SAHC-2010 will provide a forum for practitioners and researchers from around the world to exchange views and experiences in future direction and cooperative areas for analysis, protection and reuse of historical Constructionsss. In particular , Constructionsss that are still in regular use will be targeted in this conference. Affected by the load change and material degradation, the buildings need strengthening and retrofitting to meet the requirements of safety, serviceability and durability.
The theme of the conference will focus on “Strengthening and Retrofitting”, and allows a broad scope of areas including restoration and strengthening, seismic behavior and retrofitting, development and protection, inspection and monitoring, non-destructive testing, experimental results and laboratory testing, analytical and numerical approaches, historical aspects and general methodology, innovative and traditional materials / technology, case-studies and so on.
The scientific program includes 3 parallel sessions, 1 poster session, and 1 panel over two and half days reflecting the themes of the conference, involving 10 keynote speeches and 4 invited lectures.

Abstracts will be sent to the international scientific committee for review. Papers and posters will be selected from the accepted abstracts and will also be sent to the international scientific committee for review.


Please send the abstract or the selected paper to
     Dr. Tao CHEN
           Department of Building Engineering
           tongji University
           1239 Siping Road , Shanghai 20092 , China
E-mail : sahc2010@tongji.edu.cn
     Fax : +86-21-65986345