ControversIal Issues In Earthquake EngIneerIng
Announcement of
the First International ROSE Seminar
Pavia, 25-26 June 2001
Organised by
European School for Advanced Studies in Reduction of Seismic Risk
The University Institute for Advanced Studies (I.U.S.S.)
The Institute was created on an
agreement between the Italian Minister of University and the Rector of the
University of Pavia, with the purpose of introducing advanced programs at the under-graduate
and post-graduate level. The development of a system of European Schools of
Advanced Studies at the Master's level is one of the goals of the Institute.
The aim of the European School in Reduction of Seismic Risk is to prepare
professionals in the field of earthquake engineering. The seminar described
herein is being organized as a part of the activities of the School for the
year 2001.
Objectives of the Seminar
The European School of Advanced Studies in Reduction of
Seismic Risk has been established in the year 2000 to offer a high level
educational environment in earthquake engineering to top-level graduate
students from all over the world. The teaching system is based on short
courses, offered in series by very highly qualified international faculty. As a
part of the School program, an international seminar will be organized every
year, to present and discuss the Ph.D. theses in an advanced stage of
development. Although no Ph.D. thesis has been yet started, the First
International ROSE Seminar has been organized to establish a tradition and to
allow a forum for discussing some of the most controversial current issues in
earthquake engineering. It is foreseen that only eight presentations will be
given thus allowing an in-depth discussion of each of them. All members of the Scientific Board (who are
at the same time teachers at the ROSE School) will be present and will assure a
lively and entertaining discussion. However, if the Seminar is to have a real
impact on the development of the state-of-the-art in earthquake engineering it
will essentially depend on the participation of a significant number of
representatives of the world scientific community in this field, who are
therefore strongly encouraged to attend the seminar.
The eight contributions to the
seminar will be published, after a standard review process, in a special issue
of the Journal of Earthquake Engineering,
which will be distributed to all participants and to the subscribers to the
journal together with the first issue released in 2002.
The novel educational approach
developed within the ROSE School has offered the occasion of proposing a
session on innovative concepts in
engineering education, which will be open to educators in all fields of
knowledge, to discuss the teaching evolution imposed by the development of
communication media.
Monday, June 25
9:00–10:00 Welcome
and registration
10.00–12.00 Session
1
Innovative
concepts in advanced education
D.P.Abrams,
University of Illinois, Urbana
G.L.Fenves,
University of California, Berkeley
V.Cantoni,
Università degli Studi di Pavia
G.Vaggi,
Università degli Studi di Pavia
12.00–14.00 Welcome
Reception
14.30–16.30 Session
2: Chairman: I.M.Idriss
Controversial
issues in earthquake engineering
J.J.Bommer,
"Deterministic vs. probabilistic seismic hazard assessment: an
exaggerated and obstructive dichotomy"
J.Berrill & S.Yasuda "Lateral
spreading and piled foundations"
17:00–19:00 Session
3, Chairman: K.J.Bathe
Controversial
issues in earthquake engineering
P.E.Pinto,
P.Franchin & A.Lupoi "Difficulties in probabilistic determination
of seismic risk"
G.L.Fenves "Improvement
of simulation for earthquake engineering"
20:30 First ROSE Seminar Dinner
Tuesday, June 26
8:30–10:30 Session
4, Chairman: M. Nakashima
Controversial issues in
earthquake engineering
G.M.Calvi & S.Pampanin "Beam–column
joints damage and collapse: does it hold any relevance in RC frames
assessment?"
J.Spangler Shortreed, F.Seible
& G.Benzoni "Simulation issues
with a real-time seismic testing system"
11:00–13:30 Session
5, Chairman: M. Collins
Controversial issues in
earthquake engineering
A.S.Elnashai "Do we really need inelastic dynamic analysis?"
E.Cosenza & G.Manfredi "Assessment
of gravity load designed structures: problems in modeling"
M.J.N.Priestley "Direct
displacement-based seismic design of marginal wharves"
14:30– 17:30 Session
6, Chairman G.M.Calvi
(ROSE School Boards Members)
ROSE School: first six months of
life and future programs
Special presentation (time and location to be
defined):
E.C.Carvalho "Novel use of displacement-based design for
seismic assessment and strengthening of RC buildings"
(summary of the research project
ENV4-CT97-0548 – NODISASTR – funded by the CEC)
Chairman
G. M. Calvi, Università degli
Studi di Pavia, Italy
Scientific Board
D.P.Abrams, Univ. of Illinois at
Urbana, USA; F.Auricchio, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy
G.Ballio,
Politecnico di Milano, Italy; K.J.Bathe,
Mass. Inst. of Tech. Cambridge, USA
J.Berrill, Univ.of Canterbury,
Christchurch, New Zealand; J.J.Bommer, Imperial College, London, UK
F.Brezzi, Università
degli Studi di Pavia, Italy; E.C.Carvalho,
Lab. Nacional de Engenharia Civil, Lisbon, Portugal
M.Collins, University of Toronto,
Canada; E.Cosenza, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Italy
R.De Marco, Servizio Sismico
Nazionale, Italy; A.S.Elnashai, Imperial College, London, UK
G.L.Fenves, Univ. of California
at Berkeley, USA; L.Gambarotta, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy
P.Gasparini, Università di
Napoli “Federico II”, Italy; I.M.Idriss, University of California at Davis, USA
G.Macchi, Università degli Studi
di Pavia, Italy; M.Nakashima, University of Kyoto, Japan
A.Pecker, Geodynamique et
Structure, Paris, France; P.E.Pinto, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy
M.J.N.Priestley, Univ. of
California at San Diego, USA; F.Sabetta, Servizio Sismico Nazionale, Roma
F.Seible, Univ. of California at
San Diego. USA
Acceptance of further participants
In addition to the scientific board members and to the
ROSE School students, a maximum of 40 participants may be accepted. A 150 € fee
is required from participants, to cover the cost of coffee and lunch breaks,
the seminar dinner and the seminar proceedings.
Those who wish to attend the Seminar to contact the ROSE
School Secretariat.
Secretariat
ROSE
School
Collegio
Alessandro Volta
Via
Ferrata, 27100, Pavia, Italy
Tel: +39 0382 548735: Fax: +39 0382 528422
E-mail:
mailto:rose@unipv.it
Web-site: http://spadino.unipv.it/rose.html