CICE 2025 will cover all aspects of research, development and application of FRP composites in civil engineering, with particular emphasis on some of the most relevant and emerging challenges.
Conference Topics
Topics will include (but are not limited to):
- FRP materials and products
- Concrete structures with FRP reinforcement
- Strengthening of concrete, steel, masonry and timber structures
- Bond behavior
- Confinement
- Seismic retrofit of existing structures
- Textile-reinforced mortars
- Hybrid structures combining FRP with other materials
- Concrete-filled FRP tubular members
- Sandwich structures
- All-FRP structures
- Smart FRP structures
- Fire, impact and blast loading
- Durability
- Inspection, monitoring and quality assurance
- Life-cycle performance
- Sustainability and recycling
- Bio-based composites
- Thermoplastic-based composites
- Composites for wind energy
- Design codes and guidelines
- Education
- Case studies
Special Sessions – Call for proposals is open
CICE2025 Organizing Committee encourages the organization of Special Sessions to supplement the regular conference program, providing the opportunity to focus on specific emerging topics within the conference’s scope. A call for Special Sessions is now open. Proponents are invited to send an abstract describing the topic and objectives of the Special Session, together with their brief biographies to cice@cice2025.org (with “Special Session Proposal” as the subject) until September 15, 2024.
The abstracts for the Special Session proposals should be prepared following this template, where additional details are provided.
Note: Special Session proposals will be evaluated based on the relevance of the topic and the qualifications of the organizer(s). Notification of approval will be made on a rolling basis.
Keynote Speakers
Further information will be available soon.
Scientific Program
Further information will be available soon.
Technical Visits
Two technical visits will be organized to the experimental laboratories of the National Laboratory of Civil Engineering (LNEC) and, to the Civil Engineering Department of Técnico – University of Lisbon.
Laboratories of LNEC
Duration: 2,5 hours
Audience: students & researchers
Laboratories of Técnico
Duration: 1,5 hours
Audience: students & researchers
Short Courses
Before the conference, on the 8 July, 2025, the following three short-courses will be organized, targeted to designers, contractors, manufacturers and researchers:
Course 1
Title: “Future Eurocode for the Design of FRP Structures”
Duration: Half-day
Target audience: Designers, Contractors, Manufacturers, Researchers
Course 2
Title: “Second Generation of Eurocode 2 for the Design of Concrete with FRP”
Duration: Half-day
Target audience: Designers, Contractors, Manufacturers, Researchers
Course 3
Title: “Advanced Finite Element Modelling of FRP Materials and Structures”
Duration: One day
Target audience: Post-graduate Students and Researchers
Further information will be available soon.
Student Competition
The Student Competition consists of simulating and predicting the behavior/performance of a composite structure, to be tested, with live streaming, prior to the CICE 2025. The geometry, support and load conditions, as well as the relevant material properties, will be made available on the CICE 2025 website, along with the competition rules, for the blinded prediction response. An international jury will supervise all the steps of the competition.
Further information will be available soon.
Awards
In addition to the institutional IIFC awards (IIFC Medal, IIFC Distinguished Young Researcher Award, President’s Award and IIFC Best PhD Thesis Award), the following prizes will be awarded in the conference:
- Best paper in “FRP in new construction”
- Best paper in “FRP strengthening of existing structures”
- Student competition award
Further information will be available soon.