Preface

Dear Authors and Participants of ICCEA 2019, On behalf of the conference committees, I am pleased to declare that we had really successful three days of 2019 2nd International Conference on Civil Engineering and Architecture (ICCEA 2019), which was held jointly in Seoul, South Korea during September 21-23, 2019, sponsored by Seoul National University. Again, the conference was of great success, totally beyond my expectation, having a diverse group of expertise and backgrounds. Not to mention that participants are geographically diverse. I was glad to confirm that such diverse expertise and participants were somehow connected, forming a coherent conference environment and creating synergistic learning and sharing. ICCEA is the premier forum for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and practical civil engineering and architecture. The conference indeed brought together leading researchers, engineers and architects in the domain of interest from around the world. ICCEA 2019 were composed of 6 oral parallel sessions, 4 keynote speeches delivered respectively by Prof. Ashraf El Damatty, The University of Western Ontario, Canada; Prof. Youngjin Lee, Boston Architectural College & Sasaki Associates, Inc., USA; Prof. T.C. Pong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong; and Prof. Patrick Safran, Incheon National University, South Korea; and finally, I would like to thank you to all of our conference committees and participants for always being supportive to the conferences and coming to Seoul during your busy schedule. As expected, the conference was proven to be intellectually stimulating to all of us. Hope all enjoyed the conference, the food, the hospitality, as well as the beautiful and charming environment of Seoul. I look forward to seeing you again in Beijing in Sept. 2020! Oct. 1, 2019 Dr. Thomas Kang Professor, Seoul National University, South Korea Conference Chair, ICCEA 2019 tkanq@snu.ac.kr