MARAS 2014
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MARAS 2014Download Pdf

4th International Conference on Mobile, Adaptable and Rapidly Assembled Structures

 

11 - 13 June, 2014


Ostend, Belgium

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 Conference Topics

  • Rapidly erected bridges and transportable bridges
  • Disaster mitigation structures
  • Temporary structures and dwellings
  • Deployable systems and structural mechanisms
  • Tensegrity and reciprocal frames
  • Origami-based structures
  • Inflated and air-supported structures and membrane shelters
  • Rapidly assembled kit-of-parts systems
  • Leisure structures, demountable grandstands and scaffolding systems
  • Mobile inspection platforms
  • Folding and telescopic masts and gangways
  • Tower cranes and mobile lifting apparatus
  • Trackways and prefabricated paving for roads and airfields
  • Protective structures
  • Rapid repairs of structures
  • Structures in adverse conditions
  • Spacecraft structures
  • Construction and repair


 

Organisers

jos_logo.jpg Wessex Institute of Technology, UK
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Sponsors

jos_logo.jpg WIT Transactions on the Built Environment
International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning
International Journal of Design & Nature and Ecodynamics

Conference Secretariat

Irene Moreno Millan
Wessex Institute of Technology
Ashurst Lodge, Ashurst
Southampton, SO40 7AA
Tel: 44 (0) 238 029 3223
Fax: 44 (0) 238 029 2853
imoreno@wessex.ac.uk

Display Facilities

There will be space for organisations to display products, services and literature related to the theme of the conference. Further details are available from the Conference Secretariat above.

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Conference Chairmen

N De Temmerman
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

C A Brebbia
Wessex Institute of Technology, UK

International Scientific Advisory Committee

L De Laet
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

W P De Wilde
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

M Domaszewski
University of Technology of Belfort-Montbeliard, France

C Gantes
National Technical University of Athens, Greece

C Gengnagel
UdK Berlin, Germany

S Guest
University of Cambridge, UK

S Hernandez
University of A Coruña, Spain

F Jensen
Soren Jensen Consulting Engineers, Denmark

E Kita
Nagoya University, Japan

R M Pauletti
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

O Popovic Larsen
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture, Denmark

L Pyl
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

J Rebielack
Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland

M Saitoh
Nihon University, Japan

R Santomauro
Sobresaliente Ltda, Uruguay

S Syngellakis
Wessex Institute of Technology, UK

A Thrall
University of Notre Dame, USA

Z You
University of Oxford, UK