The First Structural Engineering Congress – IABSE Ecuador 2025 is organized by the national chapter of IABSE (International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering), in collaboration with the Civil Engineering programs at Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) and Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL). The main goal of this event is to promote the dissemination and exchange of knowledge related to structural design of buildings and bridges, as well as to encourage research discussions in areas relevant to structural engineering. The inaugural edition of the IABSE Ecuador 2025 Congress will take place in Quito, Ecuador, at the campus of Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ). Topics covered in this edition include:
- Structural systems made of concrete, steel, timber, bio-based materials, and other emerging materials.
- Steel connection design in building structures.
- Bridge engineering.
- Non-structural components and their performance.
- Structural health monitoring (SHM).
- Seismic isolation and energy dissipation systems.
- Structural reliability and risk assessment.
- Seismic retrofit and rehabilitation of structures.
Call For Papers
On behalf of the Organizing Committee of the First Structural Engineering Congress – IABSE Ecuador 2025, organized by the IABSE National Chapter and the Civil Engineering Program at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), we are pleased to invite you to attend or participate as exhibitors at our event and to submit your scientific article(s) for possible publication in a dossier of the scientific journal “ACI Advances in Sciences and Engineering” during the first semester of 2026. This journal is indexed in Latindex 2.0, AmeliCA, Redalyc, ROAD, DOAJ, among others. Articles must comply with at least the characteristics of the “Communication” type. Articles will be evaluated through refereeing by the ACI journal (Avances en Ciencias e Ingeniería), and specific articles will be nominated for presentation at the Congress. Articles must be published on the journal's platform, preferably in English, by October 10, 2025. Subsequent notifications will be made through the journal's communication system.
This conference will be held annually, and its first edition will include two days of lectures in November 2025. The event will be held at the Shakespeare Theater of the Universidad San Francisco de Quito. Our audience includes undergraduate and graduate students, professors, professionals, and representatives of construction companies. The main objective of the event is to promote the dissemination and exchange of knowledge among attendees and encourage collaborative research and development.
This year's event and the "ACI Advances in Science and Engineering" journal dossier include the following topics: Structures made of concrete, steel, wood, biological materials, and other materials; Connections in steel buildings; Tall buildings; Bridges; Nonstructural elements; Structural monitoring; Seismic isolation and energy dissipation; Structural reliability; Seismic retrofitting of structures.
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