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Call for Abstracts

We warmly invite you to share your work at ICASP15 in Melbourne, Australia. Please submit your abstract through the Submission Portal below.

Papers are optional at ICASP15! Presenters may choose to submit a paper to the conference proceedings or choose to present without an associated paper. Each participant can give one presentation and is welcome to co-author other contributions.

Please submit your abstract online by 23:59 AEST Friday 26 February 2027.

Key Dates

Call for Abstracts Key DatesTimeline
Call for Abstracts OpensMonday 26 October 2026
Call for Abstracts CloseFriday 26 February 2027
Abstracts Acceptance NotificationsThursday 1 April 2027

Information Required

As part of the abstract submission, you will need to include the following information:

  • A concise, descriptive presentation title (up to 15 words). Please avoid uncommon abbreviations.
  • The General Session theme or Mini Symposium title that best fits your work.
  • The names and affiliations of all authors.
  • Your abstract text (up to 300 words).

Submissions

We welcome abstracts for General Sessions and Mini Symposia. Please choose the session that best fits your work.

The conference themes below provide an umbrella for the scientific program, drawing on the Mini Symposia topics and encompassing the wider interests of our community.

In the Submission Portal, please select the Mini Symposium title or General Session theme that best fits your work. General Sessions welcome contributions across the conference themes.

Conference Themes

Climate change and sustainable engineering

Climate risk and nonstationarity; Adaptation and climate-resilient engineering; Decarbonisation and lifecycle sustainability.

Infrastructure systems and community resilience

Infrastructure networks and interdependencies; System functionality, recovery and resilience; Sociotechnical and community impacts.

Probability, statistics and computational methods

Probability, stochastic processes and random fields; Statistics, Bayesian inference and inverse methods; Simulation, rare events and uncertainty quantification; AI, learning, surrogates and emulators; Monitoring, data assimilation and digital twins.

Reliability, mechanics and engineering performance

Engineering reliability and failure assessment; Stochastic mechanics and dynamic performance; Robustness, redundancy and progressive failure; Materials, durability and existing-asset performance.

Risk-informed design, decisions and asset management

Reliability-based design, codes and standards; Robust and risk-informed optimisation; Decision analysis, information value and risk governance; Inspection, maintenance and lifecycle interventions; Performance and consequence-informed decisions.

Hazards, loading and risk

Seismic and geological hazards; Weather, environmental and hydrological hazards; Actions and loading models; Compound and multi-hazard risk; Fire, accidental and human-induced hazards.

Submission Instructions

To submit your abstract, please follow the prompts in the Submission Portal to create a login and upload a one-page PDF (up to 300 words). PDF format allows you to include equations and mathematical notation. There is no required template.

Please leave out references and acknowledgements, and spell out abbreviations when you first use them. Submissions and presentations are in English.

Before submitting, please check that your co-authors are happy with the abstract and that a presenting author will be able to attend and register for the conference.

You will receive a confirmation email once your submission is complete. If you have any questions or need help, please contact the ICASP15 Secretariat.

Enquiries

Please direct all enquiries to:
ICASP15 Secretariat
Managed by ICMS Australasia Pty Ltd
P:  03 9682 0500
E: program@icasp15.com