Successful PhD symposium in Delft.

This article reports on the 5th International PhD Symposium on Civil Engineering in Delft, The Netherlands. Earlier symposia were held in Budapest (1996, 1998), Vienna (2000) and Munich (2002). The symposium was organized by the Research School Structural Engineering, which is a joint institute for PhD candidates from the Universities of Delft and Eindhoven offering scientific education in the domain of structural engineering and construction. The symposium was visited by 166 authors and 90 guests from 28 countries. About 50% of the papers referred to concrete and its applications; 12% of the papers dealt with structural mechanics, 10% with steel and 10% with soil mechanics.