Evening Meetings

The drive for greater efficiency and resilience in tall building design has led to the widespread adoption of damping systems since their first use in the 1970s to control wind and seismic response. Today, incorporating such systems is almost standard practice for tall and slender structures. This talk will review the main types of damping systems, discussing their benefits and applicability, and will conclude with the introduction of a novel solution: the Integrated Damping System (IDS), developed through a collaboration between Arup and Imperial College London.

As offshore wind energy rapidly expands across Southeast Asia - including South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Vietnam, and China - understanding how seismic activity affects turbine foundations in these regions is more important than ever. 

The talk will present an overview of the 2024 offshore seismic hazard model and maps for UK waters, and how this model differs from the 2020 national hazard model. It will also give an overview of recent developments in UK seismic hazard analysis, which will be included in the next-generation national seismic hazard maps.

In this presentation, Dr. Molina Hutt will provide an overview of the development of seismic design provisions for functional recovery performance as part of the 2026 NEHRP Provisions. He will introduce the need for functional recovery as a design criterion for new buildings (in addition to life safety), the background efforts that have built a foundation for functional recovery codification, key definitions, the development of functional recovery categories and associated recovery time targets, ground motion considerations for functional recovery design, the framework for developing prescriptive design provisions for structural and nonstructural systems, and other criteria necessary to achieve functional recovery performance.

This seminar presents IFAS, a novel low-damage seismic system developed through a multi-university NSF NHERI project led by the University of Arizona. Validated via large-scale shake table and lab tests at UCSD and Lehigh, IFAS uses deformable connections and self-centering walls to reduce seismic and wind demands.

Earthquake recordings are of great benefit to support site-specific seismic hazard assessments for critical infrastructure but can also bring broader benefits when the seismometer installations are integrated into the wider national seismic monitoring network.  This presentation describes the planning, deployment and operation of a string of seismic sensors in a single borehole at the proposed Bradwell B nuclear power station site in November 2018 and how the data captured has been used to enhance earthquake detection as part of the BGS national seismic network and for site characterisation for a probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA) undertaken by Jacobs.

The EEFIT Annual General Meeting (AGM) will begin at 18:00, followed by the SECED AGM at 18:15. The lecture will start at 18:30.

In 2012, the European Commission issued mandate M/515 to amend the existing Eurocodes and extend their scope. This has resulted in the current evolution activities leading to the new Eurocodes and associated National Annexes being published in 2026.

This meeting will focus on the main changes and developments in the 2nd Generation of Eurocode 8 and the implications for the UK.  It will include an overview of the development of the National Annexes and supporting published data.  

The earthquake reconnaissance landscape in the United States has evolved significantly over the past 10-15 years. This presentation will discuss recent contributions of EERI’s Learning From Earthquake (LFE) program within this new landscape, including a stakeholder workshop on organizing post-earthquake reconnaissance to optimize impact at 12NCEE in Salt Lake City and the multi-phase, interdisciplinary deployments to Türkiye following the 2023 Kahramanmaraş Earthquake sequence. The presentation will also highlight future priorities and initiatives for the LFE program.