21st Century COE Program
 "Evolution of Urban Earthquake Engineering"

Third International Conference
on Urban Earthquake Engineering

March 6-7, 2006
Suzukake Hall, Suzukake-dai Campus, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

PROGRAM

March 6th
 
Room A
Room B
Room C
9:00-9:30
Registration
 
 
9:30-9:50
Greeting and Introduction
 
 
9:50-10:25
Keynote Presentation
 
 
10:25-11:00
Keynote Presentation
 
 
11:00-12:08
Engineering Seismology
Concrete Structures
 
12:08-13:00
Lunch time
13:00-14:25
Engineering Seismology
Concrete Structures
 
14:25-15:45
Poster session (Room C)
15:45-18:15
Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
Steel Structures
 
18:30-20:00
 
 
Welcome Party


March 7th
 
Room A
Room B
Room C
9:30-10:05
Keynote Presentation
 
 
10:05-12:03
Seismic Hazard Mitigation Planning
and Human Response
Bridge Structures
 
12:03-13:00
Lunch time
13:00-13:35
Keynote Presentation
 
 
13:35-15:35
Tsunami
Passive Control and Base Isolation
 
15:35-15:55
Coffee break
15:55-18:10
Tsunami
Earthquake Response Analysis
and Experiment
 
18:10-18:15
Closing address
   





March 6th  Room A
9:00-9:30 Registration  
9:30-9:40 Greeting and Introduction of Center for Urban Earthquake Engineering Ohmachi Leader/ Tokyo Institute of Technology
9:40-9:50 Greeting by the President Masuo Aizawa/ Tokyo Institute of Technology


Keynote Presentation (Engineering Seismology and Seismic Hazard Mitigation Planning )
9:50-10:25 Earthquake Engineering Reserch And Practice In Mexico
After The Michoacan Earthquake of 1985
Luis Esteva/ UNAM, MEXICO


Keynote Presentation (Earthquake Response Analysis and Experiment)
10:25-11:00 Recent Advances in Hybrid Testing for Earthquake Performance Evaluation P. Benson Shing/ University of California at San Diego, USA


Engineering Seismology
11:00-11:34 Differences in Earthquake Source and Ground Motion Characteristics between Surface and Buried Faulting Earthquakes Paul Somerville/ URS Corporation ,USA
11:34-11:51 Identification of Nonlinear Site Response Using the H/V Spectral Ratio Method Kuo-Liang Wen/ National Central University, TAIWAN
11:51-12:08 Development of Earthquake Motion Simulator with High Resolution and Its Application Tsuyoshi Ichimura/ Tokyo Institute of Technology, JAPAN


Engineering Seismology
13:00-13:34 Long Period Ground Motion Characteristics in a Mega-city Osaka
during Expected Huge Subduction Earthquake
Katsuhiro Kamae/ Kyoto University, JAPAN
13:34-13:51 Monitoring and Interpretation of Creep Behavior in Chihshang Active Fault Zone Ray Shyan Wu/ National Central University, TAIWAN
13:51-14:08 How to Evaluate Spatial Distribution of Earthquake Ground Motion in the Northern Japan Nobuo Takai/ Hokkaido University, JAPAN
14:08-14:25 A Study on Waveform Inversion with Characterized Source Models Using Genetic ALgorithms Kentaro Motoki/ Tokyo Institute of Technology, JAPAN


Poster Session
14:25-15:45 Poster Session(CUEE Full Professors and Others)  


Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
15:45-16:15 Assessing Potential Strength Loss and Deformations
in Low-plasticity Silts and Clays during Earthquakes
Ross W. Boulanger/ University of California, Davis, USA
16:15-16:30 Pushover Analysis for Lateral Pile Subjected to Liquefaction Induced Flow Pressure Jin-Hung Hwang/ National Central University, TAIWAN
16:30-16:45 Behaviour of Piled Bridge Abutment on Liquefiable Soils Akihiro Takahashi/ Public Works Research Institute, JAPAN
16:45-17:00 Observed Pile-Soil Interaction During Buckling Instability Subhamoy Bhattacharya/ University of Oxford, England
17:00-17:15 Dynamic Behavior of Embankments Resting on Liquefiable Sandy Deposit Tetsuo Tobita/ Kyoto University, JAPAN
17:15-17:30 Effect of Saturation on Lquefaction Resistance of Sandy Soil Mitsu Okamura/ Ehime University, JAPAN
17:30-17:45 Nonlinear Behavior of Taipei Silty Clay under Cyclic Strain Loading Chung-Jung Lee/ National Central University, TAIWAN
17:45-18:00 Residual Deformations of Soft Rocks from Metro Manila due to Cyclic Loading Taro Uchimura/ University of Tokyo, JAPAN
18:00-18:15 Developing Time Varying Wave Transmitting Boundaries
Using Joint Time-Frequency Representation Method
Alireza Farahani/ Tokyo Institute of Technology, JAPAN





March 7th  Room A
Keynote Presentation(Engineering Seismology and Seismic Hazard Mitigation Planning )
9:30-10:05 Development of Simple, Economic and Efficient Retrofit Method Considering Local
Availability and Acceptability for Masonry Buildings in Earthquake Prone Regions
Kimiro Meguro/ University of Tokyo, JAPAN


Seismic Hazard Mitigation Planning and Human Response
10:05-10:30 Emergency Logistics in Natural Disasters Huey-Kuo Chen/ National Central University, TAIWAN
10:30-10:55 Learning Disaster Preparedness and Response Through Gaming Simulation Toshiko Kikkawa/ Keio University, JAPAN
10:55-11:12 Risk Assessment for Taiwan Residential Earthquake Insurance
Pool- Modeling and Application
Wenko Hsu/ National Central University, TAIWAN
11:12-11:29 A Proposal on a Method to Determine Risk-Based Seismic Design Level Masato Nakajima/ Central Reserch Institute of Electric Power Industy, JAPAN
11:29-11:46 Changes of Building Use and Structure in Tokyo 23 Ku Yusuke Meshitsuka/ Tokyo Institute of Technology, JAPAN
11:46-12:03 Development of Effective Tool for Virtual Experience of Environmental Hazard
-A Survey of Disaster Education Facilities in Japan-
Ryu Jaeho/ Tokyo Institute of Technology, JAPAN


Keynote Presentation (Tsunami)
13:00-13:35 Global Disaster due to the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami Fumihiko Imamura/ Tohoku University, JAPAN


Tsunami
13:35-14:00 Environmental Restoration of Tsunami Impacted Inland Water Bodies in Sri Lanka Priyantha Gunaratna/ University of Moratuwa, SRI LANKA
14:00-14:17 Over View of the Tsunami Damage in Sri Lanka due to the 2004 Sumatra Earthquake Anil C. Wijeyewickrema/ Tokyo Institute of Technology, JAPAN
14:17-14:34 Tsunami Arrival Time in Sri Lanka due to the 2004 Sumatra Earthquake Shusaku Inoue/ Tokyo Institute of Technology, JAPAN
14:34-14:51 Extraction of Tsunami Inundation Area in the Eastern Part of Sri Lanka due to the 2004 Sumatra Earthquake Using High-resolution Satellite Images Hiroyuki Miura/ Tokyo Institute of Technology, JAPAN
14:51-15:08 Effect of Wave Frequency Dispersion in the Indian Ocean Tsunami Yoshinori Shigihara/ Port and Airport Research Institute, JAPAN
15:08-15:25 What Can We Do for Minimizing Tsunami Disaster? Shin-iti Iwasaki/ National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, JAPAN


Tsunami
15:55-16:20 Accounts and Modeling of the Old and Modern Sumatra Tsunamis
for Mitigation in the Future
Hamzah Latief/ Bandung Institute of Technology, INDONESIA
16:20-16:45 Analysis and Experiment on Fragility of Buildings Damaged by the Indian Ocean Tsunami Anat Ruangrassamee/ Chulalongkorn University, THAILAND
16:45-17:02 Problem and Improvement of the Tsunami Warning System Tomoyuki Takahashi/ Akita University, JAPAN
17:02-17:19 Early Tsunami Detection Using Real-time Offshore Observatory Hiroyuki Matsumoto/ Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, JAPAN
17:19-17:36 Numerical Simulation of Tsunami Inundation in Urban Area Tetsuya Hiraishi/ National Defense Academy, JAPAN
17:36-17:53 Development of High Performance Simulator for Tsunami Based
on Shallow Water Equasions
Ryosuke Akoh/ Tokyo Institute of Technology, JAPAN
17:53-18:10 Study on the Oil Spread Caused by 1964 Niigata Earthquake Tsunami Yoko Iwabuchi/ Tohoku University, JAPAN