Questions/Inquiries
e-mail Sarah Berry Cook @
skberry@u.washington.edu
Conference Chair
Steve Kramer
University of Washington
Civil Engineering Dept.
Box 352700
Seattle WA 98195
kramer@u.washington.edu
Conference Management
Engineering Professional Programs
University of Washington
3201 Fremont Ave N
Seattle WA 98103-8866
tel: 206.543.5539
attn: Sarah Berry Cook @
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The Conference
Organized under the auspices of the ASCE Geo-Institute, the conference
is the third in a series of specialty conferences on geotechnical earthquake
engineering and soil dynamics that have been held at ten-year intervals.
The first of these, held in Pasadena in 1978, is recognized as a seminal
event in the development of geotechnical earthquake engineering. The Pasadena
conference covered a broad range of topics that spanned the field of soil
dynamics and geotechnical earthquake engineering. In 1988, a more focused
specialty conference held at Park City, Utah, successfully concentrated
on issues of ground motion evaluation. Like the Pasadena conference, the
1998 Seattle conference will cover the broad field of geotechnical earthquake
engineering and soil dynamics to encourage cross-fertilization of ideas
between pracitioners, researchers, educators, and contractors.
Scope
The conference will focus on the practice of geotechnical earthquake
engineering and soil dynamics with respect to design, construction, and
performance. The 1998 conference will provide a forum for discussion of
important issues in professional practice, presentation of leading research
work, presentation of case studies, and will foster discussion on future
developments in the field. The technical program will last 3.5 days and
will build on the strong traditions of prior conferences. Plenary sessions,
parallel technical sessions as well as exhibit and demonstration sessions
will enable all participants to become involved and benefit from the conference.
Immediately following the conference, several one day short courses will
be held on topics such as soil improvement, seismic design of landfills,
geophysical site characterization, and seismic design of retaining structures.
Paper Presentations
Over 230 abstracts were submitted to the Publications Subcommitte. Of
this number, approximately 180 were invited. The final number of papers
accepted for presentation and publication in the conference proceedings
will be between 110 and 120. The papers cover a range of topics dealing
with all of the many topics covered by the conference. A strenuous peer
review process has assured that the papers will be of high quality.
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