Our objective is to promote international cooperation among scientists, engineers and other professionals in the broad field of earthquake engineering through interchange of knowledge, ideas, results of research and practical experience.
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Masayoshi Nakashima, Michael Constantinou, and Michael Fardis
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A worldwide compilation of earthquakes and their magnitudes, losses, and references for information from ancient times to the near present.
https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/....Up to the minute reports of worldwide earthquakes, with maps, estimates of affected local area, seismological information, and other data. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/Reconnaissance reports from recent earthquakes.
http://www.eeri.orgThe 8th Asia Conference on Earthquake Engineering (8ACEE) will be held in Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, from November 9-11, 2022, with the theme “Earthquake-Resilient and Sustainable Communities.” Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 8ACEE is being organized as a hybrid conference comprising “on-site” and “online” events. The venue for the on-site meeting is the recently remolded office building of Taiwan’s National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering (NCREE). The registration and paper submission have been opened! The first and only submission will be a 4-to-8 page manuscript.
8ACEE aims to provide an excellent forum to bring together researchers, professionals, engineers, and academics to promote and exchange new ideas and experiences in the fields of earthquake engineering, disaster management, seismic risk reduction, and many other related research fields.
For more information, please visit http://8acee.ncree.org.tw.
- IAEE Central Office
The 5th International Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Disaster Mitigation (ICEEDM) 2022 will be delivered in a hybrid event format, combining an in-person conference with a virtual online component. Participants for in-person conference are limited to 100 people, while online participants are not limited. Please see the leaflet provided below for the details
https://www.iaee.or.jp/pdf/ICEEDM
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During 17WCEE, in collaboration with JAEE, the Japan Association for Earthquake Engineering, IAEE organized two brainstorming sessions on future directions of earthquake engineering. The sessions took place in a hybrid mode, which permitted online participation from around the globe. The two IAEE brainstorming sessions are summarized in the followng report.
https://www.iaee.or.jp/pdf/Brainstorming_Sessions Report_for_IAEE_Webpage_20211223.pdf
We are pleased to announce that the first series of "CSI/IAEE Master Series" during 17WCEE is now archived on our website. The new page provides access to the pdf versions of the monographs for "Read the Masters" and the keynote videos for "Meet the Masters".
https://www.iaee.or.jp/MastersSeries.html
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The IAEE is pleased to announce that the following distinguished scholars have been awarded IAEE honorary membership for their outstanding contribution to earthquake engineering and earthquake disaster mitigation. The General Assembly (GA) of the IAEE convened (in a remote mode) at the Seventeenth World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (17WCEE) and unanimously decided to award the six scholars. The IAEE wishes all the best for their continued work and their mentorship to the next generations.
Peter Fajfar (Europe, Structural Earthquake Engineering, IAEE Director 2004-12, Read-the-Masters 2020)
Sudhir Jain (South Asia, Structural Earthquake Engineering, IAEE President 2014-18)
Jim Jirsa (North America, Structural Earthquake Engineering, Concrete structures, Meet-the-Masters 2020)
Steve Kramer (North America, Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering)
Shunsuke Otani (Asia/Oceania, Structural Earthquake Engineering, IAEE Director 2008-12)
Rodolfo Saragoni (South America, Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Chairman of Organizing Committee, 16WCEE)
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The IAEE is pleased to announce that the following individuals have been selected as the IAEE Officers and Directors. The General Assembly (GA) of the IAEE convened (in a remote mode) at the Seventeenth World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (17WCEE) and voted for those positions.
We, the Officers and Directors, will try our best for the sustainable development of the IAEE and wish to ask for your most kind cooperation with us.
Officers:
- Masayoshi Nakashima, President (Japan)
- Farzad Naeim, President Elect (United States of America)
- G. Michele Calvi, Executive Vice President (Italy, until 2024)
- Koichi Kusunoki, Secretary General (Japan)
* The current term lasts until 2022 unless indicated otherwise.
Directors:
(Second term Directors)
- Svetlana Brzev (Serbia, Structural Engineering)
- Dina D’Ayala (UK, Structural Engineering)
- Ken Elwood (New Zealand, Structural Engineering)
- Otton Lala (Ecuador, Structural Engineering)
- Ellen Rathje (USA, Geotechnical Engineering)
(First term Directors)
- Sinan Akkar (Turkey, Engineering Seismology)
- Sergio Alcocer (Mexico, Structural Engineering)
- Ioannis Anastasopoulos (Switzerland, Geotechnical Engineering)
- Stavroula Pantazopoulos (Canada, Structural Engineering)
- Durgesh Rai (India, Structural Engineering)
- Tao Wang (China, Structural Engineering)
* For both the second and first term directors, the current term lasts until 2024. The first term directors may serve for another term after 2024.
- IAEE Central Office
IAEE is delighted to announce that Milano, Italy, is the venue of Eighteenth World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (18WCEE). The IAEE's National Delegates voted and has chosen Italy (Milano) in November 2020.
Please see the link below : A Message from IAEE President, A Message from Italy
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IAEE wishes to announce that we will organize the first series of events for the “Masters Program” during 17WCEE.
- IAEE Central Office
The Call for Papers for the 12th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering (12NCEE) is now open! Special session proposals are due September 10, and papers are due October 15. Please note that there will be no preliminary abstract submission and review for papers?the first and only submission will be a 4-page paper manuscript.
NCEE is a milestone conference hosted by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) every four years. 12NCEE will convene from June 27-July 1 2022 in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. The conference will bring together professionals from a broad range of earthquake-relevant disciplines, providing an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to share the latest knowledge and techniques to better understand and mitigate the damaging effects of earthquakes and tsunamis. Timely and relevant lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic are also expected. A limited number of registration grants will be available for students, early-career academics, and early-career professionals. For more information, visit https://12ncee.org.
- IAEE Central Office
IAEE has launched a new initiative named “Masters Program”. Motivation for the initiative is for IAEE to serve as “Connection” among the past, present, and future of earthquake engineering and to secure the transfer of knowledge across generations.
In “Masters Program”, the following three events: “Read the Masters”, “Meet the Masters”, and “Greet the Masters” are organized. The concept is to connect legendary figures in the world of earthquake engineering with contemporaries. All three events are to be organized in tune with World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (WCEE), and we are pleased to announce that the inaugurating events will be programed into 17WCEE to be held in Sendai, Japan, during September 13 and 18, 2020. (wcee website).
Please see the link below for details of “Masters Program”
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Indonesian Earthquake Engineering Association (IEEA), Andalas University, and Bandung Institute of Technology will be organizing the 4th International Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Disaster Mitigation on 26-27 September, 2019 in Padang, Indonesia.
Please see the conference website for further information.
http://conference.ft.unand.ac.id/index.php/iceedm/2019
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- IAEE central office and Dr. Carlos Zavala
The Universidad Nacional de Cuyo in Argentina and the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) have published a Spanish translation of the oral history of the late Professor Vitelmo Bertero.
The translated oral history is available from the link below:
- IAEE Central Office
Colleagues, Affiliate Members and Friends of IAEE,
On June 18, 2018, I assumed the position of the fifteenth President of the International Association for Earthquake Engineering (IAEE). I feel much honored to have been elected to this prestigious position, and shall work to my best to promote the sustainable development of IAEE. The utmost mission of IAEE is to provide an international forum in which people with various kinds of expertise convene and discuss issues in the mitigation of earthquake-related disasters. Traditionally, IAEE activities have been energized by engineering practitioners and researchers (civil, structural, mechanical, and geotechnical) and earth scientists (geologists, geophysicists, seismologists). In recent years, the involvement of architects, urban planners, public officials, and social scientists have increased, creating a more multidisciplinary IAEE.
IAEE was founded in 1963. Since that time, IAEE has continued to grow, and as of today, a total of 59 countries and regions are registered in IAEE. Once every four years, IAEE organizes the World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (WCEE) at various cities around the world. The last one (the Sixteenth WCEE, called 16WCEE) was held at Santiago, Chile, on January 2017, where 3,000 people registered for the conference. 15WCEE, which was organized four year before 16WCEE, was held at Lisbon, Portugal, on September 2012, where 2,300 people registered. For nearly 60 years, WCEE has been one of the largest technical/professional gatherings and continues to serve as "Connection" among the stakeholders in relevant disciplines as well as people with diverse backgrounds in culture, religion, and social structure.
Our globe is experiencing an explosive increase in population combined with rapid development and urbanization due to growing economic activities. We now face the ultimate question of how to ensure the sustainable development of the human sphere, in which the threat of earthquake disasters is one of the most critical problems to resolve on a global scale. We shall not overlook the reality that the densification of our cities and towns, which occurs as a result of such development and urbanization, makes our society more and more vulnerable against earthquake disasters. To overcome this vulnerability, we must invent novel solutions, and to this end, expend a more interdisciplinary effort, in which new disciplines are forged through collective, integral efforts among diverse genres. It is also notable that we shall further a transdisciplinary attitude, in which linkage with the real world is appreciated, so that solutions reach the society in a most effective and timely manner. IAEE wishes to serve as "Connection" among people and genres to make our efforts more interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary.
Human factors are naturally influential in the understanding and promotion of efforts that seek for the mitigation of earthquake-related disasters. Learning from the past and reflecting it to the present and future are important. IAEE regards it as its duty to ensure "Connection" among the past, present, and future and to secure the transfer of knowledge across generations. IAEE is currently preparing for a new initiative that can assist such efforts, and will present it soon in detail.
On behalf of the family of national organizations that comprise IAEE, I greet you with respect and look forward to working with you.
- Masayoshi Nakashima, President
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- IAEE central office and Polat Gülkan
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The electric copies of about 2,000 papers presented in the 16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering in Santiago, Chile, 2016 are posted online (https://www.nicee.org/wcee/index2.php). The 16th WCEE provided a unique opportunity to establish synergies between participants from different engineering areas and from such varied fields as earth sciences, economics and social sciences, and contributed to a global effort of the scientific and technical community towards a safer world in what regards the earthquake risk.
Special thanks go to a digital archiving project of the WCEE proceedings.
A fellowship fund has been established in the name of Joseph Penzien to fund and support graduate engineering students enrolled in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Preference will be given to students who have demonstrated financial need and have chosen the field of structural engineering and structural mechanics. The goal is to raise $500,000 to qualify for a named graduate fellowship. [more]