Dr. Hani Nassif, RE-CAST Associate Director, invited as a keynote speaker to an international conference held between October 8-11, 2014, in Natal, Brazil.

Date: 10/8/2014

Dr. Hani Nassif, Professor of Rutgers University and associate director of RE-CAST Center, was invited to the 56th Brazilian Congress of Concrete (IBRACON) as a keynote speaker. IBRACON is the largest Brazilian Congress for technical discussions on concrete technology and innovation in structural analysis and design, construction methods, building materials and their properties, and various aspects related to the civil industry. Professor Nassif presented a remarkable keynote talk entitled “Structural Health Monitoring for the Assessment of Cracking Potential in Concrete Structures”, which highlighted various structural health monitoring projects applied to concrete bridge structures in New Jersey. In addition to the keynote presentation, Dr. Nassif presented two research papers entitled “Structural health monitoring for the evaluation of railroad bridges” and “Field monitoring of rebar vibrations in concrete bridge decks under traffic loads”.
After the Congress, Dr. Hani Nassif and Dr. Túlio Nogueira Bittencourt, President of IBRACON and Professor at the University of São Paulo, discussed various collaborative endeavors between the RE-CAST team, Rutgers University and IBRACON and São Paulo University. They have agreed that both universities and the RE-CAST Center will work closely for the international collaboration.

From Right to Left: Professor Hani Nassif, Associate Director of RECAST Center, with other Keynote Speakers, Dr. Juergen Krieger, Director Bridges and Structural Technology - Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt, Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen), Germany, Professor José Luiz Antunes de Oliveira e Sousa from University of Campinas, Sao Paulo, Dr. André Pacheco de Assis from University of Brasilia, and President of IBRACON, Professor Túlio Nogueira Bittencourt, University of São Paulo, discussed the state-of-the-art concrete technology, concrete bridges, and structural health monitoring technology.