August 31  2016 Number 136
In This Issue
• Closing Ceremony of 3rd Latin American Earthquake Engineering Course -San Salvador, El Salvador- • Lectures and Structural Tests at 3rd Latin American Earthquake Engineering Course in San Salvador, El Salvador ● Final Presentation •  A Book Written by an Ex Participant from Nicaragua. • Response Sheet for YEAR BOOK 2016
International Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering  BRI  Japan 1 Tachihara Tsukuba Japan 305-0802　 tel+81-29-879-0678 facsim+81-29-864-6777 Closing Ceremony of 3rd Latin American Earthquake Engineering Course -San Salvador, El Salvador- By Mr. Mizuo INUKAI, Chief Research Engineer, IISEE I SEE Net and Training IISEENET IISEE-UNESCO Lecture Note I SEE E-learning Synopsis Database Bulletin Database The closing ceremony of the Latin America Earthquake Engineering Course was held on July 22 at t the hall "Salón Norte América" of Hotel Crown Plaza that locates in the capital of Republic of EI Salvador, San Salvador, where we welcomed the distinguished guests: Prof. Edgar Peña, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Engineering, University of El Salvador (UES), Prof. Patricia de Hasbún, Mechanical Structure Department Chief of University of Centro America "José Simeón Cañas" (UCA), Mr. Oscar Hernández, Director General, Vice Minister of the Housing and Urban Development, Mr. Kazuo Fujishiro, Chief Representative of JICA EI Salvador. Prof. Edgar Peña, UES (2004-2005 Earthquake Engineering Course) played the role of the master of ceremony. Two professors of UCA, Mr. Adolfo Ramos (2009-2010 Earthquake Engineering Course) and Ms. Monica Gutierrez (2008-2009 Earthquake Engineering Course) who lead the real size structural experiment in UCA were well known while Mr. Ramos had attended the ceremony. Also Prof. Carlos Escobar and Prof. Manuel Gutiérrez of UES who lead the prism test and the wall test were well known. It was a happy and heartwarming time with the sixteen participants from eight countries who have fully attended since May 18, and ten more persons who partly attended in the city of San Salvador since July 11. 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 the unvaluable experience for the typical Salvadoran food at a restaurant on the slope to see the nice view of San Salvador. The lecture language of the course is Spanish. Please feel free to contact with IISEE if you need more information.
Earthquakes
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Call for Papers
I SEE Bulletin is now accepting submissions of papers for the seis- mology, earthquake engineering, and tsunami.  Developing countries are targeted, but are not limited. original Your papers will be reviewed by the editorial members and some experts. NO submission fee is need. Try to challenge! Lectures and Structural Tests at 3rd Latin American Earthquake Engineering Course in San Salvador, El Salvador By Mr. Hiroto kato, Research Engineer, IISEE The third overseas program of Latin American Earthquake Engineering Course (cf. IISEE Newsletters No.133, No.134, No.135) was implemented in University of EI Salvador (UES) and "José Simeón Cañas" Central American University (UCA) located in San Salvador, El Salvador from 11 to 22 July, 2016. The course was composed of lectures and structural loading tests focused on the seismic performance of masonry structures, which are most popular construction method in Latin American countries. Five students of UES and UCA joined respectively, in addition to the 16 participants of the Latin American Course in Japan, the 26 participants in total attended this overseas program. The 16 participants who have completed the Latin American Course in Japan around 2 months seemed to be vivid and relaxing a little, because they were approaching to individual motherland and returned to the Spanish-speaking world. All participants took part in the training program, which were the lectures on structural performance of masonry construction and the structural tests using specimens made of local materials, and they eagerly discussed on the structural design standard of each country, etc. Photo 1 shows a group photo after loading test on a large scale confined masonry wall in the laboratory of UCA. All participants came to grips with the loading tests and the questions and discussions were aggressive. The participants divided into 4 groups and each group made prism specimens for loading tests (Photo 2). They competed the strength of prism specimens after 1 week curing of them. TV crows and journalists collected news materials about the tilting table test on adobe specimens in UES (Photo 3), the video film was broadcasted at a TV news program. It is important to disseminate the cooperation program to citizens. Moreover, a study trip was executed in cooperation with JICA EI Salvador Office to observe the model houses constructed during the cooperative project with MOP, FUNDASAL and others in El Salvador. The most of professors who gave the lectures and experiments in this overseas program are the alumni of IISEE training course and/or the counterparts of "Taishin Project" of JICA project. This fact reminds us the outcome of the former international cooperation.
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Final Presentation
By Mr. Takashi YAMASHITA, Head of IISEE Administration Division, IISEE On August 22 and 23, Final Presentations of Seismology Course, Earthquake Engineering Course and Tsunami Disaster Mitigation Course were held in the IISEE Hall. It is a very important process in parallel with writing  master thesis to complete their course. They presented  their research results in front of their lecturer and other participants. Back Numbers http://iisee.kenken.go.jp/ nldb/ from Algeria(right) is asking a question
A Book Written by Ex Participant from Nicaragua.
By Dr. Tatsuya Azuhata, Chief Research Engineer, IISEE
We want to introduce one special book which is written by Mr. Delvin Abdiel Martinez. The author is a former participant of the IISEE training course from Nicaragua. He got his diploma in the earthquake engineering course in 2011. The title of his book is “Dynamic Classification of soils, using geophysical methods: Application case". He describes the general theoretical aspects of two geophysical methods (natural vibration and seismic refraction) and its application in his book. Also, he says "A better understanding of the dynamic behavior of soil will give more reliable information about how, and where build more safe structures. The seismic design need to consider the degree of acceleration that could be produced during an earthquake; but the dynamic characteristic of the ground is an important parameter to be taken into account as well," for an introduction of his book. We are very glad to hear a news of his research activity. The book is available at internet book shops like "Amazon". Please check it soon if you are interested in geotechnical engineering.
Response Sheet for YEAR BOOK 2016
Hello Ex participants Have you sent your Response sheet for YEAR BOOK 2016? You can download Response sheet from our homepage. http://iisee.kenken.go.jp/?p=down It will take just 1 minute to fill out the Response sheet. If you haven' t sent it, We kindly ask for your cooperation. The deadline is August 31. I hope you can provide your information for us.