The First Announcement

The Seventh Kwang-Hua Forum on

Innovations and Implementations in Earthquake Engineering Research

December 9-11, 2016

Shanghai, China

(1^st Draft, as of March 31, 2016)

Hosted by

State Key Laboratory of Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering

 International Joint Research Laboratory of Earthquake Engineering

College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University

Sponsored by

State Key Laboratory of Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering

 International Joint Research Laboratory of Earthquake Engineering

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Tongji University
 

Introduction

      Since 2008, six Kwang-Hua Forums have been successfully held at Tongji University. The objective of the forum is to provide an environment for experts around the world to present and exchange recent progress and implementation of earthquake engineering research. The forum also aims to promote international collaboration on how to achieve practical implementation of earthquake engineering research through planning, design, construction and maintenance.

      The themes of the forums have been carefully selected to match the state of the art earthquake engineering research around the world. The first Kwang-Hua Forum was held in October 2008. The theme was focused on the magnitude 8 Wenchuan earthquake which hit South Western region ofChina in May 2008. Detailed earthquake effect and post-earthquake reconstruction were discussed in this forum. The second Kwang-Hua Forum was held in October 2009, where the theme was focused on Performance-based Design Theory and Code Development for Civil and Structural Engineering. In October 2010, the third Kwang-Hua Forum was held with the focus on Sustainable Civil Engineering. The fourth Kwang-Hua Forum was held in conjunction with the grand opening symposium of Tongji Multi-functional Shaking Table Array in December 2011. The fifth and sixthKwang-Hua Forum was held in December 2012 and 2014 with the focus on the Innovations and Implementations in Earthquake Engineering Research.

      The Seventh Kwang-Hua Forum is scheduled to be held on December 9-11, 2016. The theme of the seventh Kwang-Hua Forum will be focused on the introduction of the International Joint Research Laboratory of Earthquake Engineering (ILEE). ILEE was formed on July 6th, 2015. ILEE has one of the largest and most complete earthquake engineering testing laboratories around the word. The goal of ILEE is to create international research collaboration on earthquake engineering.ILEE has already formed strong collaboration with world renowned earthquake engineering research centers. ILEE will be funding research projects to create earthquake resilient large scale infrastructures.

Preliminary Program

Scope

         The topics of the seventh Kwang-Hua Forum shall include but are not limited to:

Research and development of earthquake resilient infrastructures

Performance-based seismic design of structures/non-structural elements

Earthquake ground motions and their effects to structures

Earthquake damages and lessons learned from recent earthquakes

Advanced structural experimental techniques

Seismic protection of lifeline structures

Earthquake related geotechnical engineering

Seismic retrofitting of structures using advanced technologies

Seismic design code developments and related issues

Multi-hazard study of civil infrastructures

Language and form

English.

PPT file for presentations will be collected at the registration.

Invited Guests

150~200 guests are planned to be invited including 50~80 from overseas and 100~120 from China.

Fees

Complementary

Organizing Committee

Lu, Xilin (Chair)           

Li, Jianzhong (Co-Chair)  Tsai, Keh-Chyuan (Co-Chair)   Jiang, Huanjun (Co-Chair)

Cao, Wenqing      Chen, Qingjun            Cheng, Chunlan     Dai, Kaoshan

Fu, Shichun             Hu, Kexu                 Jia, Leying              Li, Lingzhi

Li, Peizhen              Lu, Liang                 Lu, Wensheng         Lu, Zheng

Peng, Tianbo          Shan, Jiazeng           Wang, Qun              Xu, Yan
                             Yang, Chengyu        Yu, Jiangtao            Zhang, Hongmei         

 Zhao, Bin                Zhao, Xin               Zhou, Ying              Zhou, Zhiguang

Scientific Committee

Fan, Lichu (China, Co-Chair)        Mahin, Stephen A. (USA, Co-Chair)

Shen, Zuyan (China)               Xiang, Haifan (China)             Bursi, Oreste S. (Italy)

Chopra, Anil K. (USA)           Dork, Uwe E. (Germany)         Elnashai, Amr S. (USA)

Fardis, Michael N. (Greece)    Fu, Gongkang (USA)               Kareem, Ahsan (USA)

Kasai, Kazuhiko (Japan)         Kubo, Tetsuo (Japan)                Lee, George C. (USA)

Leon, Roberto(USA)              Reinhorn, Andrei M. (USA)       Sozen, Mete A. (USA)

Spencer, Billie F. (USA)       Stojadinovic, Bozidar (Switzerland)

Yang, Yeong-Bin (Chinese Taipei)   To be determined 

Contact

All inquiries to the forum please contact:

The Seventh Kwang-Hua Forum Secretariat

State Key Laboratory of Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering, Tongji University

1239 Siping Road, Shanghai 200092, China

Dr. Peizhen Li      E-mail: lipeizh@tongji.edu.cn     Tel: +86-21-65986186         +86-13816207375

Dr. Jiafei Jiang      E-mail: garfieljjf@126.com        Tel: +86-21-65987352         +86-15026975589

Dr. Yan Xu          E-mail: yanxu@tongji.edu.cn       Tel: +86-21-65983116 ext.2417     +86-15021048702

Dr. Zheng Lu      E-mail: luzheng111@tongji.edu.cn     Tel: +86-21-65986186          +86-13917092993