24th — 25th June 2019 | London, UK

SeismiCON 2019 Call for Papers

Abstract Deadline 24th December 2018. Abstracts should be sent to seismicon@asranet.co.uk

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2nd Interna onal Conference on

Seismic Design and Analysis of

Structures and Founda ons

Key Dates  

Abstract Deadline: 24th December 2018 Abstract Acceptance: 24th February 2019

Full Paper Submission: 24th April 2019 Registra on Close: 24th May 2019

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Conference Themes   

Organising Commi ee 

Technical Advisory Panel    

Professor Purnendu Das, ASRANet Ltd, UK

Dr Piotr Omenze er, The University of Aberdeen, UK

Full Registra on: £400

Student Registra on: £200

About the Conference: Throughout history we have seen the devasta ng effects of earthquakes in high seismic regions across the world. Recently, in Italy, Chile, Nepal and 

Indonesia earthquakes with large magnitudes have caused serious loss of life and severe damage to infrastructures, making everyday living extreme-

ly difficult. Risks also arise  from tsunamis, seen from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, necessita ng a global  response to reduce hazards  in 

nuclear power plants.  The economic and life losses associated with earthquakes are mostly related, directly or indirectly, to damage of buildings and 

infrastructure. Popula on growth and poorly built housing are among the  factors which have  increased vulnerability  to disasters  following earth-

quakes. Seismic resilient infrastructure and risk reduc on in developing countries are very important to reduce both the long term and short term 

natural hazards. SeismiCON 2019 will bring together interna onal experts from academia and industry in the field of earthquake and geotechnical 

engineering, providing the opportunity to share and discuss their work and experiences with a focus on seismic design and analysis of structures and 

founda ons.  

Registra on Fees 

Dr. Katrin Beyer,  EPFL, Switzerland

Prof. Brian Broderick, Trinity College, Ireland

Dr. Mehmet Celebi, US Geological Survey, USA

Prof. Mohamed ElGawady, Missouri University of Science & Technology, USA

Dr. Gaetano Elia, University of Newcastle, UK

Prof. Amr Elnashai, University of Houston, USA

Prof. Massimo Fragiacomo, University of L’Aquila, Italy

Dr. Feng Fu, City University of London, UK

Dr Barnali Ghosh, Mo Macdonald, UK

Dr. Sumanta Halder, IIT, Bhubaneswar, India

Prof. Rolando Orense, University of Auckland, New Zealand 

Prof. Nawal Prinja, Wood, UK

Prof. Amr Elnashai, University of Houston, USA

Prof. George Mylonakis, University of Bristol, UK

Dr. Mehmet Celebi, United States Geological Survey, USA

Prof. Gian Paolo Cimellaro, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Prof. Mohamed ElGawady, Missouri University of Science & Technology,

USA

Prof. Philippe Guéguen, Université Grenoble Alpes, France

Dr. Masayuki Hyodo,  Yamaguchi University, Japan Prof. Michael Pander, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Prof. Sameh S.F. Mehanny , Cairo University, Egypt Prof. Constan ne Spyrakos, Na onal Technical University of Athens,

Greece

Dr. Stavros Mitoulis, University of Surrey, UK

Keynote Speakers 

Invited Speakers 

Structural Earthquake Engineering Seismic Risk Assessment 

Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Disaster Management  

Engineering Seismology Bridges, Buildings, Nuclear Plants, Dams, Founda ons, Geotechnical & Spe-

cial Structures 

Design and Analysis of New Structures Soil-Structure Interac on

Analysis and Assessment of Exis ng Structures Monitoring, Field and Laboratory-based Tes ng 

Seismic Retrofi ng Codes and Standards 

Performance Based Design  Field Missions & Lessons Learned

Loss Mi ga on Case Studies 

KeynoteandInvitedLectures

Prof.AmrElnashai,UniversityofHouston,USA

Integrated analy cal framework for analysis of buildings under earthquake and fire 

loading scenarios

Prof. Amr Elnashai is the Vice President and Vice Chancellor for Research and Technology Transfer at the University of Houston and the University of Houston System, respectively. He was previously Dean of Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University, USA, and the Harold and Inge Marcus Endowed Chair in Engineering. Before Penn State, he was head of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Amr is a fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineer-ing and fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers as well as the UK Institution of Structural Engi-neers. He authored/co-authored over 145 journal publications and 4 books and many other reports and publications. He advised 45 PhD students to graduation, and over 100 MS thesis students. Prof.GeorgeMylonakis,UniversityofBristol,UK

Stresses in soils due to seismic soil-structure interac on loads

George Mylonakis is Professor at the University of Bristol, where he leads the Earthquake & Geotechnical Engineering Research Group. He specialises in geotechnical earthquake engineering and soil-structure interaction with emphasis on pile foundations and retaining structures. He is recipient of the Shamsher Prakash Research Award (2002), the City University of New York’s Performance Excellence Award (1999) and a Nominee for the 2001 Best Paper Award of the Japanese Geotechnical Society (2001). He has co-authored over 200 scientific publications (over 70 in peer-reviewed journals), delivered more than 50 invited talks around the world, and served in the Editorial Board of 5 mainstream journals, including Ge-otechnique. He has been coordinator of numerous sponsored research projects. Findings from this research have attracted over 1000 citations by independent researchers. He is also affiliated with the University of Patras and UCLA.

Dr.MehmetCelebi,UnitedStatesGeologicalSurvey,USA

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Prof.GianPaoloCimellaro,PolitecnicodiTorino,Italy

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Prof.MohamedElGawady,MissouriUniversityofScienceandTechnology,USA

Recent developments in seismic behaviour of hollow-core bridge columns

Mohamed A. ElGawady, Ph. D., is Benavides Professor at Missouri University of Science and Technology (formerly University of Missouri-Rolla) with 20 years of experience in extreme loadings and sustainability. He held positions at Washington State University, University of Auckland, University of South Australia, and Tokyo Institute of Technology. He also worked as a structural engineer for three years. His research addresses the performance of existing structures under man-made and natural hazards. He has devel-oped innovative structural systems and sustainable materials to mitigate extreme events. He is heavily involved in different design and construction codes such as The Masonry Society Building Code, Ameri-can Concrete Institute Code, and Transportation Research Board. He is the Chair of ACI/ASCE Committee 441 on reinforced concrete columns and the ACI 341A on seismic behaviour of bridge columns, the Sec-retary for the Prestressed Masonry Committee, and Co-Chair the Masonry Research Committee. He co-authored 70 referred journal papers and 120 conference papers. Dr. ElGawady graduated 13 MS stu-dents and 6 PhD students. His work has been recognized through the inaugural Benavides Endowment Award, Joseph H. Senne, Jr. Academy of Civil Engineers Faculty Achievement Award, and Missouri Uni-versity of Science and Technology Faculty Excellence Award. Dr. ElGawady’s research is sponsored by Missouri Department of Natural Resources, US Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Admin-istration, University Transportation Center, Mid-America Transportation Center, Transportation North-west, Missouri Department of Transportation, and Washington State Department of Transportation. Prof.PhillipeGuéguen,UniversitéGrenobleAlpes,France

Structural health monitoring applied to civil engineering buildings a er earthquakes 

using strong and weak mo on data

Prof. Philippe Guéguen is a senior research scientist at the Earth Sciences Institute (ISTerre, University Grenoble Alpes/CNRS) and at IFSTTAR. He obtained his PhD degree in Geophysics in 2000 from the Jo-seph Fourier University in Grenoble. Since then, he has been working mainly in engineering seismology and earthquake engineering. His research is related with seismic vulnerability and strong ground mo-tion, with a special emphasis on the effects of free-field ground motion on buildings, soil-structure inter-action, structural health monitoring and seismic risk at the urban scale. He was Director of the French Accelerometric Network (2004-2011 and 2014-2017) and initiated the National Building Array pro-gramme. He also participated in various national and European projects as coordinator (ANR-Urban Seismology; Interreg RiskNat) or participant (NERIES-FP6, NERA-FP7, Strest-FP7). He is co-owner of an US and European Patent for an ambient vibration measurement tool. He published more than 60 papers in peer-review journals.

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Prof.MichaelPender,UniversityofAuckland,NewZealand

Nonlinear founda on damping from field tests on shallow and pile founda ons – input 

to structure- founda on design

Michael Pender is Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Auckland, a position he has held since 1985. Before joining the Universi-ty, he worked for the New Zealand Ministry of Works and Development’s Central Laboratories in Lower Hutt being in charge of the Geotechnical Laboratory providing laboratory testing services for designers and interpreting the data so obtained. In the early 1970s, he was a post-doctoral fellow with the Soil Mechanics group at the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Professional Engi-neers New Zealand, a Life Member of the New Zealand Geotechnical Society, and a Life Member and Fellow of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering. Since 2003, he has been a visiting pro-fessor to the European School for Advanced Studies in the Reduction of Seismic Risk (ROSE School), the University of Pavia. His primary areas of interest in teaching, research and consulting are the elucidation of the geotechnical properties of residual and volcanic soils, the earthquake resistant design of foundations, limit state design in geotechnical engineering, and the engineering behaviour of closely jointed rock masses.

Prof.ConstantineSpyrakos,NationalTechnicalUniversityofAthens,Greece

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