IISEE NewsletterAug 31 2017
Number 148

In This Issue• The OpeningCeremony andTraining of The 4thLatin AmericanEarthquake
Engineering Course• Closing Ceremony ofThe 4th Latin
American Earthquake
Engineering Course San Salvador, ElSalvador• IAG-IASPEI 2017
• Final Presentation

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The Opening Ceremony and Training of The 4th Latin
American Earthquake Engineering Course-San Salvador, El SalvadorBy Dr. Matsutaro SEKI, Visiting Research Fellow, IISEEThe complementary training ofLatin American Earthquake Engineeringcourse was held at San Salvador in El
Salvador. The main venues are theUniversity of El Salvador (UES) and the
University of Centro America “JoséSimeón Cañas”(UCA). The total
number was 23 persons, of which 9persons are UCA and UES students.
The opening ceremony was heldat Hotel Crown Plaza on July 10th(Photo.1). The invited members areProf. Edgar Peña, Vice Dean of UES,Prof. Patricia de Hasbún, UCA, Ms.
Shizuka Kamiya, JICA El Salvador
office, and Dr.Matsutaro Seki, IISEE,BRI.
The lectures on seismic evaluationof masonry structure and the testing
methodology by the professors of UAE
and UCA on July 10th to 12th and thefinal personal presentations by trainees
on July 19th and 20th were performed atHotel Crown Plaza.
The various tests had been done
at UAE and UCA. These tests were on
the construction of prism specimen ofbrick walls and conducting the diagonal
shear tests of masonry brick walls at
UAE on July 13, the test of the adobe
wall by the tiltable test and horizontal
static test of the confined masonry wallwith an opening at UAE on July 14th
and the horizontal static test of thereinforced concrete brick wall at UCA

Photo 1 The opening ceremony(Hotel Crown Plaza)

Photo 2
Construction of prism specimens (UES)

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on July 17th and 18th (Photo 2 to 6). At
the tiltable test site, Mr. Kazuo
Fujishiro, JICA chief representative andthe professors of UEA involved with thistest received the TV interview and werebroadcast.
On July 15th, they visited theFUNDASAL, incorporated nonprofit
organization and got the information on
Taishin construction system which has
been promoting the follow-up project
after the JICA Taishin project.
Regarding other activities, wereceived the interview from TV media
about the content of this training course
and JICA activity and so on (Photo. 7).
Finally, we appreciate the perfectpreparation for tests and theenthusiastic lectures by UEA and UCA,
the powerful logistics by JICA El
Salvador and the cooperation with Dr.
Oscar López from SENAPRED, Mexico,respectively. Therefore, this training
course finished successfully with fruitfulresults.

Photo 4
Tiltable test of the adobe masonry walls(UES)

Photo 5The horizontal static test of the confinedbrick masonry wall (UES)NO submission fee isneed.
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Photo 6The horizontal static test ofthe confined concrete brick masonry wall (UCA)

Photo 7The interview from National TV, Chanel 10

Closing Ceremony of The 4th Latin American
Earthquake Engineering Course-San Salvador, El Salvador-

By Mr. Mizuo INUKAI, Chief Research Engineer,IISEEThe closing ceremony of the Latin American Earthquake
Engineering Course was held on July 21st at the hall “Salón Cóbanos” ofHotel Crown Plaza that locates in the capital of Republic of El Salvador,
San Salvador, where we welcomed the distinguished guests:
Prof. Edgar Peña, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Architecture andEngineering, University of El Salvador (UES),
Prof. Francisco Alarcón, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering andArchitecture, UES,

Enjoy, Now

Prof. Carlos Cañas, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering andArchitecture of University of Centro America “José Simeón Cañas”(UCA),
Mr. Eliud Ayala, Vice Minister of the Public Works, Transports,
Housing and Urban Development,
Mr. Kazuo Fujishiro, Chief Representative of JICA El Salvador.
Prof. Edgar Peña, UES played the role of the master of ceremony.
Two professors of UCA, Ms. Patricia de Hasbún and Mr. Adolfo Ramos(2009-2010 Earthquake Engineering Course) who lead the real size
structural experiment in UCA were well known while Mr. Ramos had
attended to the ceremony. Also, Prof. Carlos Escobar and Prof. ManuelGutiérrez of UES who lead the prism test and the wall test were wellknown.
It was a happy and heartwarming time with the fourteen
participants from seven countries who have fully attended since May
11th, and nine more persons partly attended in the city of San Salvador
since July 10th. I would like to express my sincere thanks to all who
helped the realization of the course there.
I hope every participant of the course got satisfied and will try todisseminate their learnings and experiences in their own countries.
Finally, I would like to put emphasis on the friendly invitation
experience by the family of the other course participant in San Salvador.
The lecture language of the course is Spanish. Please feel free tocontact with IISEE if you need more information.

Group Photo after Closing Ceremony

IAG-IASPEI 2017

By, Dr.Yushiro Fujii, Senior Research Engineer, IISEEPhoto 1
Kobe International Conference Center

Dr.Yokoi (Director of IISEE),
Dr.Hara(Chief Research Engineer),
Dr.Shibazaki (Chief Research Engineer),
Dr.Hayashida (Senior ResearchEngineer), and Dr.Fujii (Senior ResearchEngineer ) attended Joint Scientific
Assembly of the International
Association of Geodesy and International
Association of Seismology and Physics ofthe Earth’s Interior (IAG-IASPEI 2017)

which was held at Kobe International
Conference Center(Photo 1) from July
30 to August 4.
During the Joint Scientific
Assembly, we, IISEE, ran a booth(Photo 2) at the third floor of theContact Us
conference center. Our staff stayed
The IISEE Newsletter iscertain time such as lunchtime or breakintended to act as atime of presentations in order togo-between for IISEEPhoto 2 IISEE Booth
attempt to disseminate the Earthquakeand ex-participants.
Engineering training course throughWe encourage you tointeraction with participants, ex-participants and researchers from eachcontribute a report and country.
an article to this newsWe are also pleased to see how former participants and current
letter. Please let us
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realized the training effect of the Earthquake Engineering training
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Photo 3 Presentations by Participants

We held an alumni reunion at a Chinese restaurant near
Sannomiya station at night on Thursday, August 3rd. There were 27peoples (11 ex-participants, 5 participants, 1 researcher, 4 lecturers 5IISEE staff members, and 1 postdoctoral researcher) joined and grooved
the reunion. After opening greeting and a toast by Dr. Harsh Gupta(1966-1967 Seismology Course, former president of IUGG, Photo 4), we
introduced each other and had pleasant chat, then Dr.MarinoProtti(1983-1984 Seismology Course, Photo 5) gave a closing address.
At last, we took group photo(Photo 6) in front of Ikuta Shrine formemory.
The Alimni Reunion

Photo 4 Toast by Dr.Harsh Gupta

Photo 5 Closing address by Dr.Marino Protti

The Alimni Reunion

Photo 6 Group Photo

Final Presentation

By Mr. Yoshihiro Iitake, Head administrator, IISEEAll participants of the Regular course; Earthquake Engineering,Seismology and Tsunami Disaster Mitigation returned to IISEE after along interval since they had completed their own individual studies
which started on June 1st.
They made the final presentations about their master theses which
are the results of their studies on August 17th and 18th.
There are only two weeks left in their training.

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