Program

The Conference will be organized in plenary sessions of invited communications, session of free communications and sessions of posters exhibition, selected and structured according to the Conference topics.
- Safety Assessment, Vulnerability and Seismic Risk
- Seismic and Dynamic Effects on High-Speed Rail Networks
- Experimental Studies
- Methodologies for Seismic Design, Design Codes and Standards
- Numerical Methods and Structural Analysis
- Assessment, Rehabilitation and Retrofitting of Existing Structures
- Engineering Seismology and Site Effects.

In the framework of the Conference, a Workshop on “Seismic Risk of non-Engineering Constructions” will also be organized (October 22, 2010).

Program


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Ema Coelho (LNEC)

Raimundo Delgado (FEUP)

Elsa Caetano (FEUP)
Monitorização dinâmica contínua de pontes e estruturas especiais

Eduardo Cansado de Carvalho (GAPRES)

Paulo Lourenço (UM)
Análise de estruturas antigas e novas em alvenaria: Possibilidades e aplicações

Aníbal Costa (UA)

João Fonseca (IST)
Avaliação da perigosidade sísmica: novos desafios


Workshop - Non-Engineering Structures

Daniel Oliveira (UM)
A construção em taipa e os sismos

Mário Lopes (IST)
Construção Pombalina: património histórico e estrutura sismo-resistente

Humberto Varum (UA)
Caracterização mecânica e reforço de construções em alvenaria de adobe

V. Cóias (STAP)

Fabio Taucer (JRC-ELSA)
Performance of non-engineered structures in recent earthquakes: overview and mitigation strategies

João Miranda Guedes (FEUP)


Special Session

Special Session 1 - ANL versus métodos simplificados
Raimundo Delgado (FEUP)
Gustavo Ayala (UNAM)

Special Session 2 - Ensaios PsD versus dinâmicos
Alfredo Campos Costa (LNEC)
Javier Molina (JRC-ELSA)

Special Session 3 - Recent Earthquakes
Carlos Sousa Oliveira (IST)
The urbanization of disasters. The cases of Haiti and Chile

Fabio Taucer (JRC-ELSA)
Haiti earthquake of 12 january 2010: field damage assessment, data collection and analysis

Hugo Rodrigues (UA)/ Xavier Romão (FEUP)
Sismo de L’Aquila de 6 de abril de 2009: Ensinamentos para Portugal

Alexandre Costa (FEUP)
O grande sismo de Sichuan: Impactos e lições para o futuro