About ISJSB 2026
The increasing number and age of in-service bridges worldwide, combined with accelerating environmental and climate changes, extreme traffic and accidental loads, and natural disasters such as earthquakes and windstorms, result in the accelerated degradation of bridge structures and their functions. There is also a need to meet the ever-increasing social demands for transportation capacity and speed. Addressing the safety and sustainability issues, such as long-term strength, reliability, durability, resilience, and service quality over the entire life cycle, is an essential consideration.
To promote the application and development of jointless bridges, the International Association of Jointless Bridges (IAJB) initiated and organized the International Symposium on Jointless & Sustainable Bridges (ISJSB). The first three International Symposia (ISJSB’2016, ISJSB’2019, and ISJSB’2022) were successfully organized by Fuzhou University, Northeast Forestry University, and Fujian University of Technology in 2016, 2019, and 2022, respectively. The 4th International Symposium (ISJSB 2026) will be held in person in Barcelona, Spain, on June 12–13, 2026. The organizing committee welcomes your contributions (technical papers and presentations). The symposium theme is 'Technology Application and Development for Jointless and Sustainable Bridges.'
ISJSB is an acronym for International Symposium on Jointless and Sustainable Bridges.
The symposium will be held concurrently with the 11th International Conference on Civil, Structural, and Transportation Engineering (ICCSTE 2026) and the 10th International Conference on Recent Trends in Environmental Science and Engineering (RTESE 2026).
For more details, please visit the official website: jointlessbridges.fzu.edu.cn.
Symposium Topics
The symposium aims to gather scholars from all over the world to present advances in the relevant fields, including, but not limited to:
- Review of research and application of jointless bridges
- Soil-structure interaction in integral abutment bridges (IABs)
- Seismic response and rehabilitation using jointless bridges
- Design and analysis of jointless bridges
- Retrofitting of existing bridges with joints into jointless bridges
- Application of new and high-performance materials for jointless bridges
- Health monitoring of jointless bridges
- Technologies for sustainable bridges
- Bridge durability
- Bridge life-cycle costs
- Impact of climate change on bridge engineering
- New Technologies for the intelligent construction of jointless bridges