9th US national and 10th Canadian conference on earthquake engineering: reaching beyond borders
The Ninth U.S. National and Tenth Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering to be held in Toronto, Canada, in 2010 will provide an opportunity for both researchers and practitioners to share the latest knowledge and techniques for understanding and mitigating the effects of earthquakes. This is the first time that a conference of this scale is being organized jointly by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute and the Canadian Association for Earthquake Engineering. The conference will provide a unique environment to facilitate synergy between U.S. and Canadian colleagues, as well as other participants from around the world. This conference will bring 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.
Technical program topic areas
- Seismology: source characterization, ground motion characteristics, site effects
- Geotechnical engineering: foundations, ground failure, slope stability, liquefaction and soil-structure interaction
- Seismic code issues: design criteria and methods
- Multi-hazard effects and considerations
- Structural engineering: materials, structural systems and elements, structural response, active and passive control, evaluation and retrofit of buildings, bridges, industrial and special structures
- Earthquake engineering practice: recent projects, design, and construction
- Earthquake response in urban and rural environments
- Lifeline/infrastructure systems including ports, levees, dams, transportation, and communication systems: risk assessment and mitigation design and analysis of systems and networks of systems
- Impact of earthquakes on businesses including insurance and financial services
- Social and economic issues: human behavior, preparedness, recovery, loss modeling, land use and urban planning, public policy, decision making, implementation, and risk analysis
- Issues in seismic awareness and education
- Earthquake engineering research: experimental and numerical simulation, hybrid test methods
- Recent advances from earthquake simulation facilities such as NEES, E-Defense, NCREE
- Information technologies; collaborative research tools, data archiving and curating of numerical and experimental simulation, tools for reconnaissance.
- Lessons from recent earthquakes
- Other issues: architectural, nonstructural components, building services and contents, tsunamis, and forensic engineering