4th ICSCES
4th International Conference of Steel and Composite for Engineering Structures
9-12 July 2025
Piacenza Regional Campus of Polimi
Politecnico di Milano, Piacenza, Italy
Aims and Objectives
The 4th International Conference of Steel and Composite for Engineering Structures (4thICSCES) is an international event that will be held in Piacenza's Regional Campus Arata of Polimi 9-12 July 2025, and is dedicated to bringing together a significant number of international researchers and companies for presentations related to steel and composites, modelling and simulation, structural health monitoring within the conference program.
With its high quality, it provides an exceptional value for students, academics, and industry researchers. This value can provide strong cooperation between academics and industry. Leading academic scientists, researchers, and research scholars are invited to the 4th International Conference of Steel and Composite for Engineering Structures (4thICSCES) to exchange experiences and research findings. Additionally, it offers a top-notch multidisciplinary forum where scholars, professionals, and educators can showcase and converse about the latest advancements, issues, and trends in the fields of steel and composites, modelling and simulation, structural health monitoring for engineering structures.
History of ICSCES
After the first edition of this conference in 2021 in Ancona Italy, the conference has been held 2 other times, these include:
2021 1st ICSCES Ancona, Italy
2022 2nd ICSCES Ancona, Italy
Conference Proceedings of ICSCES 2022 are published in the Volume 317 of Lecture Notes of Civil Engineering (Springer Nature).
2023 3rd ICSCES Lecce, Italy
Conference Proceedings of ICSCES 2023 are published in the Volume 486 of Lecture Notes of Civil Engineering (Springer Nature).
Paper Submission
The papers submitted to the 4th International Conference of Steel and Composite for Engineering Structures (4thICSCES) will be subjected to a technical peer-review process and, upon acceptance, will be published in the Book Series Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering (Springer Nature). All accepted papers will be indexed in Scopus.
Abstract submission:
Please submit your abstract using this link:
https://equinocs.springernature.com/service/icsces2025
Paper submission:
Please note at least one author should have been registered so that the paper will be considered for publication. Please submit your full paper using this link:
Full papers need to be prepared and submitted following the instructions provided on the webpage of the Book series: Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering.
It should be noted that there is no upper bound limit for the number of pages of the full papers, but there is a lower bound limit: the papers can not be shorter than 6 pages (note a Springer page is approximately 480 words including equivalent figures/tables).
The full-paper templates can be download from the following links:
4th ICSCES Organizing Committee is pleased to announce that Trans Tech Publications Ltd (https://www.scientific.net/) and 4th ICSCES have just signed a partnership agreement for the post conference publication of a Special Issue.
In particular, a selection of thoroughly revised and expanded papers presented at the 4th ICSCES will be considered for publication in a Special Issue of Key Engineering Materials journal, dedicated to 4th ICSCES.
4th ICSCES Organizing Committee is pleased to announce that Journal of Composites Science (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jcs) and 4th ICSCES have just signed a cooperation agreement for the post conference publication of a Special Issue.
Journal of Composites Science (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jcs) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal on the science and technology of composites published monthly online by MDPI.
Journal of Composites Science has the opportunity to cooperate with 4th ICSCES setting up a Special Issue to showcase the original research presented at the 4th ICSCES conference.
A selection of thoroughly revised and expanded papers presented at the 4th ICSCES will be considered for publication in a Special Issue of Journal of Composite Science, dedicated to 4th ICSCES.
NOTE for the Authors: Authors invited to submit a paper to the special issues will be asked to thoroughly revise and expand their contribution, making the Special Issue paper substantially different from the conference one. Papers will be subjected to regular peer review and the conference attendance will not represent a preferential feature for possible final acceptance.
Conference Venue
The conference will be held in Piacenza, at the Piacenza Regional Campus Arata of Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
The Piacenza's Regional Campus of Politecnico di Milano (Polimi) is a vibrant academic and research hub. The venue's stunning architecture and modern infrastructure make it an ideal location for this conference.
The main venue for the event is the Vegezzi Pavilion. In addition, there are several presentation pavilions, including the Negrotti1 Pavilion, Negrotti2 Pavilion, and Guidotti Pavilion.
The city is surrounded by several international airports (Milan Linate, Milan Malpensa, Guglielmo Marconi Airport in Bologna and Caravaggio Airport in Bergamo) with a 1-2 hours driving/train distance.
Committes
Conference chairs
Politecnico di Milano, Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering (ABC), Italy
Gabriele Milani, Eng. PhD, is Full Professor of Structural Mechanics at the Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering, Technical University of Milan, Italy. Previously Associate (2014-2019) and Assistant Professor (2008-2014) in the same university. Chair professor at Yangzhou University, PRC (2019-2020), visiting at Newcastle University, UK (2016, 2017) and IIT Bombay, India (2022). His scientific interests are manyfold and include masonry modelling and experimentation, seismic engineering, preservation of historical constructions, timber, limit analysis, innovative strengthening with composite materials, Structural Health Monitoring, genetic algorithms (GA), rubber vulcanisation and elastomeric seismic isolation. He published more than 300 papers in high-impact international journals in different fields of structural mechanics, he edited several books and co-authored many book chapters, he was invited as keynote speaker in internationally recognized conferences and co-chaired the 18th International Masonry Conference in 2018. He is the first author in Scopus under the keyword "Masonry". EB member in both high-reputation journals and international congresses, he was awarded a Most Cited Author Award for a paper in Computers & Structures, a Telford Premium and a K.J. Bathe Award.
Università Politecnica delle Marche, Department of Construction, Civil Engineering and Architecture (DICEA), Italy
Dr. Erica Magagnini is currently an Assistant Professor of Structural Design at the Department of Construction, Civil Engineering and Architecture (DICEA), Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy. Her research interests include assessment and mitigation of existing masonry buildings vulnerability under earthquake actions; non-destructive dynamic testing methods for the experimental assessment of civil structures; use of bio-composite for strengthening of RC beam-column joints in seismic areas; damage problems in reinforced concrete structures; innovative techniques for strengthening of RC, masonry and steel structural elements with Externally Bonded Reinforcement (EBR), Near Surface Mounted (NSM), Textile Reinforced Mortars (TRM) techniques. A specialist in fiber reinforced composite material (FRP), her research is particularly focused on improving structural performance and longevity of existing structures. Her academic record boasts several published papers, with a significant number in high-impact journals. Moreover, her research findings have been implemented in notable structural projects, including the rehabilitation of industrial complexes and churches damaged by the 2016-17 central Italy earthquakes.
Organising Committee
Martina Buzzetti
Alessandro Gandolfi
Yuewen Gao
Dr. Kai Guo
Yiwei Hua
Dr. Luis Carlos Martins da Silva
Dr. Gaetano Pianese
Natalia Pingaro
Mohammad Pourfouladi
Dr. Peixuan Wang
Xing Wu
Dr. Yu Yuan
Li Zhang
Scientific Committee*
*under continuous updating subjected to invitation acceptance
Prof. Cesar Azevedo (Brazil)
Prof. Michele Betti (Italy)
Dr. Karīna Buka-Vaivade (Italy)
Prof. Ricardo Branco (Portugal)
Prof. Carmelo Cageggi (France)
Prof. Roberto Capozucca (Italy)
Prof. Nicola Cavalagli (Italy)
Prof. Andrea Chiozzi (Italy)
Prof. Francesco Clementi (Italy)
Prof. Marco Corradi (UK)
Prof. Rossana Dimitri (Italy)
Prof. Marco Domaneschi (Italy)
Prof. Mario Fagone (Italy)
Prof. Gabriel Fedorko (Slovakia)
Prof. Antonio Formisano (Italy)
Prof. Aguinaldo Fraddosio (Italy)
Dr. Marco Funari (UK)
Prof. Stefano Galassi (Italy)
Prof. Siddhartha Ghosh (India)
Prof. Bahman Ghiassi (UK)
Prof. Ernesto Grande (Italy)
Prof. Virginia Infante (Portugal)
Prof. Shengcai Li (China)
Prof. Paulo Lourenço (Portugal)
Prof. Thierry Massart (Belgium)
Prof. Francesco Micelli (Italy)
Dr. Giulia Misseri (Italy)
Prof. Katarina Monkova (Slovakia)
Dr. Levinshan Augusthus Nelson (UK)
Dr. Vanni Nicoletti (Italy)
Prof. Fulvio Parisi (Italy)
Prof. Liva Pupure (Latvia)
Dr. Tommaso Rotunno (Italy)
Prof. Emanuele Reccia (Italy)
Prof. Luisa Rovero (Italy)
Prof. Vasilis Sarhosis (UK)
Prof. Marta Słowik (Poland)
Prof. Alexandar Sedmak (Serbia)
Prof. Dmitrijs Serdjuks (Latvia)
Prof. Georgios Stavroulakis (Greece)
Prof. Francesco Tornabene (Italy)
Keynotes
Prof. Bahman Ghiassi
University of Birmingham,
United Kingdom
Portraying the strains: a new Machine Learning approach for painting nonlinear strain fields on brittle composite structures
Prof. Francesco Tornabene
University of Salento,
Italy
High-order multifield formulations for shell structures made of advanced anisotropic materials
Prof. Francesco Clementi
Università Politecnica delle Marche,
Italy
Breaking the Wall: Integrating FEM, DEM, and Videogame Physics for Advanced Masonry Failure Analysis
Registration and fee
Student fee: 500 euros
Non-student fee: 700 euros
There is no numbers of papers limitations per registration. Authors can present the number of papers they desire.
The student and non-student fees cover the costs of attendance at the conference sessions, the presentation of one or more papers and the conference dinner.
In order to register please click here and enter your data as requested: https://www.polimi.it/formazione/formazione-oltre-la-laurea/master-universitari-e-corsi-post-laurea/dettaglio-master/465
Authors can find all the necessary information here:
For problem/issues related to registration and fee payment, the authors are kindly asked to keep in contact with ICSCES via the following e-mail addresses:
INFO: icsces-piacenza@polimi.it
INFO REGISTRATION: amministrazione-piacenza@polimi.it
Important dates
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION:
21st March 2025
FULL PAPER SUBMISSION:
30th May 2025
FULL PAPER ACCEPTANCE:
8th June 2025
REGISTRATION
30th May 2025
TRANSFER OF COPYRIGHT AGREEMENT:
15th June 2025
Topics
Steel and composites
Steel structures and connections
Masonry as composite material
Timber as composite decking
Composites in geo-materials
FRP in steel rapairing
Corrosion
Sustainable steel and composite structures
Concrete as composite material
Reinforced asphalts
Composite structures in civil engineering
Reinforced rubber products
FRP for structural rehabilitation
FRCM/TRM/SRG for structural rehabilitation
Laminated composites with uncertainties
Natural fibre composites
Modelling and simulation
Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence
Computational fracture mechanics
Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing
Inverse problems
Performance and optimization
Artificial intelligence
Homogenization, micro- and macro-modelling
Beam, plate and shell computational models
Finite, Distinct and Particle Element Methods
Composite structures' design and application
Electro-thermal modelling of composites
Modeling of sandwich structures
Modelling of CNT-Polymer composites
Analysis of natural fibre composites
Probabilistic modeling of composites
Structural health monitoring
Control and vibration
NDT for composites
Optic fibers in testing and monitoring
Health Monitoring in existing structures
Safety, security, and reliability
Failure of composites
Health Monitoring Techniques in composites
Durability of composite materials
Impact Problems
Inspection techniques for composites
Nano, Micro and Macro Composites' stability
Variable stiffness composite laminates
Functionally graded materials and structures
Micromechanics
Multi-scale modeling of graphene
Conference programme
The Conference programme is presented below.
Sponsorship
4th ICSCES Organizing Committee is pleased to announce that Journal of Composites Science (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jcs) and 4th ICSCES have just signed a sponsorship agreement.
Journal of Composite Science would be pleased to support young scholars in the field of composites topics by sponsoring student awards. Journal of Composite Science will sponsor a Student award with prize 300€.
Accomodation - Hotel Information
Since the conference will be held at the PIACENZA Campus of POLIMI, we can suggest a number of Hotels for your stay.
You may book a room in one of these hotels or any other hotel of your preference.
Conference contacts
For any queries regarding the conference, submissions, registration and sponsorship, please use the following address: conference@4thicsces.it.
For directly contacting the conference chairs (on issues not covered above), please use the following addresses: gabriele.milani@4thicsces.it, erica.magagnini@4thicsces.it.