Featured PBD-III Vancouver Speakers/Presentations
- Perspectives on Performance-based Design in Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering
- Professor emeritus W.D.L. Finn, University of British Columbia, Canada
- Professor emeritus I.M. Idriss, University of California at Davis, USA
- Professor Kenji Ishihara, Chuo University, JapanS
- Moderator: Professor Scott Ashford, Dean of Engineering, Oregon State University, USA
- Plenary Keynote speakers
- Professor Ross W Boulanger, University of California at Davis, USA
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- - Soil-cement panels for remediation of liquefaction in an embankment foundation
- Professor Jonathan D. Bray, University of California at Berkeley, USA
- - Performance-based assessment of liquefaction-induced building movements
- Professor Misko Cubrinovski, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
- Professor George Gazetas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
- Professor Susumu Iai, Kyoto University, Japan
- - Performance of port structures during earthquakes
- Professor emeritus Takaji Kokusho, Chuo University, Japan
- - Energy-based liquefaction evaluation supplementing stress-based method
- Professor Steven L. Kramer, University of Washington, USA
- - Applicability of Sliding Block Analyses to Lateral Spreading Problems
- Professor Thomas D. O'Rourke, Cornell University, USA
- - Hazard-resilient underground infrastructure
- Professor Ellen Rathje, University of Texas at Austin, USA
- - Seismic hazards due to potentially induced earthquakes
- Dr. Peter K. Robertson, Gregg Drilling & Testing, Inc., USA/Canada
- Professor Kenneth Stokoe II, University of Texas at Austin, USA
- Professor Kohji Tokimatsu, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
- - Liquefaction-induced settlement and tilting of buildings with spread foundation based on field observation and laboratory experiments
- Dr. Ramon Verdugo, CMGI Ltda., Santiago, Chile
- Technical Theme speakers
- Professor Ioannis Anastasopoulous, University of Dundee, UK
- - Design of foundation-structure systems against faulting: new developments and mitigation techniques
- Professor Atilla Ansal, Ozyegin University, Turkey
- - 2D site response analysis of the Istanbul Rapid Response Network
- Professor Domniki Asimaki, California Institute of Technology, USA
- Professor Brendon Bradley, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
- - Site-specific ground motion prediction: Coupling regional 3D viscoelastic and 1D effective stress wave propagation methods
- Professor George Bouckovalas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
- - Performance-based design of bridge piers in liquefiable sites: Use of shallow foundation, limited ground improvement & natural seismic isolation
- Professor Yousef Hashash, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
- - Seismic response of underground structures
- Dr. Amir M. Kaynia, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Norway
- - Earthquake response of offshore wind turbines
- Professor Junichi Koseki, University of Tokyo, Japan
- - Laboratory tests on repeated liquefaction properties of uniform and segregated sand specimens
- Dr. Ernest Naesgaard, Naesgaard-Amini Geotechnical Ltd., Canada
- Professor Mitsu Okamura, Ehime University, Japan
- - Liquefaction of aged sand in partial drainage condition
- Professor Roberto Paolucci, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- - Non-linear dynamic soil-structure interaction for the integrated seismic assessment of structures and foundations
- Professor Kyriazis Pitilakis, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Professor Jonathan P. Stewart, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
- Professor Mahdi Taiebat, University of British Columbia, Canada
- Professor emeritus Ikuo Towhata, University of Tokyo, Japan
- Professor Yoshimichi Tsukamoto, Tokyo University of Science, Japan
- - Influence of degree of saturation on liquefaction resistance and undrained shear strength of silty sands
- Professor Lanmin Wang, Lanzhou Institute of Seismology, China
- - A performance-based design method of loess slopes under the coupling effects of earthquakes and rainfalls
- Professor Dharma Wijewickreme, University of British Columbia, Canada
- - Laboratory characterization of the response of low plastic fine-grained soils: challenges, findings, and way forward
