Events for 09-2010

Speaker Dr. Kevin Wong Research Structural Engineer Department of Commerce and the Federal Government National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) USA Abstract Buildings constructed in the seismic regions are vulnerable to earthquake activities and are required to be designed such that its seismic capacity must exceed the corresponding seismic demand with sufficient ductility. While design codes and standards have been developed to establish the seismic capacity in design, estimating the seismic demand in nonlinear structures has always been a challenging task mainly because of the lack of scientific measurement tools. Nonlinear dynamic analysis is believed to be the most accurate method of computing the seismic demand, but it requires earthquake time histories that are uncertain and difficult to predict. ...

Speaker Prof. Lap-Loi Chung National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering Abstract Taiwan is located in a seismicity active area and mitigation of earthquake disaster is an important issue. Technology is not well-developed to predict the occurrence of earthquake. Even though earthquake loss cannot be completely eliminated, it can be effectively minimized through preparedness before earthquake, emergency responses during earthquake and rehabilitation after earthquake. With seismic design, the performance of new structures can be guaranteed. Because of uncertainty of earthquake, structures may encounter earthquakes that may exceed the design one. Under this unexpected earthquake, structures only with design strengths may be seriously damaged or even collapsed. Therefore, the ductility after ultimate strength is also a key factor for seismic design. ...

Speaker Prof. Akimasa Sumi, University of Tokyo Dr. Tetsuo Kidokoro, University of Tokyo Dr. Fukushi Kensuke, University of Tokyo Dr. Hironori Kato, University of Tokyo Dr. Nobuaki Ohmori, University of Tokyo Dr. Hiroyuki Katayama, University of Tokyo Dr. Kyoung Jin An, University of Tokyo Dr. Hirotaka Matsuda, University of Tokyo Dr. Yiping Le, University of Tokyo Prof. Fei-yu Kang, Shenzhen Graduate School of Tsinghua University Prof. Pu-sheng Wang, Shenzhen Graduate School of Tsinghua University Prof. Zhishi Wang, University of Macau Abstract The workshop on Sustainable Urban Future in Pearl River Delta Region (PRD) aims to offer an interdisciplinary platform to bring together the academicians from the University of Tokyo and leading research institutes in PRD (includes Faculty of Science and ...