Thursday January 16 Schedule
Palisades Room, Robin and Albert Carnesale Commons building, UCLA
VIEW FULL LIST OF PLENARY SPEAKERS
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| 8:00 am – 8:30 am |  Registration and Breakfast sponsored bySouthern California Gas Company |
| 8:30 am – 8:40 am | Welcome and Overview Janiele Maffei, California Earthquake Authority |
| 8:40 am – 9:00 am | Keynote Speaker Pete Wilson, Former Governor of California |
| 9:00 am – 9:20 am | Keynote Speaker James Lee Witt, Former FEMA Director |
| 9:20 am – 9:40 am | Keynote Speaker Dave Jones, California Insurance Commissioner |
| 9:40 am – 10:00 am | Overview of Symposium Recommendations Janiele Maffei, California Earthquake Authority |
| 10:00 am – 10:15 am |  Break sponsored by Simpson Strong-Tie |
| 10:15 am – 10:30 am | Earth Science and Seismology Lucy Jones, US Geological Survey |
| 10:30 am – 10:45 am | Ground Motions and Ground Failure (3.2 MB PDF) Jonathan P. Stewart, University of California, Los Angeles |
| 10:45 am – 11:00 am | Lifelines and Utilities (1.4 MB PDF) Craig A. Davis, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power |
| 11:00 am – 11:15 am | Transportation Systems (2.8 MB PDF) Thomas A. Ostrom, Caltrans |
| 11:15 am – 12:00 pm | Policymaker Discussion Panel Bob Blumenfield, Los Angeles City Council, Mitch Englander, Los Angeles City Council. Moderated by John Bwarie, Stratiscope |
| 12:00 pm – 1:45 pm | LUNCH Grand Horizon Ballroom, Covel Commons building, UCLA |
| 1:45 pm – 2:00 pm | Residential Wood-Frame and Soft Story Buildings (1 MB PDF) John W. van de Lindt, Colorado State University |
| 2:00 pm – 2:15 pm | Concrete Buildings (2.9 MB PDF) Michael Mehrain, URS Corporation |
| 2:15 pm – 2:30 pm | Steel Buildings (2.2 MB PDF) Thomas A. Sabol, Englekirk Institutional. Introduction by Roger E. Ferch, AISC President, CVSIC Administrator |
| 2:30 pm – 2:45 pm | Business, Insurance, and Financial Implications (4.1 MB PDF) Glenn Pomeroy, California Earthquake Authority |
| 2:45 pm – 3:30 pm | Policymaker Discussion Panel Tom LaBonge, Los Angeles City Council, Raymond S. Chan, Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety. Moderated by Leslie Chapman-Henderson, FLASH |
| 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm | Small Group Discussions Facilitated conversations on symposium topics |
| 4:00 pm – 4:15 pm | Conclusion and Signing of Support Statement |
| 4:15 pm – 6:00 pm |  Hosted Networking Reception and Poster SessionGrand Horizon Ballroom, Covel Commons building, UCLA Sponsored by CVSIC |
Friday January 17 Schedule Overview
| Time | Hermosa | Palisades A&B | Venice | Malibu | Palisades C&F | Palisades D&E |
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| 8:30 am – 9:15 am | State Policymaker Discussion Panel |
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| 9:15 am – 9:30 am | Break sponsored by RMS (Transition to Concurrent Sessions) |
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| 9:30 am – 12:30 pm | Business, Insurance, & Financial Implications | Resilience Case Studies & Tools | Earth Science & Seismology | Lifelines & Utilities | Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering | Steel Structures I |
| 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm | Lunch | |||||
| 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Risk Communication | Concrete Buildings | Ground Motion Hazard, Site Response & Ground Failure | Transportation Systems | Wood-Frame & Soft-Story Buildings | Steel Structures II |
Friday January 17 Concurrent Sessions
| Time | Session Name |
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| 8:00 am – 8:30 am | REGISTRATION / BREAKFAST |
| 8:30 am – 9:15 am | STATE POLICYMAKER DISCUSSION PANEL Ken Cooley (Assemblyman, California District 8) Mark S. Ghilarducci (Director of Cal OES) Anna M. Caballero (Secretary of Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency) |
| 9:15 am – 9:30 am | Break sponsored by RMS |
| 9:30 am – 12:30 pm | MORNING CONCURRENT SESSIONS |
 BUSINESS, INSURANCE, AND FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONSCo-Chairs: Craig Tillman (RenaissanceRe Risk Sciences Foundation), Bruce Patton (California Earthquake Authority) Educational Track Sponsorship by RenaissanceRe Risk Sciences Foundation, Inc. |
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| What Direct Impacts Do We Face? Panel discussion moderated by Craig Tillman (RenaissanceRe Risk Sciences Foundation) |
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| Potential Losses and Regional Risk Perspective (239 KB PDF) Craig Tillman (RenaissanceRe Risk Sciences Foundation) |
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| Catastrophe Modeling Twenty Years After Northridge (1.4 MB PDF) Jayanta Guin (Air Worldwide) |
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| What Direct Impacts Do We Face? (2.3 MB PDF) Thomas Larsen (EQECat) |
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| Catastrophe Modeling & Southern California Earthquake Risk (1.4 MB PDF) Patricia Grossi (Risk Management Solutions) |
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| What are the Impacts of an Earthquake on Los Angeles Residents? Panel discussion moderated by Bruce Patton (California Earthquake Authority) |
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| Impacts on Los Angeles Residents (2.4 MB PDF) Glenn Pomeroy (California Earthquake Authority) |
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| Business, Insurance, and Financial Implications (500 KB PDF) Bryon Ehrhart (Aon Benfield Americas) |
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| Planning for Residential Recovery (4.1 MB PDF) Ken Topping (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo) |
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| What are the Business and Economic Impacts of an Earthquake in Los Angeles? Panel discussion moderated by Craig Tillman (RenaissanceRe Risk Sciences Foundation) |
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| An Insurance Perspective – Physical Damage & Business Ramifications of an Earthquake (54 KB) Michael J. Hudson (Marsh Risk & Insurance Services) |
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| Inés Pearce (Pearce Global Partners) | |
| Business Interruptions After Disasters: What Do We Know? (170 KB PDF) Peter Gordon (University of Southern California) |
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| RESILIENCE CASE STUDIES AND TOOLS Co-Chairs: Mary Comerio (University of California, Berkeley), Chris Rojahn (Applied Technology Council) |
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| City and Civic Organizations Resilience Efforts | |
| City of Los Angeles Programs that Support Resilience (3.9 MB PDF) Judith Steele, planning consultant and former legislative analyst |
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| Efforts by SPUR to define and achieve resilience in San Francisco (3.9 MB PDF) Mary Comerio, University of California, Berkeley |
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| Discussion | |
| Institutions such as Universities and Hospitals | |
| How partnership between University of Canterbury and California State University, Northridge affected university response to Christchurch Earthquake sequence–including best practices learned from CSUN and other universities (2 MB PDF) Chris Hawker, University of Canterbury, New Zealand |
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| Overview of ongoing California hospital seismic safety program, with comparison between today vs 1994 (3 MB PDF) Hussain Bhatia, California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development |
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| Discussion | |
| Tools that Cities Can Use for Resilience Planning | |
| Community Action Plan for Seismic Safety, City and County of San Francisco (CAPSS) (5.6 MB PDF) Patrick Otellini, Director of Earthquake Safety, Office of the City Administrator, San Francisco |
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| ATC Procedures for Assessment of Wood Frame Dwellings and Seismic Retrofit Guidelines (3.9 MB PDF) Ron Eguchi, ImageCat |
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| Discussion | |
| EARTH SCIENCE AND SEISMOLOGY Co-Chairs: Ken Hudnut (US Geological Survey), Greg Beroza (Southern California Earthquake Center), and Rob Graves (US Geological Survey) |
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| Faults, Ground Motions, Buildings | |
| Faulting hazards in LA; blind thrusts then and now James Dolan, University of Southern California |
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| Observed and simulated basin response; Northridge and beyond Kim Olsen, San Diego State University |
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| EQ source and ground motion characterization; impacts for engineered structures Tom Heaton, Caltech |
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| Advances in ground motion characterization for engineering applications Jack Baker, Stanford University |
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| Panel Discussion | |
| Instrumentation, Data Gaps, Forecast/Warning | |
| Evolution and advances in the seismic instrumentation network Egill Hauksson, Caltech |
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| Advances in GPS in earth science applications Ken Hudnut, US Geological Survey |
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| Development of Earthquake Early Warning Doug Given, US Geological Survey |
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| Panel Discussion | |
| LIFELINES AND UTILITIES Co-Chairs: Craig Davis (Los Angeles Department of Water and Power), Ross Boulanger (University of California, Davis) |
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| Lifelines – general performance in 1994 and future directions in resilience (3.7 MB PDF) Curt Edwards, Psomas & TCLEE Earthquake Investigations |
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| Ground failure and geotechnical impacts on lifeline performance, Northridge and beyond (13.9 MB PDF) J.P Bardet, University of Texas at Austin |
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| Performance of water retaining dams and advancements in Dam Engineering (2.4 MB PDF) Dave Gutierrez, California Department of Water Resources, Division of Safety of Dams |
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| Discussion | |
| Water System Performances, Advancements, and Future Developments (3.7 MB PDF) Craig Davis, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power |
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| Natural Gas Systems Performances, Advancements, and Future Developments (5.4 MB PDF) Hector Madariaga, Southern California Gas Company |
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| Electric Power System Performances, Advancements, and Future Developments LADWP Power System (5.1 MB PDF) Brian Koch (Los Angeles Department of Water and Power) Keeping the Lights On (10.5 MB PDF) Dennis Ostrom/Florizel Bautista (Southern California Edison) |
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| Discussion | |
| Fire Following Earthquake: LA Case Study and future directions (7.8 MB PDF) Charles Scawthorn, SPA Risk LLC & PEER |
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| NIST Earthquake-Resilient Lifelines Research, Development, and Implementation Roadmap (ATC-102 Project) (4.7 MB PDF) Laurie Johnson, Laurie Johnson Consulting |
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| Discussion | |
| PERFORMANCE-BASED EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING Co-Chairs: Stephen Mahin (PEER), Farzad Naeim (John A. Martin & Associates) |
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| ASCE 41-13 Performance-Based Evaluation and Retrofit of Existing Structures (2.9 MB PDF) Robert Pekelnicky, Degenkolb Engineers, San Francisco |
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| Performance Based Design Guidelines for Tall Buildings and their Applications (8.5 MB PDF) Farzad Naeim, John A. Martin and Associates |
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| Performance-Based Design of Tall Buildings (3 MB PDF) Jack Moehle, University of California, Berkeley |
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| Short Break | |
| Performance-Based Design Today (3.2 MB PDF) John Hooper, Magnusson Klemencic Associates |
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| FEMA P-58 – Next Generation Performance-based Design Criteria (6.7 MB PDF) Ron Hamburger, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger |
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| Life-Cycle Cost and Performance Comparisons of Different Code-Complaint Systems (4 MB PDF) Vesna Terzic, Stephen Mahin and Mary Comerio, University of California, Berkeley |
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| Brief Panel discussion | |
 STEEL STRUCTURES ICo-Chairs: Charlie Carter (AISC) and Ron Hamburger (Simpson, Gumpertz, & Heger) with Jim Malley, Tom Sabol, Duane Miller, Bob Hazleton, and Steve Mahin Educational Track Sponsorship by American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) |
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| Introduction | |
| The US experience in Northridge (2.6 MB PDF) Mike Mahoney, FEMA |
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| The SAC Steel Project (3 MB PDF) Stephen Mahin, PEER |
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| Lessons from Northridge and SAC I | |
| The details we left behind (14.1 MB PDF) Mike Engelhardt, University of Texas at Austin |
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| Revisiting W1a Indications (6.1 MB PDF) Duane Miller, Lincoln Electric Company |
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| Failure Analysis of Pre-Northridge Connections – Lessons Learned (10.7 MB PDF) John Barsom, Barsom Consulting |
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| Lessons from Northridge and SAC II | |
| The changes that resulted in research (166 KB PDF) Chia-Ming Uang, University of California, San Diego |
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| The changes that resulted in design practice (382 KB PDF) Tom Sabol, Englekirk Institutional |
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| The changes that resulted in materials and inspection (5.6 MB PDF) Tom Schlafly, AISC |
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| The changes that resulted in fabrication and erection (435 KB PDF) Bob Hazleton, The Herrick Corporation |
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| 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm | LUNCH Grand Horizon Ballroom, Covel Commons building, UCLA |
| 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm | AFTERNOON CONCURRENT SESSIONS |
| RISK COMMUNICATION Co-Chairs: Leslie Chapman-Henderson (Federal Alliance for Safe Homes), Lucy Jones (US Geological Survey) Keys to mobilizing communities to improve seismic safety and prevention. This session will focus on tactics, tools and resources for communicators |
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| Planning for the next 20 years: Opportunities to advance earthquake awareness and policy by leveraging best practices, coalition building and lessons learned in strategic communication research. | |
| What we know about effective risk communication and seismic risk — Defining the challenge, what is the status quo? Lucy Jones, US Geological Survey |
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| Tools currently in use — Value based messaging (14.2 MB PDF) Kate Long, Cal-OES |
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| What research tells us about the response and subsequent action by the public following natural disasters. (401 KB PDF) Roxane Cohen Silver, University of California, Irvine |
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| Facilitated Discussion | |
| Creating a Culture of Prevention: Tools, Tactics and Teams to help advance your earthquake awareness efforts | |
| Great ShakeOut Earthquake Drills (5.9 MB PDF) Mark Benthien, Southern California Earthquake Center |
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| Mobilizing Fire Prevention Officers as a Trusted Voice for Mitigation Chief Gerald Cosey, Los Angeles County Fire Department |
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| QuakeSmart Toolkit Outreach, Mitigation Outreach Academy, FLASH Cards, Non-Structural Animation (3.3 MB PDF) Barbara Harrison, Federal Alliance for Safe Homes (FLASH) |
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| Facilitated Discussion | |
| CONCRETE BUILDINGS Co-Chairs: Mike Mehrain (URS), John Wallace (University of California, Los Angeles) |
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| Introduction: Session Organization and Objectives (1.6 MB PDF) | |
| Part I: Seismic Rehabilitation Projects – Applications and Innovations | |
| Retrofit of SPC-1 Hospital Buildings to SPC-2 (18.9 MB PDF) Tom Hale and Roy Lobo, OSHPOD |
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| Seismic Retrofit of a Non-Ductile Concrete Tower Using Performance Based Approach (12.4 MB PDF) Saiful Islam, Saiful Bouquet, Structural Engineers |
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| Retrofit Examples (9.6 MB PDF) Nabih Youssef, NYA, Structural Engineers |
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| Hospital Seismic Rehabilitation: Industry-University Partnerships (32.4 MB PDF) John Gavan, KPFF and John Wallace, UCLA |
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| Precast Concrete Frame Connection (5.3 MB PDF) Thomas A. Sabol, Englekirk Institutional |
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| Part II: Risk Reduction | |
| Concrete Coalition & NEES Grand Challenge Project (3.6 MB PDF) Thalia Anagnos (San Jose State University) Mary Comerio (University of California, Berkeley) Jack Moehle (University of California, Berkeley) Craig Comartin (CDComartin, Inc.) |
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| Concrete Buildings – Future Risk Reduction (2.2 MB PDF) Jack Moehle (University of California, Berkeley) William T Holmes (Rutherford + Chekene Engineers) Thalia Anagnos (San Jose State University) Mary Comerio (University of California, Berkeley) |
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| Seismic Evaluation of Older Concrete Frames for Collapse Potential (14.5 MB PDF) William T Holmes, Rutherford + Chekene Engineers |
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| Part III: Brief Panel Discussion | |
| GROUND MOTION HAZARD, SITE RESPONSE, AND GROUND FAILURE Co-Chairs: Marshall Lew (AMEC), Jon Stewart (University of California, Los Angeles) |
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| Developments in simulated ground motions including basin effects (partly out of need for SAC steel project) (4 MB PDF) Paul Somerville, URS Corp. |
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| Ground Motion Prediction Equation developments and advancements since 1994 (1.9 MB PDF) Yousef Bozorgnia, PEER |
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| Advances and Trends in Earthquake Ground Motions Selection and Scaling for Response-History Analyses (3.7 MB PDF) Christine Goulet, PEER |
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| Site Response (8.2 MB PDF) Youssef Hashash, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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| Liquefaction and related ground failure in low-plasticity fine-grained soils: Northridge earthquake to the future (3.4 MB PDF) Tom Holzer, US Geological Survey |
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| Slope Stability and Compacted Fill (5 MB PDF) Thomas Blake, Fugro |
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| Panel Discussion of action steps needed to close gaps in knowledge and encourage implementation | |
| TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS Co-Chairs: Marc Eberhard (University of Washington), Tom Shantz (Caltrans) |
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| New Design Strategies and Innovations | |
| Overview of Innovative Column Designs Marc Eberhard, University of Washington |
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| Foundation Rocking as a Bridge Design Strategy Marios Panagiotou, University of California, Berkeley |
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| SHAKECAST: existing capabilities, future directions Loren Turner, Caltrans |
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| Facilitated Discussion | |
| Caltrans Seismic Assessment of Bridge Inventory | |
| Overview of Caltrans Program to Screen for Seismic Vulnerability Tom Shantz, Caltrans |
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| Development of Fragility Curves for Existing Bridges Cliff Roblee, Caltrans |
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| Performance of Skewed Bridges Farzin Zareian, University of California, Irvine |
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| Facilitated Discussion | |
| WOOD-FRAME AND SOFT STORY BUILDINGS Co-Chairs: Ifa Kashefi (City of LA), Mike Mahoney (FEMA) |
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| Northridge Experience and the CUREE/CalTech Wood Frame Buildings Project Kelly Cobeen, Wiss, Janney, Elster Associates, Inc. |
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| FEMA P-807 Seismic Evaluation and Retrofit of Multi-Unit Wood Frame Buildings with Weak First Stories David Mar, Tipping Mar |
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| San Francisco Weak Story Ordinance Marko Schotanus, Rutherford + Chekene |
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| FEMA P-50 and P-50-1, Simplified Seismic Assessment and Seismic Retrofit Guidelines for Detached Single Family, Wood Frame Dwellings Kelly Cobeen, Wiss, Janney, Elster Associates, Inc. |
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| California Earthquake Authority Seismic Retrofit Standard Colin Blaney, ZFA Structural Engineers |
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| NEES Wood Frame Soft Story Research Program Mikhail Gershfeld, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona |
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| STEEL STRUCTURES II Co-Chairs: Charlie Carter (AISC) and Ron Hamburger (Simpson, Gumpertz, & Heger) with Jim Malley, Tom Sabol, Duane Miller, Bob Hazleton, and Steve Mahin Educational Track Sponsorship by American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) |
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| Moment Frames Today | |
| AISC 341 then and now Jim Malley, Degenkolb Engineers |
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| AISC 358: Prequalified Moment Connections Ron Hamburger, Simpson, Gumpertz, & Heger |
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| Column base and splice details Amit Kanvinde, University of California, Davis |
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| Design Today I | |
| Conventional braced frames Charles Roeder, University of Washington |
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| Buckling-restrainted braced frames Rafael Sabelli, Walter P. Moore Engineers |
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| Design Today II | |
| Systems that mix steel and concrete (not just composite design) Jerry Hajjar, Northeastern University |
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| System Reliability Greg Deierlein, Stanford University |
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| ASCE 41 John Hooper, Magnusson Klemencic Associates |
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