ATC-15-14

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Title: 15th U.S.-Japan Workshop on the Improvement of Structural Engineering and Resiliency

Project Status: This Workshop was conducted on December 3-5, 2014

Sponsors: Applied Technology Council (ATC) and Japan Structural Consultants Association (JSCA)

PROJECT SUMMARY

The Purpose of the Workshop was to develop policy recommendations for improved community resilience based on the current state-of-practice, innovative engineering solutions, and new and emerging technologies. A special focus of the Workshop was on the means to build resiliency, reduce economic losses, and speed recovery and reconstruction following typhoons or hurricanes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters.

The Workshop is the 15th in a series started in 1984, and repeated every two-to-three years. Previous workshops have been held in California (San Diego and San Francisco), Hawaii (Honolulu, Kauai, Kona, Kohala Coast, and Maui), Japan (Kobe and Tokyo), and Victoria, British Columbia.

Workshop Participants. The Workshop Participants included those with a background in building performance and other structures in severe earthquakes, including the effects of tsunami, and response and recovery.

Workshop Program. The Workshop Program was designed for practicing structural engineers and researchers, and included technical presentations, and working group breakout sessions and discussions. Papers and presentations were as follows:

Session I: Resiliency-Based Design: Progress and Developments
Paper Number	Paper Title	Author	Presentation
1.	Thoughts and Ideas on the Improvement of Structural Engineering and Resilience for Natural Hazards	Alexander Yanev and Peter Yanev*	View Presentation
2.	Development of Resilient Reinforced Concrete Building Structure	Seitaro Tajiri, Hiroshi Fukuyama, and Tomohisa Mukai*	View Presentation
3.	Resilience of Steel Moment-Frame Buildings with Reserve Lateral Strength	Johnn P. Judd* and Finley A. Charney	View Presentation
4.	Structural Design of the Seismic Response Controlled Buildings with Robustness	Shinya Nishimoto*, Yozo Shinozaki, Megumi Kawasaki, and Koji Tsuchimoto	View Presentation
5.	Utilizing Damping Devices to Improve Resiliency of Structures	Alan Klembczyk*	View Presentation
6.	Progress on Resilience-Based Seismic Design Supported by Advanced Prediction of Building Damage, Repair Cost, and Building Closure Time	Curt B. Haselton* and Jack W. Baker	View Presentation
Session II: Performance Based-Design and Response Evaluation of Structures
Paper Number	Paper Title	Author	Presentation
1.	A New Framework for Quantifying Ground Motion Intensity to Estimate Collapse Vulnerability of Buildings	Kenny Buyco*, Thomas Heaton, Anna Olsen, John Hall, and Shiyan Song	View Presentation
2.	Seismic Response Control of the Building Having Large Space with Dampers	T. Haijima*	View Presentation
3.	Performance Target Choices by Owners Under ASCE 7-10 and ASCE 41-13: Improving Seismic Resiliency and Reducing Seismic Risk in the Legal Arena	Mark N. White*, Cynthia L. Perry, Eduardo Fierro, Toyu Yazaki, and Junko Yazaki	View Presentation
4.	Resilient Seismic Upgrade of Bay Division Pipeline No. 3 at the Hayward Fault	Changmo Kwon	View Presentation
5.	Response Reduction Effect of Soil-Structure-Interaction Evaluated by System Identification of Strong Motion Records Observed in 2011 East Japan Earthquake	Hajime Okano* and Tatsuya Azuhata	View Presentation
6.	Seismic Design of Japanese Nuclear Power Plants and Their Actual Response in the July 2007 Chuetsu-oki Earthquake	Akira Wada* and Katsuichiro Hijikata	View Presentation
Session III: Risk Identification and Reduction: Methods and Validation
Paper Number	Paper Title	Author	Presentation
1.	A Risk Communication Game-Changer: The U.S. Resiliency Council (USRC) Building Rating System	Jon A. Heintz*	View Presentation
2.	The ATC-78 Methodology for Evaluation and Mitigation of Nonductile Concrete Buildings	Abbie Liel*	View Presentation
3.	Performance of Buildings and Nonstructural Components in the South Napa Earthquake	John Gillengerten*	View Presentation
4.	Modified Displacement-Based Design for Reinforced Masonry Shear Wall Structures	Farhad Ahmadi*	View Presentation
5.	Presentation on Similar Efforts in Japan	Mitsuru Kawamura*	View Presentation
Session IV: Multi-Hazard Design, Analysis and Research: Buildings & Critical Infrastructure
Paper Number	Paper Title	Author	Presentation
1.	Multi-Hazard and Resilience Research at Rensselaer	Franklin T. Lombardo*	View Presentation
2.	Resiliency of Power Systems in the United States for Earthquakes and Windstorms and Firestorms	John Eidinger*	View Presentation
3.	Performance of Base Isolated Structure for Tsunami Loading	Mineo Takayama*	View Presentation
4.	Reliability Analysis of Structures Designed in Accordance with ASCE 7, when Subjected to Tsunami and Earthquake Effects	Gary Chock and Nico Luco*	View Presentation
Session V: Systems and Processes to Improve Emergency Response, Reconstruction, and Recovery
Paper Number	Paper Title	Author	Presentation
1.	Examples of Recovery Proposals and Recovery Process	Mitsuru Kawamura*	View Presentation
2.	Measuring lifeline emergency response using temporal network models	Gian Paolo Cimellaro*	View Presentation
3.	Development of an Open Source Structural Health Monitoring and Damage Detection System for Sustainable and Resilient Structures	Erol Kalkan, Jon P. Fletcher, Lawrence Baker, Paul Friberg, and William Leith*	View Presentation
4.	Improving Community Resilience Through Public-Private Partnership: The BORP Strategy	Matthew Bogaard*	View Presentation
5.	What is needed for resiliency of tall buildings in San Francisco and elsewhere?	Mehmet Çelebi*	View Presentation
Session VI: Humanitarian Engineering: The Role of Engineering and Technology in Less-Developed Communities
Paper Number	Paper Title	Author	Presentation
1.	Improving Earthquake Resiliency in Developing Cities	Hideki Kit Miyamoto*	View Presentation
2.	‘Ductility’ is ‘Damage’, People Don’t Want to Live in Damaged Buildings	Akira Wada*	View Presentation
3.	Saving Lives through Humanitarian Engineering	Sabine Kast*	View Presentation
4.	An Example of Improving Earthquake Safety Project in South-east Asia	Takayuki Teramoto*	View Presentation
5.	Effectively Adapting and Adopting Risk Reduction Technologies in Emerging Communities	Verónica Cedillos*	View Presentation
Session VII: Closing Session
Paper Number	Paper Title	Author	Presentation
1.	Special Presentation: Personal Message to Participants from Roland Sharpe—U.S. Founder of the U.S.-Japan Workshop series	Roland Sharpe (presented by Christopher Rojahn)	View Presentation
2.	Summary and Conclusions	Mitsuru Kawamura, Christopher Rojahn, Kit Miyamoto*	View Presentation

*Presenting Author.

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