
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
CALL FOR PAPERS
FOR THE POSTER SESSION
INVITATION TO
PARTICIPATE
IN THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION
MAIN ORGANIZERS
Gruppo di Lavoro sull’Isolamento Sismico (GLIS)
dell’Associazione Nazionale Italiana di Ingegneria Sismica (ANIDIS)
and
Technical Group 5 on Seismic Isolation of Structures
of the European Association for Earthquake Engineering (EAEE)
WITH THE PATRONAGE OF REGIONE
DELL’UMBRIA
SPONSORED AT PRESENT BY ENEA, ACEDIS,
BANCA DELL’UMBRIA,
IMPRESA GENERALE DI RESTAURO POUCHAIN,
ISTITUTO EDILIZIA RESIDENZIALE PUBBLICA DI
PERUGIA
To be periodically updated on Internet at the site http://192.107.65.2/glis
The Seminar will be followed by the “5th Word Congress on
Joints, Bearings and Seismic Systems for Concrete Structures” (Rome,
October 7-11, 2001)
PRESENT CO-ORGANIZERS
Ente per le Nuove Tecnologie, l’Energia e l’Ambiente (ENEA), Italy
Joint Research Center at Ispra
(JRC) of the European Commission
Facoltà di Architettura dell’Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Italy
Facoltà di Ingegneria dell’Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy
International and European Associations for the Control of Structures
(IASC & EACS)
Ordini degli Architetti e degli Ingegneri delle Province di Terni e
Perugia, Italy
Servizio Sismico Nazionale (SSN), Italy
and
American University of Armenia - Armenia
University of Applied Sciences at Vienna – Austria
Université Libre de Bruxelles – Belgium
Universidad de Chile at Santiago – Chile
National Taiwan University - Chinese Taipei
Stevenson and Associates - Czech Republic
Commissariat à l’Energie
Atomique (CEA) / CE de Saclay - France
Maurer Söhne – Germany
University of Patras & University of Thessaloniki – Greece
B.A.R.C. – India
Agenzia Nazionale per l’Ambiente (ANPA), ANSALDO, Associazione Costruttori Italiani di Vincolo Strutturale
(ACEDIS), ENEL.HYDRO-ISMES, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra dell’Università
di Trieste, Università di Pavia & Università di Roma La Sapienza - Italy
Institute of Industrial Science of Tokyo University, Japan Society of
Seismic Isolation (JSSI), Japan Panel on Structural Response Control, Science University of Tokyo,
Tokyo Institute of Technology & Waseda University - Japan
Seoul National University – Korea
National University of Mexico - Mexico
Robinson Seismic Limited - New Zealand
Instituto Superior Técnico at Lisbon (IST) - Portugal
South China Construction University - P. R. China
Center of Capital Construction, Ost-Seism & Earthquake Engineering
Research Center of the Ministry of Construction (EERC) - Russia
Technical University of Catalonia at Barcellona – Spain
Mimar Sinan University at Istanbul – Turkey
Tun Abdul Razak Research Centre (TARRC) / Rubber Consultants - United
Kingdom
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME),
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), The State University of New York at Buffalo,
University of California at Berkeley, U.S. Panel on Structural Control Research
& University of Southern California at Los Angeles - USA

1. BACKGROUND
Nowadays, most innovative techniques for the passive control of seismic
vibrations - namely base seismic isolation (BSI), passive energy dissipation
(PED) and provisional hydraulic coupling (HC) by means of shock transmitters -
are considered to be already fully mature technologies of providing a
mitigation of seismic damage for civil structures and equipment and have proven
to be reliable and cost-effective for many structures such as bridges and
viaducts, civil buildings, cultural heritage and critical facilities. With
regard to the PED systems, several types of devices were recently developed and
optimized, like viscous, elastic-plastic, viscoelastic and electromagnetic
systems, as well as systems using shape memory alloys (SMA) and other smart
materials.
There are already approximately two thousands
applications of BSI, PED and HC in various countries, which concern not only
new constructions but also several retrofits of existing important structures,
including cultural heritage, as initially judged necessary especially after the
Loma Prieta (1989), Northridge (1994) and Kobe (1995) earthquakes and more
recently, after those which struck Italy in 1997-98 and Greece, Taiwan, Turkey,
Central America and India in the last two years.
It is worthwhile stressing that
the innovative anti-seismic techniques are of great interest not only for
highly seismic countries, but also for areas characterized by low or moderate
seismicity.
The design and behavior experience concerning
the large civil buildings and bridges and viaducts provided with base BSI, PED
and HC (for which the applications of such innovative anti-seismic systems are
the most numerous) is extremely important for widely extending the use of these
techniques to other extremely important application fields, like the cultural
heritage, regular apartment buildings and industrial facilities, including the
nuclear plants and other high risk facilities (e.g. some chemical plants). In fact, the applications in these fields
are not very numerous yet, although some applications to high risk facilities
are quite important and several new projects are in a rather advanced
development stage.
In addition, the progress of floor seismic
isolation and that of active, hybrid and especially, semi-active vibration
control techniques, for which important projects are now in progress in various
countries, has already led to some promising results, not only for the control
of wind-induced vibrations, but also for the seismic protection.
The only remarkable still
remaining problems for the innovative passive anti-seismic techniques concern
the design rules for structures provided with such systems. In fact, although
design rules or guidelines are now available in most countries, they are still
different in the different countries, frequently still penalize the use of the
innovative anti-seismic systems with respect to the conventional design and
their application still requires heavy approval processes. For the non-passive
control systems the problems are even worse: in fact, these techniques are not
considered by design rules.
International cooperation and detailed
exchange of information and experience in both civil field (including cultural
heritage) and the industrial (nuclear and non-nuclear) field are extremely
important for the correct development and application of all the
above-mentioned innovative techniques. To this aim, at San Francisco in 1989,
Italian, Japanese and US experts started organizing an International Seminar on
the innovative anti-seismic techniques. This first Seminar mainly dealt with
BSI of the nuclear reactors. Since then, this Seminar has been held every two
years, at Nara (Japan) in 1991, Capri (Italy) in 1993, Santiago (Chile) in
1995, Taormina (Italy) in 1997 and Cheju (Korea) in 1999. The Seminar
objectives were gradually extended from the nuclear reactors to the other types
of structures and from BSI to the other vibration control techniques. More and
more experts from more and more countries and International Institutions (the
European Commission and the International Atomic Energy Agency) joined the
International Organizing Committee. Until the last event of Cheju, the Seminar
was organized in conjunction with the International Conferences on Structural
Mechanics in Reactor Technology (SMiRT), in the framework of its
Post-Conference events.
This 7th International Seminar, on
the contrary, as recommended at Cheju, has been organized as an independent
event, based on the great interest in holding it in an area like Umbria Region,
which suffered severe earthquake damages in 1997 and where new important
applications of the innovative anti-seismic techniques were recently completed
or are in progress, and especially at site like Assisi, where the restoration
of the worldwide famous “Basilica Superiore di San Francesco” was seismically
retrofitted and restored by making use, for the first time in the world, of SMA
devices (it is well known that the 1997 earthquake had severely damaged the Basilica,
including famous frescos of Cimabue and Giotto).
In addition, the Seminar will be held in the
last three and a half days of the week preceding that of the 5th
World Congress on Joints, Bearings and Seismic Systems for Concrete Structures,
which will take place in Rome on October 7 to 11, 2001 (see page 2 of this
Announcement).
Similar to the two previous events held in
Italy, this 7th Seminar is being organized by the Italian Working
Group on Seismic Isolation (GLIS) of the Italian National Association for
Earthquake Engineering (ANIDIS) through the sponsorship and patronage of the
Italian Agency for New Technology, Energy and the Environment (ENEA), the
Government of Umbria Region and other Partners. For the organization of this
Seminar, GLIS has been supported by the Task Group 5 on Seismic Isolation of
Structures (TG5) of the European Association for Earthquake Engineering (EAEE).
Co-organizers are at present ENEA, the European and International Associations
for the Control of Structures (EACS and IASC), the Joint
Research Center at Ispra (JRC) of the European Commission (EC), the Faculty of
Architecture of the University of Ferrara and that of Engineering of the
University of Perugia, the Orders of Architects and Engineers of Perugia and
Terni Provinces (those located in Umbria) and the Italian National Seismic
Survey (SSN), together with other Institutions from several countries (Armenia,
Austria, Belgium, Chile, Chinese Taipei, Czech Republic, France, Germany,
Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, P.R. China, Portugal,
Russia, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the USA).
The aim of the Seminar is the further strengthening of
already established good basis for international collaboration for research,
transfer of technology and information, and implementation in practice of base
seismic isolation, passive energy dissipation, hydraulic coupling and shape
memory alloys, as well as dissemination of information among the population in
seismic prone countries to promote implementation of base isolation in
retrofitting or new construction of housing.
2. SCOPE
The 7th Seminar is being organized based on the increasing
success of the previous ones and according to the recommendations made by
participants in the Closing Panel of the last Seminar at Cheju, Korea, 1999. It
will provide again an opportunity for the exchange of updated, detailed
information concerning the state-of-the-art on the development and applications
of the previously mentioned innovative anti-seismic techniques.
Similar to the previous events, topics
covered by the Assisi Seminar will be base and floor isolation, passive energy
dissipation and provisional hydraulic coupling. In addition, as at Cheju, the
development and applications of active, semi-active and hybrid control of
seismic and non-seismic vibrations and the critical issues concerning the
application of innovative anti-seismic techniques in low and moderate seismic
areas will be dealt with.
With regard to the passive
control techniques, particular attention will be devoted to the following
issues, whose importance was identified at Cheju:
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Extension of retrofit using the innovative anti-seismic techniques;
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Improvement of studies concerning innovative systems applicable to
cultural heritage;
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Improvement of knowledge and development of systems for vertical
isolation;
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Promotion of more applications to hospitals and chemical plants and
components;
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Wide extension of application from strategic to apartment buildings;
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Performance of adequate monitoring;
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Improvement of knowledge on seismic input, in particular for near-field
earthquakes (how correct is this point was confirmed later by the 1999
earthquake in Turkey);
-
Improvement of
studies concerning some reliability and uncertainty issues which have not been
yet fully analyzed (including scale effects for qualification tests, the
behavior of the anti-seismic devices at earthquake levels exceeding the design
value and failure modes, at extremely violent beyond design earthquakes, of
structures provided with the anti-seismic systems);
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Consideration of other sources of vibrations which may damage or weaken
structures, for instance, traffic.
-
Comparison of design rules and guidelines applicable in the different
countries;
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Issues related to the applications in the low and moderate seismicity
areas.
To this aim, differently from previous
seminars, after those containing general lectures on state-of-the-art on
application and R&D, specific Oral Sessions will be devoted to lectures on
the different kinds of structures of interest for application of the innovative
anti-seismic techniques (namely: bridges and viaducts; strategic and important
buildings such as hospitals emergency management centers and schools; regular
apartment buildings; cultural heritage; and high risk nuclear and chemical
plants). The main new ongoing R&D projects will also be presented in the
Oral Sessions, while more specific but important topics concerning R&D and
single applications will be presented in the Poster Session. As suggested at
Cheju, invited lectures and contributed papers on applications shall containing
sufficiently detailed reference to seismic input, the codes used and problems
faced in using them, as well as cost evaluations.
In addition, the proposal
made at Cheju, to develop international design guidelines for structures
provided with the innovative anti-seismic systems (which also explain such
systems correctly and leave official codes out of consideration) will be
further discussed and again as suggested at Cheju, a volume collecting the
English translations of design rules and guidelines made available to the
organizers will be distributed to the participants in the Seminar as a draft
and may be published after some months.
Finally,
it is worthwhile stressing that the collaborations established for the
organization of the Seminar with the Regional Government of Umbria and the
local Orders of Architects should ensure the larger participation of
governmental officials and designers, with respect to previous seminars, which
had been augured at Cheju.
3. GENERAL REMARKS ON THE PROGRAM
The Seminar will last three and a half days, starting in the afternoon of Tuesday,
October 2, 2001, at 3:30 p.m.
Contacts are in advanced progress with the
IAEA to check the feasibility of organizing the Seminar in conjunction with the
Final Meeting of the Research
Coordinated Program (CRP) of the IAEA on “Intercomparison of Analysis Methods
for Predicting the Behaviour of Seismically Isolated Nuclear Structures”. In such a meeting the Final Report of such a CRP, as prepared by its
Technical Secretary, should be approved for publication by the Representatives
of the participating countries, after being examined and if necessary, updated
based on the results of the Seminar. The aforesaid meeting, restricted to the Representatives
of the countries participating in the
CRP, should be held in the morning on Saturday, October 6, 2001.
At any rate, a Meeting of Task Group 5 of the EAEE
will take place in such a day, which will be opened to all European
participants who are interested to join the Task Group and non-European
observers, as well. In addition, a Meeting
of Subcommittee (SC) 1 of Technical Committee (TC) 167 on “Anti-Seismic
Devices” of the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) will take place in the morning of October 2,
2001; this meeting will be restricted to the members of CEN TC 167 /SC 1.
The Seminar consists of Oral Sessions, Poster Presentations and
the International Exhibition. It should be followed by Technical Visits: in particular, the feasibility of visits to the ”Basilica
Superiore di San Francesco in Assisi” on Saturday, October 6, 2001, is been
checked by the organizers.
The
Oral Program
will consist of invited lectures presented or co-authored by experts from the
countries and international Institutions that are the most involved in the
development and applications of the new techniques, namely: Armenia, Austria,
Belgium, Chile, Chinese Taipei, the EC, EACS, France, Germany, Greece, IAEA, IASC, India, Japan, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Portugal, the P. R. China, the Russian
Federation, Spain, Thailand, the United Kingdom and the USA. As detailed in
Sect. 2, presented in such lectures will be the state-of-the-art of
applications and designs in both the civil and the industrial fields, overviews
on the ongoing R&D projects and future programs, and observations (if any)
of behaviors of structures provided with the innovative systems in actual
earthquakes occurred after the last Seminar at Cheju, Korea in 1999, as well as
the progress in the development of codes and standards, design rules, seismic
input for structures, and cost evaluation. New development of active,
semi-active and hybrid control techniques for seismic and non-seismic
vibrations and new applications of such techniques, as well as key issues in
the application of innovative anti-seismic techniques in low and moderate
seismic regions will also be addressed.
The
last part of the Oral Program will be a Closing
Panel, followed by Closing
Remarks, where experts from the most seismic areas and
international Institutions will draw conclusions based on the results of the
Seminar works and will make recommendations for future activities, including
whether the Seminar shall continue in 2003, and if yes, whether connected to
the SMiRT Conference to be held at Prague or not, and where it may be
organized: among others, the possibility of holding the 2003 8th
Seminar in Vienna (Austria) or Yeravan (Armenia) will be considered. To this
aim, it is noted that the American University of Armenia already officially
confirmed its proposal to organize the 8th Seminar in Yeravan in 2003.
In
the Closing Panel, decisions will also be taken on the foundation and
objectives of the “International Association of Seismic
Isolation”, which had been recommended in previous
Seminars: this Association may group National Associations or groups of them
like the Japanese JSSI, the “Chinese
Committee of Seismic Control of Structures”, the Italian GLIS, etc.
Poster
Presentations and the International
Exhibition, organized in parallel to the Oral Sessions,
will last the whole Seminar duration. Poster
Presentations will concern invited and selected contributed technical
papers dealing with specific items of particular interest for the Seminar,
such as new R&D on specific topics and single important applications.
Poster presentations of design rules applicable in the single countries,
which are part of the documents to be published in the already mentioned
volume, are also particularly welcome, in order to allow for a first discussion
on this topic among the participants. In the International Exhibition
displayed will be the general activities
and products of research centers, industrial companies and other
Institutions. The International Exhibition will be opened to the public,
during at least one day.
4. PROCEEDINGS, ABSTRACT VOLUME, VOLUME ON DESIGN RULES
All invited lectures presented in the Oral
Sessions and invited or contributed papers presented as Posters (those
contributed after acceptance of the International Technical-Scientific
Committee) will be published in the Seminar Proceedings (whether on printed volumes or compact disk - CD
- will be decided by the organizers at a later date), with the exception of the
English translations of design guidelines, which will be collected in a
specific volume, to be published after the Seminar, if all contributors agree
and if a suitable editor is identified.
All
lectures and papers and the related abstracts shall be written in English
and shall be made available to the Seminar Technical Secretariat as electronic
files, as explained in Sect. 5. Proceedings
will be distributed to the participants some months after the Seminar, while an
Abstract Volume will be distributed at the Seminar.
5. DEADLINES FOR SUBMITTING EXTENDED ABSTRACTS AND FULL MANUSCRIPTS
All authors of both lectures for the Oral Sessions and papers for the
Poster Session are requested to submit EXTENDED ABSTRACTS (including titles of
lectures or papers, authors and their affiliations and addresses and approximately
1 page text, typed according to Attachment 1
– “Typing Instructions for Your Paper – Example of a Paper”), as electronic
files, with Format “ .doc” (WORD), to the Seminar Technical
Secretary (Dr. M. Forni, forni@bologna.enea.it) within May 15, 2001, in order to allow the
International Technical-Scientific Committee to select the contributed papers
to be presented in the Poster Session and the organizers to print the Abstract
Volume before the Seminar. Acceptance of contributed papers for the Poster
Session will be notified to their main authors by June 15, 2001.
All authors of both lectures for the Oral
Sessions and papers for the Poster Session are also requested to submit the FULL MANUSCRIPTS (including
the contributions for the volume on design rules), again as electronic
files, possibly with Format “ .pdf” (ADOBE-ACROBAT), otherwise with
Format “ .doc” (WORD), to the Seminar Technical Secretary (Dr. M. Forni, by
e-mail to forni@bologna.enea.it or
by mail on magnetic support) within August 31, 2001,
so that photocopies of full paper manuscripts can be made and distributed to
the participants at the Seminar.
All lectures and papers for the Poster Session and the volume on design
guidelines shall be typed again according
to Attachment 1 (“Typing Instructions for Your Paper – Example of a Paper”).
6. OFFICIAL LANGUAGE AND SIMULTANEOUS TRANSLATION
The Seminar official language will be English (all lectures shall
be written and presented in English).
However, simultaneous translation into
Italian and when necessary (for welcome addresses, discussion, etc.), from
Italian into English, will be available.
7. SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Second Seminar Announcement, containing information on the
updated technical program, will be distributed in September 2001. This First Announcement
is available on Internet at the GLIS address http://192.107.65.2/glis:
it will be periodically modified to account for the most updated information,
by also including the scheduled detailed Seminar Program as soon as this is
sufficiently assessed and after June 15, the list of papers to be presented in
the Poster Session.
8. PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
OF THE ORAL
SESSIONS
The detailed Oral
Program of the Seminar has already been fully drafted and the assessment of its
final version is in advanced progress, according to the subdivision into
Sessions reported below.
October 2, 2001
(Tuesday)
08:00 – 15:30 Preparation of International Exhibition
booths (by the exhibitors) and installation of posters related to papers to be
presented in the Poster Session (by their authors)
08:00 – 15:30 Registration of the participants
14:00 – 15:00 Meeting of
Session Chairpersons, Panelists and Participants in the “Closing Remarks”
15:30 – 16:40 WELCOME ADDRESSES AND INTRODUCTION TO THE SEMINAR AND INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION
16:45 – 18:30 SESSION 01: THE SEISMIC PROTECTION OF
STRUCTURES: MAIN REQUIREMENTS AND BENEFITS OF USING THE INNOVATIVE ANTI-SEISMIC
TECHNIQUES
18:30 – 19:30 VISIT TO THE POSTERS AND INTERNATIONAL
EXHIBITION HALLS
19:30 – 20:30 Welcome Cocktail
offered by the organizers
October 3, 2001
(Wednesday)
07:30 – 08:30 Registration of the participants
08:30 – 09:55 SESSION 02: REMARKS ON THE DEFINITION OF
SEISMIC INPUT, ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN AND FINANCIAL ASPECTS
10:00 – 11:15 SESSION 03: STATE-OF-THE-ART ON
APPLICATION, R&D AND DESIGN RULES FOR SEISMIC ISOLATION AND PASSIVE ENERGY
DISSIPATION FOR CIVIL AND INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURES (I)
11:15 – 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 – 13:00 SESSION 04: STATE-OF-THE-ART ON
APPLICATION, R&D AND DESIGN RULES FOR SEISMIC ISOLATION AND PASSIVE ENERGY
DISSIPATION FOR CIVIL AND INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURES (II)
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch offered by the organizers to the
participants
14:30 – 16:00 SESSION 05: STATE-OF-THE-ART ON
APPLICATION, R&D AND DESIGN RULES FOR SEISMIC ISOLATION AND PASSIVE ENERGY
DISSIPATION FOR CIVIL AND INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURES (III)
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:00 SESSION 06: STATE-OF-THE-ART ON
APPLICATION, R&D AND DESIGN RULES FOR SEISMIC ISOLATION AND PASSIVE ENERGY
DISSIPATION FOR CIVIL AND INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURES (IV)
18:00 – 20:00 VISIT TO THE POSTERS AND INTERNATIONAL
EXHIBITION HALLS
20:00 – 21:30 PROJECTION OF THE FILM “LE FORME DELLA
MEMORIA” (THE SHAPES OF MEMORY) OF THE FILM DIRECTOR ENRICO BELLANI, PRODUCED
BY GIOTTO FILM, ON THE DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF THE INNOVATIVE
ANTI-SEISMIC TECHNIQUES (MUSICA PROJECT OF GLIS AND ENEA)
21:30 – 23:00 Dinner at the Grand Hotel Assisi (at
the costs of participants)
October 4, 2001
(Thursday)
07:30 – 08:30 Registration of the participants
08:30 – 10:30 SESSION 07: STATE-OF-THE-ART ON
APPLICATION AND R&D FOR ACTIVE, SEMI-ACTIVE AND HYBRID VIBRATION CONTROL
TECHNIQUES
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 13:00 SESSION 08: LARGE ONGOING R&D PROJECTS
ON THE INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUES FOR THE CONTROL OF SEISMIC AND NON-SEISMIC
VIBRATIONS (I)
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch offered by the organizers to the
participants
14:30 – 16:30 SESSION 09: LARGE ONGOING R&D PROJECTS
ON THE INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUES FOR THE CONTROL OF SEISMIC AND NON-SEISMIC
VIBRATIONS (II)
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 – 19:15 SESSION 10: REMARKABLE DESIGN EXAMPLES
CONCERNING RECENT APPLICATION OF THE INNOVATIVE ANTI-SEISMIC TECHNIQUES TO NEW
AND EXISTING BRIDGES AND VIADUCTS, WITH REMARKS ON THE USED REGULATIONS AND
COSTS
19:15 – 20:00 VISIT TO THE POSTERS AND INTERNATIONAL
EXHIBITION HALLS
20:30 – 24:00 Characteristic dinner offered by the
organizers
October 5, 2001
(Friday)
07:30 – 08:30 Registration of the participants
08:30 – 10:30 SESSION 11: REMARKABLE DESIGN EXAMPLES
CONCERNING RECENT APPLICATION OF THE INNOVATIVE ANTI-SEISMIC TECHNIQUES TO NEW
AND EXISTING STRATEGIC, PUBLIC AND REGULAR APARTMENT BUINDINGS, WITH REMARKS ON
THE USED REGULATIONS AND COSTS
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 13:00 SESSION 12: RECENT APPLICATION AND ONGOING
STUDIES CONCERNING THE USE OF INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUES FOR THE SEISMIC PROTECTION
OF CULTURAL HERITAGE
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch offered by the organizers to the
participants
14:30 – 16:00 SESSION 13: ONGOING AND PLANNED NEW
APPLICATION OF THE INNOVATIVE ANTI-SEISMIC TECHNIQUES TO THE NUCLEAR PLANTS,
WITH REMARKS ON THE USED REGULATIONS
16:10 – 17:40 SESSION 14: REMARKABLE DESIGN EXAMPLES
CONCERNING RECENT APPLICATION OF THE INNOVATIVE ANTI-SEISMIC TECHNIQUES TO NEW
AND EXISTING HIGH RISK CHEMICAL PLANTS, WITH REMARKS ON THE USED REGULATIONS
17:40 – 18:10 Coffee Break
18:10 – 19:30 SESSION 15: CLOSING PANEL ON TECHNOLOGY
TRANSFER AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
19:30 – 19:45 CLOSING REMARKS AND PROPOSALS / DECISIONS
FOR THE NEXT SEMINAR
19:45 SEMINAR
CLOSURE
9. PRE- AND POST-SEMINAR
TECHNICAL EVENTS
October 2, 2001
(Tuesday)
08:30 – 13:00 MEETING OF SUBCOMMEE (SC) 1 OF TECHNICAL
COMMITTEE (TC) 167 ON ANTI-SEISMIC DEVICES OF THE EUROPEAN COMMETTE FOR
STANDARDIZATION (CEN) (at Grand Hotel Assisi, restricted to the members of
CEN TC 167 / SC 1)
October 6, 2001
(Saturday)
09:00 – 17:00 POST-SEMINAR TECHNICAL VISITS TO THE
“BASILICA SUPERIORE DI SAN FRANCESCO IN ASSISI” (to be confirmed by the
organizers)
09:00 – 17:00 OTHER TECHNICAL VISITS (at the costs of
participants) (to be confirmed by the organizers)
09:00 – 10:00 MEETING OF PROMOTERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL
ASSOCIATION OF SEISMIC ISOLATION
10:00 – 11:30 FINAL MEETING OF CRP OF IAEA ON
“INTERCOMPARISON OF ANALYSIS METHODS FOR PREDICTING THE BEHAVIOUR SEISMICALLY
ISOLATED NUCLEAR STRUCTURES” (at Grand Hotel Assisi, restricted to the
Representatives of countries participating in the CRP – to be confirmed by the
IAEA)
11:30 – 13:00 MEETING OF TASK GROUP 5 ON “SEISMIC
ISOLATION OF STRUCTURES” OF THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING
(at Grand Hotel Assisi, opened to all European participants interested to
join the Task Group and to non-European observers)
October 7-11,
2001
5TH
WORLD CONGRESS ON JOINTS, BEARINGS AND SEISMIC SYSTEMS FOR CONCRETE STRUCTURES
(Rome).
10. POSTER PRESENTATIONS OF TECHNICAL PAPERS
The titles of the received invited technical
papers and accepted contributed papers to be presented in the Poster Session
will be reported in the Second Seminar Announcement, and will be available at
the Internet address of GLIS starting on June 15, 2001, where the list will be
periodically updated.
Authors will receive
the necessary information on the sizes of posters by June 15, 2001.
11. LOCATION OF THE SEMINAR AND EXHIBITION
The Seminar and
International Exhibition will take place at the Grand
Hotel Assisi, Via Fratelli Canonichetti, 06081 Assisi (Perugia)
(phone: +30-07581501, fax: +39-075-8150777, e-mail: info@grandhotelassisi.com), a
modern very peaceful and fancy four stars hotel located in the environs of the
city (about 30 minutes by foot from the center), with a marvelous view on the
hills, provided with excellent conference rooms and spaces for the exhibition
and poster presentations. Information on the Grand Hotel Assisi may be found on
Internet at the address www.grandhotelassisi.com
and will be also made available at the GLIS address.
Assisi, a very nice ancient and well known city of Umbria Region, not very far from Rome (where the 5th World Congress on Joints, Bearings and Seismic Systems for Concrete Structures) will be held the week after the Seminar) and close to Perugia, was selected as the site of the Seminar not only for its beauty, but also because it suffered severe damage during the 1997 Marche and Umbria earthquake (the case of the Basilica of St. Francis is the best known, but not the only one) and because at both Assisi and other sites of Umbria and the adjacent M