The 4th International Symposium on Jointless & Sustainable Bridges (ISJSB 2026)

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 Sustainable and Jointless Bridges.'

ISJSB is an acronym for International Symposium on Jointless and Sustainable Bridges.

For more details, please visit the official website: jointlessbridges.fzu.edu.cn.

Author Guidelines

Submissions in the form of extended abstracts, short papers, and full manuscripts are welcome.

• all submitted papers will be peer-reviewed
• the symposium proceedings will be published under an ISSN and ISBN number
• the symposium proceedings will be indexed by Scopus, Google Scholar and Semantic Scholar
• each paper will be assigned a unique DOI number by Crossref
• the proceedings will be permanently archived in Portico (one of the largest community-supported digital archives in the world).
• selected papers from the symposium can be submitted for possible publication in the Journal of Highway Transportation Research and Development (HTRD) or the International Journal of Civil Infrastructure (IJCI) (publication fees may apply).

Poster Board Dimensions

Authors presenting via poster boards are to be informed that poster boards are 90 cm height and 70 cm width.