Eleventh European Conference On Earthquake Engineering
September 6-11, 1998
CNIT, Paris la Défense, France
PARIS 1998 : A WORD FROM THE PRESIDENT
These closing years of the century coincidentally mark a turning point in earthquake engineering. The 20th century has witnessed the recognition of this discipline as a full-fledged science and has seen new construction governed by building codes, economic considerations permitting. Credit can be given to illustrious predecessors such as Timoshenko and Newmark, but also to our community, which has forged ahead with enthusiasm along the course these pioneers had charted. We have posed an audacious challenge to nature - and we have won - but our undertaking is nonetheless not at an end : in the 21st century, it is the turn of existing construction to be at issue, and the protection of populations with modest resources, which are those under greatest threat.
Through yet another coincidence, the 11th European Conference is to be held in Paris, in the Old World; it will provide the last opportunity for a large-scale international encounter in this century and thereby the best opportunity to measure the progress achieved. The 12th World conference is to take place in New Zealand on the newest of the continents : the first in the up coming century, it will accordingly present the best opportunity for a comprehensive forward look.
But conference or not, Paris ... is always PARIS, and all members of our association join me in extending a warm welcome to you here.
The President of AFPS
Darius AMIR-MAZAHERI
Chairman: Philippe BISCH
Members:
Darius AMIR MAZAHERI, Pierre LABBÉ, Félix DARVE, Jacky MAZARS, Françoise GANTENBEIN, Alain PECKER, Bernard HALPHEN, Jean-Marie REYNOUARD, Michel KAHAN, Pierre SOLLOGOUB
INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
General coordination
Pierre LABBÉ, Président, Jacky MAZARS, Alain PECKER
Members
Atilla ANSAL, Turkey; Denis AUBRY, France; Mohammed BELAZOUGUI, Algeria; Mounir BERRAH, Algeria; Edmund BOOTH, UK; Edouardo CARVALHO, Portugal; Panayotis CARYDIS, Greece; Armen DER KIUREGHIAN, USA; Jacob M.EISENBERG, Russia; Amr Salah ELNASHAI, UK; Mustafa ERDIK, Turkey; Ezio FACCIOLI, Italy; Peter FAJFAR, Slovenia; Rainer FLESCH, Austria; Mohsen GHAFORY-ASHTIANY, Iran; Aybars GURPINAR, Austria; Tsuneo KATAYAMA, Japan; Martin KOLLER, Switzerland; Wilfried B. KRÄTZIG, Germany; Dan LUNGU, Romania; Alberto MARCELLINI, Italy; Allessandro MARTELLI, Italy; Jacky MAZARS, France; Hormoz MODARESSI, France; Pierre MOUROUX, France; Farrokh NADIM, Norway; Manuel PASTOR, Spain; Vincenzo PETRINI, Italy; Paolo PINTO, Italy; Kyriasis PITILAKIS, Greece; Artur RAVARA, Portugal; Jean-Marie REYNOUARD, France; Horea SANDI, Romania; Stavros SAVIDIS, Germany; Adrian SCARLAT, Israel; Gerhart SCHUELLER, Austria; Ragnar SIGBJORNSSON, Iceland; Nikolaos THEODULIDIS, Greece; Ludmil TZENOV, Bulgaria; Jiri ZAHRADNIC, Czech Republic; Zbigniew ZEMBATY, Poland
The Conference will provide a forum for scientists and engineers. The European Conference is the natural place for the expression of intra-European cooperation and also a very valuable place for developing it. It also gives a unique opportunity for stimulating exchanges between Europe and other continents.
The accepted abstracts have been divided up into ten major topics and three special topics selected by the Organisation Committee. For each topic a coordinator was named, and was helped by a member of the Scientific Committee. They were in charge of organizing the review of papers by the International Scientific Committee and of choosing the form of each session in the topic (general lecture, oral presentations, poster sessions, round table).
In order to facilitate exchanges and discussions, the number of traditional oral sessions has been limited. Organisation of poster sessions was encouraged, including a typically one hour long general discussion driven by a facilitator. Were also encouraged round tables and workshop sessions, in particularly for presentations from working groups of EAEE
Wednesday 9th September : 2:30pm-6pm
CAMUS WORKSHOP
CAMUS is a French research program supported by the "Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique", the "Fédération du Bâtiment", the "Plan Génie Civil" and "Électricité de France". This program concerns the analysis of the behaviour of lightly reinforced concrete walls. The experimental part took place in the CEA shaking table facilities in Saclay and the numerical modelling was performed in France within the GEO research network.
An international benchmark has been organised under the auspices of the "AFPS", in order to compare and validate the numerical tools commonly used for the load bearing walls.
During the CAMUS workshop, the set of results of those simulations will be presented, analysed, discussed and compared to the experimental results. The workshop is open to non-participants upon previous registration and payment of 400 FF ; this participation includes the benchmark report.
THIRD FRANCE-USA WORKSHOP ON SEISMIC ZONATION -
An ad hoc "Organizing Committee" comprised of five to ten members each on the French and American sides will be formed in 1998 to:
A draft document containing the program for "seismic zonation 2000" will be distributed to representatives of twenty selected countries before the meeting and used as a framework for dialogue at the workshop. The draft plan will be modified to incorporate suggestions made during the workshop and published for trial use and comment.
ECOEST / ICONS
Various research works associated to these european program will be reported during the sessions of the Conference.
Also, participants in these programs are invited to specific meetings, which will take place on Saturday, 12th September, in the CNIT
EAEE : WORKING GROUPS AND TASKS GROUPS
A room shall be placed at the disposal of the working groups for their meetings.
A CD-ROM will include all lectures and papers selected by the Scientific Committee. It will be inserted in a book where keynote lectures and abstracts will be published.
Wednesday 9th September afternoon :
Visit of two facilities in the SACLAY Center of Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique
OSIRIS is an experimental reactor in operation since 1966 ; its thermal power is 70 Mth. This is a research light water pool type reactor. Its main objective is the high flux irradiation for nuclear power plant fuel and materials in order to improve their performances and reliability and the production of radioelements for medical and industrial objectives. TAMARIS : the seismic testing facility TAMARIS is part of the Mechanical studies Laboratory of the Mechanical and Technological Department. It has a permanent staff of 20 engineers and technicians. Its objectives are model development and validation, calculation methods development and qualification, codification and seismic qualification of components.
The main testing facility is the 6m x 6m table AZALEE which allows testing of specimen with a mass up to 100 tons. Next to it are located 3 small tables, with specific characteristics, a pit for testing of long specimen and a reaction wall. Pre-registration is required
WELCOME COCKTAIL
A welcome reception cocktail will be held on September 7, on the upper deck of the " Arche de la Défense ", a monument of outstanding architecture giving a panoramic view of Paris. The Arche de la Défense is 2 minutes walk from the Conference site.
A DINNER CRUISE ON THE RIVER SEINE
A dinner cruise on the river Seine that cannot be missed on a tourist trip.
T1 - Engineering seismology : seismicity, strong ground motion. B.MOHAMMADIOUN
T2 - Soils, rocks, construction, material : experimental aspects. J.G.SIEFFERT
T3 - Constitutive relations, linear and non-linear modeling. Computational aspects for materials, structures and soil-structure interaction. F.DARVE
T4 - Civil engineering projects. J.COMBAULT
T5 - Active and passive isolation. J.BETBEDER-MATIBET
T6 - Industrial facilities, lifelines, equipment. P.SOLLOGOUB
T7 - Vulnerability, seismic risk, strengthening. M.BOUCHON
T8 - Site effects, spatial variability of seismic motion. P.Y.BARD
T9 - Reliability analysis , probabilistic aspects. R.J.GIBERT
T10 - State of the art: seismic capacity design, design criteria, codes and standards. V.DAVIDOVICI
SPECIAL THEMES
TS1 - Eurocode 8 and national applications. Ph.BISCH
TS2 - Seismic risk in the Mediterranean Basin. J.P.MENEROUD
TS3 - Post-earthquake investigations and feedback experience. C.BOUTIN
Philippe BISCH
Vice-president of EAEE & Chairman of the Organising Committee of the XIth ECEE.
9th December 1997