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The 16th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering will be held at Department of Earthquake Engineering, IIT Roorkee from Dec.20-22, 2018. Fifteen Symposia of similar nature, held in the past since 1959 at an interval of four years, have made significant impact on the development and enhancement of Earthquake Engineering Education and Research. The 16th symposium assumes great significance as it will provide a platform to review the contributions and accomplishments of the Department in the field of Earthquake Engineering in the last fifty years and draw an agenda for future course of action keeping the national need in the forefront. Lately there has been a paradigm shift and more emphasizes is laid on disaster mitigation. The damage scenario due to recent earthquakes have once again highlighted the need to evolve appropriate strategies to enhance the knowledge on earthquake resistant construction and to ensure that the same is put to use by the end user.

The purpose of the symposium is to exchange professional experience and recent technological advances in Earthquake Engineering and allied fields. During last few years new policies at the national level have been debated and evolved, and limitations in providing relief measures during rescue operations have been realized. Lack of proper design to cater extreme events with long return period, poor quality of construction, inadequate administrative and legislative measures, problem of up-gradation of existing building stock, absence of appropriate mechanism for dissemination of technical know-how and awareness about earthquake resistant construction have formed the agenda of these debates. Appropriate plans and measures to be adopted at different administrative, technical and scientific levels have been devised by national bodies. This Symposium will provide a platform for researchers, professionals, planners and policy makers associated with Earthquake Engineering to share their views and opinions.

Call for Contributions:

All topics related to Earthquake Engineering and Earthquake Disaster Mitigation are invited. Following is a suggestive (not exhaustive) list of themes:

 

• Engineering Seismology and Seismotectonics

• Experience Derived from Recent Earthquakes and Tsunamis

• Earthquake studies using GIS/GPS/SAR/Remote Sensing

• Earthquake Hazard Assessment

• Seismic Instrumentation

• Strong Ground Motion, Site Characterization and its Effects

• Dynamic Properties of Soils and Ground Response

• Liquefaction and Seismic Ground Improvement

• Seismic Safety of Foundations and Machine Foundations

• Seismic Soil Structure Interaction

• Slope Stability under Seismic Conditions and Design of Embankments

• Earth Pressure and Retaining Walls under Seismic Conditions

• Seismic Safety of underground and Buried Structures and Pipelines

• Special Materials, Structures and Systems

• Earthquake Response Analysis, Design and Construction

• Codal Provisions on Earthquake Resistant Design

• Seismic Vulnerability, Risk and Resilience Assessment

• Structural Response Control

• Seismic Testing of Structures and Equipment

• Seismic Evaluation and Retrofitting of Structures

• Seismic Safety of non-structural Components, Equipment and Services in Buildings.

• Seismic Safety of Industrial Structures and Thermal and Nuclear Power Stations.

• Seismic Safety of Bridges and Dams.

• Seismic Safety of Historical structures and Monuments

• Seismic Safety of Offshore and Onshore Structures, including Effects of Tsunami.

• Damage Detection and System Identification

• Life Line and Urban Systems

• Microzonation and Urban Planning

• Earthquake Disaster Mitigation and Management

• Human Response and Socio-Economic issues

• Post-earthquake Rehabilitation

• Earthquake Engineering Education

• Public Awareness, Participation and Enforcement of Building Safety Laws

• Earthquake Prediction and Early warning System

 

Abstract Submission: through Easy Chair: https://easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?key=67014260.WCK2EnpIOzBgN8If

Registration Fee: (Early upto Oct.31, 2018/ Normal upto Nov.30,2018/ Late after Nov.30, 2018)

 

• Full Delegates from SAARC Nations: INR8000/ INR10000/ INR12000

• ISET Life Members/Fellows: INR7000/ INR9000/ INR11000

• Students/Research Scholars/Spouses: INR3000/ INR4000/ INR5000

• Foreign Delegates: USD300/ USD350/ USD350

 

Please follow the link https://www.iitr.ac.in/16see/registrationdetails.html for registration fee.

 

Important Dates:

• Last date of receipt of abstract: March 15, 2018

• Date of mailing provisional acceptance of abstract: March 31, 2018

• Last date of receipt of full paper: May 15, 2018

• Acceptance of full paper: June 15, 2018

• Conference Dates: 27th - 28th July, 2018

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​Conference Venue: 

Department of Earthquake Engineering 

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee,

Roorkee – 247 667, India

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