to discuss and disseminate the most recent advances in the analysis, behavior, design, and construction of structural steel.”

This conference will be the interest to structural steel designers and manufacturers, trade associations, design engineers, steel fabricators, architects, owners or developers of steel and aluminum structures, researchers, academics and postgraduate students.

IIT Hyderabad has invited experts from all over the world, including Prof. Ben Young from HK Polyu, Prof. Leroy Gardner from Imperial College London, Prof. James S Davidson from Auburn University USA, Prof. V Kalyanaraman,

Emeritus IIT Madras, Prof. Kim Rasmussen from University of Sydney Australia, Prof Ron Ziemian from Bucknell University USA, Prof. Brian Uy from University of Sydney Australia, Prof. Tan Kang Hai from NTU Singapore, Prof. N E Shanmugam formerly with NUS Singapore, and several leading industrial experts from PEBS Pennar, Kirby, Mutyam Steel and Tata Steel among others.