********************************************************************************************IISEE Newsletter No.83

August 20, 2012********************************************************************************************++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Contents+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1. The 4th China Seismic Building Course has finished
2. Call for Paper of IISEE Bulletin
3. Ask your Cooperation for Update
4. Response from those who received honorary scientist/engineer
5. Earthquakes in Northwest Iran on August 11++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++============================================================================[1] The 4th China Seismic Building Course has finishedThe 4th China Seismic Building Course is completed on July 31, 18 trainees from China returned
home safely. We received many favorable opinions from trainees such as "the concept of the Japaneseseismic design method would be helpful also in China" or "I want to use the Japanese technology ofseismic isolation and response control after returning to China."
Unfortunately, this is the last one of the China Seismic Building Course. Since beginning one year
after the Sichuan earthquake in China in 2008, a total of 72 structural engineers from all over China
have attended this training course. It is strongly expected that the knowledge learnt through thetraining course would be utilized to improve seismic safety of buildings in China.
Taiki SAITO
Chief Research Engineer, IISEE------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[2] Call for Paper of IISEE Bulletin
Editorial Office of the Bulletin of IISEE invites you for publishing your research results on ourBulletin:i) the special articles for the year 2013 is being featured.
http://iisee.kenken.go.jp/bltndb/links/Call_for_Special_Articles.pdfii)the articles for usual submission also welcome.
http://iisee.kenken.go.jp/?p=public
For both cases, your submitted articles will be printed and also opened on IISEE web.
IISEE Bulletin Editorial Office------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[3] Ask your Cooperation for Update
IISEE, Building Research Institute, has a web site of "Information Network of Earthquake Disaster
Prevention Technologies" (http://iisee.kenken.go.jp/net/), so called "IISEE-NET". Some information isalready obsolete, so we would like to revise it especially about the seismic design code in thefollowing URL:
http://iisee.kenken.go.jp/net/seismic_design_code/index.htm
It is greatly appreciated if you provide us the latest information about the definition of design
seismic force by text and figures to:
bri-office@kenken.go.jp
Taiki SAITO
Chief Research Engineer, IISEE------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[4] Response from those who received honorary scientist/engineer"Honorary Scientist of IISEE" (Colombia)
I always was very happy to have had the opportunity to visit Japan and spend one full year to realize
its beauty, its culture, its knowledge and the spiritual strength of the Japanese People. On theoccasion of the very strong tsunami of the 11th of March 2011 that hit especially the Tohoku region, I
wrote to the IISEE expressing my feelings and our disposition. We had you, at IISEE, and all thePeople in Japan, in our hearts!
Rene van Hissenhoven, S.J. (Seismology course in 1970-1971)"Honorary Engineer of IISEE" (Indonesia)
I am very honored to receive the Honorary Engineer of the International Institute of Seismology andEarthquake Engineering (IISEE). I hope the 50 years celebration of IISEE was successful and I shallbe very glad to give a special lecture at the IISEE if I have the chance to visit Japan in the near
future.
Ir. Teddy BOEN (Earthquake Engineering course in 1962-1963)IISEE-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[5] Earthquakes in Northwest Iran on August 11
Two earthquakes which magnitude surpassed 6.0 occurred in East Azarbaijan province of northwest
Iran on August 11. Many houses collapsed and, it is reported that more than 300 people have been
killed and more than 3,000 injured. Dr. Mohsen Ashtiany, Director of International Institute ofEarthquake Engineering and Seismology (IIEES) in Iran introduced the following web-site
information to IISEE.
http://ieea.ir/
IISEE offers our condolences to the victims and hopes earlier recovery of the affected areas. JapanAssociation for Earthquake Engineering (JAEE) provides related data at the following web-site (inJapanese).
http://www.jaee.gr.jp/jp/disaster/2012iran/
Shoichi ANDO
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