Conference Program

MODERATOR: John Van De Lindt, Colorado State University;

DESCRIPTION: The final 30 minutes of the session will be a panel discussion on soft-story woodframe retrofit policy.

MODERATOR: Les Youd, Brigham Young University;

DESCRIPTION: Ground failures during the 1964 Alaska earthquake were a seminal event in the development of geotechnical earthquake engineering; very little attention was paid by engineers to seismically generated ground failure prior to that event. Several major investigations were made of these failures by Harry Seed and other geotechnical engineers and by USGS and Corps of Engineers personnel. I began my career with USGS in 1967, only 3 years after the earthquake, where I was a colleague with many of the original investigators. I conducted several studies of these failures as part of my USGS research, relying heavily upon personal conversations with these investigators, all of whom are now retired from the profession and many have passed on. Thus presentations from original investigators are not possible; however, some of us who have studied their work are.

MODERATOR: Mehmet Celebi, USGS;

DESCRIPTION: This session aims to emphasize what has been learned from 2011 Tohoku event, discuss the seismological and earthquake engineering issues of these effects and how these issues may be addressed during design and analyses processes. Current state of knowledge of ground motion hazards and risks to built environment will be discussed and debated. Current tall building design recommendations in the US and other countries will be discussed. Furthermore, case studies of recorded responses of tall buildings during the Tohoku EQ will be presented.

MODERATOR: Diane Foster, University of New Hampshire;

MODERATOR: Phillip Gould, Washington University;

MODERATOR: Kevin Franke, Brigham Young University;

MODERATOR: Abbie Liel, University of Colorado Boulder;

MODERATOR: Gian Paolo Cimellaro, Polytechnic University of Turin;

DESCRIPTION: The aim of this special session is to answer the following question: How can the technical, operational and social elements of critical structures and infrastructure systems be integrated, designed and planned for disaster resilience against multiple hazards? Recent disasters such as hurricane Katrina in the U.S. in 2005, the 2010 Chile earthquake or the 2011 Tohoku earthquake in Japan, among others, have triggered the question about the role that the resilience of structures and infrastructural facilities should play for societies to rebound after threats or disasters, some of which cannot be averted. Designing resilient structural and infrastructural systems requires interdisciplinary collaborative efforts to formulate new approaches and metrics that jointly consider performance and post event functionality goals that enhance disaster resilience. The engineering and functional aspects of critical buildings and infrastructure systems should be developed considering their lifetime with respect to impacts from disasters, repair and retrofit interventions, and evolving urban dynamics. Resilient structural and infrastructural systems also require considering interdependencies with other systems, and ultimately how they affect the aftermath of emergencies and disasters. At this time, there are no explicit procedures that suggest how to quantify resilience for structures or in infrastructures in the context of multiple hazards, how to compare structures and systems with one another in terms of their resilience, or how to determine whether individual retrofit interventions on structures or facilities move them in the direction of becoming more resilient. This special session aims to attract academics, researchers, students, post-graduate students and professional engineers dealing with, but not limited to, topics in technical-socio-economic functionality of structures and infrastructures, probabilistic risk and resilience-based design principles for recommended practices and standards, environmental dependencies and interdependencies of individual and spatially distributed structures and infrastructures, optimal considerations in pre- and post-event retrofit and restoration, and resilience based decision support systems for existing and new construction and dependent infrastructures.

MODERATOR: Utpal Dutta, University of Anchorage Alaska;

MODERATOR: Dimitrios Vamvatsikos, National Technical University of Athens;

MODERATOR: Joesph Maffei, Maffei Structural Engineering;

MODERATOR: Kohji Tokimatsu, Tokyo Institute of Technology;

MODERATOR: Catherine French, University of Minnesota;

MODERATOR: Marcia McLaren, Pacific Gas and Electric Company;

DESCRIPTION: This special session will follow on the successful EERI Strong Motion Forum, held at the EERI Annual meeting since the 1990s and the recent COSMOS Strong Motion Forum held in 2012 at the 15WCEE. The session will bring together data users and data providers to improve data awareness and showcase the development of new and innovative user tools to support the application of worldwide ground and structural strong motion data. The EERI Strong Motion Forum has long supported 1) SM instrument deployment in the United States and other strategic locations throughout the world, 2) development of uniform standards for the processing and interpretation of strong motion data, and 3) improved methods for data dissemination to engineers and geoscientists to better inform the public about seismic hazard. COSMOS is a global focal point of international leadership and cooperation for the acquisition, processing, dissemination, and application of the earthquake strong motion data. Topics will include: updates on innovative technologies for data recording in structures and from weak/strong motion networks; improvements in data repositories and dissemination tools; new features of ShakeMap , ShakeCast and Pager using real-time national and global data; international data providers, and international cooperation in strong motion monitoring and data dissemination; updates from international data providers on the current status of their monitoring activities, including any recent enhancements to their networks, and information on access to data. Following the presentations will be an open discussion on the future needs for user tools to help facilitate the use of strong motion data by practicing engineers and the earthquake engineering community in general, and a discussion on removing the barriers to worldwide strong motion data sharing and improving communication and collaboration among data providers and between the providers and data users.

MODERATOR: Janise Rodgers, GeoHazards International;

DESCRIPTION: Brief update on Framed Infill Network activities and results to date, followed by technical presentations and discussion.

MODERATOR: Henri Gavin, Duke University;

MODERATOR: Mircea Grigoriu, Cornell University;

MODERATOR: Stephanie Chang, University of British Columbia;

MODERATOR: Jack Baker, Stanford University;

DESCRIPTION: Simulation of potential ground motions from large earthquakes, utilizing models of earthquake rupture sources and wave propagation, is an area of active research in the earth science community. Refinement and validation of these models requires collaboration between ground motion modelers and engineering users, and testing/rating methodologies for simulated ground motions to be used in engineering applications. This special session will provide the audience with an introduction to this field, with a focus on research activities coordinated by the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC). Presenters in this session are drawn from a variety of fields including earth scientists, computer scientists, and engineers. The session aims to provide a concise overview of this field in an effort to disseminate work on this topic to conference participants who might not be exposed to earth science research. Session speakers will to highlight the relation between traditional methods of ground motion simulations and new methods currently under development and evaluation.

MODERATOR: Richard Wood, University of Nebraska-Lincoln;

MODERATOR: Dominic Kelly, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger;

MODERATOR: Lori Dengler, Humboldt State University;

DESCRIPTION: A plenary session focusing on post Alaska 1964 advances in tsunami hazard assessment (including numerical modeling and paleotsunami studies), warning coordination (evaluation, real-time modeling and forecasting, messaging and dissemination) and tsunami mitigation (education, outreach, planning/zoning, evacuation strategies, recovery etc.).

MODERATOR: Terry Paret, Wiss Janney Elstner Associates Inc.;

DESCRIPTION: In addition to presentations on damage assessments and repair methodologies for some of the damaged structures, the session will cover the seismic vulnerability assessment of The Washington Monument and the seismology of the event and the region..

MODERATOR: Cale Ash, Degenkolb Engineers;

DESCRIPTION: Interactive session on leadership in seismic safety advocacy

MODERATOR: Tim Hart, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory;

DESCRIPTION: Confined masonry construction is among the least understood building structure systems in use today. Except for some Latin American countries and a few countries in Asia where confined masonry is commonly built, building code provisions for confined masonry are often incomplete or inadequate if they even exist at all. North American engineers do not get exposed to confined masonry until they are assigned a confined masonry project in a developing country and have to learn the system on the fly. Some engineers and builders in developing countries where confined masonry is common do not have the technical background to properly design and construct the structural elements. Engineers and government officials in developing countries where confined masonry is not commonly used may not be aware of the benefits of confined masonry relative to similar but poorer performing systems such as unreinforced masonry. This session is intended to introduce confined masonry and the Confined Masonry Network to those not familiar with them and to provide the latest in technical guidelines and research to those who are familiar with confined masonry.

MODERATOR: Helen Crowley, GEM Foundation;

MODERATOR: Nilesh Shome, Risk Management Solutions;

MODERATOR: Rachel Davdison, University of Delaware;

MODERATOR: Kofi Addo, BC Hydro;

DESCRIPTION: Development of a Western Canada Earthquake Catalogue Seismic characterization of the a) Cascadia subduction zone b) Crustal sources

MODERATOR: Laura Lowes, University of Washington;

MODERATOR: Liam Wotherspoon, University of Auckland;

DESCRIPTION: The focus of this session will be on observations made following the Canterbury, New Zealand earthquake sequence and their resulting implications to the state of practice of engineering seismology and geotechnical engineering, both in the Canterbury region and beyond. This session is one of two synergistic sessions on the Canterbury earthquake sequence that is being proposed. The other session is entitled: The Canterbury Earthquake Sequence: Lessons for Response and Recovery and is being proposed by Dave Brunsdon and Ken Elwood. As the name for this latter session implies, it will primarily focus on the lessons learned about response and recovery issues from the Canterbury earthquake sequence. It is envisioned that the two sessions will be held sequentially (in the same room), with this session being held first and immediately followed by the Brunsdon-Elwood session. Also, it is anticipated that some of the presenters from this session will serve as panel members for the Brunsdon-Elwood session. The presenters for this session will be largely invited and papers will be optional. In lieu of submitting a paper to the conference, the presenters may opt to refer to papers that are to be published in the Earthquake Spectra Special Issue on the Canterbury earthquake sequence that is schedule for release in February 2014. An overview of potential presentations and authors is provided below.

MODERATOR: Stephanie Ross, USGS;

DESCRIPTION: The SAFRR Tsunami Scenario is a hypothetical depiction of a M9.1 earthquake near the Aleutian Islands and the effects of the resulting tsunami on the people and the built and natural environment of coastal California. The scenario asks the question, how can the physical, engineering, environmental, ecological, and social sciences help coastal communities improve their resilience to tsunamis? Like the ShakeOut and ARkStorm scenarios before it, the Tsunami Scenario focuses on stakeholders: who are they, what measures of hazard, damage, loss, or other impacts do they care about, and how can the USGS and its partners in its Science Application for Risk Reduction (SAFRR) project provide answers to help make risk-management decisions? Stakeholders included major ports, marinas, coastal communities, firefighters and other public and private emergency managers, Caltrans, and people concerned with environmental and macroeconomic impacts of tsunamis. Panelists will discuss these topics, summarizing our data, methodologies and results. We will discuss the mitigation and preparedness efforts underway as a result of the scenario, and discuss the implications of the scenario for research and public policy.

MODERATOR: Curt Haselton, Chico State University;

MODERATOR: Charlie Kircher, Kircher & Associates;

MODERATOR: Shih-Ho Chao, The University of Texas at Arlington;

MODERATOR: Peter Yanev, Yanev Associates LLC;

MODERATOR: Chris Rojahn, Applied Technology Council;

DESCRIPTION: This session will provide an overview of results from ongoing and recently completed federally funded ATC projects to develop and apply next-generation procedures and tools for seismic performance assessment of buildings, including (1) the recently completed FEMA P-58 documents on next-generation procedures and tools for seismic performance assessment of buildings, (2) new stakeholder documents for building owners and occupants to promote use and understanding of the FEMA P-58 technology; (3) related integrated procedures for measuring the environmental benefits of building seismic design and construction; and (4) use of these next-generation tools to benchmark the expected seismic performance of buildings designed and constructed in accordance with existing codes.

MODERATOR: Sri Sritharan, Iowa State University;

DESCRIPTION: In several high seismic regions around the world that experience seasonal freezing, large to great earthquakes have historically occurred in winter months (e.g., 1811-1812 New Madrid earthquake, 1964 Alaska earthquake and 1995 Kobe earthquake).

MODERATOR: Yousef Bozorgnia, UC Berkeley;

MODERATOR: Scott Miles, Western Washington University;

MODERATOR: Ken Elwood, University of British Columbia;

DESCRIPTION: The focus of this session will be on lessons for future events in North America related to response and recovery.

MODERATOR: Adrian Rodriguez-Marek, Virginia Tech;

MODERATOR: Dimitrios Lignos, McGill University;

MODERATOR: Dimitrios Konstantinidis, McMaster University;

MODERATOR: Matthew Eatherton, Virginia Tech;

MODERATOR: Vitor Silva, GEM;

DESCRIPTION: This Special Session will showcase the OpenQuake Platform and related resources that towards the end of 2014 will allow stakeholders worldwide to calculate, visualise and investigate earthquake risk, capture new data and share findings, as basis for increasing risk awareness and resilience to earthquakes. The platform integrates datasets, best-practice, open-source software and tools for holistic seismic risk assessment, that are being developed by hundreds of leading experts and professionals within the scope of the global collaborative Global Earthquake Model (GEM). This session will be chaired by Dr. Ross Stein (USGS) and Dr. Anselm Smolka (Secretary General of the GEM Foundation).

MODERATOR: Chris Rojahn, Applied Technology Council;

MODERATOR: Douglas Nyman, DJ Nyman & Associates;

DESCRIPTION: The first paper listed above is intended to be a general paper summarizing how TAPS was the first oil pipeline designed for seismic hazard mitigation and how it influenced development of the seismic engineering methodology for future projects.

MODERATOR: Jack Baker, Stanford University;

MODERATOR: ZhiQiang Chen, University of Missouri System;

MODERATOR: Nilesh Shome, RMS;

DESCRIPTION: A pair of talks on 1) aftershock hazard by seismologists 2) structural fragility/vulnerability including aftershocks, by structural engineers, 3) and incorporation of aftershocks in risk assessment, by risk modelers. Each pair of talks will be followed by discussion on issues based on the expertise of the speakers and those discussions will be moderated by one of the session chairs.

MODERATOR: Muralee Muraleetharan, University of Oklahoma;

DESCRIPTION: We propose to bring together a panel of academics, practicing engineers, and ground improvement experts, covering both structural and geotechnical disciplines, and have short presentations and a lively discussion of issues related to research, education, and practice of seismic ground improvement and it benefits to seismic behavior of structures. The topics to be discussed will include: unique experimental research using NEES equipment, NEEShub and its role in seismic ground improvement research, design and construction of pile foundations in weak soils, soil-pile-structure interactions, soil-structure interaction education at undergraduate and graduate levels, and innovative soil-structure interaction educational modules for K-12 and undergraduate students.

MODERATOR: Leonardo Massone, University of Chile;

MODERATOR: Ian Aiken, Seismic Isolation Engineering Inc.;

MODERATOR: Lindsey Maclise, Forell/Elsesser Engineers Inc.;

MODERATOR: Judith Mitrani-Reiser, Johns Hopkins University;

MODERATOR: Jay Harris, National Institute of Standards and Technology;

MODERATOR: David Sanders, University of Nevada Reno;

MODERATOR: Brendon Bradley, University of Canterbury;

MODERATOR: Kishor Jaiswal, Synergetics Inc;

MODERATOR: Perry Adebar, University of British Columbia;

MODERATOR: Keri Ryan, University of Nevada Reno;

DESCRIPTION: This session will use the traditional format of complementary presentations by a variety of speakers. In the session, one representative each from Japan and the U.S. will deliver coordinated presentations on recent E-Defense projects with a significant U.S. Japan collaborative component in each of the following areas: 1) high-performance reinforced concrete buildings, 2) underground structures, and 3) base-isolated buildings.

MODERATOR: Katerina Ziotopoulou, University of California Davis;

MODERATOR: Jeffrey Berman, University of Washington;

MODERATOR: John Stanton, University of Washington;

MODERATOR: Jim Ricles, Lehigh University;

MODERATOR: Robert Bachman, RE Bachman Consulting Structural Engineers;

DESCRIPTION: This session comprises technical presentations addressing the significant findings of recent studies on the response of different nonstructural components to earthquake loading from both system level and subsystem level testing including the full scale building level shake table testing conducted at both University of California at San Diego and University of California at Reno.

MODERATOR: Santiago Pujol, Purdue University;

MODERATOR: Mark Petersen, USGS;

MODERATOR: Peter Lee, Skidmore Owings & Merrill;

MODERATOR: Toshimi Kabeyasawa, The University of Tokyo;

MODERATOR: Tom Hacker, Purdue University;

DESCRIPTION: A number of earthquake engineering research activities have been developed through activities of NEES community collaborating on the NEEShub. This session will demonstrate a selected set of these activities and have them available for participants to explore in real time. The goal is to provide participants with enough information about the activities for use in their own research, education, and outreach activities. The session will be heavily advertised to both faculty and to EERI student chapters.

MODERATOR: Jonathan Bray, UC Berkeley;

DESCRIPTION: The Tenth U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering provides an exceptional opportunity to bring together researchers and engineers who could contribute to an informative discussion of SSSI issues. A 90 minute panel discussion session is proposed to address topics in SSSI. There will be six panel members and a chair who will orchestrate the session. Each panel member will have 10 minutes to present an aspect of SSSI. Their presentations will be followed by 30 minutes of discussion by the audience and panel members. Panel discussion will focus on practical implications of SSSI in earthquake engineering.

MODERATOR: Constantin Christopoulos, University of Toronto;

MODERATOR: Marc Eberhard, University of Washington;

MODERATOR: Xiaoyun Shao, Western Michigan University;

DESCRIPTION: Short presentations followed by panel discussions. The session will start with a short presentation from the identified participants (list below) for the first 30~45 minutes of the session. Each presenter will be required to include the essential hybrid simulation implementation aspects of their respective project and highlight the challenges and new developments. Then the session chairs will initiate a panel discussion around each application aspects (list above) and tried to answer the following two questions of each aspect as a group of earthquake engineering researchers: o What enabling role has hybrid simulation played in having an impact on civil engineering research and practice? o What are the desired features in these application aspects that will expand hybrid simulation applications to solve grand challenge problems?

MODERATOR: Eduardo Miranda, Stanford University;

MODERATOR: Arturo Schultz, University of Minnesota;

DESCRIPTION: Recent research has indicated that partially grouted masonry shear walls do not respond to seismic loading in the same manner as fully grouted masonry walls. Besides exhibiting different modes of failure, partially grouted shear wall tests have also illustrated lateral load capacities consistently lower than expected from shear strength formulas, that are applicable for gully grouted shear walls, in current building codes. In response to this hazardous situation, the NSF NEES program has initiated a research program to investigate the performance of partially grouted masonry walls, as well as to develop computational techniques to simulate their behavior and shear strength formulas and procedures that are amenable for building codes.

MODERATOR: Sheri Molnar, University of British Columbia;

MODERATOR: Luis Ibarra, University of Utah;

MODERATOR: John Wallace, UCLA;

DESCRIPTION: The session will be organized into three parts - coupling beams (30 min), Wall flexure (30 min) and Wall shear (30 min). Two or three speakers will be give a total of about 20 minutes to make a case for some important findings and, more importantly, unresolved issues, and then the remaingin 10 minutes for each topic will be for discussion and questions. Speakers will inlcude both university researchers and practising engineers. Ech speaker has been asked to seek input from others, so that their presentation provides a

MODERATOR: Thalia Anagnos, San Jose State University;

MODERATOR: Mike Mahoney, FEMA;

MODERATOR: Cameron Black, Seismic Isolation Engineering Inc.;

MODERATOR: Robert Nigbor, UCLA;

MODERATOR: Catherine Whyte, ETH Zurich;

MODERATOR: Marc Eberhard, University of Washington;

MODERATOR: Jordan Jarrett, Virginia Tech;

MODERATOR: Hiroshi Kawase, Kyoto University;

MODERATOR: Matt Eatherton, Virginia Tech;

MODERATOR: Chris Poland, Chris D. Poland Consulting Engineer;

DESCRIPTION: The San Francisco Earthquake Safety Implementation Program (ESIP) grew out of the Community Action Plan for Seismic Safety (CAPSS), a community derived set of recommendations aimed at improving the City

MODERATOR: David Bonneville, Degenkolb Engineers;

DESCRIPTION: Seismic building code development in the U.S. starts in the Building Seismic Safety Council

MODERATOR: Ross Boulanger, University of California Davis;

MODERATOR: Andy Taylor, KPFF Consulting Engineers;

DESCRIPTION: This session will focus on describing the state-of-the-art of application of seismic isolation systems, the observed behavior of these systems, and projections for future advancements in seismic isolation technology.

MODERATOR: Richard Wood, University of Nebraska-Lincoln;

MODERATOR: Kurt McMullin, San Jose State University;

MODERATOR: Saiid Saiidi, University of Nevada Reno;

MODERATOR: Ying Zhou, Tongi University;

DESCRIPTION: This special session is on earthquake resilience of tall buildings. Research progress on the topic, especially on the US-China collaboration projects supported by NEES and NSFC, will be reported. There will be three speakers from US and three from China. Each presentation will be 15min including Q&A.

MODERATOR: Liesel Ritchie, University of Colorado at Boulder;

DESCRIPTION: In the past decade, social science research on impacts of tsunamis, as well as tsunami awareness and preparedness, has increased substantially, fostered in part by support from the National Science Foundation, NOAA, USGS, and others. This session will provide a forum to examine the

MODERATOR: Jack Moehle, UC Berkeley;