Eighth European Workshop on the Seismic Behaviour of Irregular and Complex Structures
19-20 October 2017, Bucharest, Romania
Held under the auspices of EAEE Working Group (WG) 8: Seismic Behaviour of Irregular and Complex Structures andorganized by the Faculty of Civil, Industrial and Agricultural Buildings, Technical University of Civil
Engineering Bucharest

Introduction
Since 1996, the European Workshop on the seismic
behaviour of Irregular and Complex Structures(EWICS) has been taking place every three years under the auspices of Working Group (WG) 8 (SeismicBehaviour of Irregular and Complex Structures) ofEAEE. The last Workshop, held in 2014 in Opole, has
about 40 papers included in the proceedings published by Springer and indexed by Web of Knowledge.
Its success confirms the interest of scientific community in the covered topics. We are pleased to announce that the Eighth Workshop (8EWICS) is now
under preparation. It will be held in Bucharest (Romania) on October 19-20, 2017 and will be hosted
by the Faculty of Civil, Industrial and Agricultural
Buildings at the Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest.
8EWICS, as the previous workshops, will provide a
stimulating forum for discussions and a convivial
atmosphere in which to make new contacts and renew old friendships.
Romania, as an earthquake prone country, has along tradition in seismic engineering and specialists
spread all over the world. The Technical University of
Bucharest started as “School of Bridges and Roads,
Mines and Architecture” in 1864 and provided over
the years outstanding scientists and engineers.

Workshop Themes: Asymmetric single storey buildings;
 Asymmetric multistorey buildings (frames, walls,wall-frames);
 Vertically irregular structures; Setback multistorey buildings;
 Control of irregular structures; Particular cases of irregularity in structures; Architectural and design issues
 Rotational and spatial effects in seismology andengineering

Romanian Organizing Committee
Assoc. Prof. Dan Zamfirescu (chairman), Assoc.
Prof. Dietlinde Köber (co-chairman), Assoc. Prof.
Eugen Lozincă, Ass. Prof. Ionuț Damian, Ass. Prof.
Andrei Papurcu, Ass. Prof. Vasile-Virgil Oprișoreanu

Scientific Committee
Prof. M. De Stefano (chairman), Assoc. Prof. D.
Zamfirescu (co-chairman), Prof. S. Anagnostopoulos, Prof. R. Bento, Prof. P. Fajfar, Prof. A. Ghersi,
Prof. R. Jankowski, Prof. A.J. Kappos, Prof. O. Lavan, Prof. A.M. Reinhorn, Prof. A. Rutenberg, Prof.
M. Todorovska, Prof. Z. Zembaty (to be completed)

Abstract and paper submission
One page abstracts should be submitted to 8EWICS
secretariat (e-mail: ewics8@utcb.ro) until February
17th, 2017. The submission should include the titleof the paper, a 250 - 500 word abstract of the paper
in English and name/s of author/s as appropriate.
Please be certain to include the following: objective,
methodology, results and conclusions. Identify alsothe expected presenter. For each author, please include affiliation, mailing address, e-mail and phone
number. The contact authors will receive the notification of acceptance/rejection of the submitted abstracts by March 17, 2017. Authors of the accepted
abstracts are expected to submit full-text papers in
English for review by the scientific committee not later than June 30, 2017. Authors will be given instructions for full paper with acceptance notice. Please

note that only contributions actually presented in theWorkshop will be published in the Proceedings.

Workshop website
Additional information about the Workshop, including
the preliminary program, details of venue, accommodations, publication of Workshop Proceedings
and other matters will be posted on the workshop
website at civile.utcb.ro.

Contact us
8EWICS organizing committee, RC Department,
Faculty of Civil, Industrial and Agricultural Eng.,Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest,
Bd. Lacul Tei 122-124, 020396 Bucharest, Romania,
e-mail: ewics8@utcb.roGroup tour
A group tour to Sinaia and Brașov is planned on October 21th, 2017. Further details will be posted onthe website.
Sinaia, the Peleș Castle