AGENDA
39TH JOINT MEETING
PANEL ON WIND AND SEISMIC EFFECTS
14-16 May 2007

May 14 (Monday)

10:00 Opening Ceremonies

• Call to order by Osamu Matsuo, Secretary-General, Japan-side Panel
• Opening remarks by Hiroaki Taniguchi, Vice-Minister for Engineering Affairs, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport
• Remarks by Joyce Rabens, Minister-Counselor for Environment, Science and Technology Affairs, Embassy of the United States of America
• Remarks by Takashi Kato, 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, U.S.-side Panel on Wind and Seismic Effects, Building and Fire Research Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Department of Commerce
• Introduction of Japan-side Members by Japan-side Panel Chairman
• Introduction of U.S.-side Members by U.S.-side Panel Chairman
• Elect Joint Panel Meeting Chairman
• Adopt Agenda
• Adjourn

11:10 Group Photograph

11:30 Session 1 (Transportation Systems)

• FHWA Seismic Retrofitting of Highway Truss Bridges
  W. Phillip Yen*, FHWA; Charles Seim, Consulting Engineer, and Jerome S. O’Connor, MCEER
• Bridge Seismic Response Experiment Program Using E-Defense
  Kazuhiko Kawashima*, Tokyo Institute of Technology; Hiromichi Ukon and Koichi Kajiwara, NIED
• Integral Connection Seismic Performance Between Precast Girders and Cast-in-Place Bent Caps
  Kevin Almer and David Sanders*, University of Nevada at Reno

12:30 Lunch

13:30 Session 2 (Storm Surge and Tsunami)

• The Storm Surges in the Seto Inland Sea Caused by Typhoon Chaba (0416) in Japan
  Nadao Kohno*, MRI; Kazuo Kamakura, Hiroaki Minematsu, JMA
• Report on Field Survey of Solomon Islands Earthquake Tsunami in April 2007
  Takashi Tomita*, Taro Arikawa, Daisuke Tatsumi, Kazuhiko Honda, Hiroshi Higashino, Kazuya Watanabe, and Shigeo Takahashi, PARI
• US National Tsunami Research Plan
  Eddie Bernard, NOAA; Lori Dengler, Humboldt State University; and Solomon Yim*, Oregon State University
• Storm Surge Forecast System for Floodfighting Warning
  Masaya Fukuhama* and Fuminori Kato, NlLIM
• Analysis of Spillover Process and Development of Estimation Methods of Tsunami Damage in Ports and Surrounding Areas
  Katsuya Oda* and Osamu Okamoto, Kentaro Kumagai, NILIM

15:10 Break

15:30 Task Committee Meetings

A: Geotechnical Engineering and Ground Motion
B: Next-generation Building and Infrastructure Systems
C: Dams
D: Wind Engineering
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

09:00 Session 3 (Sustainable Design for Buildings and Infrastructure - Focus on Natural Disaster Prevention I)

• Development of Safe Infrastructures against Global Changes of Natural Disasters
  Masanori Hamada*, Waseda University
• Grand Challenges for Disaster Reduction – an Overview
  Noël Raufaste*, NIST
• Toward the Establishment of a Regional Society that is Safe and Secure from Disasters
  Tsuneyoshi Mochizuki*, NILIM “Safe and Secure” Project Team

10:20 Break

10:35 Session 4 (Sustainable Design for Buildings and Infrastructure - Focus on Natural Disaster PreventionⅡ)

• State of the Art Review for Sustainable Building Design and Innovation Technologies
  William Roper*, George Mason University
• Earthquake disaster mitigation policy in Japan
  Koji Ikeuchi*, Nobuharu Isago, Cabinet Office
• The Public Health Perspective on Hazard Reductions in Indoor Environments
  Fuyuen Yip*, Paul Garbe, and Josephine Malilay, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Quick report on damage to infrastructures and buildings by the 2007 Noto Hanto Earthquake
  NILIM, PWRI, BRI and PARI reconnaissance team for the 2007 Noto Hanto Earthquake (Presented by Keiichi Tamura*, NILIM)

13:00 Session 5 (Dams I)

• Seismic Design and Evaluation of Concrete Dams – An Engineering Manual
  Yusof Ghanaat*, Quest Structures, Inc.; and Anjana K. Chudgar, Corps
• Outline of “Guidelines for Seismic Performance Evaluation of Dams during Large Earthquakes (Draft)”
  Nario Yasuda, Kazuhito Shimamoto*, NILIM; Yoshikazu Yamaguchi, Takashi Sasaki, PWRI

12:30 Lunch

• Lessons Learned from Analysis of the New Orleans Hurricane Protection System
  Michael K. Sharp*, Corps
• Calculation Method of Hydrodynamic Pressure in Seismic Response Analysis of Gates
  Takashi Sasaki, Tomoya Iwashita* and Yoshikazu Yamaguchi, PWRI
• 3D Nonlinear Transient Analysis of Concrete Dams
  Victor Saouma*, University of Colorado; Yoshihisa Uchita, and Yoshinori Yagome, Tokyo Electric Power Service Company

14:20 Break

• Ultimate Temperature of Steel Columns subject to Thermal Elongations of Adjacent Beams at Fire
  Fuminobu Ozaki*, Tokyo University of Science
• Recent Advances in Fire-Structure Analysis
  Dat Duthinh and Kevin McGrattan, NIST; and Abed Khaskia, Mallett Technology (Presented by Joseph Main*, NIST)
• Numerical Analysis of Fire Resistance Tests of Press-formed Steel Columns (BCP325)
  Takeshi Okabe*, Graduate School of Science and Technology; and Mamoru Kohno, NILIM
• Fire Resistance Proficiency Testing of Gypsum/Steel-Stud Wall Assemblies
  William Grosshandler, NIST (Presented by H. S. Lew*, NIST)

15:55 Break

16:10 Strategic Planning Session

17:10 Conclusion of Day 2

18:30 Individual Japan-side Members Hosted Dinners

09:00 SESSION 8 (Geotechnical Engineering and Ground Motion)

• Correlation between aspects of slope failures and surface displacement triggered by the 2005 northern Pakistan earthquake
  Hiroshi P. Sato*, Hiroshi Une and Mikio Tobita, GSI
• Response Health Monitoring of Buildings Using Threshold Drift Ratios - Now an Established Method
  Mehmet Celebi*, USGS
• Development of seismic design criteria for river facilities against large earthquakes
  Hideki Sugita*, PWRI; and Keiichi Tamura, NILIM

10:00 Break

10:15 SESSION 9 (Next-Generation Building and Infrastructure Systems)

• Damping Ratio Estimation of an Existing 8-story Building Considering Soil-Structure Interaction Using Strong Motion Observation Data
  Koichi Morita*, BRI
• Smart Sensing Technology: A New Paradigm for Structural Health Monitoring
  Bill F. Spencer Jr., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; T. Nagayama, University of Tokyo; Jennifer Rice* and G.A. Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

10:55 Break

11:10 SESSION 10 (Wind Engineering)

• Comparative Inter-Laboratory Study of Wind Loading on Low Industrial Buildings
  Bogusz Bienkiewicz and Munehito Endo, CSU; Joseph Main*, NIST; and William Fritz, Wells Fargo Bank
• Damage to Buildings Induced by Tatsumakis in Nobeoka City
  Miyazaki and Saroma Town, Hokkaido in 2006, Yasuo Okuda*, Hitomitsu Kikitsu, and Tomonori Murakami, BRI
• Parametric Study of Flutter Derivatives of Bridge Cross Sections and Their Implications on the Aeroelastic Stability of Flexible Bridges
  Partha Sarkar*, Iowa State University; Luca Caracoglia, Northeastern University; and Fred Haan, Iowa State University

12:10 Lunch

14:20 Break

15:40 Break

15:50 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 on Wind and Seismic Effects
• Closing Remarks by Tadahiko Sakamoto, Chairman, Japan-side Panel on Wind and Seismic Effects

16:20 Conclusion of 39th Joint Panel Technical Sessions

18:30 U.S.-Side Panel Hosted Reception