The second announcement

ARCH’23 Conference

Fuzhou, China, October 25 – 28, 2023

1. CONFERENCE INTRODUCTION

The 10th International Conference on Arch Bridges (ARCH’23), which will be held in Fuzhou, Fujian province, China, on October 25^th - 28^th, 2023 with the general topic: “Sustainable and Innovative Arch Bridges”.

Since the first ARCH Conference (UK 1995), eight subsequent editions took place (Italy 1998, France 2001, Spain 2004, Portugal 2007, China 2010, Croatia 2013, Poland 2016 and Portugal 2019), all high quality and successful events. Stemming from such heritage, it is our pleasure to invite you to the 2023 ARCH Conference.

All information regarding Arch’23 will be issued on the Arch’23 website (https://arch2023.fzu.edu.cn/index.htm) and the official website of the Permanent Scientific Committee of International Conference on Arch Bridges (PSC-iCAB) (http://arch-bridges.fzu.edu.cn）.

2. ORGANIZATION

Organizers:

Permanent Scientific Committee, International Conference on Arch Bridges (PSC-iCAB)

Fuzhou University (FZU)

Executive Organizer:

Fujian University of Technology (FJUT)

Co-Organizers:

Guangxi University (GXU)

Sichuan Highway Planning, Survey, Design and Research Institute Co., Ltd.

Chongqing Jiaotong University

Changsha University of Science & Technology

Guangxi Road and Bridge Engineering Group Co., Ltd.

Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering

Host Associations:

International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE)

Asian Concrete Federation (ACF)

The Bridge and Structural Engineering Branch, China Civil Engineering Society

Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering

Fujian Highway and Transportation Society, China

Media Sponsors:

Bridge Magazine

Journal of Highway and Transport

Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering (English Edition)

Journal of Chang’an University (Natural Science Edition)

Journal of Fuzhou University (Natural Science Edition)

Journal of Architecture and Civil Engineering

3. CONFERENCE VENUE

The conference will be held in Fuzhou city, Fujian Province, China. The city of Fuzhou is the capital of Fujian Province in China. It is located in the east coast and the lower reaches of the Min River, facing Taiwan across the sea. Fuzhou is a famous cultural city with a history of more than 2200 years. It is also known as the hot spring capital and the hometown of banyan trees. It has many scenic spots, such as three lanes and seven lanes, Gu Mountain, Xichan temple and so on. It is an excellent tourist city in China.

4. CONFERENCE MAIN TOPICS

The conference topics will include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

- Aesthetics, Planning and Design of Arch Bridges

- Rehabilitation, maintenance and condition assessment of Arch Bridges

- Masonry, stone and timber arch bridges

- Design and Analysis of Arch Bridges

- Construction of Arch Bridges

- New Structure Type and New Materials for Arch Bridges

5. THE PERMANENT SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARCH BRIDGES

Bruno BRISEGHELLA (Chairman)

Matthew GILBERT

Enzo SIVIERO

Charles ABDUNUR

Climent MOLINS

Daniel OLIVERIRA

Baochun CHEN

Zlatko SAVOR

Jan BIEN

Antonio AREDE

6. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Jie-lian ZHENG (Chairman)	Man-chung TANG	Xiu-li DU	Jia-ping LIU	Ai-rong CHEN
Bao-chun CHEN	Ke-jian CHEN	Yao-jun GE	Lin-hai HAN	Yu HAN
Zhi-jun HE	Yong-jian LIU	Ting-min MOU	Yuan-cheng PENG	Xin RUAN
Jian-ting ZHOU	Adrienn TOMOR	Alfred STRAUSS	Alp CANER	Anastasios SEXTOS
António ADÃO DA FONSECA	Antonio BRENCICH	Arndt GOLDACK	Ba Viet TRAN	Bijaya JAISHI
Bruno BRISEGHELLA	Camilo NUTI	Carlo PELLEGRINO	Carmelo GENTILE	Cezary BEDNARSKI
Dan FRANGOPOL	Elsa CAETANO	Fernando STUCCHI	Giuseppe CARLO MARANO	Habib TABATABAI
Hugo CORRES PEIRETTI	Humberto VARUM	Ian FIRTH	Jin-yan WANG	Jiri STRASKY
Joan Ramon CASAS	Jose JARA	Jose TURMO	Juan SOBRINO	Khaled MAHMOUD
Khaled SENNAH	Krishna SHRESTHA	Ling LLOYD	Manyop HAN	Marija Kušter MARIĆ
Necati CATBAS	Nikos LAGAROS	Nurdan APADIN	Paul GAUVREAU	Paulo CRUZ
Paulo LOURENÇO	Rosemarie HELMERICH	Serge MONTENS	Shozo NAKAMURA	Túlio N. BITTENCOURT
Zoltan ORBÁN

7. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Bruno BRISEGHELLA（Chiarman）	Jian-gang WEI	Zhi-chao LAI	Bao-chun CHEN	Jun-ping LIU
Yan YANG	Jia-zhan SU	Yu-cai ZHONG	Bing-hui FAN	Dong ZHANG
Cong LI	Alessandro CONTENTO

8. Preliminary Schedule

9. KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS

10. CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT

Add.: College of Civil Engineering of Fuzhou		Tel: +086 591 2286 5355,
University, 2 Xueyuan Road, University		+ 086 158 8000 9829
Town, Fuzhou, Fujian 350108, China
E-mail: arch22@fzu.edu.cn		arch22@yeah.net

Arch 2023 conference website：https://arch2023.fzu.edu.cn/index.htm