17WCEE Organized Session List (Mini-symposia)
The followings were accepted in March 2020 and will be updated for the 2021conference.

Session Title

Corresponding author’s full nameAffiliation

Impact of Ground Motion Directionality on Structural Response

Mervyn Kowalsky

North Carolina State University

Contributions of Large-Scale Experimental Facilities to Computational Earthquake Engineering and Their Futures - From 15-Year
Experience of E-defense -Toshihiko Horiuchi

Earthquake Disaster Mitigation Research Division,
National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED), Japan

Roadblocks and Incentives for Worldwide adaptation and Implementation of Seismic Structural Health Monitoring (S2HM)

Farzad Naeim

Farzad Naeim, Inc.

Establishment of International Standards on Seismic Isolation Structures

Taiki Saito

Toyohashi University of Technology

JapanThe 2019 Tokyo Metropolitan Resilience Project E-defense Test of a 3-story Disaster Management CenterYeow, Trevor Yeow

Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo (room 1-511)

Japan‘Non-Engineered 2.0’: Brainstorming on Design Philosophies and Technological Strategies for Improving the Seismic Resilience ofNon-Engineered Constructions

Martijn Schildkamp

Smart Shelter Research / Nagoya UniversityJapan

Confined masonry construction for improving global earthquake resilience: implementation challenges

Svetlana Brzev

University of British Columbia

CanadaILEE research on earthquake resilient structures

Ying ZHOU

Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China

China

Engineering bases to ensure protection of NPPs against earthquakes

Tsuyoshi Takada

The University of TokyoJapanManagement of Post-Disaster Debris and Waste

Terri R. Norton

Bucknell University

US

Seismic performance of precast concrete structures emphasizes on the connections

Qihao Han

Guangzhou University, China

China

Building Regulatory System -towards Resilient Urban Environment-Tatsuo Narafu

Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ)

JapanCurrent Status and Future Perspectives of Effects of Surface fault Displacement on Critical Infrastructure

Susumu Nakamura

Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, Nihon University

Japan

Integrated Research on Great Earthquakes and Disaster Mitigation in Nepal Himalaya

Hiroe Miyake

Earthquake Research Institute, University of TokyoJapan

Framework for Infrastructure Systems Resilience: Overview and Illustrative Applications in Japan and U.S.

Masamitsu Onishi

Disaster Prevention Research InstituteJapan

Integrated hazard and disaster simulations related earthquakes and tsunami using high performance computing technology

Takane Hori

Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and TechnologyJapan

Comparison of seismic codesTatsuya AzuhataInternational Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, Building Research Institute,JapanJapan

U.S. National Seismic Hazard Models and Engineering ApplicationsPeter Powers

U.S. Geological Survey

USResilience and Risk Assessment of Structures under Multiple Hazards

Vasant Matsagar

Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) DelhiIndia

Enhansing Earthquake Safety of Schools; Lesson Learnt from Nepal

Narayan Prasad Marasini

National Scoiety for Earthquake Technology-Nepal

Nepal

Earthquake resistant buildings using raw and engineered bamboo

Cristoforo Demartino

Zhejiang University/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Institute, 718 East Haizhou Road,
Haining, Zhejiang 314400, China

China

1CountryUSJapanUSSession Title

Corresponding author’s full nameAffiliation :Large scale simulations and SHM to enhance communities and infrastructures resilience toward disasters

Gian Paolo Cimellaro

Politecnico di Torino

Seismic Resilience of Communities

Max Didier

ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Transportation System Seismic Performance: PEER TSRP and Lifelines Programs

Khalid M. Mosalam

University of California, Berkeley

US

Progress and Challenges in Advancing and Implementing Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering

Farzin Zareian, Eduardo Miranda, DimitriosVamvatsikos, Gerard O’Reilly, Dimitrios Lignos

University of California - Irvine; Stanford University ; National Technical University (Athens);
IUSS (Pavia); EPFL

USADVANCES IN MODELING FIRE FOLLOWING EARTHQUAKECharles Scawthorn

University of California at Berkeley

US2Country
Italy

Switzerland