3rd Asia conference on earthquake engineering
The theme of the 3rd Asia conference on earthquake engineering (ACEE 2010)will be "Disaster Risk Reduction and Capacity Building for Safer Environments” and aims at promoting and exchanging new ideas and experiences in the broad fields of seismology, earthquake engineering, seismic risk and disaster mitigation.
Coverage
The areas of special interests include the following:
1. Promoting Safe Environments
- Seismicity and seismic risk
- Vulnerability, hazard and risk assessment
- Social and economic cost of disasters
- Awareness, preparedness and education
- Disaster risk reduction in megacities
2. Improving Seismic Performance of Structures
- Design criteria and seismic codes
- Testing, performance and behavior of structures
- Performance-based engineering
- Seismic design of high-rise buildings
- Seismic design of bridges, Dams, underground and special structures
- Seismic retrofitting and technology
3. Advancing Earthquake Engineering Technology
- Smart materials and structures
- Intelligent passive and active control
- Materials to improve seismic performance
- AI, IT and computing technology
- Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System (RS GIS)
4. Understanding and Mitigating Earthquake Hazards
- Tsunami and its effects
- Ground motion and micro tremors
- Geotechnical hazards (landslides, fault displacements, liquefaction)
- Ground improvement and slope stability
- Laboratory tests and field measurements
5. Enhancing Community-based Disaster Risk Reduction
- Lessons learned from past earthquakes
- Public awareness and preparedness campaigns
- Early warning and response
- Sound practices in communities
- Disaster risk management
- Disaster response
- Disaster rehabilitation
Special Sessions
Safe schools, Hospitals and Cities
(Additional sessions can be proposed)
Exhibition
Exhibition of the Technology, Products and Software related to Earthquake Resistant Design and Construction will be held during the Conference.