The Conference is comprised of six symposia. Wind Excited Building Models. The structural control community first initiated the benchmark effort in 1997 to form comparisons among various control methods as applied to civil engineering structures, for which results were reported in Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics , Volume 27, 1998. Current Benchmark study results will be reported in a special issue of the ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics , tentatively scheduled for publication in early 2002.
All researchers are welcome to study the structural control benchmark problems.
With the imminent conversion of Eurocode 8 into a full Euronorm, the Conference will provide an ideal opportunity to gather researchers, educators and practitioners in earthquake engineering, to exchange and distill ideas and directions for the future. Abstracts for both high-quality technical work and for work with direct relevance to seismic risk mitigation are invited. Since the exchange of ideas between non-European and European researchers and practitioners is a priority of the Conference, a special invitation is extended to those outside Europe to submit abstracts. The symposium is also intended to serve as a venue to promote collaboration among experienced researchers already working in computational simulations of adaptive structures and MEMS, and to invite experts in other fundamental areas of computational and applied mechanics to contribute directly to these fields. This meeting will provide an opportunity for scientists from different disciplines to exchange ideas about current problems in seismology, physics of the Earth's interior, geomagnetism, aeronomy, and other areas of interest.