Third UJNR Workshop on Soil-Structure Interaction March 29-30, 2004, Vallombrosa Center, Menlo Park, California
	CONTRIBUTIONS
The technical program of the workshop included 43 presentations, organized in three plenary sessions and four technical sessions. Electronic files of the contributions (42 technical papers and a handout of one presentation) can be accessed by clicking on the icon in the title line of the particular contribution. The name of the presenting author is underlined.
I: State of the Art Talks
	Observations versus analyses: lateral earth pressures on an embedded foundation during earthquakes and forced vibration tests, by Michio Iguchi, and Chikahiro Minowa.
	Forced vibration tests of the foundation block and surrounding soil at the NEES/UCSD large high-performance shake table, by J.E. Luco, J.P. Conte, B. Moaveni, L. Mendoza, and D. Whang.
	Nonlinear soil-structure interaction: foundation uplifting and soil yielding, by George Gazetas and Marios Apostolou.
II: Earthquake Observations and Analyses
	Seismic observation systems in Nagoya University and publication of data, by Nobuo Fukuwa, Jun Tobita, and Hiroaki Kojima
	Soil-structure interaction effects on building response in recent earthquakes, by Yasuhiro Hayashi and Ikuo Takahashi.
	Dynamic soil-structure interaction in low-rise buildings from seismic records, by Madan B. Karkee, Kazuya Mitsuji, and Yoshihiro Sugimura.
	Dynamic behavior of a 9-story base-isolated building during the 2003 off Tokachi earthquake, Japan, by Toshihide Kashima, Akihiro Itou and Hisashi Fujita.
	Study on distribution of first natural period (T1) and its amplification factor derived from response and limit strength calculation for subsurface soil layers, by Shin Koyama.
	Soil-structure interaction and site response at the Jensen Filtration Plant during the 1994 Northridge, California, mainshock and aftershocks, by C.B. Crouse, and Juan Carlos Ramirez.
	Ground motions with static displacement derived from strong-motion accelerogram records by a new baseline correction method, by Nobuyoshi Yamaguchi, Ilker Kazaz and Chikahiro Minowa.
	Two recent strong motion records from Turkey: re-interpretation of Bolu (1999) and Býngöl (2003) seismograms, by Polat Gulkan and Sinan Akkar.
	Strong motion recording for buildings in Japan, by Izuru Okawa, Toshihide Kashima, Kuniaki Yamagishi, and Morimasa Watakabe.
	Variability of soil-structure system frequencies during strong earthquake shaking for a group of buildings in Los Angeles estimated from strong motion records, by Maria I. Todorovska, Tzong-Ying Hao, and Mihailo D. Trifunac.
III: Opportunities for Research via NEES and ANSS
	Ground motion, pore water pressure and SFSI monitoring at NEES permanently instrumented field sites, by T. L. Youd, J. H. Steidl, and R. L. Nigbor.
	Field testing capabilities of the nees@UCLA equipment site for soil-structure interaction applications, by Jonathan P. Stewart, Daniel H. Whang and John W. Wallace.
	A brief overview of the NEESGrid simulation platform OpenSees: application to the soil–foundation–structure interaction problems, by Boris Jeremić.
	Large-displacement facility for testing of highly ductile lifeline systems, by Scott L. Jones, Keith E. Kesner, Thomas D. O’Rourke, Harry E. Stewart, Tarek Abdoun, and Michael J. O’Rourke.
	The promise of NEES research, by Steven McCabe (NSF).
	Opportunities for soil-structure interaction research via ANSS, by Mehmet Çelebi and Janise Rodgers.
IV: Design Issues and Seismic Performance
	Design concepts for yielding structures on flexible foundation, by Javier Avilés and Luis E. Pérez-Rocha.
	Seismic design of a structure supported on pile foundation considering dynamic soil-structure interaction, by Yuji Miyamoto, Katsuichiro Hijikata and Hideo Tanaka.
	Implementation of soil-structure interaction models in performance based design procedures, by Jonathan P. Stewart, Craig Comartin, and Jack P. Moehle.
	Design and actual performance of a super high R/C smokestack on soft ground, by Shinichiro Mori.
	An investigation on aspects of damage to precast concrete piles due to the 1995 Hyogoken-Nambu earthquake, by Yoshihiro Sugimura, Madan B. Karkee, and Kazuya Mitsuji.
V: Analytical Modeling and Numerical Simulations and Analyses
	Effects of contact condition of side walls of embedded foundation on dynamic response of structures, by Kazuhiro Yoshida and Tetsuya Hagiwara.
	Finite element formulation of poro-elasticity suitable for large deformation dynamic analysis, by Ronaldo Borja, and Chao Li.
	Numerical treatment of wave propagation in layered media, by Murthy N. Guddati, Si-Hwan Park and John L. Tassoulas.
	Interaction between earthquake ground motion and multiple buildings in urban regions, by Antonio Fernández-Aresand Jacobo Bielak .
	Strong motion site effects in the Athens, 1999 earthquake, by Dominic Assimaki, and Eduardo Kausel.
	Estimating total system damping for soil-structure interaction systems, by F Ostadan, N Deng, and Jose M. Roesset.
	A simplified method for dynamic response analysis of soil-pile-building interaction system in large strain levels of soils − analysis for building with embedment and pile, by Shin’ichiro Tamori, Masanori Iiba, and Yoshikazu Kitagawa.
	Simulation of soil-structure interaction effects by discrete-time recursive filters, by Erdal Şafak.
	Soil spatial variability effect on soil structure interaction studies: enveloping uncertainties in structural response, by Nicholas Simos, and Carl Costantino.
	Seismic motion incoherency effects on structure, by Dan M. Ghiocel and Letian Wang.
	Approximate external boundaries for truncated models of unbounded media, by J. Enrique Luco.
VI: Experimental Methods and Analyses
	Experimental study on nonlinear soil structure interaction of nuclear power plants using large scale blast excitations, by Osamu Kontani, Atsushi Suzuki, Yoshio Kitada, and Michio Iguchi.
	Load bearing mechanism of piled raft foundation during earthquake, by Shoichi Nakai, Hiroyuki Kato, Riei Ishida, Hideyuki Mano and Makoto Nagata.
	Study on the dynamic characteristics of an actual large size wall foundation by experiments and analyses, by Masanobu Tohdo.
	Field method for estimating soil parameters for nonlinear dynamic analysis of single piles, by A. Anandarajah, , J. Zhang and C. Ealy.
	Soil profile confirmation through microtremor observation, by Yuzuru Yasui and Tatsuya Noguchi.
	Evidence of soil-structure interaction from ambient vibrations—consequences on design spectra , by F. Dunand, P.-Y. Bard, J.-L. Chatelan, and Ph. Guéguen.
	Effects of soil-structure interaction at an earthquake observation station identified by micro-tremor measurement, by Toshiro Maeda. .
	A study on dynamic soil-structure interaction effect based on microtremor measurement of building and surrounding ground surface, by Masanori Iiba, Morimasa Watakabe Atsushi Fujii, Shin Koyama, Shigeki Sakai, and Koichi Morita.