Newsletter, January 2012 Volume 46, Number 1

EERI Newsletter, January 2012 Volume 46, Number 1

News of the Institute Register by January 15 to get Early Bird Discount for 2012 Annual Meeting/NEC Registration is now open online at http://2012am.eeri.org/ for the 2012 EERI Annual Meeting & National Earthquake Conference, to be held April 10-13, 2012, in Memphis, Tennessee. If you register by January 15, the registration fee is only $395. Between January 15 and March 15, it increases to $450. After March 15, it will be $550. Also visit the above site for information about the program, the hotel, and how to submit an abstract (deadline January 23) for one of the poster sessions. EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING With the theme “Learning from the Past to RESEARCH INSTITUTE Protect the Future,” the conference has much to offer engineers, scientists, emergency man- NEWSLETTER agers, and policy makers, featuring many les- sons from recent and historic earthquakes that Editor Mark Yashinsky are applicable to the practice of U.S. profes- LFE Insert Editor Sarah Nathe sionals. Three pre-conference programs will Associate Editor Gerald Brady be held April 10: the ASCE Symposium on Editorial Assistant Eloise Gilland Seismic Hazard Design Issues in the Central Earthquake Engineering U.S. (full-day, $65 fee), the New Madrid Earth- Research Institute quake Scenario Workshop (half-day, no fee), 499 14th Street, Suite 320 and the URM Memphis South Main Street Oakland, California 94612-1934 Phone: 510/451-0905 Demonstration Workshop (evening, no fee). Fax: 510/451-5411 The meeting venue is the Peabody Hotel, des- E-mail: [email protected] Web site: http://www.eeri.org ignated as one of the top 10 grand hotels in the U.S. by Christopher Reynolds of the Los Statue of Elvis on Beale ISSN 0270-8337 Angeles Times. It’s a short walk to the live mu- Street in Memphis (photo: Reproduction with attribution is permitted. sic of Beale Street and a short drive to Grace- http://www.flickr.com/photos/ land and the National Civil Rights Museum. The shjohns2/4933467552/) EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING Italian Renaissance-style hotel, built in 1925, is RESEARCH INSTITUTE well known for the daily promenade of ducks between the lobby fountain and the elevator at 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. PRESIDENT L. Thomas Tobin PAST PRESIDENT First Class of EERI Housner Fellows Selected Farzad Naeim EERI’s Housner Fellows’ Management Committee undertook the difficult task VICE PRESIDENT of selecting nine Fellows out of 55 competitive applications that were received David A. Friedman for the first class of Housner Fellows, a new leadership training program that SECRETARY-TREASURER EERI inaugurated with a bequest from George Housner. Additional support Marshall Lew for the program has been provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) BOARD OF DIRECTORS of the World Bank. GFDRR is supporting the participation of three Fellows. William A. Anderson Reginald DesRoches The nine candidates selected are: David A. Friedman 1. Syed Mohammed Ali, Earthquake Engineering Centre, University of Engi- Marshall Lew neering & Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan (GFDRR); Joseph Maffei 2. Cale R. Ash, Degenkolb Engineers, Seattle, Washington; Farzad Naeim 3. Carlien D. Bou-Chedid, Ghana Institution of Engineers on the Geological Ellen M. Rathje Technical Committee of NADMO (GFDRR); L. Thomas Tobin 4. Guillermo E. Franco, Guy Carpenter & Co. LLC, Boston, Massachusetts; Ivan Wong 5. Danielle Hutchings, Association of Bay Area Governments, Oakland, Calif.; 6. Lindsey Maclise, Forell/Elsesser Engineers. Inc., San Francisco, California; EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 7. Hassan Steven Mdala, Geological Survey Department of Malawi (GFDRR); Jay Berger continued on page 2

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Housner Fellows News of the Institute continued from page 1 Janiele Maffei: Next 8. Kate Stillwell, EQECAT, Oakland,

California; Secretary-Treasurer 9. Vivek Rawal, People-in-Centre Marshall Lew, senior principal and vice Consulting, Ahmedabad, India. president of AMEC E&I, Inc. (formerly MACTEC Engineering and Consulting, This inaugural class will meet with Inc.,) is retiring from the EERI Board the program leadership trainer, EERI of Directors after serving as Secretary- Marshall Lew Janiele Maffei member Lucy Arendt of the Univer- Treasurer for six consecutive years. sity of Wisconsin Green Bay, along EERI is greatly indebted to Marshall for helping the Institute successfully with Board members and members navigate a difficult financial environment. We look forward to his continued of the Housner Management Com- service to the Institute in other capacities. mittee during the Annual Meeting in April in Memphis. They will partici- Janiele Maffei, Chief Mitigation Officer of the California Earthquake Authority pate in a weeklong leadership train- in Sacramento, California, was formally endorsed by the Board of Directors ing program at Asilomar in Pacific at its September 2011 meeting to serve as EERI’s next Secretary-Treasurer. Grove, California, in June. During Maffei is a graduate of UC Berkeley, where she obtained her AB degree in their two years of active participation Architecture and an MS in Civil Engineering. Maffei is a registered structural in the program, the class will develop engineer who has worked in the earthquake engineering industry for over a group project and individual proj- 30 years. Her experience includes the design of new building structures and ects with the support of mentors. seismic strengthening of existing structures. EERI members will soon be able to Maffei is president of the Northern California Chapter of EERI. She worked learn more about each Fellow online on the organizing committee of the 2010 EERI Annual Meeting in San and follow their progress. Francisco. She is a member of the Structural Engineers Association of The Management Committee intends California and served on their Board from 1995-1997. She participated in for this program to run at least five post-earthquake reconnaissance investigations following the Loma Prieta years. If funding can be secured to and Northridge earthquakes. sustain the program, it will continue. Applications for the next class will be solicited in the summer of 2012. EERI Moving Offices within Current Building EERI is moving downstairs within its current building around the first of Febru- For additional information about the ary. Phone and e-mail access to the office will be limited at the time of the program, visit http://www.eeri.org/ move. CBRE Group, Inc., the owner of the City Center property (http://www. projects/housner-fellows-program/. oaklandcitycenter.com/) where EERI is located in Oakland, California, offered the Institute incentives to make the move. The incentives, plus the fact that the new space will be 600 square feet smaller than the current space, mean that EERI Endowment over the eight-year life of the lease, EERI will save approximately $25,000 each year. The EERI staff looks forward to serving you from its new space! Contact Donors and mailing information will not change, except for new suite number 220. EERI would like to thank these donors to the Endowment Fund and $500 Catherine Lori Dengler acknowledge their recent contribu- Other Norman Abrahamson Bauman Ricardo Dobry tions. EERI’s endowment supports Amounts James Jirsa James Mitchell Sigmund Freeman Patricia Bolton innovative projects that ensure the James Russell William Petak Houman Ghalibafian Gilles Bureau Institute’s continuing leadership in Daniel Shapiro Roland Sharpe John Hayes Jr. Claudio Chesi the earthquake professions. L. Thomas Tobin Pane Stoja- Thomas Holzer James Cullen novski Jesus Iglesias Kubilay $7,000 $1,600 $200-499 Simpson Gum- Geoffrey Martin Mehri Ansari Hicyilmaz Kinemetrics Polat Gulkan pertz & Heger Peter May Ian Buckle George Horowitz Denis McMullan $5,000 $1,000 Craig Comartin Mohammad $100-199 Andrew Merovich Joolazadeh Blume Foundation John Aho Andrew Eggenberger Goutam Bagchi Maurice Power Robert Page Clarence Allen Joe Hollstein Nesrin Basoz Sri Sritharan Tom Schacher $4,000 Carl Josephson I. M. Idriss Jonathan Bray Faultline Foundation Susan Tubbesing Nilesh Shome Paul Jennings David Cecil (David A. Friedman Hassan Sughayer Alexander Uzdin Robert Kennedy Arrietta Chakos & Paulette J. Meyer) Donald Wells Laurence Kornfield & Bruce Clark

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News of the Institute News of the Profession Shear-Wave Velocity Volunteers Sought for California Tsunami Profiling Webinar Scenario Now Online The U.S. Geological Survey, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin- istration, the California Geological Survey, and other entities are developing The response was enthusiastic to a detailed California Tsunami Scenario that will depict a realistic outcome of the webinar on “Shear-Wave Velocity a likely large tsunami affecting the west coast of the United States, including Profiling in Seismic Design,” held Alaska and Hawaii. Project participants include researchers, officials, and on December 14, 2011. It was the practitioners from government, industry, and academia. The project is enter- third webinar in the NEES-EERI taining offers of volunteer assistance and technical collaboration from EERI series on “Reducing Earthquake members and committees. Eight working groups, coordinated by a steering Losses: From Research to Practice.” committee, cover earthquake source, tsunami geologic field work, tsunami The webinar and presentation modeling and hydrology, civil engineering, emergency management and slides are posted at http://nees. education, social vulnerability, economic and business impacts, and policy. org/education/for-professionals/ Interested volunteers should contact the appropriate coordinator, whose seminars-and-webinars. names can be found at http://urbanearth.gps.caltech.edu/tsunami/. Professor Ken Stokoe from the Uni- The scenario employs the state of the art in many of the relevant disciplines versity of Texas, Austin, and EERI for the purpose of explaining and understanding the impacts of tsunamis. Board member Ivan G. Wong, prin- The scenario development began in January 2011 and will conclude in 2013. cipal seismologist at URS Corpora- The scenario begins with the occurrence of a magnitude 9.0 megathrust tion, discussed the importance of earthquake in the eastern Aleutian Islands, an event that presents the great- shear-wave velocity profiling in est distant-tsunami threat to Southern and Central California. Wave heights seismic design and its uses, mis- and velocities are estimated throughout the Pacific Basin, with emphasis on uses, and uncertainties. Case his- Southern California, the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, and other tories were used to illustrate shear- ports and harbors. Impacts on vessels and marine structures will be esti- wave profiling with the SASW (spec- mated, along with the resulting trade impacts. The scenario also quantifies tral analysis of surface waves) meth- the tsunami’s effects on near-coast roadways, communities, and lifelines. od and to show uses of Vs data in a Damage and restoration of these facilities and lifeline interaction are exam- range of seismic design applications. ined. The economic impacts of the tsunami are then estimated spatially and More than 400 attendees logged in, by economic sector. Options for public policy, emergency preparedness, and many others listened in groups mitigation, and response are identified and discussed; and research needs in conference rooms at various across all topics are identified. The project is producing useful resources companies and universities. More such as technical reports, websites, journal articles, YouTube videos, non- than 150 participants requested technical briefing materials, educational kits, and public briefings. credits for Professional Develop- ment Hours. The audience was Subscribing Member News dominated by practitioners from both the public and private sectors. In New Subscribing Member: Gilsanz Murray addition, faculty, post-docs, research scientists, and students attended. Steficek While most registrants were from EERI is pleased to announce that the firm Gilsanz Murray Steficek, with the U.S., 57 participants from around headquarters in New York City, has joined the ranks of Bronze Subscribing the world joined in. Countries repre- Members. GMS also has offices in Newark and Los Angeles. The firm pro- sented included Australia, Canada, vides structural engineering and building envelope consulting for a diverse Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Eng- range of construction and restoration projects. These include tall office and land, Germany, Greece, Israel, residential towers, theaters, housing, educational buildings, sports facilities, Italy, Panama, Romania, Scotland, sculptures, landmarks, and special structures. Recent projects include Frank Switzerland, Turkey, and the Gehry’s New World Symphony in Miami Beach, the façade restoration at Ukraine. New York’s Grace Building, a high rise in Abu Dhabi’s Central Market, water- proofing at Carnegie Hall, and numerous buildings for the York Hill campus at Quinnipiac University. GMS staff has experience with innovative use of materials, composite construction, and construction technology. The firm’s clients include architects, public and private institutions, building and property owners, developers, contractors, building managers, corporations, and engineers in other trades.

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Obituary News of the Membership John A. Martin, 1919–2011 El Salvador Award for John Alfred “Jack” Martin, passed away on

Saturday, December 3, 2011 in Redondo Salazar Beach, California, at the age of 91. A native During a cere- of Spokane, Washington, he was the found- mony held at er of the Martin Associates Group of engi- the Association neering companies, including the Los Ange- of Caribbean les headquarters, John A. Martin & Associ- States in Port of ates, Inc. (JAMA), an EERI Subscribing Spain, Trinidad, Member. the chargé d’affaires of the Jack’s engineering education at the Univer- embassy of El Walter Salazar sity of California, Berkeley, was disrupted Salvador pre- when he joined the U.S. Navy in 1941. John A. Martin sented EERI member Walter Salazar He received his B.S. in civil engineering of the University of the West Indies in 1943. Shortly after graduation, he was sent to the U.S. Naval Academy, Seismic Research Centre (UWI SRC) where he completed his officer training and said he learned self-discipline. with a “Distinguished Salvadoran” Upon his release from the Navy in 1946, Martin joined the one-year-old national award in recognition of his structural engineering firm of Brandow & Johnson in Los Angeles. In 1953, contribution to the development and he founded JAMA, which would ultimately become one of the world’s largest promotion of El Salvador. The award privately owned civil engineering companies. Offices affiliated with JohnA. was established to commemorate Martin have taken root in 14 states, and many continue in second and third the Bicentennial Independence Day generation leadership. celebrations of El Salvador. Growth came quickly to JAMA and its affiliate offices, in part because of work initiated with casinos and hotels in Las Vegas, including the Fremont Hotel During his acceptance speech, Sala- and Casino, the firm’s first commission. These steel long-span truss and con- zar advocated the establishment of crete tower structures became a hallmark of the firm’s extensive capabilities. a Central American and Caribbean Jack Martin proved himself repeatedly in the eyes of his clients and col- Earthquake Engineering Centre to leagues as an innovator, explorer, and mentor. His collaborative style and promote postgraduate education for fierce loyalty helped nurture relationships with private and public clients. By future generations in the region. the early part of the 21st century, JAMA had completed structural design A native Salvadoran, Salazar leads work on some $50 billion worth of construction. Included in its immense the Seismic Hazard and Risk As- structural portfolio are notable convention centers, high-rise office buildings, sessment projects at the UWI SRC. hotels, casinos, theaters, sports arenas, race tracks, parking structures, air- He has also worked closely with the ports, hospitals, and educational and government facilities, both in the U.S. EUCENTRE in Pavia, Italy, to pro- and overseas in China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iran, Jordan, Korea, Kuwait, duce the first peer-reviewed seismic Saudi Arabia, Spain, and Taiwan. Many projects designed by Martin compan- hazard maps for the eastern Carib- ies have become landmark structures, among them the Walt Disney Concert bean islands, and he leads the World Hall in Los Angeles, the Mirage Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, the San Bank-funded Seismic Risk Atlas Diego Convention Center, Coors Field in Denver, and Bangkok International Project for three pilot states in the Airport Terminal Two. Caribbean. Over an active career of more than 50 years, Jack Martin emphasized the In El Salvador, Salazar participated importance of creative problem solving and not just using computers to get in a Seismic Risk Project at Central answers. In a 1998 interview he remarked, “I encourage young engineers to American University supported by visualize and learn the details of what they are designing, and have a feeling the European Economic Community, for the size of what they are creating and connecting, before getting into the performing seismic hazard assess- computer and performing calculations.” This philosophy remains, even today, ments; simultaneously, he participat- at the core of the Martin organization’s work process. ed in the installation and mainte- Jack’s generous contributions, both professionally and personally, have been nance of a digital strong-motion net- recognized by numerous organizations including the Los Angeles Council of work that in 2001 successfully re- Christians and Jews, from whom he received the 1990 Humanitarian Award, corded the destructive M7.8 subduc- and the American Legion, for his founding of several youth baseball leagues. tion and M6.5 upper-crustal earth- Jack is survived by sons John Jr. (CEO of John A. Martin & Associates) and quakes in El Salvador. Randall, daughter Jamie, and seven grandchildren.

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News of the Membership NEES News Two Honors for Adeli NEEShub Project Warehouse: Data Updates EERI member Hojjat Adeli, profes- The Project Warehouse on the NEEShub is the centralized data repository sor of civil and environmental engi- for sharing and publishing earthquake engineering research data from neering and geodetic science, bio- experimental and numerical studies. The data in the Project Warehouse medical informatics, neuroscience, are associated with research projects funded by a variety of agencies and and biomedical engineering at Ohio include experiments performed at NEES and non-NEES equipment sites. State University, recently received Two highlighted projects are summarized below. two honors. First, he was recognized Innovative Applications of Damage-Tolerant Fiber-Reinforced for his contributions to computational Cementitious Materials for New Earthquake-Resistant Structural intelligence in infrastructure engi- Systems and Retrofit of Existing Structures (http://nees.org/warehouse/ neering in being elevated to Fellow project/47), PIs: James Wight (U. Michigan), Sarah Billington (Stanford), grade by the Institute of Electrical Sherif El-Tawil (U. Michigan), Gustavo Parra-Montesinos (U. Michigan), Tony and Electronics Engineers. Naaman (U. Michigan) and Jim LaFave (U. Illinois). Secondly, World Scientific Publish- This project investigated the use of high-perfor- ing Co., publisher of the Internation- mance fiber-reinforced concrete (HPFRC) in coup- al Journal of Neural Systems (IJNS), ling beams of moderate to high-rise core-wall has established the Hojjat Adeli structural systems. Component testing, as well Award for Outstanding Contributions as pseudo-static testing of two four-story coupled in Neural Systems with a cash prize wall systems that incorporated precast HPFRC of $500 to be given annually to the coupling beams, were performed at the University author(s) of the best paper pub- of Michigan. Available data include lateral load vs. lished in the previous volume year. story drift records, as well as end rotation and Adeli is editor-in-chief of IJNS as shear distortion measurements. The tests demon- well as two other international jour- strated that the use of HPFRC in coupling beams nals: Computer-Aided Civil and In- drastically reduced the need for heavy diagonal frastructure Engineering and Inte- reinforcement and closely spaced confinement grated Computer-Aided Engineering. reinforcement, and resulted in improved seismic behavior. The HPFRC material developed as part of this research was also used to design infill panels to increase the lateral stiffness and strength of existing steel frames. Call for Comments Large-scale hybrid testing was conducted at the NEES@Berkeley facility to evaluate the performance of full-bay and partial bay infills.Available data 4th Session of Global include lateral load vs. story drift records for both steel frame tests as well as Platform for DRR flexural and shear distortion measurements for infill panels. The 4th Session of the Global Plat- Experimental and Analytical Investigation of Nonrectangular Walls form for Disaster Risk Reduction will under Multidirectional Loads (http://nees.org/warehouse/project/22), PIs: be held May 19-23, 2013, in Gene- Catherine French (U. Minnesota), Sri Sritharan (Iowa State University), va, Switzerland. The draft concept Ricardo Lopez (U. Puerto Rico, Mayaguez). note, outlining the conference’s This project represents a collaborative proposed main themes, is available effort to investigate the behavior of non- online at http://www.unisdr.org/we/ rectangular reinforced concrete structural inform/publications/23895. walls subjected to multidirectional load- The organizers welcome comments ing. Two nonrectangular T-shaped walls on the draft and look forward to a and three rectangular reinforced concrete creative, constructive, and participa- walls were tested at the MAST Labora- tory consultation as the basis for the tory at the NEES@Minnesota equipment Global Platform 2013. They request site. The rectangular walls, which exam- that feedback be sent by January 20, ined the impact of anchorage of the longi- tudinal reinforcement, were tested under in-plane cyclic lateral loading, while 2012, to [email protected]. the T-walls were subjected to bi-directional cyclic lateral loads. All of the walls were instrumented to investigate the deformation components that can be attributed to flexure, shear, and strain penetration effects. Data available from the experiments include forces, displacements, curvatures, panel defor- mations, and strains throughout the specimens.

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Announcements Opportunities Build Change Open- Masters Programs in Faculty Positions ings & New Grant University College London (UCL): Italy Haiti: The nonprofit socialenter prise The Department of Civil, Environ- Build Change is currently accepting Masters in Earthquake Engineer- mental and Geomatic Engineering applications for the following posi- ing and/or Engineering Seismol- seeks to fill two openings: (1) a tions in its Haiti Earthquake Housing ogy (MEEES): Applications for full-time academic in the field of Reconstruction Program: (1) chief MEEES, approved and financially earthquake engineering, structural operating officer, (2) design and con- supported by the European Com- engineering, or structural dynamics struction area manager, (3) senior mission under the framework of the at the lecturer, senior lecturer, or project manager, and (4) impact Erasmus Mundus programme, have reader (assistant professor) level. monitoring and reporting director. opened, with a deadline of January Closing date: January 15, 2012. 25, 2012. MEEES is organized by a Indonesia: The position of program For more information and to apply, manager is open in Build Change’s consortium of European university visit https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_ and research institutions, led by the West Sumatra Earthquake Housing engine/jobs.cgi?owner=5041178& Reconstruction Program. Centre for Post-Graduate Training ownertype=fair&jcode=1222256; and Research in Earthquake Engi- (2) a full-time professor of geotech- For more information on all the neering and Engineering Seismol- nical engineering. Closing date: above openings, visit http://www. ogy (ROSE School, www.roseschool. February 15, 2012. For more in- buildchange.org/jobs.html. it) and featuring the participation of formation and to apply, visit https:// $1.5 Million Grant from Hilti the University of Patras (Greece), atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/ the University of Grenoble Joseph jobs.cgi?owner=5041178&ownertype Build Change, founded by EERI Fourier (France), the Middle East =fair&jcode=1225617 member Elizabeth Hausler, recently Technical University (Turkey), the announced it has received $1.5 mil- European Joint Research Centre, University of Notre Dame: The De- lion in grants from the Hilti Founda- and the Italian National Institute of partment of Civil Engineering and tion. In addition to financial support, Geophysics and Vulcanolgy. Schol- Geological Sciences invites applica- the Hilti Foundation provides entre- arships ranging from €15,000 to tions at all levels (assistant, associ- preneurial and production-relevant 38,000 are available to applicants ate, or full professor) for a full-time know-how and social expertise. from all nationalities. For details and tenure-track or tenured position in the online application procedure, structural engineering. For more visit www.meees.org. information and to apply, visit http:// Announcements cegeos.nd.edu/news/positions.html. DFI Programs Masters in Risk and Emergency Review of applications will continue Management (REM): A new REM until the position is filled. Force-Pulse Seminar: The Deep Masters Program is being offered by Foundations Institute is presenting the Understanding and Managing the Bay Area Force-Pulse Seminar Extremes (UME) Graduate School Call for Abstracts at the Foundation Constructors yard of the IUSS (Istituto Universitario di in Oakley, California, on January 17, Studi Superiori) of Pavia. The inter- SSA Annual Meeting 2012. Presentations will explain the disciplinary curriculum includes The 2012 Annual Meeting of the new rapid load-testing Standard topics of statistics and probability, Seismological Society of America, ASTM D7383. For more information law, economics, resource manage- will be held April 17-19 in San Diego, and to register, visit http://dfi.org/ ment, natural hazards and risk, fi- California. Authors are invited to conferencedetail.asp?id=195. EERI nance, insurance, sociology, com- submit abstracts of approximately is a cooperating organization; mem- munication, psychology, public health 300 words (not to exceed 2,000 bers will receive a $45 discount off and medicine. Renowned lecturers characters) through a secure Web the registration fee of $295. from around the world make up the server accessible from http://www. Grouting & Deep Mixing 2012: teaching body. Applications are cur- seismosoc.org/meetings/2012/ The early bird registration discount, rently open for 2012/13, with a dead- absub/. The abstract submission a savings of $100, expires on Jan- line of February 28, 2012. A number deadline is 5 p.m. PST January 11, uary 6 for the 4th International Con- of scholarships are available for the 2012. ference on Grouting and Deep Mix- highest-ranking applicants. For de- Abstracts will be published in the ing, to be held February 15-18, 2012, tails and the online application pro- March 2012 issue of Seismological in New Orleans, Louisiana. To regis- cedure, visit http://www.umeschool. Research Letters (SRL), available to ter, visit http://www.dfi.org/ it/rem. all SSA members. conferencedetail.asp?id=163.

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CALENDAR MAY Human Urbanism,” Seoul, Korea. 16-17. SuperPile 2012, Portland, OR. www.iabse.org/Seoul2012 (12/11) The issues containing the first and dfi.org/conferences.asp (12/11) 24-28. 15th World Conf. on EQ Eng. subsequent appearances are indicat- 18-21. Int’l Conf. on EQ Eng.: Re- (15WCEE), Lisbon, Portugal. (8/10, ed at the entry’s end. Items listed for search Challenges, Harbin, China. 8/11,11/11.12/11) the first time are shown in bold. e-mail Ms. Bing Bai, iceer2012@ OCTOBER 2012 iem.cn. (9/11) JANUARY 3-6. Symp. on Life-Cycle Civil Eng. 28-30. 2nd Int’l Conf. PBD in EQ 9-11. Behavior of Steel Structures (IALCCE), Vienna, Austria. www. Geotech. Eng., Taormina, Italy. in Seismic Areas (STESSA 2012), http:// ialcce2012.org (12/10, 1/11) addon.webforum.com/issmge/ Santiago, Chile. www.ingcivil. 15-17. 8th Int’l Conf. on Structural view.asp?EventID=2160 (5/11) uchile.cl/stessa2012 (11/10) Analysis of Historical Construc- JUNE 17. Bay Area Force-Pulse Semi- tion (SAHC 2012), Wrocław, Po- 17-20. 11th ASCE Joint Specialty nar, Oakley, CA. See page 6. (1/12) land. See this page. (1/12) Conf. on Probabilistic Mechanics 16-19. Deep Foundations Institute 17-19. Int’l Disaster Conf. & Expo, & Structural Reliability (EMI/PMC (DFI) Annual Conf., Houston, TX. New Orleans, LA. See this page. 2012), South Bend, IN. http://www. www.dfi.org/conferencedetail. (1/12) nd.edu/~emipmc12/ (12/11) asp?id=193 (12/11) 22-25. 7th Gulf Seis. Forum, Jeddah, JULY 2013 Saudi Arabia. http://7gsf.info/ (10/11) 8-12. 6th Int’l Conf. on Bridge Main- APRIL FEBRUARY tenance, Safety and Management 29-May 4. 7th Int’l Conf. on Case 15-18. 4th Int’l Conf. Grout/Deep (IABMAS 2012), Lake Como, Italy. Histories in Geotech. Eng. to Com- Mix, New Orleans, LA. www.dfi.org/ (12/10, 1/11) www.iabmas2012.org memorate Legacy of Ralph B. Peck, conferencedetail.asp?id=163. See SEPTEMBER Symp. in Honor of Clyde Baker, page 6. (5/10, 1/12) 19-21. Council on Tall Buildings & Wheeling, IL (Chicago area). http:// 17. Khan Distinguished Lecture, Urban Habitat (CTBUH) World Cong., 7icchge.mst.edu (12/11) Lehigh Univ., Bethlehem, PA. http:// Shanghai, China. http://www. www.lehigh.edu/~infrk/ (11/11) ctbuh.org/shanghai2012/ (11/11) MAY 19-23. 4th Session of the Global

MARCH 19-21. 18th IABSE (Int’l Ass’n for Platform for Disaster Risk Reduc- 3-4. Int’l Symp. One Year after the Bridge & Structural Eng.) Cong., tion, Geneva Switzerland. See 2011 Eastern Japan EQ, Kenchiku- “Innovative Infrastructures: Toward page 5. (1/12) kaikan Hall, Tokyo. Info: kawashima. [email protected] (8/11) Call for Papers 23. Khan Distinguished Lecture, Lehigh Univ., Bethlehem, PA. http:// Historical Construction Conference www.lehigh.edu/~infrk/ (11/11) A call for papers has been issued for the 8th International Conference on 30. Short Course on Analysis, De- Structural Analysis of Historical Construction (SAHC 2012), to be held Octo- sign, and Testing of Piles, Carlsbad, ber 15-17, 2012, in Wrocław, Poland, organized by the Institute of Building CA. https://www.eeri.org/registra- Engineering at the Wroclaw University of Technology and the Association of tion/register.php (12/11) Monument Conservators. Abstracts are due January 20, 2012. For more APRIL information and suggested topics, visit www.sahc2012.org. 10-13. EERI Annual Meeting/Nat’l EQ Conf., Memphis, TN. http:// Announcements 2012am.eeri.org/. See page 1. (5/11, 9/11, 11/11, 12/11, 1/12) International Disaster Conference & Expo 13-15. New Zealand Soc. for EQ The International Disaster Conference & Expo is scheduled for January 17-19, Eng. Annual Conf., Christchurch, NZ. 2012, in New Orleans, Louisiana. The conference will cover challenges conference.nzsee.org.nz/ (10/11) uniquely presented to each region, territory, state and municipality. Registra- 17-19. Seismological Soc. of America tion fees are waived for all government employees in any capacity. To get a Annual Mtg, San Diego, CA. www. 25% discount off the $300 registration fee, use the source code IDCEDRG. seismosoc.org/meetings/2012/ Conference organizers are Louisiana state and local emergency manage- index.php. See page 6. (10/11, 1/12) ment agencies in partnership with the New Orleans Convention Center and 20. Khan Distinguished Lecture, Imago Trade Show. The event is expected to attract over 20,000 attendees Lehigh Univ., Bethlehem, PA. http:// and 500 exhibitors. It will return every January and call New Orleans its www.lehigh.edu/~infrk/ (11/11) permanent home. For more information and to register, visit http://www. internationaldisasterconference.com/.

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EERI Newsletter, January 2012 Volume 46, Number 1

News of the Institute Submit to Annual Call for Papers for Spectra Issue on Japan EQ Graphics Competition Earthquake Spectra will be publishing a special issue on the March 2011 The EERI Annual Graphics Com- Tohoku, Japan, earthquake. Papers are invited on the earth science, engi- petition is accepting submissions. neering, and social and economic sciences aspects of the earthquake and The competition is intended to en- its aftermath. All papers should be submitted online through the manuscript courage creative thinking and pro- submission web page: http://eqs.msubmit.net. When the manuscript is up- mote participation in a multidiscip- loaded, authors must select “Tohoku Earthquake” from the drop-down list for linary environment. Examples of special issues. artwork include but are not limited to pictures, graphs, mathematical The cover letter accompanying your manuscript should clearly indicate that concepts and formulae in graphic the paper is being submitted for review and possible publication in this special formats, logos, animations, simula- issue. All papers to be reviewed must be received by April 1, 2012. We ex- tions, and conceptual designs. Sub- pect to have preliminary review decisions by July 1, 2012, and revised papers mitted artwork must be related to accepted for publication by October 31, 2012. The special volume should earthquake science, engineering, appear in print in March 2013, the second anniversary of the event. Papers causes, or consequences. without a clear link to the Tohoku earthquake or not complying with the journal’s instructions to authors will not be reviewed for this issue. The competition aims to drive participants to engage audiences with Questions regarding paper content or submission procedures should be their graphics. The competition offers directed to the guest editors for the special volume, Rich Eisner (richeisner@ a great opportunity to work within gmail.com) and James Mori ([email protected]). Prospective the Institute and gain recognition authors are strongly encouraged to send abstracts of their articles by email to among your colleagues. Additionally, the guest editors prior to formal manuscript submission so that the suitability winning graphics may be considered of the paper topic for the special issue can be evaluated. for use in EERI publications or mul- timedia products, with appropriate acknowledgement. All finalists will 3 New EERI Student Chapters be mentioned in the EERI Newsletter. The Institute is pleased to announce that the following three universities now Send your artwork to graphics@ have EERI student chapters: eeri.org, accompanied by a 100- Iowa State University: The chapter’s faculty advisor is Sri Sritharan, profes- word (maximum) description of sor in the Department of Civil & Construction Engineering. Its professional the artwork. Additional rules can contact is S. K. Ghosh, president of S. K. Ghosh Associates, Palatine, Illinois. be found at http://www.eeri.org/ about-eeri/honors-awards/eeri- (Romania): The chapter’s faculty ad- Technical University of Cluj-Napoca competitions/#graphics. The work visor is Alexa Pavel, professor in the Department of Structural Mechanics. Its of previous winners can be viewed professional contact is Ovidiu Prodan of the firm Prefcon in Zalau, Romania. from a link on this site. : The chapter’s faculty advisor is University of Massachusetts, Amherst The deadline for artwork submis- Azadeh Alipour, assistant professor in the Department of Civil & Environmen- sions is January 31st. A team of tal Engineering. The chapter’s professional contact is Gary Hart, a principal judges will review the works anony- of Weidlinger Associates in its Marina Del Rey, California, office. (The firm mously, and the finalists will be also has an office in Cambridge, Massachusetts.) announced during the 2012 EERI Annual Meeting/NEC in Memphis.