Newsletter, February 2007 Volume 41, Number 2

EERI Newsletter, February 2007 Volume 41, Number 2

News of the Institute Annual Meeting Kickoff Speaker Blakely to Direct New Orleans Recovery

2Q)HEUXDU\WKH¿UVWIXOOGD\RI((5,¶V$QQXDO0HHWLQJLQ/RV Angeles, urban planner Ed Blakely will be the kickoff speaker, on the topic of “The New Urban Environment: Changing Demographics, Wealth, Real Estate Values, and Recovery Resources.” Currently a professor at the Plan- ning Research Centre at the University of Sydney, Australia, he was recently EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING named executive director of recovery for the city of the New Orleans. He will RESEARCH INSTITUTE coordinate the rebuilding of the city in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. NEWSLETTER In 1989, as a special assistant to Mayor Elihu Harris in Oakland, California, Blakely led the city’s recovery after the Loma Prieta Editor Mark Yashinsky earthquake. In 1991, while a professor at the Associate Editors Sarah Nathe University of Southern California, he helped Gerald Brady plan the rebuilding of Los Angeles after the Editorial Assistant Eloise Gilland Northridge earthquake. After the September Earthquake Engineering 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Blakely, who was Research Institute living in New York at the time, was tapped by 499 14th Street, Suite 320 a regional planning association to coordinate Oakland, California 94612-1934 Phone: 510/451-0905 a downtown response plan. Fax: 510/451-5411 E-mail: [email protected] continued on page 7 Web site: http://www.eeri.org Ed Blakely ISSN 0270-8337 Reproduction with attribution is permitted. Election Results: Ghosh and Whittaker Elected EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING to Board; Bylaws Changes Approved RESEARCH INSTITUTE S. K. Ghosh of S. K. Ghosh Associates, Illinois, and Andrew Whittaker of PRESIDENT SUNY Buffalo were elected the newest members of the Board of Directors Thalia Anagnos in the 2007 election. Many thanks go to the members of this year’s Tellers Committee: Mary Goodson of CH2M Hill, Inc., Turel Gur of MMI Engineering, PAST PRESIDENT and Finn T. Halbo (retired). Craig D. Comartin Ghosh and Whittaker will be formally welcomed to their new posts at the Board SECRETARY-TREASURER Meeting in Los Angeles on February 7. They will each serve three years as Marshall Lew directors, replacing John Aho and Farzad Naeim, whose terms have expired. EERI extends thanks BOARD OF DIRECTORS to Aho and Naeim for Thalia Anagnos their years of out- Jonathan D. Bray Craig D. Comartin standing service and Richard K. Eisner dedication to the S. K. Ghosh Institute. Polat Gülkan $QRWKHUVLJQL¿FDQW Laurie A. Johnson Marshall Lew transition will be the Andrew S. Whittaker installation of Thalia Anagnos of San Jose EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR State University as Susan K. Tubbesing EERI President. S. K. Ghosh Andrew S. Whittaker continued on page 7

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News of the Institute legislation that requires improve- Bill is a Fellow of both SEAONC ments in seismic preparedness for and SEAOC. He was awarded the Honorary Members: all of the state’s hospitals by the 1999 Alfred E. Alquist Award for year 2008. He served on the Califor- Achievement in Earthquake Safety Holmes and Preece nia Hospital Building Safety Board and the 2005 H. J. Brunnier Lifetime for ten years. Achievement Award for Excellence EERI Board of Directors voted to in Structural Engineering. name William T. Holmes and F. Bill has served on numerous nation- Robert Preece as honorary members al and international committees de- Bob Preece earned B.S. and M.S. of the Institute. Honorary member- voted to improving seismic safety degrees in civil engineering from the ship is awarded to recognize mem- and building codes, beginning with University of Nevada and Stanford bers who have made sustained and his service on the SEAOC Seismol- University, respectively. He went on outstanding contributions either in the ogy Committee in the mid-1970s. KLV¿UVWHDUWKTXDNHUHFRQQDLVVDQFH ¿HOGRIHDUWKTXDNHHQJLQHHULQJRUWR He played a key role in the concep- investigation in 1952 after the Kern EERI in the pursuit of its objectives. tual development of the NEHRP County earthquake, while working Guidelines for the Seismic Rehabil- as the northern California district Bill Holmes is an internationally itation of Buildings (FEMA 273/356). engineer for Bethlehem Steel Com- UHFRJQL]HGH[SHUWLQWKH¿HOGRI He also served as chair of the Provi- pany. Over a 37-year period, he seismic design. He earned B.S. and sions Update Committee, responsi- went on nine earthquake investiga- M.S. degrees from Stanford Univer- ble for updating the NEHRP Recom- tions, working alongside other giants sity. In 1965, Bill joined Rutherford mended Provisions for Seismic Reg- & Chekene, where he is now a vice RIWKH¿HOGVXFKDV((5,SDVWSUHVL ulations for New Buildings, 1997 dents Henry Degenkolb and Frank president. Bill has been responsible and 2000 editions. For these accom- McClure. for the structural design of many plishments, he was given the Build- buildings, including the 600-bed VA ing Seismic Safety Council’s Excep- After working 18 years for Testing hospital in Loma Linda, California, tional Service Award in 2001. Engineers, Inc., where he became DQGWKHVHLVPLFUHWUR¿WRIPDQ\ executive vice president, he found- others, including several buildings He has been active in many organi- HGKLVRZQ¿UPRI3UHHFH*RXGLH at Stanford University and the zations in the earthquake engineer- Associates in 1978. He was re- Shakespearean Pavilion in Ashland, ing community, having served on the sponsible for all company opera- Oregon. He has concentrated his boards of EERI, SEAOC, ATC, and tions, including structural design, efforts in recent years on the devel- CUREE. For decades he has been a seismic analysis, special studies, opment of seismic strengthening frequent speaker at EERI meetings, administration, and material and techniques for existing buildings conferences, and workshops. He is forensic investigations. Among his and structural design standards for currently the Monograph Committee major projects were San Francisco’s hospital facilities. In 1992, he co- chair, and was co-technical editor, Transamerica Pyramid, the Hyatt authored the “Milestone 4 Report,” along with Robert Reitherman, of Regency, and the Embarcadero which formed the basis for the the April 2006 special issue of Earth- &HQWHU7KH¿UPEHFDPH3UHHFH development of California’s SB 1953 quake Spectra, subtitled The 1906 Goudie, and Issa in 1997. San Francisco Earthquake: An Earthquake Engineering Retrospec- tive 100 Years Later. One of the high points of Bill’s career occurred in 1998, when he served as the ebullient master of ceremonies for EERI’s 50th anniversary banquet cabaret act, “Your Structural Hit Parade,” playing the ubiquitous but hard-to-nail-down Ruiffe Diaframme. He was brought back by popular demand last year at EERI’s banquet during the 100th Anniversary Earthquake Confer- ence, when the act was updated to “That Was Then; This Is Now!” thereby ensuring his enshrinement William T. Holmes as an EERI Honorary Member. F. Robert Preece

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7KHSXEOLFKDVEHQH¿WHGIURP%RE¶V News of the Institute building materials expertise, particu- larly in steel and concrete. He has devoted himself to increasing seis- Endowment Fund Donors mic safety through his participation EERI would like to thank the donors to the Endowment Fund shown below in building code development and and acknowledge their recent contributions. EERI’s Endowment supports in professional associations. He has those innovative projects that ensure the Institute’s continuing leadership in written and published extensively on the earthquake engineering professions. the design and performance of ma- $5,000 terials. He served terms as vice Vitelmo V. Bertero LeVal Lund president of EERI and as president David A. Friedman & Bruce R. Clark Mark R. Pierepiekarz of the Structural Engineers Asso- Paulette J. Meyers Forell/Elsesser Charles Scawthorn Engineers, Inc. Anthony F. Shakal ciation of California (SEAOC), the $2,000-$3,000 Ruth V. Gordon Craig W. Tillman Consulting Engineers Association, I. M. Idriss Paul C. Jennings Frank R. Vollert and the Applied Technology Council. Peter I. Yanev Kenneth A. Luttrell Akira Wada During the 1980s he served on the $1,000 Faiz I. Makdisi T. Leslie Youd SEAOC Seismology Committee, Clarence R. Allen Joseph P. Nicoletti which, since 1959, has continually Forrest T. Braun Douglas J. Nyman Other Amounts updated Recommended Lateral John M. Coil William J. Petak Edmund Booth Force Requirements and Commen- John A. Martin, Sr. Shamsher Prakash David R. Brunsdon tary, also known as the SEAOC Blue Thomas D. O’Rourke Roland L. Sharpe Teresa Elliott Book, whose recommendations are Conrad Paulson Susan K. Tubbesing Richard C. Hepworth the basis of most seismic code pro- Larry C. Hultengren $500 visions in the United States and $100-$199 Michael E. Kreger Cynthia L. Perry around the world. Daniel J. Alesch James LaFave James E. Russell Neven Matasovic In the 1990s, Bob was EERI’s liai- Thalia Anagnos Irving J. Oppenheim son to the Building Seismic Safety $200-$499 Donald G. Anderson Michael J. O’Rourke Council (BSSC) Board of Direction Robert E. Bachman Sigmund A. Freeman Stan Zagajeski for six years and served on the Bechtel Infrastructure Edward Kavazanjian, Jr. BSSC Seismic Rehabilitation Project Corp. George C. Lee Committee during that decade. He was a member of the Technical Ad- 5HTXHVWIRU4XDOL¿FDWLRQV balos at Judith.Arebalos@con- visory Panel for Materials and Frac- servation.ca.gov (phone 916/324- ture of the SAC Phase II Project that CSMIP Data Project 8771, fax 916/323-7778), The dead- resulted in the publication of FEMA- line is February 20, 2007. 350, Recommended Seismic Design The California Strong Motion Instru- Criteria for New Steel Moment- mentation Program (CSMIP) of Frame Buildings. the California Geological Survey in News of the Profession the Department of Conservation is Bob is still active in the earthquake funding data interpretation projects ¿HOGDVDFRQVXOWDQWDQGDVDPHP Time History Software focusing on the analysis and inter- ber of the Caltrans Seismic Advisory pretation of the extensive strong- Available Board. In 2003, the board published motion data sets recorded from re- a report entitled The Race to Seis- EERI member Vinay K. Gupta has cent earthquakes. The goal of these mic Safety: Protecting California’s written a program to generate syn- projects is to improve understanding Transportation System, calling on thetic accelerograms. This program, of strong ground shaking and the re- the state to continuously investigate FDOOHG:$9*(1ZRUNVYLDPRGL¿ sponse of buildings and other struc- and improve the seismic safety of cation of a recorded time history. tures, and to increase the utilization bridges. Bob suggests that “the Engineers who need to analyze their of strong-motion data in improving report should be studied by all structures with a spectrum-compat- post-earthquake response, seismic structural and bridge engineers as LEOHJURXQGPRWLRQPD\¿QGWKLV code provisions, and seismic design well as by administrators of public program useful. The program can be practices. works.” It is available online at downloaded from http://home.iitk. http://www.dot.ca.gov/RaceTo- To receive a copy of the request for ac.in/~vinaykg/wavgen.htm. (EERI 6HLVPLF6DIHW\¿QDOSGI. TXDOL¿FDWLRQVHPDLOWR-XGLWK$UH- has not checked its accuracy.)

3 EERI Newsletter, February 2007 Volume 41, Number 2 Obituaries Robert E. Wallace, nia, a lavishly illustrated exploration of California’s earthquake country. John B. (Jack) Scalzi, 1916-2007 His work in California and his pio- neering studies of seismic faulting 1915-2006 Robert E. Wallace, a geologist whose in the Basin and Range province decades of research along the San of Nevada earned him honors, John B. (Jack) Scalzi, a retired Andreas fault made him one of the awards, and fellowships from many SURJUDPRI¿FHUZLWKWKH1DWLRQDO world’s leading earthquake experts, organizations. Two natural features Science Foundation, passed away died of kidney failure at his Reno bear his name—Wallace Creek in after a short illness on December home on January 8 at the age of 90. the Carrizo Plain National Monu- 20, 2006. An authoritative and char- A veteran of 53 years of service with ment (San Luis Obispo County) and ismatic public speaker, he provided the U.S. Geological Survey, Wallace Wallace Ridge in southwest Alaska. international leadership for the U.S. was honored numerous times for his In 2000, the USGS dedicated the earthquake program and had a contributions to earth science, and Robert E. Wallace Earthquake KXJHLQÀXHQFHRQWKHHDUWKTXDNH won the Distinguished Service award Center in his honor at Menlo Park. research community. from the Department of the Interior, the federal agency’s highest honor, Wallace earned his bachelor’s While in the Earthquake Engineer- in 1978. degree in geology from Northwest- ing Section of NSF, he perceived ern University and his doctorate the need for research on structural :DOODFHZDVWKH¿UVWWRXQGHUVWDQG from Caltech. At the USGS, he masonry, and initiated such work in WKHVLJQL¿FDQFHRIWKHKXQGUHGVRI served as regional geologist for the the 1970s. He stimulated research miles of surface displacement that ZHVWHUQUHJLRQDQGWKHQDVWKH¿UVW on masonry through workshops and mark the trace of the San Andreas FKLHIVFLHQWLVWRIWKH2I¿FHRI(DUWK- through funding numerous research fault. He was known among his col- TXDNH6WXGLHV+HUHWLUHGRI¿FLDOO\LQ projects. OHDJXHVIRUKLVGHSWKRIVFLHQWL¿F 1987 but continued active research knowledge, his research, his leader- there until 1998, when he moved to In addition, because he recognized ship, and his political savvy. His Reno and became an adjunct pro- the deterioration of the nation’s career leaves a legacy for both sci- fessor in the University of Nevada’s infrastructure in the late 1970s, he ence and public policy. He created Seismological Laboratory. Wallace encouraged the development of the USGS Earthquake Hazards Pro- is survived by his son, Alan, and his HYDOXDWLRQDQGUHWUR¿WWHFKQROR- JUDPDQGZDVDPRQJWKH¿UVWWR sister, Harriett. His wife of 60 years, gies. He also stimulated research in understand that the behavior and Trudy, died in 2005. nondestructive evaluation (NDE) of damage potential of earthquakes masonry in the 1980s. required multidisciplinary collabora- This article is partially excerpted tion. He played a major role in the from “Robert Wallace—quake ex- Recognizing his leadership in inno- implementation of the Earthquake pert” by David Perlman, San Fran- vative and creative masonry re- Hazards Reduction Act of 1977. He cisco Chronicle, Sunday, January 14, search, The Masonry Society (of studied earthquake phenomena and 2007. America) created the “John B. Scalzi seismic hazards in Alaska, China, Research Award,” now a prestigious Japan, Turkey, Russia, the Philip- international award. pines, and the Middle East. He be- Scalzi was born in Milford, Massa- came known as “the father of paleo- chusetts, and earned B.S. and VHLVPRORJ\´GH¿QHGDVWKHKLVWRU\ Ph.D. degrees in civil engineering of earthquake faulting as inferred from Worcester Polytechnic Institute from geologic evidence. and the Massachusetts Institute of Wallace became an active EERI Technology, respectively. He pub- member in 1969. He was made an lished many papers on the design honorary member in 1998 and was of structures and results of research the subject of a 1999 oral history projects on steel and concrete. He published by EERI. It can be ac- co-authored four books: Design of cessed online at http://www.eeri. Welded Connections, Analysis and org/cds_publications/oral_histo- Design of Cable-Supported Build- ries/0-943198-99-2_Wallace.pdf. ings, Design of Steel Structures, and Analysis and Design of Cable- Wallace was the editor and principal Supported Bridges. author of the 1990 classic book The San Andreas Fault System, Califor- Robert E. Wallace

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News of the Profession preparedness, directs the National Academy of Sciences to review Publications NOAA’s tsunami programs and pro- Tsunami Bill Signed vide recommendations to improve Tsunami Information On December 20, 2006, close to the them within two years of enactment, Sources requires a Government Accountabil- second anniversary of the great Su- Robert L. Wiegel, professor emeri- LW\2I¿FHUHSRUWGXHLQRQWKH matra earthquake and Indian Ocean tus in the Department of Civil and status and performance of NOAA’s tsunami, President Bush signed into Environmental Engineering at the tsunami programs, and increases law H.R. 1674, the “Tsunami Warn- University of California, Berkeley, oversight of contractor performance ing and Education Act,” which will has compiled a three-part series on NOAA’s tsunami programs. strengthen the nation’s ability to of lists entitled Tsunami Informa- forecast tsunamis and provide warn- The 680-mile-long Cascadia sub- tion Sources that is available online ing information to those in harm’s duction zone lies off the coasts of at http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ way. It will also provide dedicated Washington and Oregon and is simi- WRCA/tsunamis.html#wiegel. This funding and a greater emphasis on lar in size and geologic character to site is part of UC’s Water Resources community outreach and education the fault that caused the 2004 Indian Center Archives, a unique library programs, a key recommendation Ocean tsunami. The last major that collects contemporary and RIH[SHUWZLWQHVVHVZKRWHVWL¿HGDW Cascadia quake occurred 300 years historic materials on all aspects of a January 26, 2005 Science Com- ago and hit the west coast with an water resources. mittee hearing. At that hearing, estimated 30-foot high ocean surge. witnesses provided feedback on a The U.S. Geological Survey esti- proposal by the Bush Administration mates a 10 percent to 14 percent EERI Tsunami Report to expand and upgrade the nation’s chance of another major Cascadia network of tsunami detection buoys. quake within the next 50 years. A A printed version of the special The witnesses supported this plan, tsunami generated in the subduc- issue of Earthquake Spectra dated but urged a greater focus on educat- tion zone or in Washington’s Puget June 2006, subtitled The Great ing the public on how to respond in Sound would allow for a warning of Sumatra Earthquakes and Indian the event that a tsunami warning is less than 20 minutes. Ocean Tsunamis of 26 December issued. 2004 and 28 March 2005 Recon- The act authorizes the Department naissance Report, is now available of Commerce’s National Oceanic from EERI to members only for $60 and Atmospheric Administration plus shipping (plus tax to Califor- (NOAA) to (1) operate a program to nia residents). (Nonmembers must provide tsunami detection, fore- order it from UNESCO.) It was casts, and warnings, (2) conduct a edited by Wilfred D. Iwan and jointly tsunami hazard mitigation program, published with UNESCO. The 900+ and (3) maintain a tsunami research page issue contains 44 full reports program. The legislation, approved by members of several reconnais- by Congress earlier in the month, sance teams of scientists and engi- is intended to bolster a tsunami neers from many of the affected detection and warning system in the countries as well as the United 3DFL¿F2FHDQDVZHOODVH[SDQGLW States, Canada, New Zealand, and to any area in the Atlantic and Carib- Japan. To place an order online, visit bean considered at risk by federal http://www.eeri.org/cds_publica- RI¿FLDOV tions/catalog/. This report is listed under “New Products.” The law authorizes $135 million RYHU¿YH\HDUVWRLQFUHDVHWKH ,QDVDEHQH¿WRIPHPEHUVKLS number of deep-ocean buoys used EERI members received the 108- The Deep-Ocean Assessment and to detect potentially devastating page summary report on the above Reporting of Tsunami (DART) buoy ZDYHVUHTXLUHVFHUWL¿FDWLRQRI events, also edited by Iwan, written V\VWHPZLOOKDYHD¿QDODUUD\RIDS detection and monitoring equip- by the editorial board for the special SUR[LPDWHO\EXR\VLQWKH3DFL¿F issue. It included a DVD containing PHQWFRGL¿HVWKHH[LVWLQJIHGHUDO Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, and Carib- state coordinating committee (the the contents of the above-described bean Sea by 2012 (map courtesy of National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation full reconnaissance report, with NOAA). Program) for tsunami detection and most images in color.

5 EERI Newsletter, February 2007 Volume 41, Number 2 Publications Critical Excitation centers. For more information, visit http://www.kinemetrics.com/ The Indian Ocean Methods Book news_content.asp?newsid=160. Tsunami EERI member Izuru Takewaki of Kyoto University’s Department of RMS Position A new book entitled The Indian Urban and Environmental Engineer- 7KH1HZDUN&DOLIRUQLDRI¿FHRI Ocean Tsunami explores the devel- ing, Japan, has recently completed EERI Subscribing Member Risk opment of methodologies for pre- the hardcover book Critical Excita- Management Solutions is seeking dicting and preparing for tsunamis tion Methods in Earthquake Engi- a product manager in earthquake and provides a basis for a cost-effec- neering, published by Elsevier. This modeling to join the management tive warning and preparedness strat- book introduces a new probabilistic team that will be involved with mod- egy. It addresses the fundamentals and energy-based critical excitation els for North and South America. of tsunami science, identifying poten- approach to overcome several prob- This role will involve regular travel tial areas where tsunamis might be OHPVLQWKHVFLHQWL¿FDQGUDWLRQDO and communication within RMS’s generated, predicting their anticipat- modeling of ground motion. The U.S. and global client base. Essen- ed course, and considering how the author hopes that the book will help tial job functions are conducting geophysical, ecological, and socio- the development of new seismic market research, ranking new economic location of a community resistant design methods of build- PRGHOVDQGXSJUDGHVGH¿QLQJ may determine the severity of tsuna- ings for unpredicted or unpredict- market requirements, and manag- mi damage. able ground motions. The 296-page ing client communications. Re- book can be ordered for $133 online quired: experience in a product The contributors suggest how pre- at http://www.elsevier.com/. PDQDJHPHQWRUFRQVXOWLQJ¿HOG cursors can be used to enhance the an advanced degree in an earth advance warning time, how tsuna- science discipline, engineering, or mis can be detected at the time of Subscribing Member News UHODWHG¿HOGVWURQJSUHVHQWDWLRQ the generating rupture’s occurrence, VNLOOVSUR¿FLHQF\LQSURMHFWPDQ- and the manner in which warnings New Products by agement, data analysis and data should be communicated to the pop- Kinemetrics manipulation software tools (Excel, ulations likely to be affected. Some Access, VBA, and SQL), and a useful related technologies are EERI Subscribing Member Kinemet- working knowledge of GIS software LGHQWL¿HGDVSLYRWDODLGVLQDOORZLQJ rics, Inc., of Pasadena, California, applications. Spanish language coastal communities to be better introduced Slate and Marmot prod- skills are desirable. For application prepared. ucts at the American Geophysical information, visit www.rms.com Union meeting in San Francisco in (click “about RMS” then “Career This book is edited by oceanogra- December. Slate is the next genera- Opportunities”). pher Tad S. Murty, former president tion of high-performance, low-power of the Tsunami Society and an ad- ¿HOGFRPSXWHUVIRUSRUWDEOHDQG junct professor at the University of real-time monitoring applications, Call for Abstracts Ottawa; U. Aswathanarayana, direc- with features suitable for harsh tor of the Mahadevan International ¿HOGRSHUDWLRQV,WVGHVLJQXVHV 6ICCGE’s New Site Centre for Water Resources Man- super-capacitor technology, instead The abstract submission deadline is agement in Hyderabad, India; and of internal batteries, with a power March 15, 2007, for the 6th Interna- N. Nirupama of York University’s back-up system, ensuring that the tional Conference on Case Histories Emergency Management Program user’s application continues to run, in Geotechnical Engineering, to be in Toronto, Canada. even when problems develop in the held August 11-16, 2008, in Arling- external power systems. The book is an outcome of a ses- ton, Virginia. The conference has a new web site home address: http:// sion organized by the Departments The Marmot Field Processor is also www.6icchge2008.org. It has infor- of Science and Technology, and GHVLJQHGIRU¿HOGZRUNLQH[WUHPH mation about the call, state-of-the- Ocean Development, of the govern- environment conditions. The Marmot art speakers, other oral session pre- ment of India, under the aegis of the embedded version of Antelope envi- sentations, speakers at the sympo- Indian National Science Academy. ronmental-monitoring software pro- sium in honor of James K. Mitchell, vides reliability for long-term, unat- and the short course on Soil Dynam- This full-color 526-page volume can tended remote data acquisition, ics in Engineering Practice that will be ordered online from www.crc- processing, buffering, and distribu- be offered before the conference. press.com for $187.00. tion to downstream data processing

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Outgoing President Craig D. Blakely hopes to assemble a team tainable Urban Areas Comartin of CDComartin, Inc., will of 12 to 15 people and start working The European Network for Housing continue to serve on the Board for immediately. Research (ENHR) and the Delft one year as past president. Centre for Sustainable Urban Areas The voters also approved several The city has appropriated nearly at the Delft University of Technology amendments to the Institute’s By- $500,000 in the coming year for the invite proposals for papers to be laws; the most important are that SURMHFW%ODNHO\VDLGKLVRI¿FHZLOO presented at the ENHR Conference EERI will have electronic balloting develop a master plan for the city, on Sustainable Urban Areas in for all future Board of Directors elec- which currently is home to about Rotterdam, The Netherlands, June tions; all students, not just those 200,000 residents. His work will 25-28, 2007. For details on ENHR with full-time status, can become focus on rebuilding the city’s core. working groups, conference themes, student members; retired members workshop topics, online registra- can vote in elections; and regional He said a bill before Congress tion, abstract submission, and other chapter members are not required would provide funding to modernize information, visit http://www.enhr- to be members of EERI, but rather the levee system in the Gulf Coast 2007rotterdam.nl. The deadline for must be eligible for membership. region to avert another such disas- submission of abstracts is March 1, ter. “We are very far behind the 2007. It is not too early to start thinking Japanese and the Dutch in putting about next year’s election of a LQWKHW\SHVRIÀRRGFRQWUROV\VWHPV SEAOC 2007 president-elect and directors. The that we need down here,” he said. Nominating Committee welcomes Convention suggestions from the membership, Blakely ran for election in the 1998 The Structural Engineers Associa- including self-nominations. Nomi- 2DNODQGPD\RU¶VUDFHDQG¿QLVKHG tion of California (SEAOC) has is- nees for president-elect must have a distant second to Jerry Brown. sued a call for papers for its 2007 previously served on the Board. One of his ideas was a plan for an Annual Convention, to be held Sep- Nominees for director must have HI¿FLHQWPRQRUDLOWRWUDQVSRUWFDUJR tember 26-29 in the Lake Tahoe been active (or honorary) members and freight from the Port of Oakland area of northern California. The RI((5,IRUDWOHDVW¿YH\HDUVDQG to rail and truck connections. theme is “Emerging Trends in Struc- must not have been nominated to tural Engineering.” For more infor- the Board in the last two years. To Some of this article was excerpted mation about topics and abstract submit a name for consideration, from Chip Johnson’s column in the submission procedures, visit http:// send a brief note giving the name San Francisco Chronicle of Decem- www.seaocc.org/2007convention. DQGTXDOL¿FDWLRQVRIWKHSRWHQWLDO ber 5, 2006: “Oakland urban planner The deadline for receipt of abstracts candidate to the Nominating Com- who sought leadership will head is March 16, 2007. PLWWHHLQFDUHRIWKH((5,RI¿FH$OO New Orleans recovery team.” VXEPLVVLRQVDUHFRQ¿GHQWLDO 8PCEE A call for papers has been issued IRUWKHWK3DFL¿F&RQIHUHQFHRQ Earthquake Engineering to be held in Singapore December 5-7, 2007, organized by the New Zealand Soci- ety for Earthquake Engineering and Nanyang Technical University. The deadline for abstract submission is February 1, 2007. The conference brings together professionals and UHVHDUFKHUVIURP3DFL¿F5LPFRXQ- tries and beyond. For submission details and other (l-r) Outgoing board member Farzad Naeim, soon-to-be past president Craig information, visit http://www.ntu. D. Comartin, and outgoing board member John Aho (photo: Marshall Lew). edu.sg/cee/8PCEE/.

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News of the Profession supervisor for the Oregon Depart- facilities. Project briefs are on www. ment of Geology and Mineral In- oregongeology.com/sub/projects/ Seismic Upgrades at dustries (DOGAMI), have made rvs/default.htm. VLJQL¿FDQWVWULGHVWRZDUGVJHWWLQJ Universities Funded prepared for the next Cascadia In late 2004, seismic upgrade needs in Oregon megaquake. By 2003, all major based on RVS scores were pro- buildings had rapid visual screening posed into the OUS state budget (RVS) scores using FEMA 154 request along with deferred mainte- With its oldest campus founded in methods. QDQFHDQGHQHUJ\HI¿FLHQF\VFRUHV 1856, it’s not surprising that many In the 2005-07 legislature, $8 mil- buildings in Oregon’s universities By early 2004, three new seismic lion was appropriated for seismic were built to seismic standards far upgrade projects were funded by upgrades for the seven universities. short of today’s building codes. FEMA predisaster mitigation grant funds as “demonstration” projects to For the past two years, DOGAMI Since 2002, Robert Simonton, di- increase awareness. The projects and Goettel & Associates, Inc., have rector of Capital Construction, Plan- successfully caught the attention been codeveloping an enhanced ning and Budgeting of the Oregon of top state leaders, and helped to RVS (E-RVS) method. This new University System (OUS), and initiate an effort to obtain state funds method helps to rank seismic risk Yumei Wang, Geohazards Section for seismic upgrades of educational DQGSURYLGHVFOHDUVHLVPLFGH¿FLHQ cy scores in the OUS state budget requests. The E-RVS method im- proves the 2002 FEMA RVS method with respect to seismic hazards, soil HIIHFWVDQGFODULW\RIWKH¿QDOVFRUH so that decision makers can easily understand the results.

In November 2006, Governor Ted Kulongoski recommended $26 million in his budget for seismic upgrades of six high-risk university buildings. These buildings were integrated in the OUS 2007-09 budget request, with a needs matrix showing E-RVS scores alongside deferred maintenance and energy HI¿FLHQF\VFRUHV

Starting in 2007, the six nonductile buildings will be mitigated, embrac- ing today’s seismic technology and practices on sustainability.

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Publications Announcements Earth’s lithosphere, and in applied problems, such as earthquake pre- Journal of Architec- Workshops in Trieste, diction and estimation and mitigation of possible seismic hazards. The tural Heritage Italy format includes lectures and practi- Taylor & Francis publishers have cal exercises. For an application to announced a new quarterly journal Workshop on the Physics of participate, visit http://agenda.ictp. entitled Journal of Architectural Tsunami Hazard Assessment it/smr.php?1864. The application Heritage: Conservation, Analysis, Methods and Disaster Risk Man- deadline is May 28, 2007. and Restoration. It will provide a agement PXOWLGLVFLSOLQDU\VFLHQWL¿FRYHUYLHZ The Abdus Salam International Cen- Scientists and students from all of existing resources and modern tre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), countries that are members of the technologies useful for the study will host a Workshop on the Phys- UN, UNESCO, or IAEA can attend and repair of historical buildings and ics of Tsunami Hazard Assessment these workshops, which will be con- other structures. Methods and Disaster Risk Manage- ducted in English. Although the main purpose of the ICTP is to help The journal will include information ment in Trieste, Italy, May 14-18, research workers from developing on the history of construction and 2007. The workshop will emphasize countries, a limited number of stu- architectural technology; general cri- the synergies between the evalua- dents and post-doctoral scientists teria and methodology for interven- WLRQRIÀRRGKD]DUGVLQUHODWLRQWR from developed countries are also tion; historical and traditional build- the protection of nuclear installa- welcome to attend. ing techniques; survey techniques; tions and the evaluation of vulner- abilities and risks to other critical nondestructive testing, inspection, Required: a degree in physics, infrastructure and facilities. and monitoring; experimental results mathematics, geophysics (theoreti- and laboratory testing; analytical The approach used in the 2003 cal or computational), computer sci- and numerical approaches; inno- safety guide, published by the Inter- ence, or a similar discipline. vative and traditional materials for national Atomic Energy Agency, en- repair and restoration; innovative titled Flood Hazards for Nuclear There is no registration fee for either strategies and techniques for repair Power Plants on Coastal and River workshop. A limited number of travel and restoration; general remedial Sites, will be discussed in order to grants are available for researchers measures; repair and strengthening reach an understanding of how the from developing countries under of structures; seismic behavior and Japanese Society of Civil Engineer- age 45. UHWUR¿WWLQJDQGGHWDLOHGDQGVWDWH ing methodology was applied in of-the-art case studies. case studies currently underway in The journal can be viewed online at India and Pakistan. The safety guide IMAC-XXV http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/ will be subjected in the near future titles/15583058.asp. to a revision process. Celebrating 25 years of IMACs (In- ternational Modal Analysis confer- 1ECEES Downloads For an application to participate, ences), the Society for Experimental visit http://agenda.ictp.it/smr. A number of free downloads are Mechanics (SEM) will host IMAC- php?1839. The application deadline XXV: A Conference and Exposition available from the web page www. is January 31, 2007. ecees.org of the First European on Structural Dynamics, in Orlando, Florida, February 19-22, 2007. Six Conference on Earthquake Engi- Nonlinear Dynamics and Earth- pre-conference courses will be neering and Seismology (1ECEES) quake Prediction Workshop that took place in Geneva, Switzer- given February 15-18. land, in September 2006. The main The ICTP, in collaboration with the To view the advance program and documents are (1) 2000 abstracts at Department of Earth Sciences of the for more information, visit www. http://www.ecees.org/abstracts_ University of Trieste, will host the sem.org. book.pdf; (2) PowerPoint presenta- Ninth Workshop on Nonlinear Dy- tions of the ten keynote lectures, namics and Earthquake Prediction, YLGHRVRISUHVHQWDWLRQVDQGSGI¿OHV in Trieste, Italy, October 1-13, 2007. of keynote papers at http://www. ecees.org/index2.html (press “key- The workshop is dedicated to train- notes” in the menu); and (3) other ing in advanced methodologies of documents, including the order form R&D in fundamental studies of the for the CD with the proceedings. evolution and dynamics of the

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News of the Profession Distance Education CALENDAR by NICEE Items that have appeared previously Khan Lecture Series are severely abbreviated. The issue A number of EERI members have containLQJWKH¿UVWDSSHDUDQFHRU EERI member Dan M. Frangopol, participated in creating CD-ROMs the most informative, is indicated at WKH¿UVWKROGHURIWKH)D]OXU5DKPDQ of audio-video lectures for the dis- the entry’s end. Items listed for the Khan Endowed Chair in Structural tance education program offered ¿UVWWLPHDUHVKRZQLQbold. Engineering and Architecture at by the National Information Center Lehigh University in Bethlehem, of Earthquake Engineering at IIT FEBRUARY Pennsylvania, is organizing the Kanpur, India. 3. EERI New Madrid Chapter Khan Lecture Series honoring Student Poster Competition, St. Khan’s legacy of excellence in struc- They include the following: Louis, MO. Info: http://sema.dps. tural engineering and architecture. • “Earthquake-Resistant Design” by mo.gov/EQ07AW.pdf (10/06) Sudhir K. Jain (37 minutes) 7-10. EERI Annual Meeting, Los An- Khan brought forth a series of pro- geles, CA. Info: www.eeri.org. See JUHVVLYHLGHDVIRUHI¿FLHQWKLJKULVH ³6HLVPLF5HWUR¿W7HFKQLTXHVIRU page 1. (3/06, 9/06, 10/06, 11/06, construction in the 1960s and ‘70s Masonry Buildings—An Overview” 12/06, 1/07, 2/07) that were validated in his own work, (62 minutes) notably his designs for Chicago’s • “Buildings on Rollers—Use of Pas- 9. Khan Lecture Series, Bethle- 100-story John Hancock Center and sive Control Devices for Seismic hem, PA. See this page. (2/07) 110-story Sears Tower (the tallest Protection of Structures” and 19-21. 3rd Annual Geographic In- building in the United States since ³6HLVPLF'HVLJQDQG5HWUR¿WRI formation Systems Conf., Kuwait. its completion in 1974). Khan epito- Nonstructural Building Compo- Info: www.gulfgis.com (8/06) mized both structural engineering nents” by Svetlana N. Brzev (105 achievement and creative collab- minutes) 19-22. IMAC-XXV (International orative effort between architect and • ”The History of Earthquake Engi- Modal Analysis Conference), Or- engineer. neering from an International Per- lando, Florida. See page 9. (2/07) spective” by Robert Reitherman 22. 1st SMIS-EERI Workshop on 7KH¿UVWWKUHHOHFWXUHVDUHDVIRO- (66 minutes) lows, all beginning at 4:10 p.m. in Safe Hospitals under Natural Haz- the Sinclair Lab Auditorium at Le- ³6HLVPLF+D]DUGDQG,WV4XDQWL¿- ards, Ixtapan de la Sal, Estado de high University: cation,” a series of three lectures Mexico. Info: www.eeri.org (1/07) (each approximately 60 minutes) MARCH 1. February 9, 2007: Mark Sarki- by the late Bruce A. Bolt sian, partner, Skidmore, Owings & 12. EERI Seminar for Structural and • “Earthquake-Resistant Design Merrill, San Francisco, California, on Geotechnical Engineers on Practical of Steel Buildings in the United “Khan’s Vision.” Applications to Shallow Founda- States” by Janise E. Rodgers (33 tions, Seattle, WA. Info: www.eeri. 2. March 16, 2007: Man-Chung minutes) org (12/06) Tang, chairman of the board, T. Y. Lin • “Seismic Design of Liquid Storage 14. EERI Seminar for Structural International, San Francisco, Califor- Tanks” by Jain and Durgesh C. nia, on “Why? Why Not? What If?” and Geotechnical Engineers on Rai (an e-course covering eight Practical Applications to Shallow 3. April 20, 2007: EERI member W. lectures) Foundations, Los Angeles, CA. Info: Gene Corley, senior vice president, • “Architectural Teaching Resource www.eeri.org (12/06) CTL Group, Skokie, Illinois, on Material on Earthquake Design “Learning from the Attacks on an Concepts for Teachers of Architec- 16. Khan Lecture Series, Bethle- American Icon—the World Trade ture Colleges” by C. V. R. Murty hem, PA. See this page. (2/07) Center Building Performance Study.” and Andrew W. Charleson (an e- 21. EERI Seminar for Structural course covering 27 lectures). and Geotechnical Engineers on For additional information about Practical Applications to Shallow the series, visit http://www.lehigh. Prices range from US$7 to $27 plus Foundations, San Francisco, CA. edu/frkseries. shipping. For more information and Info: www.eeri.org (12/06) to place an order, visit http://www. nicee.org/Products.php. 25-28. Ports 2007, San Diego, CA. Info: www.portsconference.org (6/06)

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30-April 1. New Zealand Society for 4-6. 24th International Bridge Conf., 9. (2/07) Earthquake Engineering Annual Pittsburgh, PA. Info: www.eswp. 8-11. Modern Trends in Structural Conf., Palmerston North, NZ. Info: com/bridge (11/06) Engineering for Seismic Design, http://www.nzsee.org.nz/EVENTS/ 13-15. COMPDYN 2007 Conf., Ariel, Israel. Info: ribakov@yosh. tcon07.shtml (11/06) Rethymno, Crete, Greece. Info: ac.il (8/06) http://www.eng.ucy.ac.cy/comp- APRIL dyn2007 (8/06) 11-13. Deep Foundations Institute 15-20. 3rd General Assembly of 2007 Annual Conf., Colorado European Geosciences Union, 19-21. NEES Annual Meeting, Snow- Springs, CO. Info: ZZZG¿RUJ Vienna, Austria. Info: www. bird, UT. Info: www.nees.org/ conferencedetail.asp?id=80. copernicus.org/EGU/meeting_ About_NEES/Announcements/ (12/06) overview.html (1/07) announcement.php?news_id=41 NOVEMBER 20. Khan Lecture Series, Bethle- (9/06, 1/07) 27-29. 2nd International Confer- hem, PA. See page 10. (2/07) 25-27. ENHR Conference on Sus- ence on Urban Disaster Reduction 26-27. International Symposium on tainable Urban Areas, Rotterdam, (ICUDR), Taipei, Taiwan. Info: http:// Seismic Risk Reduction, Bucha- The Netherlands. See page 7. www.ncdr.nat.gov.tw/2ICUDR rest, Romania. Info: http://cnrrs. (2/07) (10/06) utcb.ro//issrr2007/issrr2007.html DECEMBER (12/06) 25-28. 4th International Conference WK3DFL¿F&RQIHUHQFHRQ 30-May 2. 2nd International Modal on Earthquake Geotechnical Engi- Earthquake Engineering, Singa- Analysis Conf., Copenhagen, Den- neering (4ICEGE), Thessaloniki, pore. See page 7. (2/07) mark. Info: www.iomac.dk (10/06) Greece. Info: www.4icege.org (2/06) 2008 30-May 4. Short Course on Grouting FEBRUARY 26-29. 9th Canadian Conference on Fundamentals and Current Practice, 6-9. EERI Annual Meeting, Astor Earthquake Engineering (9CCEE), Golden, CO. Info: www.mines.edu/ Crowne Plaza Hotel, French Quar- Ottawa, Canada. Info: www.9ccee. outreach/cont_ed/grouting/ ter, New Orleans, LA. (2/07) grouting1.html (1/07) ca (2/06) MAY MAY JULY 18-22. Geotechnical Earthquake En- 13-20. Coastal Sediments 07, New 8-11. 17th World Conference on gineering and Soil Dynamics Conf. Orleans, LA. Info: www.asce.org/ Disaster Management, Toronto, ON, IV, Sacramento, CA. Info: www. conferences/cs07/abstract.cfm Canada. Info: http://www.wcdm. geesd.org (10/06) (5/06) org/ (11/06) AUGUST 14-16. SEE5 on Earthquake Risk AUGUST 11-16. 6th International Conf. on Reduction in Developing Countries, 20-22. 1st International Workshop Case Histories in Geotechnical En- Tehran, Iran. Info: www.iiees.ac.ir/ on Performance, Protection, and gineering (6ICCHGE), Washington, SEE5 (7/06) Strengthening of Structures under D.C. Info: http://www.6icchge2008. Extreme Loading (Protect 2007), org. See page 6. (4/06, 9/06, 2/07) 14-17. Workshop on the Physics Whistler, BC, Canada. Info: www. of Tsunami Hazard Assessment civil.ubc.ca/protect2007/ (12/06) OCTOBER Methods and Disaster Risk Man- 12-17. 14th World Conference on SEPTEMBER agement. Trieste, Italy. See page Earthquake Engineering, Beijing, 3-7. International Conference on 9. (2/07) China. Info: www. 14wcee.org Engineering Education (ICEE-2007), (12/05) 28-31. 10th World Conf. on Seismic Coimbra, Portugal. Info: www.ineer. Isolation, Energy Dissipation, & Ac- org/Events/ICEE2007Info/ tive Vibration Control of Structures, Welcome.htm (1/07) Istanbul, Turkey. Info: www.did-tasi. 26-29. SEAOC 2007 Convention, org/seminar/default.asp (12/06) St. Emidius, pa- Lake Tahoe, California. See page tron saint of earth- 7. (2/07) JUNE quakes, from the 1-3. 10th North American Masonry Book of Saints. Conf., University of Missouri at Rol- OCTOBER la. Info: http://www. 1-13. Ninth Workshop on Non- masonrysociety.org/NAMC/index. linear Dynamics and Earthquake html (3/06) Prediction, Trieste, Italy. See page

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From November 22 to 24, the EERI Flores of CENAPRED, Ken Elwood Gavilan of UNAM, and Leonardo UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autó- of UBC, Roberto Meli of UNAM, Flores, provided the students with noma de México) Student Chapter Francisco Platas of UNAM, and feedback and suggestions on how hosted the Symposium on Guide- Sergio Alcocer of UNAM. They fo- to improve the report. lines and Recommendations for De- cused primarily on masonry behav- Members of both student chapters VLJQRI&RQ¿QHG0DVRQU\LQ0H[LFR ior, design and research; reinforced agreed that the symposium was City. The symposium was held at concrete columns, and Mexican ar- productive and rewarding. A revised the UNAM Institute of Engineering. chitectural history. At the roundtable draft of the guidelines will be is- Attendees included the student discussion, students presented the sued for external review and then FKDSWHUQXPHURXVFRQ¿QHGPDVRQ improved guidelines to a panel of released in the second quarter. ry researchers from Mexico City, experts. This panel, which included Plans are underway to hold a sec- four members of the EERI University Arturo Tena of UAM (Universidad ond symposium on the same topic of British Columbia Student Chapter Autónoma Metro), Juan José Pérez- in Vancouver this year. from Vancouver, Canada, and the UBC Chapter’s faculty advisor, Ken Elwood. The symposium was cen- tered around the report &RQ¿QHG Masonry Housing Guidelines that the two student chapters have been developing for over a year with sup- port from EERI. The symposium was comprised of workshops, presentations, a roundtable discussion, and a visit to the Structures Laboratory at the Nation- al Centre for Disaster Prevention (CENAPRED). During the workshops, students critiqued and improved upon the guidelines. Pre- Members of the UNAM and UBC student chapters at the Teotihuacán sentations were given by Leonardo Archaeological Site.

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