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Contents Academic Exchange Activities 1. On behalf of Architectural Society of China, Prof. Academic Exchange Activities ZHOU Ying attended the editors meeting of the Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering ······································ 1 (JAABE) in Tokyo, Japan, on Jul. 13th, 2012. JAABE is an international journal co-organized by Architectural Research and Development Society of China, Architectural Institute of Japan, and Architectural Institute of Korea. The meeting discussed ······································ 5 the concrete procedures to promote the international impact of JAABE such as special issues with invited authors. International Publications (Abstract) ····································· 10 List of Other Recent 2. Assoc. Prof. CHEN Suwen was invited to attend "The Publications Asian-Pacific Network of Centers for Research in Smart Structure Technology (ANCRiSST 2012)" ,which held in Bangalore, India on Jul. 27-28th, 2012. She made an ····································· 21 invited presentation entitled "Blast Protective Design for Buildings: Challenges and Opportunity". 3. During Aug.5-8th, 2012, Profs. LI Jie, CHEN Jianbing, LIU Wei and Dr. PENG Yongbo attended the 2012 International Symposium on Reliability Engineering Risk Management (ISRERM 2012) held in Japan and gave their lectures. Prof. LI Jie delivered a keynote Disaster Reduction News Volume 8, Number 2, Mar., 2013 lecture entitled "Engineering Reliability: A (ACEM'12) was held on Aug. 26-30th, 2012 in Physical Approach". Prof. CHEN Jianbing Seoul, Korea. Prof. ZHU Ledong attended the delivered an invited plenary lecture, entitled conference and mainly took part in the academic "PDEM-Based Global Reliability of Engineering exchange and discussion of AWAS'12, made an oral presentation titled "Effect of Wind Yaw Angle on Flutter Performance of a Truss Deck Suspension Bridge with Various Aerodynamic Measures" on Aug. 28th, 2012. Structures". 4. On Aug. 6th 2012, Prof. Marian Gizejowsk, vice-dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, and Prof. Aleksander Kozowski, vice-dean of the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rzeszó Prof. CHEN Jun attended the same congress and w University of Technology, were invited to visit gave two presentations titled "Assessment of Tongji University. They presented two lectures wind-induced structural fatigue based on joint entitled "Investigations into the distortional probability density function of wind speed and buckling resistance of slender section castellated direction" and "Unified non-stationary mathe- composite steel and concrete beams" and matical model for near-ground surface strong "Introduction of Rzesz ó w University of winds". Technology" respectively . 8. During Sept. 2-6th, 2012, The 7th International 5. Profs. LU Xilin, ZHAO Bin and LU Wensheng Colloquium on Bluff Body Aerodynamics and were represented as Tongji Party to organize the Applications (BBAA7), hosted by SKLDRCE, 3rd Conference of Structural Experimental and was held in Shanghai, China. It's the first time for Detecting Approaches, and the Experimental the Colloquium to be held under the umbrella of Education Method in Civil Engineering, which the International Association for Wind was hold at Harbin, Aug. 10-12th, 2012. Engineering (IAWE), and was the largest one counting in 200 collected papers from 21 6. The 3rd Workshop on China-US Collaboration countries or areas worldwide. It's also the for Disaster Evolution/Resilience of Civil youngest one referring to 76 registered student Infrastructure and Urban Environment was held participants involved in 72 papers. 19 staff and 21 in Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research postgraduate student of Wind Tunnel Testing Center, USA, on Aug. 13-17th, 2012. The Division of SLDRCE took part in the serving workshop was funded by the National Natural work and academic exchanges of the colloquium. Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and US Natural Science Foundation (NSF). Profs. LU Xilin, CHEN Jun, and ZHOU Ying attended the workshop. 7. The 2012 World Congress on Advances in Civil, Environmental and Materials Research 9. From Sept. 2-28th, 2012, Prof. CHEN Jianbing - 2 - Disaster Reduction News Volume 8, Number 2, Mar., 2013 visited Aalborg University in Denmark. During Ying, and Assoc. Prof. LI Peizhen attended the his visit, Dr. Chen gave a seminar on Sept.7th same conference and each of them gave a lecture titled "Application of the Probability Density in the parallel session respectively. Evolution Method (PDEM) to Structural Reliability Analysis of Complicated Structural Systems". Besides, he visited the Wave Star wave energy converter in Hanstholm. In the 4-week period, Dr. Chen worked together Prof. S.R.K. Nielsen and Dr. Sichani on the applications of PDEM to reliability and control of offshore wind turbines and wave energy converters. 10. Prof. LU Xilin attended 18th IABSE Congress held in Korea on Sept. 17-21st, 2012. Prof. Lu gave a keynote speech entitled "Recent Study on 13. The 210th Eastern Forum of Science and Seismic Performance and Response Control of Technology on smart sensing workshop of Urban Tall Buildings". tunnel structure was held on Sept. 27th, 2012 in Shanghai, China. Prof. ZHU Hehua was invited to 11. During Sept. 15-24th, 2012, Prof. Spanos, a give a presentation on 973 research project member of US National Academy of Engineering (2011CB013800) "Fundamental Theory for the and Foreign member of Europe Academy of Performance Evolution and Sensing-Control of Science, visited Tongji University and gave a Urban Metro Structures". Wen-Yuan lecture. During his visit, several discussions between research groups of Tongji 14. During Oct. 19th to Nov. 13th, 2012, Prof. Erik University and Rice University were chaired by Vanmarcke from Princeton University visited Prof. LI Jie and Prof. Spanos. Tongji University as the Kwanghua Chair Professor and gave a lecture on "New 12. During Sept. 24 -28th, 2012, Prof. LIU Wei and Perspectives on Multi-hazard Infrastructure Risk Dr. PENG Yongbo attended the 15th World Conf. Management". Meanwhile, he attended the on Earthquake Engineering (15WCEE). They Tongji-Princeton joint workshop chaired by Prof. both had oral presentations on the conference. LI Jie and Dr. CHEN Jianbing. Prof. Vanmarcke The title of the presentation made by Dr. PENG is "Integrated design of damper placement and parameters for passive control of randomly base-excited structures". Over 3500 partici- pants from 80 counties attended the conference and conducted fruitful discussions and communications. Profs. LU Xilin, LOU Menglin, JIANG Huanjun, QIAN Jiang, ZHAO Bin, ZHOU - 3 - Disaster Reduction News Volume 8, Number 2, Mar., 2013 was also invited to give a keynote lecture on the conference, Prof. Li was invited to give a keynote 8th National Conference on Random Vibration lecture titled "Physical stochastic systems – a new and its Applications, of which Prof. Li chairs the perspective". Dr. CHEN was invited to give a Scientific Committee. plenary lecture titled "Recent advances of probability density evolution method". Dr. PENG 15. During Oct. 22-24th, 2012, Prof. CHEN Jun won the Excellent Young Researcher's Paper attended the 25th KKCNN Symposium on Civil Prize. He was one of the two recipients of the Engineering held in Busan, Korea and gave a prize. lecture titled "Experimental investigation on pedestrian load". 20. During Nov. 17-19th, 2012, Profs. LI Jie, CHEN Jianbing and LIU Wei, Dr. PENG Yongbo and 16. Profs. QIAN Jiang, LU Wensheng and Assoc. CHEN Jun attended the 12th International Symp. Prof. LI Peizhen were invited to visit National on Structural Engineering (ISSE-12) and gave Ilan University, Taiwan, on Oct. 24-25th, 2012 their lectures. Prof. LI delivered a keynote lecture, for "the Symposium of Model Construction and entitled "Stochastic Viscous-Damage Constitutive Shaking Table Test" and Feng Chia University, Model for Concrete". Taiwan, on Oct. 27th, 2012 for "the Symposium of Academic and Double Degree Cooperation between TJU-FCU". Each of them was invited to give a lecture there. 17. Prof. LU Xilin was invited to attend the annual meeting of the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center held on Oct. 25-26th, 2012 in 21. During Dec. 5-7th, 2012, Prof. CHEN Jun and his Berkeley, USA. About 100 participants attended two students attended the 1st International the annual meeting. Conference on Performance- based and Life-cycle Structural Engineering and gave two lectures on 18. The Organizing Committee of the Internation- structural health monitoring and modeling of al Joint Symposium on Urban Geotechnics for human load. Prof. JIANG Huanjun attended the Sustainable Development (JS-Seoul 2012) which same conference and gave a lecture in the parallel was held in Suwon, Korea, from Nov. 2-3rd, session. 2012 . The conference invited Prof. ZHU Hehua to give a Keynote Lecture, titled "Innovative IT 22. The 5th Kwang-Hua Forum and Opening Techniques in Solving Challenging Geotechnical Symposium of Tongji Shaking Table Array was Problems in China." This event was organized by hosted successfully by Tongji University on Dec. Sungkyunwan University, Kyushu branch of 8-10th, 2012. 140 participants were invited to Japanese Geotechnical Society, and International attend the forum and visit the Tongji shaking Committee of Korean Geotechnical Society. table array in Jiading Campus. Profs. LU Xilin, LI Jianzhong, and JIANG Huanjun served as the 19. During Nov. 8-10th, 2012, Prof. LI Jie, Dr. CHEN