24th — 25th June 2019 | London, UK

SeismiCON 2019 Call for Papers

Abstract Deadline 15th March 2019. Abstracts should be sent to seismicon@asranet.co.uk

Abstracts should be maximum 300 words. Abstract Format available here

2nd International Conference on

Seismic Design and Analysis of

Structures and Foundations

Key Dates

Abstract Deadline: 15th March 2019

Full Paper Submission: 24th April 2019 Registration Close: 24th May 2019

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Conference Themes

Throughout history we have seen the devastating effects of earthquakes in high seismic regions across the world. Recently, in Italy, Chile, Nepal and

Indonesia earthquakes with large magnitudes have caused serious loss of life and severe damage to infrastructures, making everyday living extreme-

ly difficult. Risks also arise from tsunamis, seen from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, necessitating a global response to reduce hazards in

nuclear power plants. The economic and life losses associated with earthquakes are mostly related, directly or indirectly, to damage of buildings and

infrastructure. Population growth and poorly built housing are among the factors which have increased vulnerability to disasters following earth-

quakes. Seismic resilient infrastructure and risk reduction in developing countries are very important to reduce both the long term and short term

natural hazards. SeismiCON 2019 will bring together international experts from academia and industry in the field of earthquake and geotechnical

engineering, providing the opportunity to share and discuss their work and experiences with a focus on seismic design and analysis of structures and

foundations.

Dr. Katrin Beyer, EPFL, Switzerland Dr. Stavros Mitoulis, University of Surrey, UK

Prof. Brian Broderick, Trinity College, Ireland Prof. Rolando Orense, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Dr. Mehmet Celebi, US Geological Survey, USA Prof. Nawal Prinja, Wood, UK

Prof. Mohamed ElGawady, Missouri University of Science & Technology, USA Keynote Speakers Dr. Gaetano Elia, University of Newcastle, UK Prof. Amr Elnashai, University of Houston, USA

Prof. Amr Elnashai, University of Houston, USA Prof. George Mylonakis, University of Bristol, UK

Prof. Massimo Fragiacomo, University of L’Aquila, Italy Invited Speakers Dr. Feng Fu, City University of London, UK Prof. Mohamed ElGawady, Missouri University of Science & Technology, USA

Dr Barnali Ghosh, Mott Macdonald, UK Prof. Philippe Guéguen, Université Grenoble Alpes, France

Mr. Erdal Safak , Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute ,Turkey Prof. Michael Pander, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Dr. Sumanta Halder, IIT, Bhubaneswar, India Prof. Erdal Safak , Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute

Bogazici University ,Turkey

Dr. Masayuki Hyodo, Yamaguchi University, Japan Prof Stefani Parolai, OGS Instituto Nazionale di Oceanografua e di Geofisca

Sperimentale, Italy

Prof. Sameh S.F. Mehanny , Cairo University, Egypt Prof. Shehata Eldabie Abdel Raheem, Assiut University, Egypt

Prof Konstantinos Tsavdaridis ,University of Leeds,UK Dr Gaetano Elia, Newcastle University, UK

Dr Feng Fu, City University of London, UK

Prof. Subhamoy Bhattacharya, Surrey University, UK

Professor Purnendu Das, ASRANet Ltd, UK Prof Oh Sung Kwon, University of Toronto, Canada

Dr Piotr Omenzetter, The University of Aberdeen, UK Prof Mahmoud Hussam, Colorado State University, USA

Registration Fees Prof Vlato Sesov, University’Ss Cyril and Methodius Skopje, Macedonia

Full Registration: £400 Dr Antonio Correa, LNEC, Portugal

Student Registration: £200 Dr Barnali Ghosh, Mott Mac, UK

Prof Felice Carlo Ponzo, University of Basilicata, Italy

Prof Massimo Fragiacomo, University of L’Aquila, Italy

Organising Committee

Structural Earthquake Engineering Seismic Risk Assessment

Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Disaster Management

Engineering Seismology Bridges, Buildings, Nuclear Plants, Dams, Foundations, Geotechnical & Spe-

cial Structures

Design and Analysis of New Structures Soil-Structure Interaction

Analysis and Assessment of Existing Structures Monitoring, Field and Laboratory-based Testing

Seismic Retrofitting Codes and Standards

Performance Based Design Field Missions & Lessons Learned

Loss Mitigation Case Studies

Keynote and Invited Lectures

Prof. Amr Elnashai, University of Houston, USA

Integrated analytical framework for analysis of buildings under earthquake and fire loading scenarios

Prof. Amr Elnashai is the Vice President and Vice Chancellor for Research and Technology Transfer at the University of Houston and the University of Houston System, respectively. He was previously Dean of Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University, USA, and the Harold and Inge Marcus Endowed Chair in Engineering. Before Penn State, he was head of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Amr is a fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineer-ing and fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers as well as the UK Institution of Structural Engi-neers. He authored/co-authored over 145 journal publications and 4 books and many other reports and publications. He advised 45 PhD students to graduation, and over 100 MS thesis students.

Prof. George Mylonakis, University of Bristol, UK

Stresses in soils due to seismic soil-structure interaction loads

George Mylonakis is Professor at the University of Bristol, where he leads the Earthquake & Geotechnical Engineering Research Group. He specialises in geotechnical earthquake engineering and soil-structure interaction with emphasis on pile foundations and retaining structures. He is recipient of the Shamsher Prakash Research Award (2002), the City University of New York’s Performance Excellence Award (1999) and a Nominee for the 2001 Best Paper Award of the Japanese Geotechnical Society (2001). He has co-authored over 200 scientific publications (over 70 in peer-reviewed journals), delivered more than 50 invited talks around the world, and served in the Editorial Board of 5 mainstream journals, including Ge-otechnique. He has been coordinator of numerous sponsored research projects. Findings from this re-search have attracted over 1000 citations by independent researchers. He is also affiliated with the Uni-versity of Patras and UCLA.

Prof. Mohamed ElGawady, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA

Recent developments in seismic behaviour of hollow-core bridge columns

Mohamed A. ElGawady, Ph. D., is Benavides Professor at Missouri University of Science and Technology (formerly University of Missouri-Rolla) with 20 years of experience in extreme loadings and sustainability. He held positions at Washington State University, University of Auckland, University of South Australia, and Tokyo Institute of Technology. He also worked as a structural engineer for three years. His research addresses the performance of existing structures under man-made and natural hazards. He has devel-oped innovative structural systems and sustainable materials to mitigate extreme events. He is heavily involved in different design and construction codes such as The Masonry Society Building Code, Ameri-can Concrete Institute Code, and Transportation Research Board. He is the Chair of ACI/ASCE Committee 441 on reinforced concrete columns and the ACI 341A on seismic behaviour of bridge columns, the Sec-retary for the Prestressed Masonry Committee, and Co-Chair the Masonry Research Committee. He co-authored 70 referred journal papers and 120 conference papers. Dr. ElGawady graduated 13 MS stu-dents and 6 PhD students. His work has been recognized through the inaugural Benavides Endowment Award, Joseph H. Senne, Jr. Academy of Civil Engineers Faculty Achievement Award, and Missouri Uni-versity of Science and Technology Faculty Excellence Award. Dr. ElGawady’s research is sponsored by Missouri Department of Natural Resources, US Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Admin-istration, University Transportation Center, Mid-America Transportation Center, Transportation North-west, Missouri Department of Transportation, and Washington State Department of Transportation.

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Keynote and Invited Lectures—continued

Prof. Michael Pender, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Nonlinear foundation damping from field tests on shallow and pile foundations – input to structure- foundation design Michael Pender is Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Uni-versity of Auckland, a position he has held since 1985. Before joining the University, he worked for the New Zealand Ministry of Works and Development’s Central Laboratories in Lower Hutt being in charge of the Geotechnical Laboratory providing labora-tory testing services for designers and interpreting the data so obtained. In the early 1970s, he was a post-doctoral fellow with the Soil Mechanics group at the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Professional Engineers New Zea-land, a Life Member of the New Zealand Geotechnical Society, and a Life Member and Fellow of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering. Since 2003, he has been a visiting professor to the European School for Advanced Studies in the Re-duction of Seismic Risk (ROSE School), the University of Pavia. His primary areas of interest in teaching, research and consult-ing are the elucidation of the geotechnical properties of residual and volcanic soils, the earthquake resistant design of founda-tions, limit state design in geotechnical engineering, and the engineering behaviour of closely jointed rock masses.

Prof. Phillipe Guéguen, Université Grenoble Alpes, France

Structural health monitoring applied to civil engineering buildings after earthquakes us-ing strong and weak motion data Prof. Philippe Guéguen is a senior research scientist at the Earth Sciences Institute (ISTerre, University Grenoble Alpes/CNRS) and at IFSTTAR. He obtained his PhD degree in Geophysics in 2000 from the Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble. Since then, he has been working mainly in engineering seismology and earthquake engineering. His research is related with seismic vulnerability and strong ground motion, with a special emphasis on the effects of free-field ground motion on buildings, soil-structure interaction, structural health monitoring and seismic risk at the urban scale. He was Director of the French Accelero-metric Network (2004-2011 and 2014-2017) and initiated the National Building Array programme. He also participated in various national and European projects as coordinator (ANR-Urban Seismology; Interreg RiskNat) or participant (NERIES-FP6, NERA-FP7, Strest-FP7). He is co-owner of an US and European Patent for an ambient vibration measurement tool. He published more than 60 papers in peer-review journals.

Mr. Erdal Safak , Kandilli , Observatory and Earthquake Research Insti-

tute ,Turkey

Research Needs on Seismic Design of Structures

He has been the Head of the Earthquake Engineering Department of Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute of

Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey from 2008 to 2018. From 1984 to 2006, he was a Researcher and Section Head for 22

years at the U.S. Geological Survey’s Earthquake Research Group in the United States, and held part-time Professorship posi-

tions at Stanford University in California, Colorado School of Mines in Colorado, and the George Washington University in

Washington DC. He received his BS and MS degrees in 1973 and 1975 from Istanbul Technical University, and the Ph.D. de-

gree in 1980 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the US. He has 40+ refereed journal papers and 100+ con-

ference papers on subjects related to earthquake and wind induced response of structures, including seismic hazard and risk

analysis, ground motion modeling, site amplification, structural instrumentation, data analysis, and system identification.

Prof Stefano Parolai , OGS Instituto Nazionale di Oceanografua e di Geofisca

Sperimentale, Italy

Investigating building behaviour and soil structure interaction: results from different ex-

periments

Stefano Parolai obtained his diploma in geological sciences (1993) and a Ph.D in geophysics (1997) from the University of Gen-

oa, Italy. From 2000 to 2017, he has worked at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences in the fields of engineering

seismology, seismic risk and early warning. In September 2017 he became the Director of the Seismological Research Centre

of the OGS Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale, ITALY. In 2009 he was awarded a habilitation in

engineering seismology from the TU Berlin. He has been senior scientist and the head of the Centre for Early Warning Systems

(Section 7.1) at GFZ. He was the coordinator of the Earthquake Model Central Asia initiative, which is concerned with seismic

risk assessment in Central Asia, the SIBYL (SeIsmic monitoring and vulneraBilitY framework for civiL protection) project within

EC-ECHO, and was a work package leader within the FP7 MATRIX (New Multi-Hazard and Multi-Risk Assessment Methods for

Europe) project. In addition, Prof. Parolai is the General Secretary of the European Seismological Commission.

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About Croydon Located in south London, Croydon has excellent road, rail and air connections providing first class transport links

to London, the UK and overseas. Bus services are extensive. Croydon also has a Tramlink, a 28 kilometre environ-

mentally friendly light rail service which links with New Addington, Beckenham, Elmers End and Wimbledon. Croy-

don has over 2,600 acres of parkland and open spaces. The rich inheritance comprises over 120 parks and nature

reserves offering the widest possible range of sports and leisure. The surrounding fields and woods of the North

Downs provide a natural framework around the borough. Croydon is home to Crystal Palace football club, who

play at Selhurst Park. The council provides a very wide range of sports and recreational activities including four

swimming pools. The Crystal Palace National Sports Centre is one of the country's premier athletics stadia. Croy-

don has two full championship golf courses, seven 8 hole courses, pitch and putt courses and driving ranges. Sail-

ing and canoeing are available at South Norwood Lake. Croydon enjoys 20 km of the London Loop and 34 km of

bridleway for horse riding and cycling.

Getting Here

Airport Connections

Croydon is well connected globally by all London Airports through British Airways, Emirates, KLM, Air France,

Easyjet, Ryanair and many more. The airports are linked to Croydon by the Overground, Tram and the London Bus

Network . There are direct service connections to London Gatwick and London Luton airports. Journey times from

East Croydon to London Gatwick airport range from 15 to 36 minutes, with an average of 13 services per hour

during the day. The journey time from East Croydon to London Luton airport is approximately 66 minutes, with an

average of 4 services per hour during the day. There are no direct train services to London Heathrow airport, how-

ever Bus No X26 connects Heathrow airport to Croydon.

Train Connections

Fast trains run into the centre of London terminating at Victoria, London Bridge or City Thameslink stations in

about 15-20 minutes. The train service for London Luton airport also stops at London St Pancras (average journey

time approximately 40 minutes), providing interconnections for Eurostar services.

Accommodation Below are a list of hotels close to the conference venue:

Jury's Inn From £48

Croydon Park Hotel From £60

The Lansdowne Hotel From £60

Travelodge Croydon Central From £43

Hampton by Hilton Croydon From £60

Premier Inn From £60

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Sponsorship & Exhibition Space

Sponsorship

Cost £1500 + VAT

Package Includes:

• 2 Free Delegate Registration

• Company Logo in the Conference Programme

• Company Logo in the Book of Abstracts

• Company Advert in the Book of Abstract (A4 Size)

• Advert in the Conference Proceedings (USB)

Exhibition

Cost £1200 + VAT

Package Includes:

• 1 Free Delegate Registration

• 1 Display table (1800 x 1200 mm) in Breakout Area

• Display material: Published material, Structural component

• Display Banners

Sponsorship Package + Exhibition Package

Cost £2100 + VAT

• 2 Free Delegate Registrations

• 1 Display Table (1800 x 1200 mm) in Breakout Area

• Display Material: Published Material, Structural Component

• Display Banners

• Company Logo in the Conference Programme

• Company Logo & Advert in the Book of Abstracts (A4 Size)

• Advert in the Conference Proceedings (USB)