AGENDA
37TH JOINT MEETING
PANEL ON WIND AND SEISMIC EFFECTS
16-21 May 2005
May 16 (Monday)
10:00 Opening Ceremonies
Call to order by Osamu Matsuo, Secretary-General Japan-side Panel
Opening remarks by Nobuaki Sato, Vice-Minister for Engineering Affairs, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport
Remarks by Kevin MAHER, Minister-Counselor for Environment, Science and Technology Affairs, Embassy of the United States of America
Remarks by Fumiyasu Hirashita, Director, International Science and Technology Affairs Division, Science and Technology Policy Bureau, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Remarks by Tadahiko Sakamoto, Chairman Japan-Side, Panel on Wind and Seismic Effects, Chief Executive, Public Works Research Institute
Remarks by H.S. Lew, Acting Chairman, US-Side Panel on Wind and Seismic Effects, Chief, Materials and Construction Research Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Department of Commerce
Introduction of Japan Members by Japan Panel Chairman
Introduction of U.S. Members by U.S. Panel Chairman
Elect Joint Meeting Chairman
Adoption of Agenda
Adjourn
11:10 Group Photograph
11:30 Session 1 (LESSONS LEARNED FROM RECENT NATURAL DISASTERS (INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI) /STORM SURGE AND TSUNAMI)Chairman - Dr. H.S. Lew
12:40 Lunch
13:40 Session 2 (LESSONS LEARNED FROM RECENT NATURAL DISASTERS (MID NIIGATA PREFECTURE EARTHQUAKE))Chairman - Dr H.S. Lew
14:40 Break
14:55 Task Committee Meetings
A: Geotechnical Engineering and Ground Motion
B: Next-generation Building and Infrastructure Systems
C: Dams
D: Wind Engineering
F: Advanced Information and Communication Technology for Disaster Prevention and Public Health Evaluation
G: Transportation Systems
H: Storm Surge and Tsunami
I: Fire Performance of Building and Transportation Structures
17:00 Conclusion of Day 1
18:30 Japan-side Panel Hosted Reception
May 17 (Tuesday)
09:00 Session 3 (NEXT-GENERATION BUILDING AND INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS)
Chairman - Dr. Tadahiko Sakamoto
09:00 Projected on 3-D Full-Scale Earthquake Testing Facility (The Fifth Report)Toru Hayama, Masayoshi Nakashima, Takahito Inoue and Ken-ichi Abe, NIED (Presented by Chikahiro Minowa, NIED)
09:15 Constant Acceleration of Superstructures A Concept of Seismic IsolationGeorge C. Lee and Zach Liang, MCEER, University at Buffalo
09:30 Retrofit of Structures: Strength Reduction with Damping EnhancementAndrei M. Reinhorn, University at Buffalo; Stefania Viti, University of Florence; and GianPaolo Cimellaro, University at Buffalo (Presented by Zach Liang, MCEER)
09:45 Semi-active Control of Base Isolation System with Magneto-rheological Fluid DamperNamihiko Inoue, BRI; Morimasa Watakabe, Toda Corp.; Takafumi Miyama, Fujita Corp.; and Hidekazu Nishimura, Chiba University
10:00 Discussion
10:20 Break
10:35 Session 4 (WIND ENGINEERING)
Chairman - Dr. Tadahiko Sakamoto
10:35 Wind Dampers and Prospects for Accelerated Wind Damage Reduction in Japan and in the United StatesHironori Kikugawa, Oita National College of Technology; and
Bogusz Bienkiewicz, Colorado State University
10:50 Velocity Measurements in a Laboratory Tornado Simulator and their comparison with Numerical and Full-Scale Data
Partha Sarkar, Fred Haan, William Gallus, Jr., Kuai Le, Iowa State University; and Joshua Wurman, Center for Severe Weather Research, NOAA
11:05 Features of the Wind Field associated with Typhoon 0418 (Songda) Compared with Those of Typhoon 9119 (Mireille)Fumiaki Fujibe, Naoko Kitabatake, Kotaro Bessho, and Shunsuke Hoshino, MRI
11:20 The Hurricane-Flood-Landslide Continuum - Forecasting Hurricane Effects at LandfallJoseph Golden, Edward Tollerud, NOAA; A. Negri, NASA; and Randy Updike, USGS
11:35 Discussion
11:55 Lunch
13:00 Session 5 (GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING AND GROUND MOTION)
Chairman - Dr. Tadahiko Sakamoto
14:00 Break
14:15 Session 6 (DAMS)
Chairman - Dr. Tadahiko Sakamoto
15:15 Break
15:30 Strategic Planning Session
17:00 Conclusion of Day 2
May 18 (Wednesday)
09:00 SESSION 7 (ADVANCED INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY FOR DISASTER PREVENTION AND PUBLIC HEALTH EVALUATION)
Chairman - Dr. H.S. Lew
09:40 Break
09:45 SESSION 8 (TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS)
Chairman - Dr. H.S. Lew
09:45 FHWA Recommendations for Seismic Performance Testing of Bridge PiersJia-Dzwan Jerry Shen, Phillip Yen and John O'Fallon, FHWA
10:00 Seismic Retrofitting Sites for Existing FoundationsJiro Fukui, Masahiro Ishida and Masahiro Takeguchi, PWRI
10:15 Analysis and Distributed Hybrid Simulation of Shear-Sensitive RC Bridges Subjected to Horizontal and Vertical Earthquake Ground MotionAmr Elnashai, Bill Spencer , Dan Kuchma, Sung Jig Kim, Nicholas Burdette, Curtis Holub, Johanna Gonzales, Narutoshi Nakata, Guangqiang Yang, and Quan Gan, Universty of Illinois
10:30 Discussion
10:45 Break
11:00 SESSION 9 (FIRE PERFORMANCE OF BUILDING AND TRANSPORTATION STRUCTURES / SPECIAL THEME: PROGRESSIVE COLLAPSE OF BUILDINGS)
Chairman - Dr. Tadahiko Sakamoto
12:20 Lunch
13:20 Workshop and Task Committee Reports
Chairman: Dr. Tadahiko Sakamoto
14:40 Break
15:00 Adoption of Final Resolutions
Chairman: Dr. Tadahiko Sakamoto
16:00 Break
16:10 CLOSING CEREMONIES
Call to Order by Osamu Matsuo, Secretary-General, Japan-side Panel
Closing Remarks by H.S. Lew, Acting Chairman U.S.-Side Panel
Closing Remarks by Tadahiko Sakamoto, Chairman Japan-Side Panel
16:40 Conclusion of 37th Joint Panel Technical Sessions
18:30 U.S.-Side Panel Hosted Reception