-> 25 Sept.

Summary   Room A   Room B   Room C   Room D   Room E

9:20 - 10:50

Session 24 - Life cycle assessment"

Chairmen: De Stefano, Girmscheid

Integrated life cycle design of structures
A. Sarja

An approach to optimal allocation of transportation facilities on expressway
A. O’hashi, A. Miyamura & A. De Stefano

Quality and life cycle assessment
J. Christian & L. Newton

An integrated computational platform for system reliability-based analysis of mixed-type highway bridge networks
F. Akgül & D.M. Frangopol

Estimating the environmental aspects of an office building’s life cycle
S. Junnila

Towards lifetime oriented structural engineering
A. Sarja


11:20 - 12:50

Session 32: "Special Session on "New Didactical Strategies""

Chairmen: Belfiore, Augusti

Complex of thinking-development in IT-based education
P. Toth & P. Pentelenyi

Bigbang: a web-learning portal in education
G. Luciani, P. Giunchi & S. Levialdi

When less is more: a practical approach to selecting WWW resources for teaching IT hardware
N.N. Berchenko & I.B. Berezovska

A methodology for teaching "Computer Aided Design and Drawing": a didactical experience
E. Pezzuti, A. Umbertini & P.P. Valentini

Algorithmic approach in engineering educational process
P. Pentelenyi & P. Toth

An investigation on the students’ learning styles in an Advanced Applied Mechanics Course
A. Matrisciano & N.P. Belfiore


14:30 - 16:00

Session 32: "Special Session on "New Didactical Strategies""

Chairmen: Kelly, Lampariello

MIPAA, Multimedia Interactive Platform for an Appropriate Architecture. A prototype of dissemination and education
M. Nardini

Evaluation of higher educational services by means of value analysis
M. Gyulaffy, R. Meszlényi & F. Nádasdi

E-learning and university teaching: a virtual, interactive, distance, learning course
C. Bucciarelli-Ducci , F. Fedele, R. Donati, R. Mezzanotte, D. Mattioli & C. Grisoni

Increasing competitiveness by means of value analysis in higher education
R. Meszlényi, M. Gyulaffy & F. Nádasdi

Vocational guidance on the net: a pilot survey
P. Spagnoli & G. Tanucci

On some new emerging professions in the higher technical education
N.P. Belfiore, M. Di Benedetto, A. Matrisciano, C. Moscogiuri, C. Mezzetti & M. Recchioni


16:30 - 18:00

Session 29: "Innovative tools for structural design"

Chairmen: Garavaglia, Y.C. Loo

A web-based control and management environment for interoperation of structural programs
J. Wang & C.-Mo Huang

Attitudes to 3D and 4D CAD systems in the Australian construction industry
S. Saha, M. Hardie & A. Jeary

Computer aided design of composite beams
V.K. Gupta & R. Kumar

The 4D CAD: A powerful tool to visualize the future
M. Barcala, S.M. Ahmed, A. Caballero & S. Azhar

Searching for innovative structural layouts by means of graph grammars and evolutionary optimization
A. Borkowski, E. Grabska, P. Nikodem & B. Strug

Strut-and-tie model of deep beams with web openings using optimisation technique
H. Guan & J. Parsons