Welcome to the
Abstract submission by 25th November 2024
Notification of acceptance by January 2025
Full paper submission for review April 1st, 2025
Submission of slide deck for presentation at the conference Date to be confirmed

Important Dates

Full Paper Template

Full paper template is below. Only full papers submitted using the template will be reviewed.

Please look in your Downloads folder for the template after clicking on the above links.  Paper submissions that do not utilize the template will not be accepted.  

Full Paper Submission

Please utilize the following link to the submission portal or your completed abstract or full technical paper.

Below is a list of awards and scholarships available to apply for!

Submission Guidelines:

• Please review the full paper template for guidelines

• Papers must present original material or a review of a significant area, and not published previously.

SMiRT28 Awards

Please use the following link to go to the SMiRT28 Awards page.

Technical Topics

  • Concrete Properties and Degradation
  • Steel Properties and Degradation
  • Concrete Material Modelling 
  • Steels and Alloys Modelling
  • Effects of Elevated Temperature 
  • Multi-scale material modelling
  • Applications in advanced nuclear technologies (SMR, …)
  • Other
  • Fracture Testing
  • Fracture Mechanics and Dynamic Fracture Assessment
  • Fatigue and Creep Evaluation
  • Leak Before Break
  • Generic Component Integrity Evaluation
  • Application to SMR or Advanced Reactors
  • Other
  • Computer aided engineering (software, errors, validation)
  • Fluid Structure Interaction 
  • Impact Effects
  • Soil-Structure Interaction
  • Nonlinear Simulations
  • Structural (Floor) Response Spectra
  • Application to SMR or Advanced Reactors
  • Other
  • Operational, and Accident Hazard Characterization
  • External (natural) Hazard Characterization 
  • External (man-made) Hazard Characterization
  • Hazard characterization with application to SMR and/or advanced reactors
  • Hazard uncertainty
  • Other 
  • Structural Response and/or Modelling due to Impact, or Blast Loading
  • Component Response and/or Modelling due to Impact, or Blast Loading
  • Structure Response, Modelling due to Seismic Loads 
  • Component Response, Modelling due to Seismic Loads
  • Composite Structural System Testing and/or Modelling
  • Seismic Base Isolation
  • Seismic Fragility Analysis
  • Soil Structure Interaction 
  • Applications to SMR or advanced reactor structures or components
  • Other
  • Advancements and/or harmonization of design standards/codes
  • Risk-informed, Risk-based codes, regulations
  • Codes and Licensing Issues
  • Design issues (i.e. fatigue and thermal effects)
  • Design codes, issues related to application to SMR, advanced reactors etc.
  • Other
  • Applications of Bayesian Methods
  • Risk informed decision making
  • Cliff edge resistance assessment
  • Risk informed seismic design
  • Beyond design and cliff edge evaluation
  • Tsunami risk assessment
  • Seismic PRA/PSA 
  • Seismic fragility assessment
  • Correlation of fragilities
  • Probabilistic soil-structure interaction
  • Fault displacement PRA
  • Reliability and safety margins applied to SMR or advanced reactors

• PLIM, ageing management and obsolescence management approaches and methods
• Long Term Operation (LTO) justification approaches – license renewal, periodic safety review (PSR), safety and economic issues
• Surveillance and monitoring, in service inspection and diagnostic methods
• Non-destructive examination (NDE) methods and techniques
• Preventive  maintenance, refurbishment, repair, and replacement
• Service life prediction, reliability, availability, deterministic and probabilistic integrity risk assessment
• Regulations, codes, standards, and guidelines for subject areas  
• Operating experience (OPEX) and lessons learned.

  • Nuclear Waste Management
  • Spent Fuel Storage and Transport
  • Decommissioning
  • Application to SMR or advanced reactors
  • Modular construction
  • Construction technologies (i.e. composite, innovative fasteners, etc.)
  • Construction and project management
  • Case studies and/or lessons learned
  • Construction quality control, quality assurance
  • Advanced modelling approaches (i.e. Building information modelling (BIM))
  • Application to SMR or Advanced Reactors
  • Additive Manufacturing
  • Digital Twins
  • Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
  • Application to SMR or Advanced Reactors

General Inquiries

Rachael Callaghan

SMiRT28@QuantumEvents.ca

Downloads

Paper Template 

Exhibition Manual (soon)

Letter of Invitation for Visa

Invitation for Sponsoring 

Key Dates

Conference date: 10 – 15 August 2025

Notification of abstract acceptance: January 2025

Deadline for full paper submission: April 1st, 2025

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Abstract submissions are now closed. Full paper deadline has been extended to April 1st, 2025

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