IISEE Newsletter
August 31 2015
Number 124

In This Issue Closing Ceremony of2nd Latin AmericanEarthquake
Enigneering Course StructuralExperiments in ElSalvador
 Letter from ExParticipant

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Closing Ceremony of 2nd Latin American
Earthquake Engineering Course– San Salvador, El Salvador By Dr. Toshiaki Yokoi, Director of IISEEThe closing ceremony of the Latin
America Earthquake Engineering
Course was held on July 24 at thehall “Salón Jade B” of Hotel
Crown Plaza that locates in thecapital of Republic of El Salvador,
SanSalvador,
wherewewelcomed
thedistinguishedguests:Prof. Francisco Alarcón, Dean of
the Faculty of Architecture andEngineering, University of El
at Closing Ceremony
Salvador (UES), Prof. CarlosRivas, Vice-rector of University ofCentro America “José Simeón Cañas” (UCA), Arq. Claudia Blanco, ExecutiveDirector, Fundación Salvadoreña de Desarrollo y Vivienda Mínima (FUNDASAL),
Mr. Yoshikazu Tachihara, Chief Representative of JICA El Salvador. Prof. EdgarPeña, Director of Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering andArchitecture, University of El Salvador (2004-2005 Earthquake EngineeringCourse) played the role of the master of ceremony.
Two professors of UCA Mr. Adolfo Ramos (2009-2010 Earthquake EngineeringCourse) and Ms. Monica Gutierrez (2008-2009 Earthquake Engineering Course)
who lead the real size structural experiment in UCA have attended theceremony, and also Prof. Carlos Escobar of UES who lead the prism test andscaled model test.
It was a happy and heartwarming time with the sixteen participants from sixcountries who have fully attended from May 25, and ten more persons whopartly attended in the city of San Salvador from July 13. I would like to express
my sincere thanks to all who helped the realization of the course there.
I hope every participants of the course got satisfied and will try to disseminate
their learnings and experiences in their own countries.
Finally I would like to put emphasis on my unforgettable experience on thetypical Salvadoran dish Pupusa in the sector Antiguo Cuscatlán, San Salvador.
The teaching language of the course is Spanish. Please feel free to contact withIISEE if you need more information.

Structural Experiments in El Salvador (TheOversea Program in Latin American Earthquake
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By Mr. Mizuo Inukai, Chief Research Engineer, IISEEIn 2015, at the finishing 2 weeks of the Latin American Earthquake Engineering
Course, the oversea program in El Salvador was executed and here it isintroduced. The venue of it was University of El Salvador (UES) and "José
Simeón Cañas" Central American University (UCA) located in San Salvador, ElSalvador.
It was done from 13 July to 24
July. The lectures are mainlycomposed of the helpful activities
for the structural experiments
which specimens are produced by
the materials for El Salvador. All
participants got these lectures ofthe professors in UES and UCA inorder to know the progress of thecollapse
bytheassumed
earthquake loads of a part ofbuilding structures like the confinedconcrete masonry walls. This year
also, the 5 students of UES andPhoto 1: Opening Ceremony of theUCA, respectively, are coming toOversea Program
this oversea program, the 16
participants from this Latin Course in Japan are coming and the total number ofthe participants is 26.
Photo 1 shows the opening ceremony of the oversea program. The professorsof UES and UCA, staffs of JICA El Salvador Office and me executed it. TheVenue was a conference room in a hotel, San Salvador. Some minutes later,
the lectures started in this room.

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Photo 2 shows the group photo after the loading to the large scale wall
specimen confined concrete masonry in an UCA laboratory. All participants weredealing with these experiments much carefully and the questions or discussions
were aggressive.
After the tests, the summaryof test results was presentedbyprofessors,andthebuilding codes for confined
masonry structures in eachcountry were also presented
generally by participants toexchange the latest technicalinformation.
Moreover, the study trips
were executed in cooperationof JICA El Salvador Office toPhoto 2: View after the loading to the wallsee
themodelhouses
specimen confined masonry in LEG
constructedduringthe(Laboratorio de Estructuras Grandes), UCA
cooperative project of theMOP, FUNDASAL, and others, in El Salvador.

Letter from Ex-Participant✑✉Ms. Adiya Munkhsaikhan:
Researcher,the Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics of Mongolian Academy of Sciences(Mongolia, Seismology Course, 2005-2006)

Enjoy, Now

Ms. Adiya Munkhsaikhan attended the CTBT: Science and Technology 2015
Conference (SnT2015) held in June in Vienna. She received the EU Star Awardat the conference.
She is an ex-participant of the 2005-2006 annual training course.
We received the following short article from her:Contact UsThe IISEE Newsletter isintended to act as ago-between for IISEEand ex-participants.
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http://iisee.kenken.go.jp/nldb/“With the supports of the JICA, we, the Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics
of Mongolian Academy of Sciences (IAG), have had collaborations with theIISEE since 1996. I am a researcher studying at the IAG.
I participated in the annual training course of the IISEE during 2005-2006 andobtained the Master's degree of Disaster Mitigation certified by the GRIPS(National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies) and the BRI (Building ResearchInstitute).
My impressions about Tsukuba are a very safe and friendly city. I was happy
when I took opportunities to study in Tsukuba.
It was a trilling time when I took the EU Star Awards 2015 for my presentation
entitled, “Seismic swarm near the capital of Mongolia investigated using double
difference tomography” at the SnT2015 in Vienna.
I would not have received such award without generous supports of the IAG
and University of Strasbourg.
I would like to convey my gratitude to the IAG, the IISEE/BRI, the GRIPS andmy advisors and co-authors of University of Strasbourg.

Munkhsaikhan Adiya ”