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S05-02 Spectacular Projects of Passively-Controlled Buildings

Description:

Japan Association for Earthquake Engineering (JAEE) is pleased to propose hosting special sessions for the 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering. The sessions address progress of frontier technologies to effectively mitigate seismic disaster.
One of the most significant examples of such technologies would be the base-isolation scheme for buildings that controls both seismic accelerations and story drift of the superstructure. Another would be the passive control that is known to be an alternative effective scheme for a wide range of building types such as tall buildings, large span structures, and residential houses. Currently most major buildings, and even many individual houses in Japan utilize either of these schemes. The other scheme, which is rapidly growing and can significantly benefit the society would be the early earthquake warning system. The system will be brought into actual use nationwide in Japan from October 2007.
This proposed session refers to the second scheme mentioned above. Because Japan has had most implementations of the passive control scheme in the world, JAEE would like to take a liberty of hosting the session called “Part 2 - Spectacular Projects of Passively-Controlled Buildings”. The intent is to present very unique and outstanding projects that show significant extension of the passive control scheme, thereby promoting its use for enhancing safety of structurally challenging building projects in seismically active regions. In addition, standard passive control design method will be summarized in order to promote the use of scheme for regular buildings as well.

Conveners:

Alessandro Martelli – Head, Section on Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Risks, Department of Environment, Global Changes and Sustainable Development, ENEA, Bologna, Italy. Dr. Martelli has been making major contributions to the international structural engineering communities on energy dissipation and base isolation technologies. His current and past positions include: President, GLIS - Isolation and Other Anti-Seismic Design Strategies (GLIS); Past President and Coordinator of the European Territorial Section, Anti-Seismic Systems International Society (ASSISi).

Kazuhiko Kasai - Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology. Prof. Kasai is an internationally recognized researcher and educator in the area of steel structures, response control, and earthquake engineering. He is the Chairman of Response Control Committee, and Chairman of Passive Control Effects Sub-Committee, Japan Society of Seismic Isolation (JSSI), Chairman of Steel Passive Control Sub-Committee, Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ), and also chairs other various committees in Japan. He is also the Leader of the E-Defense steel building full-scale experiments of conventional steel structures as well as value-added (passive-controlled or innovative) steel structures. He is a chief editor for all the AIJ monthly journals.

Contact:
Kazuhiko Kasai, Ph.D.
Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Structural Engineering Research Center
Nagatsuta 4259-G5-14, Midori-Ku, Yokohama 226-8502, JAPAN
E-Mail: kasai@serc.titech.ac.jp

Phone: 81-45-924-5512, Fax:+81-45-924-5525

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