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EERI Newsletter, March 2013 Volume 47, Number 3

Editor Mark Yashinsky
LFE Insert Editor Sarah Nathe
Associate Editor Gerald Brady
Editorial Assistant Maggie Ortiz
Earthquake Engineering
Research Institute
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EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING
RESEARCH INSTITUTE
EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING
RESEARCH INSTITUTE
PRESIDENT
Ian G. Buckle
PAST PRESIDENT
L. Thomas Tobin
VICE PRESIDENT
David A. Friedman
SECRETARY-TREASURER
Janiele Maffei
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Scott Ashford
Ian G. Buckle
Kenneth Elwood
David A. Friedman
Roberto Leon
Janiele Maffei
Kathleen Tierney
L. Thomas Tobin
Ivan Wong
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Jay Berger
NEWSLETTER
News of the Institute
2013 Annual Meeting Highlights
More than 500 attendees (including ~250 students) enjoyed the 65
th
Annual
Meeting, held February 13-15 in Seattle, Washington. They benefted from
an interesting multidisciplinary program with the theme Building Resilient
Communities through Policy and Mitigation. The meeting was preceded by
two successful events: the ATC-58 Training Workshop and the Christchurch
Earthquakes Workshop. The opening session, Earthquakes in Cascadia, pro-
2013 Seismic Design Competition
Nearly 250 students participated in the annual seismic design competition held
during the Annual Meeting. Teams from all over the U.S. and from around the
world brought their balsa wood high rise structures to Seattle to see who would
reign supreme. The competition kicked off on Wednesday, February 13 with
the team presentations. Day One concluded with the 2nd Annual Calcutta
Auction. EERI member Chris Poland reassumed his role as auctioneer and the
bidding was hot, with over $4,500 raised. Thursday was a day flled with excite-
ment, as the teams put their structures to the test. Those that did not fail after
the three ground motions, usually met their end with a fnal sine sweep. On
Friday, the students joined the rest of
the meeting attendees for lunch where
the SDC awards ceremony was held.
In third place was the Technical Univer-
sity of Cluj-Napoca, who travelled to the
competition all the way from Romania.
In second place was Oregon State
University who moved up one place
from their third place fnish at the 2012
competition. In frst place for the second
Annual Meeting participants during the Thursday poster session.
Annual Meeting photos by Marshall Lew unless otherwise noted.
Continued on Page 6
Auctioneer Chris Poland taking bids
for the team from Romania.
Continued on Page 5
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EERI Newsletter, March 2013 Volume 47, Number 3
Mary Comerio takes a question after
her distingushed lecture.
News of the Institute
New Honorary Members: Idriss and ORourke
The EERI Board of Directors selected I.M. Idriss and Thomas ORourke as
Honorary Members of the Institute. Honorary membership is awarded to recog-
nize members who have made sustained and outstanding contributions to the
feld of earthquake engineering and to EERI and the pursuit of its objectives.
I.M. Idriss, Professor Emeritus, UC Davis, is a pioneer
in the geotechnical earthquake engineering profession.
He was a student and colleague of Professor H. Bolton
Seed during the formative years of geotechnical earth-
quake engineering when procedures were developed
for analysis of ground response at soil sites and for
analyses of liquefaction resistance, including the sim-
plifed procedure, which is still widely used worldwide.
From that work, Professors Seed and Idriss published
the classic EERI Monograph, Ground Motions and Soil
Liquefaction During Earthquakes, the second in the
monograph series. In 2008 Professors Idriss and R. W.
Boulanger updated the liquefaction part of that publica-
tion with EERI Monograph 12, Soil Liquefaction During Earthquakes. Profes-
sor Idriss has been a major contributor to geotechnical earthquake engineer-
ing over his long career. He has made contributions as a consultant on vital
national and international projects and as a member of state and local blue
ribbon panels and boards. In the wake of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake he
was one of eight professionals named to Gov. George Deukmejians Board of
Inquiry which was assigned to fnd out why the Cypress section of I-880 and
a section of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge failed and how the state
could prevent similar bridge failures in the future.
Thomas ORourke, Professor Thomas ORourke,
the Thomas R. Briggs Professor of Civil and Environ-
mental Engineering at Cornell University, has made
sustained and outstanding contributions to the feld of
earthquake engineering and the Earthquake Engineer-
ing Research Institute and the pursuit of its objectives.
His research and consulting activities are wide-ranging
and include ground movement effects on structures,
earth retaining structures, tunnels, and pipelines.
Author or co-author of more than 350 publications,
he teaches and conducts research in the areas of
geotechnical engineering, underground construction
technologies and the vulnerability, resilience and reha-
bilitation of lifeline systems. Among his many awards and distinctions are the
EERI Outstanding Paper Award (1996) and the EERI Distinguished Lecturer
Award (2012). Professor ORourke has served EERI and helped to advance its
disaster loss reduction goals in many capacities. He was elected to the Board
of Directors in 1998 and served as Vice President and President of EERI from
2002 to 2004. He has taken part in many post-earthquake reconnaissance
studies, and during his period as a Board Member, he testifed before the
House Science Committee on engineering aspects of the 1999 Marmara and
Chi-Chi earthquakes.
I. M. Idriss
Thomas ORourke
Comerios Lecture on
Resilience: An Engi-
neering Challenge
Mary Comerio, professor in the
Graduate School of the Department
of Architecture at the University of
California, Berkeley delivered the
EERI 2013 Distinguished Lecture,
Resilience: An Engineering Chal-
lenge, for the frst time on February
13 at the Annual Meeting.
Topics of her presentation included
what risk metrics can reveal about
performance and resilience in recent
disasters, what other measures
of performance are suggested by
the recovery experience, and what
engineering challenges and oppor-
tunities have emerged from recent
earthquakes. She presented data on
life-safety, down-time, and housing
losses from recent earthquakes and
looked at how funding sources and
insurance systems affect recovery.
She illustrated varying levels of com-
munity resilience with case studies
from: Wenchuan, China; Christ-
church, New Zealand; central Chile;
Tohoku, Japan; and Haiti. Comerio
concluded by suggesting that efforts
be made to develop community-
scale metrics for resilience.
For background information about
Comerio, see page 1 of the October
2012 Newsletter. Groups who wish
to invite her to present her Distin-
guished Lecture should contact the
EERI offce to submit their requests.
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George Mader Awarded 2013 Alquist Medal
once a long-neglected topic, on the
earthquake communitys research
and action agenda with his pio-
neering NSF-supported work on
pre-earthquake recovery planning.
That body of work has signifcantly
infuenced a whole new generation of
recovery specialists. He has contrib-
uted greatly to seismic safety not only
through his planning and research
activities but also through his years
of public service. His long list of such
activities include service on the Cali-
fornia Earthquake Safety Founda-
tion, 1985-2001; the Policy Advisory
Board for the Bay Area Regional
Earthquake Preparedness Project,
1984-1992; and the California Seis-
mic Safety Commission, 1975-1984,
which he chaired from 1979-1981.
Mader continues to be active in the
hazards feld. For example, since
2007, he has served on the Board
George Mader
Haresh Shah Receives Housner Medal
Haresh Shah
ment Solutions, Inc., a leading soft-
ware company that utilizes many
of his technical advances to assist
insurance and fnancial institutions
in managing risk associated with
catastrophic events. In addition to
his academic and business accom-
plishments, Haresh Shah has been
a leading advocate of building an
international awareness of seismic
safety issues. He has worked with
UNESCO and countries around the
world to develop building codes and
earthquake design criteria. He is the
Founding Director and Past Chair-
man of the World Seismic Safety
Initiative (WSSI), a not-for-proft pro-
fessional organization. Founded in
1993, WSSI provides assistance to
countries around the world towards
building local and regional capacity
to improve seismic safety for urban
and rural communities. Haresh Shah
has been a stalwart supporter of
EERI for many years. He has guided
the Institute as a Director and as the
Chair of many important commit-
tees and panels. He and his family
have graciously established and
funded the Shah Family Innovation
Prize of the Institute, recognizing the
important contributions of younger
individuals within the earthquake
engineering community. Dr. Shah
earned a B.E. degree (1959) from
Poona University, India, and degrees
of M.S. (1960) and Ph.D. (1963)
from Stanford University. Professor
Shah has received many awards for
his contributions to earthquake risk
reduction, including the John S. Bick-
ley Gold Medal for Excellence Award
from the International Insurance
Society and the 2011 Alquist Medal.
In April of 2006, Dr. Shahs contribu-
tions were recognized by the Applied
Technology Council and Engineering
News Record when he was named
one of the
Top Seismic
Engineers of
the 20th Cen-
tury during
the 100th
anniversary
of the Great
1906 San
Francisco
Earthquake.
At the February 14 Awards Luncheon
during the Annual Meeting, EERI
member Haresh Shah received the
2013 George W. Housner Medal.
Professor Haresh C. Shah has
contributed signifcantly to the feld
of earthquake engineering and risk
management with his leadership in
development and adaptation of risk
analysis and probabilistic concepts in
civil engineering. These were devel-
oped initially while he was a profes-
sor at Stanford, where he served as
Chairman of the Department of Civil
Engineering and Founding Director of
the John A. Blume Earthquake Engi-
neering Center, and later expanded
into essential tools for hazard miti-
gation, loss estimation, and emer-
gency response. While at Stanford,
Professor Shah advised, mentored,
and supported many students. His
commitment to his students extended
well after they left Stanford, spurring
them on to take leadership roles and
to make signifcant contributions to
earthquake engineering throughout
the world. He also is founder and
Senior Advisor to Risk Manage-
EERI member George Mader, presi-
dent of the planning organization
Spangle Associates, received the
2013 Alfred E. Alquist Special Rec-
ognition Award at the February 14
Awards Luncheon during the Annual
Meeting. Mader has worked at
Spangle Associates since 1962. He
has been an outstanding advocate
for seismic safety during a long and
distinguished career as both a plan-
ning practitioner and researcher. As
a planner, he has worked tirelessly
with public offcials and multidisci-
plinary geologists and engineers to
innovate approaches to community
development in areas of high seismic
and other geological risks, includ-
ing the community of Portola Valley,
where he served as town planner for
45 years, and in many other parts
of California. As a researcher, he
helped put earthquake recovery,
of Trustees of GeoHazards Interna-
tional and is its current chair. In 1992
he received the Award for Excellence
in Teaching from the School of Earth
Sciences at Stanford University,
where he was a senior lecturer from
1970-2000. He was elected to the
College of Fellows of the American
Institute of Planners in 2003. Maders
career-long earthquake planning,
research, and service contributions
have greatly infuenced the feld and
furthered
seismic
safety in this
country. His
career mir-
rors the sig-
nifcance of
the Alfred E.
Alquist Spe-
cial Recogni-
tion Award.
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established by the Seismological
Society of America (SSA) in coopera-
tion with EERI. Berryman will give
the lecture a second time at SSAs
April Annual Meeting in Salt Lake
City, Utah. For more information
about the award, visit http://www.
seismosoc.org/awards/joyner. For
background information about Ber-
ryman, see page 1 of the December
2012 Newsletter.
News of the Institute
Berrymans 2013 Joyner Lecture on the Canterbury Earthquakes
Kelvin Berryman
Shah Innovation Prize: Helen Crowley
deformation. Dr. Crowleys publica-
tion list, with many highly-cited jour-
nal papers, is ample proof that she is
a creative and energetic researcher.
Dr. Crowleys research in more
recent years has been carried out
within the framework of major col-
laborative research projects, where
she is comfortable bridging the gap
between earth scientists and engi-
neers. She has also developed an
outstanding track record in dissemi-
nating the results and in promoting
earthquake risk reduction. This has
included her engaging presentations
at many international conferences
and workshops, as well as teaching
modules related to seismic hazard
and risk assessment on the Mas-
ters courses at the ROSE School
and Understanding and Managing
Extremes School in Pavia, Italy.
Within GEM, Dr. Crowley is now
continuing and synthesizing all of
her activities and achieving amazing
results. Her technical expertise in
hazard analysis and risk assessment
is being channeled into the develop-
Helen Crowley receiving the Shah
Innovation Prize.
On February 15 during the EERI
Annual Meeting, Kelvin Berryman,
Director of the Natural Hazards
Research Platform at GNS Science,
delivered the 2013 William B. Joyner
Memorial Lecture on The Context
and Impacts of the Canterbury Earth-
quake Sequence of 2010-2011.
Berryman described the sequence
of events that began with the Mw 7.1
Darfeld earthquake on September 4,
2010; this sequence represents the
largest issue for New Zealand to con-
tend with since World War II about
80 years ago. The impacts of close,
energetic, shallow earthquakes on
the second largest city in New Zea-
land have resulted in major economic
impacts, but despite the widespread
damage to the central and eastern
parts of Christchurch the long term
economic prognosis is excellent.
Most of the medium and small busi-
nesses in the region have proven to
be fexible and adaptable in diffcult
circumstances, and as many as 95%
of pre-quake businesses continue to
operate. Lessons for New Zealand-
ers and the international community
include factoring rare events into
risk management, being aware of
accumulation of risk, acting on earth-
quake prone building policy, and
keeping risk transfer options, such as
insurance, current even in quiet peri-
ods with few natural hazard events.
Berrymans was the tenth annual
lecture given in honor of Bill Joyner
for his distinguished career the U.S.
Geological Survey. The lecture was
ment of the OpenQuake software, in
parallel with her facilitation of work-
ing groups to develop standards and
databases for exposure and vulnera-
bility models worldwide. Her commu-
nication skills and her capacity as an
accomplished presenter and teacher
are enriching the multiple outreach
activities and regional training work-
shops in which she is involved. Her
energy, creativity, and passion to
develop and disseminate more effec-
tive practices and policies to reduce
earthquake risk around the world are
wonderful assets for GEM in particu-
lar and to the feld of earthquake risk
reduction more generally.
The 2012 Shah Family Innovation
Prize was presented to Dr. Helen
Crowley, Deputy Secretary General
of the GEM Foundation, and a leader
in the Global Earthquake Model at
the Awards Luncheon on Thursday,
February 14 at the Annual Meeting.
Dr. Crowley distinguished herself
early in her career when she began
her research in the feld of earth-
quake loss estimation. She played
a leading role in the development of
new displacement-based approaches
to the estimation of damage states
across building portfolios subjected
to earthquakes. Her early work not
only included innovative approaches
from the structural engineering view-
point, but she also made important
contributions related to the model-
ing of ground motion felds from
individual and multiple earthquake
scenarios. Equally impressive was
the subsequent work where in col-
laboration with other researchers she
adapted her methodology for esti-
mating losses due to ground shak-
ing and liquefaction-induced ground
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EERI Tsunami Committee
An inaugural meeting of the EERI Tsunami Committee convened at the
February Annual meeting. Twelve people attended and nearly as many who
were not able to attend have expressed interest in being involved. It was a
diverse group including engineers, modelers, an oceanographer, geologists,
geophysicists, emergency managers, sociologists, and planners. The primary
purpose of the meeting was to see if critical mass existed to launch a tsunami
committee and, if so, to identify efforts for the next year. Sentiment was
unanimous to form the group and Lori Dengler was selected as Chair for the
next year. The group discussed several activities: making sure tsunamis
were highlighted in the 2014 annual meeting in Alaska, getting EERI backing
to support the re-authorization of the Tsunami Warning and Education Act
(TWEA), identifying current and proposed tsunami-related projects that EERI
members are involved with or may be of interest to EERI members, integration
of tsunami issues into other EERI standing committees, and continuing to
support tsunami reconnaissance in the EERI Learning From Earthquakes
efforts. March 24 30 is National Tsunami Awareness Week. NOAA is
coordinating national efforts (http://www.tsunamiready.noaa.gov/), and at least
Alaska and California will be participating at the state level.
The committee will establish an email communication forum for the tsunami
group and welcomes participation from any EERI members. Please contact
Lori Dengler (lori.dengler@humboldt.edu) for further information or to be
added to the email list.
Continued from page 1
Annual Meeting Highlights
New Round of EERI Interns
Continuing its successful internship program, EERI has chosen two interns
from a strong pool of applicants.
The institute would like to introduce Patrick Bassal and Christopher Lee. Pat-
rick graduated last December from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, with a bach-
elors degree in Civil Engineering. Before coming to EERI, he was a research
assistant for a soil-structure interaction project at UC Davis and a tsunami-
driven debris experiment at Oregon State University. He plans to attend gradu-
ate school this fall to study geotechnical engineering. Chris graduated with a
Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering in the Design-Construction Inte-
gration program from Stanford University last December. As part of his degree,
he participated in a building design competition involving a theoretical univer-
sity building located in Puerto Rico. He has previously served as an Ameri-
Corps Member with City Year, tutoring and mentoring high school students as
well as creating interest in careers within the STEM felds.
Patrick and Chris will work together on many projects of the institute including
the Concrete Coalition, World Housing Encyclopedia, and the California Earth-
quake Clearinghouse. Working on these projects offers them relevant profes-
sional experience, exposure to the
multidisciplinary aspects of earthquake
engineering, and the opportunity to
network with others in the profession.
Their work also benefts EERIs mis-
sion to gather and disseminate infor-
mation about earthquake risk reduction
and to advocate for realistic measures
to reduce the harmful effects of earth-
quakes.
Patrick Bassal and Christopher Lee
vided a context for understanding
earthquakes and their impacts in
the Pacifc Northwest. The frst day
also featured Mary Comerios Distin-
guished Lecture on Reseilience: An
Engineering Challenge (see page
2).
The second day, which included
sessions on Unusual Earthquakes
and Modeling Resilience, empha-
sized the relevance of the meetings
theme. The EERI Awards Luncheon
and Annual Business Meeting took
place during the luncheon and the
day fnished with presentations from
the NEHRP Graduate Fellow and the
Graduate Student Paper Competition
winner.
The fnal day began with two con-
current sessions, then continued
with an update on EERI activities
and a report on the Christchurch
Earthquakes Workshop. The meet-
ing ended with a luncheon featuring
Kelvin Berrymans Joyner lecture
(see page 4) and the presentation
of the Student Design Competition
awards (see front page). After the
technical program adjourned, many
attendees participated in one of three
feld trips. A sunny day in Seattle was
the perfect backdrop for a ferry ride
on Puget Sound, a walking tour of
Pioneer Square, or a trip to the Uni-
versity of Washington.
Thanks are extended to the meeting
co-chairs, Cale Ash and Scott Miles,
who are credited with the great suc-
cess of the technical program at the
meeting.
Ferry tour of Puget Sound
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Publication
Reports on the Costa
Rica Earthquake
Two reports on the September 5,
2012 M7.6 earthquake in Costa
Rica are now available. The frst, by
the Geotechnical Extreme Events
Reconnaissance Association (GEER)
on the Geotechnical Aspects of
Sept. 5, 2012 M7.6 Samara, Costa
Rica Earthquake is now available
on the GEER website at http://
Obituary
James E. Russell
EERI Member Jim Russell passed away on February 14th

after a long battle
with cancer. He was a Building Codes Consultant in Concord, California, who
reviewed building plans for local governments throughout the western U.S. Jim
was Vice Chairman of the California Building Offcials Structural Safety Com-
mittee and long active advising public policymakers, developing building codes
and teaching continuing education courses for government building offcials.
Jim played a major role in the development of Plan Set A, which is used to
strengthen seismically wood frame walls in the crawl spaces of single family
dwellings in California. He produced a comprehensive set of calculations that
was used to develop strengthening requirements for wood frame walls, donat-
ing a lot of his time and energy to this project. Jim co-chaired a task force to
document the performance of retroftted dwellings after the 1994 Northridge
earthquake. As a result of that effort, he chaired the CA Seismic Safety Com-
missions Residential Retroft and Repair Committee in 1996 that sponsored
a code change proposal to add a new chapter of seismic retroft provisions
for wood frame dwellings into what is now the International Existing Building
Code. Jim was also a principal author of EERIs 1996 publication titled Con-
struction Quality, Education and Seismic Safety. As a consultant to the CA
Seismic Safety Commission in 1988, Jim wrote SB 547: Identifcation and Miti-
gation of Unreinforced Masonry Buildings,
Implementation Issues, Obstacles, and
Opportunities Facing Local Government.
Jim also served on the Advisory Panel on
Case Studies of Seismic Retroft for the
Bay Area Regional Earthquake Prepared-
ness Project in the late 1980s. Jim served
on the ABAG Earthquake and Housing
Committee for several years, and was
instrumental in assisting ABAG in develop-
ing simple ways to educate homeowners
on the need to retroft their homes. Jim
will be remembered as a strong advocate
for improving earthquake performance by
investing in effective regulation and con-
tinuing education.
James E. Russell
www.geerassociation.org/GEER_
Post%20EQ%20Reports/Costa_
Rica_2012/2012_Costa_Rica_
Report.pdf. The second report, The
Guanascate Costa Rica Earthquake
of September 5
th
, 2012 Mw 7.6, pre-
pared by the National Seismic Net-
work of the University of Costa Rica
and the Costa Rican Institute of Elec-
tricity provides an overview of the
parameters of the earthquake. Both
reports can be found in the EERI
Learning from Earthquakes Recon-
naissance Archive at https://www.
eeri.org/2012/09/hojancha-costa-rica/.
Continued from page 1
Seismic Design Competition
year in a row was UCLA.
In addition to the overall fnishers,
three other awards were presented.
The Kinemetrics Award for Spirit of
the Competition was awarded to the
University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez,
for its graciousness, humility, and
encouragement of all the teams. The
Degenkolb Award for Structural Inno-
vation was awarded to UC Berkeley
for its negative stiffness devices.
The CSI Communication Award was
awarded to Brigham Young Univer-
sity which also received the Architec-
ture Award.
Support from Computers and Struc-
tures, FEMA, Coughlin Porter Lun-
deen, Degenkolb Engineers, EERI,
Hayward Baker, Keller, Kinemetrics,
Magnusson Klemencic Associates,
and Wiss, Janney, Elstner made the
2013 Seismic Design Competition
possible.
First place fnisher UCLA with its
highest bidder, EERI member Mar-
shall Lew
Teams displayed their models during
the Wednesday poster session
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PLEASE POST IMMEDIATELY
EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE
2013-2014 EERI/FEMA
GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP IN
EARTHQUAKE HAZARD REDUCTION
EERI is pleased to announce the availability of a Graduate Fellowship for the 2013-
2014 academic year to support one full-time student in a discipline contributing to
the science and practice of earthquake hazard mitigation.
The one-year fellowship, underwritten with funds provided by the Federal Emer-
gency Management Agency, is designed to foster the participation of capable indi-
viduals in working toward goals and activities of the National Earthquake Hazards
Reduction Program.
AWARD
The EERI/FEMA fellowship provides a nine-month stipend of $12,000 with an addi-
tional $8,000 for tuition, fees, and research expenses.
CRITERIA
Applicants must be enrolled in a graduate degree program at an accredited U.S.
college or university and must hold U.S. citizenship or permanent resident status. All
applications must include an academic transcript and a statement of educational and
career goals.
All application materials must be submitted electronically to EERI, including a letter
of nomination from a faculty sponsor at the students institution and two additional
reference letters. They should evaluate the applicants recent academic performance
and the candidates potential to contribute to the feld.
TO APPLY
Candidates may download an application by visiting
http://www.eeri.org/about-eeri/honors-awards/graduate-fellowship/.
Deadline for submission of all application materials is MAY 13, 2013.
Announcement of the award will be made on JUNE 17, 2013.
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News of the Membership
Deierlein, Kavaza-
njian, and Wood
Elected to NAE
EERI members Gregory C. Dei-
erlein, Edward Kavazanjian Jr.,
and Sharon L. Wood were among
the group of 69 members recently
elected to the National Academy of
Engineering (NAE). Election to the
National Academy of Engineering is
among the highest professional dis-
tinctions accorded to an engineer.
Gregory C. Deierlein, professor
in the department of civil and envi-
ronmental engineering and John A.
Blume Professor in the School of
Engineering at Stanford University
was recognized for the development
of advanced structural analysis and
design techniques and their imple-
mentation in design codes.
Honor for Nakashima
Masayoshi Nakashima, M. EERI,
was selected as the 2013 recipient
of the Ernest E. Howard Award for
his pioneering research contributions
that led to the felds of hybrid testing
and large-scale shake table testing,
and for utilizing such test results to
advance seismic analysis and design
of structures. In particular Nakashima
was recognized for his research and
professional work that defned a new
paradigm in large-scale structural
testing for earthquake response
simulation of structural components
and systems. The prestigious award,
presented by the American Society
Gregory C. Deierlein
Edward Kavazanjian Jr.
Sharon L. Wood
Masayoshi Nakashima
Edward Kavazanjian Jr., senior
sustainability scientist at the Global
Institute of Sustainability and pro-
fessor in the School of Sustainable
Engineering and the Built Environ-
ment in the Ira A. Fulton School
of Engineering at Arizona State
University, Tempe, was recognized
for the geotechnical engineering of
municipal solid-waste management,
earthquake hazard mitigation, and
safety of transportation facilities.
Sharon L. Wood, Robert L. Parker
Sr. Centennial Professor and chair
of the department of civil, archi-
tectural, and environmental engi-
neering at the University of Texas,
Austin, was recognized for design of
reinforced concrete structures and
associated seismic instrumentation
for extreme loadings and environ-
ments.
of Civil Engineers, is to recognize a
member who has made a defnite
contribution to the advancement
of structural engineering, either in
research, planning, design or con-
struction.
Nakashima is a professor at Kyoto
University, Japan, and has been
engaged in research and education
in structural and earthquake engi-
neering research for thirty years.
After graduating from Kyoto Univer-
sity, he earned his Ph.D. from Lehigh
University. Since 2011, he has
served as Director of the Disaster
Prevention Research Institute (DPRI)
of Kyoto University. Nakashima
served as the Inaugurating Direc-
tor of E-Defense from 2004 to 2011,
and in those six years led over forty
large-scale shaking table tests. Over
a 30-year period, Nakashima and his
students have published some three
hundred technical papers.
He served as Vice-President of AIJ,
Vice-President of the Japanese
Society for Earthquake Engineering
(JAEE), and a Director of EERI. Cur-
rently, he is Executive Vice President
of the International Association of
Earthquake Engineering (IAEE).
He also serves as Editor of the
International Journal of Earthquake
Engineering and Structural Dynamics
(EESD), an offcial journal of IAEE.
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EERI Newsletter, March 2013 Volume 47, Number 3
Intl Symposium on
Lifeline EQE
The 6th China-Japan-US Trilateral
Symposium on Lifeline Earthquake
Engineering will be held on May 28
to June 1, 2013, in Chengdu, Sich-
uan, China. This symposium was
originally scheduled for October
2012. The symposium will provide
a forum for lifeline engineers and
researchers to exchange recent
results of investigations. Draft papers
should be submitted as soon as pos-
sible and fnal peer-reviewed papers
are due April 1, 2013. For more
information, please visit http://www.
iacge.org or contact Craig Davis at
craig.davis@ladwp.com.
Announcements
Oregon State Univer-
sity Workshops
The Oregon State University
Geotechnical Group and the ASCE
Portland Section Geotechnical Group
will host two events in March at
Oregon State University.
Seismic Site Response Analysis
Workshop
A one day short course on Seismic
Site Response Analysis will take
place on Friday, March 22, 2013 at
Oregon State University. The short
course is intended for geotechnical
engineers and civil engineers with an
understanding of the fundamentals of
earthquake engineering. The course
will cover seismic hazard analysis,
earthquake ground motion selection
and scaling, seismic wave propa-
gation, soil dynamics, seismic site
response analyses, and future trends
in site response evaluation. Instruc-
tors for the course are Professors
Pedro Arduino and Steven Kramer
from the University of Washington
Department of Civil Engineering.
Registration rates are $275 for con-
sultants or contractors, $200 for city,
county, or DOT employees, and $30
for students.
Advances in Geotechnical Earth-
quake Engineering Seminar
This seminar will take place on Sat-
urday, March 23, 2013 and present
a series of lectures on the state-of-
the-art and practice in geotechnical
earthquake engineering, and is
intended for civil engineers responsi-
ble for earthquake engineering analy-
ses and design. The seminar brings
leading researchers and practitioners
in the geotechnical earthquake engi-
neering feld to the OSU campus to
present their most recent fndings on
topics ranging from ground motion
attenuation relationships, liquefac-
tion hazards associated with sands
and silts, seismic slope stability, to
soil-structure interaction. Registra-
tion rates are $200 for consultants
or contractors, $150 for city, county,
or DOT employees, and $50 for stu-
dents.
Registration rates for both events will
increase after March 8, 2013. For
more information and to register visit
http:// cce.oregonstate.edu/geotech-
nical-workshops.
LA Tall Buildings
Conference
The Los Angeles Tall Buildings
Structural Design Council (LATB-
SDC) 2013 Conference will be held
on Friday May 3, 2013 from 8:00
am to 5:30 pm. With the theme of
Advances in Structural Design for
Seismic Regions, the 2013 LATB-
SDC conference will cover a variety
of topics related to recent advances
in structural design of tall and special
buildings. Distinguished speakers
will present topics that include: the
new earthquake ground motions
for design and showcasing new tall
building projects under development
for Los Angeles; new techniques for
the design of tall buildings; founda-
tion design for tall buildings; new
code provisions; and building on or
near faults. In addition, an update will
be provided on LATBSDC efforts to
develop reliability-based alternative
procedures for seismic retroft of tall
buildings.
The tentative program includes:
Update on new NGA West II Project
(Yousef Bozorgnia); Shear Reli-
ability Design of Special Structural
Walls (John Wallace); Large-
Scale Testing of SRC Coupling
Beams (Chris Motter), Buildings
and Permanent Ground Displace-
ments (Craig Comartin), Effcient
Performance-Based Design using
Parallel Computing (Carlos Ventura
and Armin Bebamzadeh); Seismic
Performance of Shear Wall Buildings
(Ken Elwood); Nonlinear Response
History Analysis for the Design of
New Tall Buildings (Curt Haselton);
Existing Tall Buildings and Structural
Reliability Update (Gary Hart); Con-
crete Mat Foundations (Ron Klemen-
cic); Performance-Based Retroft of
a 13-story Building (David Mar); and
LA New Tall Buildings and the Peer
Review Process (Jim DesRoches,
Colin Kumabe and Farzad Naeim).
For more information and to register,
visit www.tallbuildings.org or contact
phedges@johnmartin.com.
News of the Profession
The Oregon Resil-
ience Plan
A draft report by the Oregon Seismic
Safety Policy Advisory Commission
entitled, The Oregon Resilience Plan:
Reducing Risk and Improving Recov-
ery for the Next Cascadia Earth-
quake and Tsunami was released
in February. The report focuses on
Oregons physical infrastructure and
proposes recommendations to be
implemented in Oregon over the next
50 years. An article from The Orego-
nian summarizing the report can be
found here: http://www.oregonlive.
com/business/index.ssf/2013/02/
cascadia_earthquake_and_tsunam.
html#incart_m-rpt-2. To view the
entire draft report, visit http://www.
oregon.gov/OMD/OEM/osspac/docs/
Oregon_Resilience_Plan_draft.pdf.
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EERI Newsletter, March 2013 Volume 47, Number 3
Call for Papers
4th EUGEO Congress
The fourth congress of EUGEO, the
association of European geographi-
cal societies, will be held in Rome
in early September, 2013.The aim
of the session is to refect upon the
multiple signifcance of disasters and
upon their spatial geographicalness.
Several approaches and concepts
resilience, vulnerability, disaster
management are bringing to the
foor new discourse, new felds of
research and new paradigms. The
organizers welcome papers engag-
ing a range of topics, both theoretical
and empirical, that can contribute to
the advancement of disaster studies.
We welcome proposals on issues
such as, but not limited to: social
vulnerability, resilience, disaster
management, reconstruction and
recovery, socio-economic issues and
the political economy of disaster, and
disasters and spatial planning. Inter-
ested participants should submit an
abstract of no more than 250 words
by flling in the submission form here:
http://www.eugeo2013.com/images/
callforpapers/eugeo2013_abstract-
form.doc and send it to the organiz-
ers at s20@eugeo2013.com before
March 31, 2013.
NIST/NEHRP Summer
Internship
The National Institute of Standards
and Technology (NIST) Engineer-
ing Laboratory anticipates the need
for graduate students interested in
earthquake engineering to support
the National Earthquake Hazards
Reduction Program (NEHRP). The
students will conduct earthquake
engineering research supervised
by a research structural engineer
within the NEHRP group at NIST. To
qualify, applicants must have com-
pleted all requirements for a bach-
elors or equivalent degree in a feld
of Civil, Architectural, or Structural
Engineering, with a GPA or class
standing that meets the requirements
of Superior Academic Achievement
(http://www.opm.gov/staffngportal/
qualifcationreqs.asp); OR one year
of graduate level education in a feld
of Civil, Architectural, or Structural
Engineering. Although not required,
students who have taken courses
in steel and concrete design, earth-
quake engineering, and structural
dynamics are desired. Students
with an undergraduate degree from
an ABET accredited program and
a good understanding of US build-
ing codes are encouraged to apply.
The students will work at the NIST
campus in Gaithersburg, MD for
approximately 10-12 weeks during
the summer term.
Additional information about the
NEHRP group at NIST and poten-
tial research projects the students
may be working on can be found
Opportunities
Paul C. Rizzo
Paul C. Rizzo and Associates has
one Structural Engineer position
and one Senior Structural Engineer
position open in its Oakland, CA
offce. A Masters Degree in Struc-
tural Engineering is required for
both positions.The Structural Engi-
neer position requires at least three
years of experience and the Senior
Structural Engineer position requires
at least fve years of experience
and a P.E. license. Both positions
require: experience with fnite ele-
ment method (ANSYS or SASSI),
a solid background in geotechnical
engineering, experience in numeri-
PhD Studentship in
Earthquake Engineer-
ing at University Col-
lege London
Applications are invited for a 3 year
funded PhD studentship in Earth-
quake Engineering within the UCL
EPICentre research group (www.
epicentreonline.com). The aim of the
studentship is to better understand
the effectiveness of Fibre Rein-
forced Polymers as a strengthening
method for existing reinforced con-
crete structures under earthquakes,
fres and combined seismic and fre
actions. The study will involve the
numerical modelling of reinforced
concrete elements, strengthened
(and not) with Fibre Reinforced
Polymers, and subjected to cyclic
and fre loading. The research will
support a program of large-scale
experiments to be undertaken by
EPICentre and the BRE Centre for
Fire Safety Engineering in Edin-
burgh as part of an Engineering and
Physical Sciences Research Coun-
cil, UK funded project, Challenging
Risk. Full details of the position and
application procedure are available
at http://www.epicentreonline.com/
news#item-24.
cal methods and programming, skills
in problem solving, analysis, and
communication. Work will be in the
nuclear power plant and transporta-
tion markets. To apply for the Struc-
tural Engineer position, visit http://
www.hirebridge.com/jobseeker2/
viewdetail.asp?joblistid=180250. To
apply for the Senior Structural Engi-
neer position, visit http://www.hire-
bridge.com/jobseeker2/viewdetail.
asp?joblistid=180249.
at http://www.nist.gov/el/nehrp.
Please contact Dr. Matthew Speicher
(speicher@nist.gov) if you are inter-
ested in the possibility of working at
NIST during the summer, or if you
have questions about the research
projects that the NEHRP group is
involved with.
When vacancies are available, a
vacancy announcement will be
posted on the NIST Homepage
for USAJOBS found at https://nist.
usajobs.gov/. For questions about
the application process and NIST
employment for the Internship Pro-
gram, please visit http://nist.gov/
hrmd/staffng/internship-program.cfm.
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EERI Newsletter, March 2013 Volume 47, Number 3
CALENDAR
The issues containing the frst and
subsequent appearances are indi-
cated at the entrys end. Items listed
for the frst time are shown in bold.
2013
MARCH
3-6. 8th Gulf Seismic Forum, Muscat,
Oman. http://8gsf.org/ (1/13)
22. Khan Lecture Series, Lehigh
University,Bethlehem, PA. http://
www.lehigh.edu/~infrk/ (9/12)
22. Seismic Site Response
Analysis Workshop, Oregon State
University. See page 9. (3/13)
23. Advances in Geotechnical
Earthquake Engineering Seminar,
Oregon State University. See page
9. (3/13)
APRIL
3-5. Architectural Eng. Institute Conf.,
University Park, PA. http://www.
engr.psu.edu/ae/AEI-2013/Call_
for_Papers.asp (3/12)
15-16. SMERST 2013 Conf.,
Warwick, UK. (1/13)
17-19. Annual Meeting, Seismologi-
cal Society of America, Salt Lake
City, UT. www.seismosoc.org/
meetings/ (7/12, 10/12, 12/12)
19. Khan Lecture Series, Lehigh
University, Bethlehem, PA. http://
www.lehigh.edu/~infrk/ (9/12)
22-24. Intl Federation for Structural
Concrete (fb) Symposium, Tel Aviv,
Israel. http://www.fb2013tel-aviv.
co.il/ (5/12, 6/12)
26-28. 2013 NZSEE Conf., Welling-
ton, New Zealand. http://www.
nzsee.org.nz/conferences/nzsee-
2013-conference/ (11/12)
29-May 4. 7th Intl Conf. on Case
Histories in Geotechnical Engineering,
Wheeling, IL (Chicago area). http://
7icchge.mst.edu (12/11, 2/12)
MAY
3. Los Angeles Tall Building
Council 2013 Conference, Los
Angeles. www.tallbuildings.org.
See page 9. (3/13)
16-17. Build It Better Leadership
Forum, Charlotte, NC. http://www.
mitigationleadership.com (1/13)
19-23. 4th Session of the Global
Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction,
Geneva Switzerland. http://www.
preventionweb.net/english/
professional/trainings-events/
events/v.php?id=23896 (1/12, 7/12)
20-22. 7th National Seismic Conf. on
Bridges & Highways, Oakland, CA.
http://www.7nsc.info/default.asp (9/12)
28- June 1. 6th China-Japan-US
Trilateral Symposium on Lifeline
Earthquake Engineering, Chengdu,
China. See page 9. (3/13)
29-31. International Conference on
Earthquake Engineering, Skopje,
Macedonia. www.se-50eee.org (2/13)
JUNE
16-20. 11th Intl Conference on
Structural Safety & Reliability (ICOS-
SAR2013), New York City. http://
icossar2013.org/ (8/12)
AUGUST
18-23. 22nd Intl Conference on
Structural Mechanics in Reactor
Technology (SMiRT-22), San
Francisco. www.smirt22.org. (2/12,
4/12, 10/12, 2/13)
28-30. Vienna Congress on Recent
Advances in Earthquake Engineering
and Structural Dynamics (VEESD2013).
Vienna, Austria. http://veesd2013.
conf.tuwien.ac.at (8/12)
SEPTEMBER
5-7. 4th EUGEO Congress, Rome,
Italy. www.eugeo2013.com. See
page 10. (3/13)
8-12. Intl Conference on Earth-
quakes & Structures (CEAS-2013),
Jeju, Korea (part of the World
Congress on Advances in Struc-
tural Engineering & Mechanics
[ASEM13]). http://asem.cti3.com/
asem13.htm (1/13)
17-21. 2013 SEAOC Convention,
San Diego, CA. (1/13)
25-28. 38th DFI Annual Conference
on Deep Foundations, Phoenix, Ari-
zona. http://www.df.org/conferen-
cedetail.asp?id=226 (12/12)
26-27. International Conference
on Seismic Design of Facilities,
Aachen, Germany. www.SeDIF-
Conference.de
OCTOBER
25-27. 2nd IACGE Intl Conference
on Geotechnical & Earthquake
Engineering, Chengdu, China. www.
iacge2013.org. (12/12)
NOVEMBER
8-9. 5th Intl Conf. on Advances in
Experimental Structural Engineer-
ing (5AESE), Taipei, Taiwan. http://
aese5.ncree.narl.org.tw (11/12)
2014
APRIL
30-May 2. Annual Meeting, Seismo-
logical Society of America, Anchor-
age, Alaska. http://www.seismosoc.
org/meetings/ (7/12)
JULY
11-14. 7th Intl Conf on Bridge Main-
tenance, Safety, and Management
(IABMAS 2014), Shanghai, China.
http://www.iabmas2014.org (11/12)
13-16. 2nd Intl Conference on Vul-
nerability and Risk Analysis and
Management (ICVRAM2014) & 6th
Intl Symposium on Uncertainty Mod-
eling and Analysis (ISUMA2014), Liv-
erpool, UK, http://www.icvram2014.
org (1/13)
20-26. 10th Natl Conference on
Earthquake Engineering, EERI
Annual Meeting, & NEES Quake
Summit 2014, Anchorage, Alaska.
http://10ncee.org. See page 12.
(9/12, 1/13, 2/13)
August
24-29. Second European Confer-
ence on Earthquake Engineering
and Seismology, Istanbul, Turkey.
www.2eceeistanbul.org (2/13)
NOVEMBER
16-19. 3rd International Symposium
on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering
(IALCCE). Tokyo, Japan. http://
www.ialcce2014.org (11/12)
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New Subscribing
Member: GeoSIG
Consultants
EERI is pleased to announce that
the frm GeoSIG Consultants, has
become the newest Silver Subscrib-
ing Member. GeoSIG provides earth-
quake, seismic, structural, dynamic
and static monitoring and measur-
ing solutions. GeoSIG is a world
leader in design and manufacture
of a diverse range of high quality,
precision instruments for vibration
and earthquake monitoring. GeoSIG
instruments are at work today in
more than 100 countries around the
world. GeoSIG has a global pres-
ence that includes more than 300
major installations in dams, nuclear
power plants and major structures on
every continent.
10NCEE Sponsor and
Exhibitor Opportuni-
ties
Sponsorship and exhibit opportuni-
ties are now available for the 10th
National Conference on Earthquake
Engineering. This unique confer-
ence will bring together professionals
from a broad range of disciplines:
architecture, civil and structural engi-
neering, seismology, geology, geo-
physics, geotechnical, engineering,
business, public policy, the social sci-
ences, regional planning, emergency
response planning, and regulation.
More than 1,000 earthquake profes-
sionals from the US and beyond will
be in attendance. A limited number
of exhibit booths will be available
at no charge to EERI subscribing
members until April 1, 2014. A full
list of exhibitor and sponsor oppor-
tunities can be viewed in the online
brochures at http://10ncee.org/
exhibitors-and-sponsors. Interested
sponsors should contact Jay Berger
at jberger@eeri.org and interested
exhibitors should contact Sonya
Hollenbeck at sonya@eeri.org.
News of the Institute
EERI and NEES2
Operations
The George E. Brown, Jr. Network
for Earthquake Engineering Simula-
tions (NEES) completes the frst ten
years of operation in 2014.
On February 5th the National Sci-
ence Foundation issued an RFP for
NEES2 Operations from FY2015-
19. The Program Solicitation (NSF
13-537) announces the recompetition
of NEES and calls for single propos-
als that provide the following com-
ponents: (1) NEES2 management,
(2) four to six experimental facilities
plus a Post-Earthquake Rapid
Response Research (PERRR)
facility, (3) cyberinfrastructure, and
(4) education and outreach activities.
EERIs considerable experience in
post-earthquake reconnaissance
and related IT infrastructure can be
an asset to any entity proposing to
establish the PERRR facility. Inter-
ested entities should contact Jay
Berger, EERI Executive Director, via
email at jberger@eeri.org.