The European Center of Prevention and Forecasting of Earthquakes(ECPFE) and the Earthquake Planning and Protection Organization (EPPO) of Greece took the initiative to organize in the framework of the EUR-OPA agreement a Workshop-Seminar on the above subject. The Workshop-Seminar will take place in Athens, 2 December 2013. A field trip will take place on 3 December 2013. The thematic topics of the Workshop-Seminar are :
1.Classification of importance of Monuments and acceptable damage levels 2.Basic data influencing the design (Architectural , historical and Structural documentation, Monitoring of seismic behaviour, etc 3.Methods of Analysis for Assessment of bearing capacity and the design of Structural Interventions, 4.Estimation of Resistances of critical regions before and after Interventions, 5.Selection of Design Seismic Actions for the redesign, 6.Criteria for the selection of the most appropriate scheme of Structural Interventions: Monumentic values/optimum interventions 7.Case studies 8.Existing National Regulatory documents for the aseismic design of structural interventions in Monuments
Please note that the official language of the Workshop-Seminar is in English.
The Hellenic Society of Bridges Study is pleased to announce the second IBSBI Conference, “Innovations On Bridges And Soil-Bridge Interaction” IBSBI 2014, which will be held in Athens on 16, 17 and 18 October 2014. During 2014 we will be celebrating the 3300 years of the construction of the oldest bridge in Europe, the Mycenaean Bridge of Kazarma.
CONFERENCE TOPICS
· Aesthetics and architecture of bridges
· Bridge monitoring
· Design methods
· Fabrication and construction
· High performance materials
· New materials and their application on bridges
· International codes on bridges and comparison-loadings
· Seismic behaviour
· Vehicle-bridge interaction
· Old bridges and maintenance
· Stone bridges
· Long-span bridges
· Special forms of bridges
· Floating bridges
· Pedestrian bridges
· Sky-bridges
· Geotechnical problems
· Soil-structure interaction
· Stability problems – types and analysis
· Auxiliary and connected sub-structures
· Prefabrication
· Erection
· Computational techniques
· Experimental research
· Isolation and damping systems
· Aeroelasticity
Impact and explosion problems
· Multi-hazard loading on bridges
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
The Scientific Committee invites all participants wishing to contribute to the scientific program to submit an abstract for oral presentation. Abstracts must be submitted by the deadline, January 10, 2014, to the following e-mail address:ibsbi2014@ntua.gr . Abstracts received after this date will not be considered.
Selected papers of high quality will be considered for publication in an extended form in the new International Journal IJBE after invitation ( http://www.ijbe.net/ ).
“Bridge Resilience for Earthquakes and Other Natural Hazards”. Oakland May 20-22, 2013.
The Seventh National Seismic Conference on Bridges & Highways is tailored to the needs of engineers working for state and local departments of transportation, design consultants, contractors, researchers, mangers, and others responsible for transportation facilities. International guests will be able to dialogue with others, share their successes and needs, and learn the latest approaches to design, retrofitting, geotechnology, inspection etc.
The 2013 International Conference on Earthquakes and Structures (ICEAS13) (http://asem.cti3.com/ICEAS.htm) will be held as part of The 2013 World Congress on Advances in Structural Engineering and Mechanics (ASEM13) (http://asem.cti3.com/asem13.htm) on 8-12 September 2013 in the International Convention Center Jeju, Jeju, Korea.
As part of ICEAS13, a Mini-Symposium on “Computer-Aided Seismic Design and Assessment of Bridges” is being organized by Anastasios Sextos (Assistant Professor at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki).
The Mini-Symposium focuses on new computational methods for the seismic design and assessment of bridge structures primarily, but not exclusively, dealing with selection and scaling of ground motion, abutment-embankment and soil-foundation-superstructure interaction, seismic isolation, inelastic structural response, seismic pounding, structural health monitoring and control.
Authors interested in this Mini-Symposium are requested to submit a 300 words abstract by 31 March 2013. through the link http://www.techno-press.org/conference
The procedure is to select “Abstract Submission – ASEM13” and, subsequently, the “Computer-Aided Seismic Design and Assessment of Bridges” Mini Symposium. Deadline for submitting the full conference paper after the acceptance of the abstract is 31 May 2013.
It would be preferable to notify the organizer of the Mini-Symposium at (asextos@civil.auth.gr) along with the submission of abstract.
Thank you in advance for your kind attention and we are looking forward for an interesting session.
The ISSMGE Technical Committee (TC 203) on “Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering and Associated Problems” organizes the International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering From Case History to Practice in honor of Prof. Kenji Ishihara to be organized in Istanbul, Turkey during 17-19 June, 2013. Scope and topics include:
• Case histories on ground motion and site effects
• Soil investigation with field and laboratory testing
• Dynamic Characterisation and modelling
• Performance based design methodologies; Soil-structure interaction
• Physical modelling by shaking table and centrifuge tests
• Liquefaction; Lateral spreading
• Slope stability; Embankments, landfills and dams
• Shallow foundations; Pile foundations
• Retaining wall; Reinforced earth; Underground structures
More info: http://www.icege2013.org/
An “Earthquake Engineering” Special Session is organized within the framework of Fourteenth International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing, to be held in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy between 3-6 September 2013. It is organized by Anastasios Sextos, Assistant Professor at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
The Special Session focuses on recent advances in Computational Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics. More specifically, it will encourage contributions related to the mitigation of seismic risk, the design and assessment of
earthquake resistant buildings and bridges, the assessment of
special and monumental structures, system identification and structural health
monitoring, performance-based engineering, seismic
isolation and control of structures, dynamic soil-structure
interaction, strong ground motion selection and scaling as well as
seismic wave propagation through the soil media. Papers related to new software applications, web-based engineering tools, frameworks for
hybrid simulation and distributed computing, knowledge-based & expert
systems, finite
element programs, numerical analysis pre- and post- processing
front-ends, data and metadata dissemination and management
systems, high performance, parallel and cloud computing schemes,
applications for mobile devices and tablets as well as GIS-based
visualization tools are also welcome.
It is envisioned that the Special Session will constitute an interesting forum for scientists using state-of-the-art computational methods and tools for Earthquake Engineering purposes.
Please note that the call for papers closes on the 5th December 2012 and abstracts may be submitted via the conference website: http://www.civil-comp.com/conf/
To encourage young researchers to attend the conference a 1000 Euro Young Researcher Best Paper Prize will be awarded to the best paper presented at each of the conferences. (For further details please see the conference website).
Mini-Symposium 3: “Simulation-based structural vulnerability assessment and risk quantification in earthquake engineering” is organised by Agathoklis Giaralis, Alexandros Taflanidis, and Dimitrios Vamvatsikos (http://www.icvram2014.org/MS-3-Giaralis-Taflanidis-Vamvatsikos.php)
Please visit the conference webpages for additional information – including information about the submission of abstracts.
10th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering
Frontiers of Earthquake Engineering
July 21-25, 2014
Anchorage, Alaska
Purpose
The Tenth U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, on the 50th Anniversary of theGreat Alaska Earthquake and Tsunami, will provide an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to share the latest knowledge and techniques to mitigate the damaging effects of earthquakes and tsunamis. This conference is being planned by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) in collaboration with the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES). The conference will provide a unique environment to facilitate synergy between professionals and student researchers from the U.S. and around the world. This conference brings together professionals from a broad range of disciplines, including architecture, structural engineering, seismology, geology, geophysics, geotechnical engineering, business, public policy, social sciences, regional planning, emergency response planning, and regulation.
Call for Papers
Authors must submit abstracts and papers online. The deadline for submission of abstracts is March 31, 2013. The abstract collection system will open January 7, 2013. Additional detailed instructions are available at the conference website http://www.10ncee.org.
Special Sessions
The conference will include a small number of Special Sessions. Those interested in organizing and chairing a Special Session should contact either of the Technical Program committee co-chairs, Scott Ashford (Scott.Ashford@oregonstate.edu) or Greg Deierlein (ggd@stanford.edu), by February 15, 2013.
More Information
For more information view the 1st Announcement and Call for Papers at http://10ncee.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/10NCEE_Call-for-Papers.pdf or visit the conference website at http://www.10ncee.org.
• Submission of abstract (300 words) by 15 January 2013 (EXTENDED DEADLINE).
Submission of abstracts and final papers will be done only electronically via the Congress e-mail: 10hstam@dpem.tuc.gr.
A minisymposium is organised in the framework of the 4th
International Conference on Computational Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering – COMPDYN 2013
(www.compdyn2013.org)
:
e-mail:asextos@civil.auth.gr description: The mini-symposium
will focus on recent advances in software development for
Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics purposes. More specifically, it will encourage contributions that
will demonstrate new software applications, web-based engineering tools, frameworks for
hybrid simulation and distributed computing, knowledge-based & expert
systems, finite
element programs, numerical analysis pre- and post- processing
front-ends, data and metadata dissemination and management
systems, high performance, parallel and cloud computing schemes,
applications for mobile devices and tablets as well as GIS-based
visualization tools. Emphasis will be primarily (but not
exclusively) given to the application of the above software
systems towards the
mitigation of seismic risk, the design and assessment of
earthquake resistant buildings and bridges, the assessment of
special and monumental structures, system identification and structural health
monitoring, performance-based engineering, seismic
isolation and control of structures, dynamic soil-structure
interaction, strong ground motion selection and scaling as well as
seismic wave propagation through the soil media. It is envisioned that the Symposium will constitute a forum
on the recently developed earthquake-engineering-related software
that will facilitate the dissemination of knowledge and promote the
interaction and cooperation between the developers and the
end-users.
A complete list of other interesting Minisymposia can be found here
IN ORDER TO SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT PLEASE USE MINI-SYMPOSIUM CODE: MS-25-CZ
Oakland,
California has been selected as the site of the Seventh National
Seismic Conference on Bridges & Highways (7NSC). The event will be
held May 20-22, 2013 at the Oakland Marriott City Center. The conference
theme is “Bridge Resilience for Earthquakes and Other Natural Hazards,”
indicating a broad scope. There will be presentations and discussions
of multiple hazards that may affect the performance of highway
infrastructure. California was chosen by the Federal Highway
Administration (FHWA) to host this conference based on the state’s past
experience with earthquakes and the Department of Transportation’s
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The
2013 conference builds upon previous successful meetings that have been
held in San Diego, Sacramento, Portland, Memphis, San Mateo, and
Charleston, SC. Based on past trends, attendance is expected to exceed
400 and will include representatives from private engineering practice,
government, construction, academia, and industry. This conference is a
premier gathering of transportation officials responsible for addressing
and mitigating the impact of all hazards on our highway infrastructure.
On
Sunday May 19, 2013, an optional pre-conference technical workshop will
be held. The main program will be held over the next 2½ days with over
75 oral and poster presentations, discussion panels, and a student
design competition. Several internationally renowned keynote speakers
are being invited to share information about some of the major
earthquakes that have occurred in other parts of the world in recent
years. In addition, a special session is planned that will highlight the
design and construction of the soon to be complete San Francisco –
Oakland Bay Bridge, with emphasis on the unique self-anchored suspension
span. An optional technical tour will also be provided.
In
the days prior to the 7NSC, FHWA is planning to hold the First
International Bridge Seismic Workshop, also in Oakland. Dr. W. Phillip
Yen, FHWA Principal Bridge Engineer – Structural Dynamics, is Chairman
of the 7NSC and the International Workshop.
For more information, visit the conference web site.
Symposium on “Seismic assessment and retrofit of bridges” is being organized by Prof. Andreas Kappos, within the framework of the COMPDYN 2013 conference http://www.compdyn2013.org/ that is organized under the auspices of the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS) and the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM). This is the fourth conference in the COMDYN series and will take place from 12 to 14 June 2013 at the Kos International Convention Centre (KICC) in the beautiful island of Kos.
An abstract of no more than an A4 page can be submitted by 29 October 2012, following the instructions given at the Conference website (see address above) and making sure that you indicate that the abstract is submitted for MS14 (Mini-Symposium 14)
It is aimed that the Symposium will constitute a forum for the exchange of research results and ideas on currently available procedures and their applicability to the seismic assessment and retrofit of bridges. As such, pertinent issues such as modelling of bridge members strengthened using different techniques, modelling of interfaces, calibration of models against tests results, etc, will be amongst the topics open to debate and scrutiny. Hence the Symposium will provide a valuable contribution to the further development and implementation of methodologies for the seismic assessment and retrofit of bridges and contribute to risk reduction in these critical structures.
The First International Conference on Performance-based and Life-cycle Structural Engineering (PLSE 2012) organized by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University will be held in Hong Kong on 5-7 December 2012. The following nine world-renowned researchers have agreed to deliver Keynote Lectures at the conference:
Professor Nick BUENFELD, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Professor Oral BUYUKOZTURK, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Professor Gregory G. DEIERLEIN, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, United States
Professor Filip C. FILIPPOU, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, United States
Professor Dan FRANGOPOL, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Lehigh University, United States
Professor Koichi MAEKAWA, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Professor Jin-Ping OU, School of Civil Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
PARENG2013
The Third International Conference onParallel, Distributed, Grid and Cloud Computing for Engineering
Pécs, Hungary25-27 March 2013.
Abstracts of papers to be presented at the above conference may now be submitted via the conference website: http://www.civil-comp.com/conf/pareng2013.htm
Young Researcher Best Paper Competition: To encourage young researchers to attend the conference a 1000 Euro Young Researcher Best Paper Prize will be awarded to the best paper presented at the conference. (For further details please see the conference website).
PEER and NEES will host OpenSees Days 2012 on August 15-16 at the Richmond Field Station, an off-campus facility of the University of
California, Berkeley. Students, researchers, and practitioners are
welcome to attend any of the days.
Wednesday, August 15: Getting Started With OpenSees
The annual one-day training workshop on how to use OpenSees will be
more hands-on this year. This workshop is intended for beginning users.
This workshop will introduce users to the tcl scripting language, and
basic modeling and analysis techniques using OpenSees.
Thursday, August 16: OpenSees: Beyond the Basics
Seal of the University of California, Berkeley (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
This workshop is intended for intermediate users and those who have
attended the Getting Started Workshop. The workshop will focus on
structural and geotechnical modeling using OpenSees, and how to extend
OpenSees for your own research needs. The afternoon sessions will be
devoted to presentations from industry and research representatives who
will discuss how OpenSees has been used and extended to further their
work.
**Anyone from industry or academia interested in presenting on August 16th is encouraged to send a short abstract to Frank McKenna before July 1, 2012.**
The event is free, but registration is required because space is
limited to the first 100 applicants. Registration closes on August 10,
2012.
Το
Ελληνικό Τμήμα
Αντισεισμικής
Μηχανικής
(Ε.Τ.Α.Μ.)
διοργανώνει,
υπό την αιγίδα
του Τμήματος
Πολιτικών
Μηχανικών της
Πολυτεχνικής
Σχολής του
Αριστοτελείου
Πανεπιστημίου
Θεσσαλονίκης,
ημερίδα που
απευθύνεται
αποκλειστικά
και μόνον σε
νέους
ερευνητές, με
τίτλο:
Η
ΑΝΤΙΣΕΙΣΜΙΚΗ
ΜΗΧΑΝΙΚΗ ΜΕΣΑ
ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ
ΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΟΝΙΚΗ
ΜΑΤΙΑ ΝΕΩΝ
ΕΡΕΥΝΗΤΩΝ ΚΑΙ
ΜΗΧΑΝΙΚΩΝ
Σκοπός
της
ημερίδας είναι
η ανάδειξη και
η διάχυση του
έργου της νέας
γενιάς
ερευνητών
και μηχανικών
(μελών ή μη
του ΕΤΑΜ), η
γνωριμία καθώς
και η ανάπτυξη
σχέσεων
συνεργασίας
μεταξύ τους. Η
ημερίδα
απευθύνεται σε
σπουδαστές
(μεταπτυχιακούς,
υποψήφιους
διδάκτορες),
σε διδάκτορες
(έως και 6
χρόνια μετά
την απόκτηση
του
τίτλου), καθώς
και σε
ερευνητές ή
επαγγελματίες
μηχανικούς
κάτω των 38
ετών.
Η
ημερίδα θα
πραγματοποιηθεί
στην Θεσσαλονίκη την 7η
Δεκεμβρίου
2012 στο Κέντρο
Διάδοσης
Ερευνητικών
Αποτελεσμάτων
(ΚΕ.Δ.Ε.Α) του Αριστοτελείου
Πανεπιστημίου
Θεσσαλονίκης.
Στο
αντικείμενο
της ημερίδας
εμπίπτουν οι
ακόλουθες
θεματικές
ενότητες:
o
Κτιριακά
Έργα
o
Κατασκευές
Μεγάλης
Κλίμακας
(γέφυρες,
φράγματα,
σήραγγες,
κλπ.)
o
Μνημεία
o
Γεωτεχνική
Σεισμική
Μηχανική
o
Τεχνική
σεισμολογία
o
Κανονισμοί,
Θέματα
ανάλυσης και
σχεδιασμού
o Ειδικά
θέματα που δεν
περιλαμβάνονται
σε κάποια από
τις
προηγούμενες
κατηγορίες
π.χ.
σεισμική
τρωτότητα και
διαχείριση της
σεισμικής
διακινδύνευσης
Γνωρίζοντας
την
επιστημονική
σας ενασχόληση
με μία ή και
περισσότερες
από τις
παραπάνω
θεματικές
ενότητες,
παρακαλούμε
για την άμεση
προώθηση του
παρόντος στους
συνεργάτες σας
(υποψήφιοι
διδάκτορες,
μεταδιδακτορικοί,
ελεύθεροι
επαγγελματίες
μηχανικοί
κλπ).
ΥΠΟΒΟΛΗ
ΣΥΜΜΕΤΟΧΩΝ
Οι
ανακοινώσεις
που θα
παρουσιαστούν
πρέπει να
είναι
πρωτότυπες και
να εμπίπτουν
στο πεδίο της
Αντισεισμικής
Μηχανικής
γενικότερα,
και ειδικότερα
σε μία από τις
παραπάνω
θεματικές
ενότητες. Οι
εργασίες
δύναται να
είναι ατομικές
ή ομαδικές.
Παρακαλούνται
όσοι
ενδιαφέρονται
να υποβάλουν
περίληψη
έκτασης έως
μία σελίδα σε
ψηφιακή μορφή
(e-mail: youngresearchers01@gmail.com),
ακολουθώντας
τις οδηγίες
για τη σύνταξη
των
περιλήψεων,
μέχρι τις 30
Ιουνίου 2012.
Η διάρκεια των
προφορικών
ανακοινώσεων
δεν θα
υπερβαίνει τα
10 λεπτά της
ώρας, ενώ
προβλέπεται
και ειδική
συνεδρία με poster.
Όλες οι
περιλήψεις,
στην τελική
τους
διαμόρφωση, θα
περιληφθούν σε
ειδικό τόμο
περιλήψεων
ηλεκτρονικής
μορφής (CD–ROM)
και θα
αναρτηθούν
στην
ιστοσελίδα του
ΕΤΑΜ.
Για
περισσότερες
πληροφορίες
απευθυνθείτε
στην
ιστοσελίδα του
ΕΤΑΜ (www.eltam.gr).
The Fourteenth International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing
3-6 September 2013 – Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy http://www.civil-comp.com/conf
This is the fourteenth in the CIVIL-COMP series of conferences concerned with the application of computers to civil, structural and environmental engineering. The first Civil-Comp Conference was held in 1983. The conference will provide a forum for the presentation and dissemination of recent developments in the use of computers in civil, structural and environmental engineering. A major objective of the conference will be to link research and innovative ideas to engineering practice. Short to medium length papers describing the application of computers to civil, structural and environmental engineering projects will be particularly welcome. In addition, it is hoped that significant research and review papers on civil, structural and environmental engineering computational research topics will be presented.
The Third International Conference on Soft Computing Technology in Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering 3-6 September 2013 – Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy http://www.civil-comp.com/conf
Topics: Soft computing technology includes aspects of computer science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, evolutionary based methods and tools. Many of the methods employed by soft computing technology are computationally intensive and should therefore only be employed on complex problems that have traditionally proved intractable using more conventional solution methods. The key areas of soft computing covered by this conference include but are not limited to: neural networks; fuzzy systems; genetic algorithms; ant colony optimization; evolutionary algorithms; simulated annealing; harmony search; cellular automata; swarm intelligence; Bayesian networks; chaos theory; data mining; meta-heuristic methods. Papers describing the application of the above techniques to all branches of civil, structural and environmental engineering may be submitted to the conference.
Η ΕΤΕΠΑΜ οργανώνει στην Αθήνα στις 1-3 Νοεμβρίου 2012, το 3ο Πανελλήνιο Συνέδριο Αναστηλώσεων. Αντικείμενο – Θεματολογία
Στο αντικείμενο του Συνεδρίου εμπίπτουν τα σχετικά με την Αναστήλωση
των ιστορικών κτισμάτων (και των λειψάνων τους) ζητήματα, που αφορούν α) στην φιλοσοφία και μεθοδολογία των επεμβάσεων, β) στη σεισμική επικινδυνότητα των μνημείων γ) στην τεχνολογική έρευνα (τεκμηρίωση, τεχνικές, υλικά κλπ) και εφαρμογή δ) στην ανάδειξη μνημείων και αρχαιολογικών χώρων.
Ανακοινώνεται
ότι η προθεσμία για την αποστολή περιλήψεων για τη συμμετοχή
στο 3ο Πανελλήνιο Συνέδριο Αναστηλώσεων παρατείνεται μέχρι τις 15 Μαΐου 2012.
The 6th European Workshop on the seismic behaviour of Irregular and Complex Structures (6EWICS) will take place on Sep. 12-13, 2011, at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel.
Please note that the submission date has been moved forward, hence the important dates are as follows: January 31, 2011: Submission of abstracts; May 15, 2011: Acceptance of abstracts;
June 30, 2011: Submission of final papers
Abstracts submission should include the title of the paper, a 250 -500 word abstract of the paper and the author or a list of authors if appropriate. Please be certain to include the following: objective, methodology, results and conclusions. Please also identify the expected presenter. For each author, please include their name, affiliation, mailing address, e-mail, phone and fax numbers.
