“7th Steel Structures Symposium” took place on 26-27 October 2017 in Gaziantep, Turkey on 26-27 October 2017, organized by the Turkish Chamber of Civil Engineers-TCCE. On behalf of the Turkish Chamber of Civil Engineers, the 7th Steel Structures Symposium organized by Gaziantep and Erzurum Branches was held on 26-27 October 2017 in Gaziantep.
The Symposium was welcomed by TCCE’s Gaziantap Branch President Gökhan Çeliktürk and TCCE’s Erzurum Branch President İlhan Tohumcu. Then, TCCE President Cemal Gökçe, NCTR President Seran Aysal, and Metropolitan Mayor Fatma Şahin made speeches at the opening of the symposium held at the Şehitkamil Culture and Congress Center.
At the symposium, developments in "Steel Structures" were discussed at home and abroad. In addition, sessions were held on strengthening of the structures with steel and designing of structures in accordance with the newly prepared earthquake regulations. At symposium, Presentations of 32 Articles, accepted by the Scientific Committee, were made in different sessions.
Keynote speakers Prof. Dr. Viorel Ungureanv from University Politechnica of Timisoana, Prof. Dr. Teoman Peköz from Cornell University and Prof. Dr. Ertuğrul Taciroğlu from University of California were presented their papers at Symposium.
The symposium, which all Public Institutions, Universities and Organizations provided a wide participation, was realized with great success and focused on the increase steel usage in construction by taking the advantages of steel into consideration.
Turkish and Foreign Universities participated to the Symposium with variety of Articles.
One of the Article named as “A Structural Optimization Approach for the Load Bearing System Design of Solar Panels” written by Fatih Mehmet Özkal and Mehmet Küçük from Department of Civil Engineering, Erzincan University, was published in this bulletin page …….
