The 4th Japan-Greece Workshop
on
Seismic Design of Foundations and
Innovations in Seismic Protection

Japanese Object and
topics
Organaizing Committee Program Key date

October 6-7, Kobe, Japan
It is postphoned
because of the recent earthquake in Japan


Sponsored by

Earthquake Engineering Committee
of the Japanese Society of Civil Engineers

Hellenic Society for Earthquake Engineering

Co-sponsored by

Laboratory of Soil Mechanics of
National Technilogical University of Athens

Kobe Gakuin University

Japanese Society of Civil Engineering
Japanese Geotechnical Society
Japan Association for Earthquake Engineering


Objectives

Following the 1995 Kobe Earthquake a close scientific cooperation was initiated between the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, and some Japanese institutes. As part of this cooperation a visit to Kobe of 25 graduating students from NTUA has taken place every year starting in 1999. In one of these visits an agreement was reached to organize this joint Japan-Greece Workshop. Starting in 2005, it was held successfully every two years.

The workshop serves as an international meeting at which specialists, governmental officials and professors in earthquake engineering and related fields may exchange ideas on the latest research results and technologies mainly on soil-foundation-structure interaction, seismic behavior of soft soil deposits, performance-based seismic design, lessons learned from recent earthquakes, innovations on seismic protection of structures, and seismic protection of monuments.

Researchers and engineers participated not only from Japan and Greece, but also from Algeria, China, France, USA, UK, India, Italy, and Germany.

The workshop strives to promote innovation, practice and safety in reducing the impact of earthquakes on our society and natural environment. We hope many participants will join this workshop to upgrade their knowledge and contribute tor the progress of seismic disaster mitigation.

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Topics

Seismic analysis of shallow, embedded, and deep foundations
Seismic design of foundations against liquefaction
Site response of soil deposits
Soil liquefaction and liquefaction-induced flow
Remedial measures, repair-retrofit, and health monitoring of foundation-structure systems
Performance-based design in geotechnical and structural engineering
Innovations in seismic protection of structures and foundations
Seismic protection of cultural heritage
Lessons learned from recent earthquakes


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Organizing Committee

Co Chairman
H. OKAMOTO

G. GAZETAS

Secretariat General

T. Tazoh

Members

Yozo GOTO

P. Dakoulas
K. MaebayashiD. Asimaki
T. SatoM. Panagiotou
K. WakamatsuS. Kontoe
T. KaneyoshiA. Anastasiadis
N. YoshidaN. Gerolymos
T. AsanoA. Papadimitriou
F. MiuraN. Klimis
M. SatoI. Anastasopoulos
H. KimataD. Pitilakis
K. OhtomoC. Chatzigogos
M. SaitohD. Loukidis
N. FunakiP. Psaropoulos


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Invited Lecture


Prof. M. Hamada
(Japan)

Prof. K. Kawashima
(Japan)

Prof. K. Pitilakis
(Greece)

Prof. S. Lagomarsino
(Italy)

Prof. M. K. Yegian
(USA)

Prof. P.Y. Bard
(France)

Prof. E. Vintzileou
(Greece)


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Program

First Circular (Revised)

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Key Dates

31 May 2011 Submission of abstracts
(Postponed)
30 June 2011 Notification of acceptance
15 Augast 2011 Submission of full paper
6-7 October 2011 Workshop



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Call for Papers

Authors are invited to submit abstracts to the Secretariat via email at tazoh@shimz.co.jp or gazetas@ath.forthnet.gr by December 31, 2010.

Submissions must include the following contents:

Author name
Prefix
Affiliated organization
Email Address
Position
Paper Title

Abstract: a very short, one paragraph abstract or some keywords

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Location

Kobe Gakuin University




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Registration Fees

Standard fee: 20,000 yen
Student fee: 10,000 yen

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Language

The official language of the Conference is English

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Secretat of 4th Japan-Greece Workshop

[Japan side]
Educational Subcommittee of Earthquake Engineering
Japanese Society of Civil Engineers
Yotsuya 1-chome, Shinjuku-ku,
Tokyo 160-0004, Japan
tel: +81-3-3355-3452
fax: +81-3-5379-2769
email: tazoh@shimz.co.jp

[Greece side]
Soil Mechanics Lab (Room 102)
Faculty of Geotechnics
School of Civil Engineering
National Technical University of Athens
9, Iroon Polytexneiou, Athens 15780, Greece
tel.: +30-210-772-3383
fax.: +30-210--772-2405
email: gazetas @ath.forthnet.gr

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