Modern Solutions to Seismic Risk Mitigation: A Sino-Canada joint effort to deal with a challenging problem
Presentation slides and videos from the 2013 presentations are available below:
Session 1 – Concrete and Masonry Structures
Mitchell – Evaluation and retrofit of existing shear walls
Adebar – Seismic design of shear wall buildings
Banthia – Enhancing the dynamic fracture toughness of concrete with fiber reinforcement
Saatcioglu – Seismic retrofit of concrete and masonry buildings
Chen Cong – Computational analysis of shear wall structures with replaceable coupling beams
Robazza – In-plane seismic behavior of slender reinforced masonry shear walls
Session 2 – Steel Structures
Renle Ma – Recent research and design on steel TV towers in China
Tremblay – Seismic evaluation and retrofit of existing steel structures
Tobber – Innovative structural steel fuses
Yuanjie Li – Seismic response of steel bucklind restrained knee-braced truss moment frames
Yang Yue – Experimental study on hysteretic behavior of new K-shaped steel dampers
Session 3 – Ground Motions and Seismic Hazards
Finn – Amplification effects of thin soft surface layers: A study for NBCC 2015
Chouinard – Microzonation maps for Montreal and Suburbs
Pina – Effects of deep intraplate earthquakes in subduction zones
Archila – Forward directivity and directionality effects on seismic response of buildings
Zhou – Vertical ground motion effects on high-rise buildings
Session 4 -Foundations
Session 5 – Timber Structures
Session 6 – Advanced Testing and Simulation
Zhang – Introduction to structural health monitoring systems of the Shanghai tower
Yang – Next-generation experimental testing methods for earthquake engineering research
Bebamzadeh – Efficient performance based design using parallel and cloud computing
Huffman – BC Smart infrastructure monitoring system
Ou Xiang – Ambient tests on dynamic characteristics for Shanghai tower under construction
Wang Yangling – Earthquake actions and testing approaches for curtain walls
Session 7 – Performance-based Earthquake Engineering