International Conference in Commemoration of 5th Anniversary of the 1999 Chi-Chi Earthquake, Taiwan

Time: September 8-9 Venue: Howard International House

 

AGENDA

September 8

Session

Time

Chairs & Speakers

 

7:30-8:30

Register

 

8:30-8:50

Distinguished Guests Opening Address

Keynote speech

8:50-9:30

Chairs: Professor Chin-Hsiung Loh

Director-general Chao-Chung Lin

Speaker: Professor Chao-Hsiung Liu

9:30-10:10

Chairs: Professor Chin-Hsiung Loh

Director-general Chao-Chung Lin

Speaker: Dr. William L. Ellsworth

—Will the 1999 Chi-Chi Earthquake, Taiwan, be Remembered as the Most-Important Earthquake of the 20st Century?

 

10:10-10:30

Coffee break and Poster Exhibition

Session I

10:30-12:10

Earth Science I

Chairs: Professor Richard H. Sibson

Dr. Hao-Tsu Chu

Speaker 1: Director Yuichi Sugiyama

—Asperities and Multi-Segment Ruptures in Subduction Zones and Inland Active Fault Systems

Speaker 2: Professor Arvid M. Johnson

—Deeper Understanding of Causes of Near-fault Damage to Engineering Structures

Speaker 3: Division Chief Wei-Hsiung Lin

—Assessment of the Active Fault Studies in Taiwan since 1997

Earth Science II

Chairs: Professor Yi-Ban Tsai

Dr. William L. Ellsworth

Speaker 1: Dr. Ross Stein

—Incorporation of Stress Interaction of Thrust Earthquakes into Probabilistic Hazard Assessment

Speaker 2: Professor Yosihiko Ogata

—Synchronous seismicity changes in and around the northern Japan preceding the 2003 Tokachi-oki earthquake of M8.0

Speaker 3: Professor Yi-Ban Tsai

—Legacy of the 1999 Chi-CHi Taiwan Earthquake:5 Years After

Earthquake Engineering I

Chairs: Professor Chin-Hsiung Loh

Professor Kazuhiko Kasai

Speaker 1: Professor Keh-Chyuan Tsai

—International Collaboration on Full Scale Steel And Concrete Composite Frame Tests in NCREE

Speaker 2: Professor Michel Bruneau

—MCEER's Integrated Research to Enhance the Seismic Resilience of Acute Care Facilities

Speaker 3: Professor Stephen A. Mahin

A Framework for the Performance-Based Design of Braced Steel Frame Structures

Earthquake Engineering II

Chairs: Professor Shiro Takada

Professor Tzou-Shin Ueng

Speaker 1: Professor Howard Hwang

—Attenuation of Arias Intensity Based On Data From The Chi-Chi Earthquake

Speaker 2: Professor Kenji Ishihara

—Earthquake-Induced Landslides And Evaluation of Soil Strength

Speaker 3: Professor An-Bin Huang

—Cyclic Characteristics of A Silty Sand In Central Western Taiwan

Social Science

Chairs : Dr. Go Urakawa

Professor Feng-Tien Lin

Speaker 1: Dr. Go Urakawa

—Development of Cross-Media Database for Sharing Disaster Information

Speaker 2: Deputy Director Whey-Fone Tsai

—Applications of Grid Technologies to Hazard Mitigation

Speaker 3: Professor Chih-Hong Sun

—Integrated Disaster Management Information System Based on Web Services Technology

Speaker 4: Professor Tien-Yin Chou

—Spatial Information Application and Prospect for Disaster Prevention Process

 

12:10-13:30

Lunch and Poster Exhibition

Session II

13:30-15:30

Earth Science I

Chairs: Professor Kerry Sieh

Professor Jih-Hao Hung

Speaker 1: Professor W. Thatcher

—New Constraints on the Active Deformation of the Continents

Speaker 2: Professor Jih-Hao Hung

— Deformation Fabrics and Chemical Analysis of Drilled Cores of the Chelungpu Fault Zone

Speaker 3: Professor Chung-Pai Chang

    Application of Space-borne Radar Interferometry in Taiwan: Perspective from the Nature of Events

Speaker 4: Professor Michael Gladwin

Earth Science II

Chairs: Deputy Director-general Tzi-Chin Shin (CWB)

Dr. Lucile Jones

Speaker 1: Professor Vitaly Kim

—Modeling of Ionospheric Effects due to Electric Fields Associated with Seismic Activity

Speaker 2: Professor Kuo-Fong Ma

—Earthquake Triggering and Fault Interaction in a Thrust Fault System: the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, Earthquake

Speaker 3: Professor Jeng-Yen Liu

—Pre-Earthquake-Ionospheric Anomaly

Speaker 4: Professor Yuh-Ing Chen

—Statistical Determination of the Minimum Magnitude of a Complete Earthquake Catalog

Earthquake Engineering I

Chairs: Professor Keh-Chyuan Tsai

Professor Michel Bruneau

Speaker 1: Professor Masanobu Shinozuka

—Dynamic Progressive Damage Model for Bridges under Seismic Excitation

Speaker 2: Professor Jack P. Moehle

—Collapse of Lightly Confined Reinforced Concrete Frames During Earthquakes

Speaker 3: Professor Chin-Hsiung Loh

—Evaluation of Maximum Drift Demand for Seismic Performance Assessment of RC Buildings

Speaker 4: Professor Shyh-Jiann Hwang

—Static Pushover Analysis for Shaking Table Tests of Two 2/5-Scale Three Story Reinforced Concrete Buildings

Earthquake Engineering II

Chairs: Professor Kenji Ishihara

Professor Sheng-Huoo Ni

Speaker 1: Professor Cheng-Hsing Chen

—Use of Hyperbolic Function to Model the Liquefaction Resistance Curve of Soils

Speaker 2: Professor Tzou-Shin Ueng

—Study of Soil Responses under Multidirectional Shakings Using a Bi-axial Laminar Box on Shaking Table

Speaker 3: Professor Gin-Show Liou

Analysis of Soil-structure Interaction by Substructure Method

Speaker 4: Professor Sheng-Huoo Ni

—The Study Of Fines Content Affecting Liquefaction Potential Evaluation During Chi-Chi Earthquake, 1999

Social Science

Chairs: Professor Itsuki Nakabayashi

Professor Ban-Jwu Shih

Speaker 1: Professor Haruo Hayashi

—Developing the Generic Framework for Crisis Management for Any Kinds of Major Incidents in Japan

Speaker 2: Mr. Paul Jacks

Speaker 3: Commisioner Kuang-Hua Hsiung

—The Future Vision and Development on Disaster Prevention System of Local GovernmentCase Studies of Taipei City Government

Speaker 4: Professor Jie-Ying Wu

—A Study of Community Based Disaster Management in the US, Japan and Taiwan

 

15:30-15:50

Coffee break and Poster Exhibition

Session III

15:50-17:50

Earth Science I

Chairs: Dr. Hao-Tsu Chu

Professor Ruey-Juin Rau

Speaker 1: Professor Mustafa Aktar

—Source Complexity of the Izmit Earthquake (August 17, 1999, Ms=7.4, Turkey) and Implications for the Future Earthquake in Istanbul

Speaker 2: Professor Cheng-Horng Lin

Repeated Froeshock Sequences in the Thrust Faulting Environment of Eastern Taiwan

Speaker 3: Professor Ruey-Juin Rau

—Seismic Evidence of a Crustal-Scale Listric Suture in Arc-Continent Collision: the Chihshang Fault of Eastern Taiwan

Speaker 4: Professor Yuan-Hsi Lee

—Displacement field of the 1999, Chi-Chi earthquake and its Implication to the Fault Geometry and Slip Amounts Along the Fault Plane

Earth Science II

Chairs: Professor Kuo-Fong Ma

Dr. Ross Stein

Speaker 1: Professor Friedemann T. Feund

—Positive Holes and their Role during the Build-up of Stress prior to the Chi-Chi Earthquake

Speaker 2: Professor Horng-Yuan Yen

—Research on Seismo-Electromagnetic Precursors of Earthquake Variations of the Geomagnetic and Gravity Fields

Speaker 3: Professor Kun-Shan Chen

—A Search of Precursory Deformation using Differential Radar Interferometry in Taiwan: Experience and Lesson from Chi-Chi Earthquake

Speaker 4: Professor Chia-Shyun Chen

Analysis of Depth-Dependent Pressure Fluctuation in a Well due to Earthquake

Speaker 5: Professor Tsanyao Frank Yang

—Possible geochemical precursors for 1999 earthquake swarms in Taiwan

Earthquake Engineering I

Chairs: Professor Kuo-Cheng Chang

Professor Hirokazu Iemura

Speaker 1: Professor Masayoshi Nakashima

—Full-Scale Test for Ultimate Calibration of Seismic Performance of Building Structures

Speaker 2: Professor Lap-Loi Chung

—Preliminary Seismic Evaluation of Primary And Secondary School Buildings

Speaker 3: Professor Maw-Shyong Sheu

—Test and Analysis of Fire Damaged RC Columns Under Axial Compression Load And Biaxial Bending

Speaker 4: Professor Yaw-Jeng Chiou

—A Study of High Seismic Performance Walls

Earthquake Engineering II

Chairs: Professor Sami F. Masri

Professor Cheng-Hsing Chen

Speaker 1: Professor Shiro Takada

—Performance And Design formulae for Large-Diameter Steel Pipelines Crossing Faults

Speaker 2: Professor Sami F. Masri

—Performance And Design formulae for Large-Diameter Steel Pipelines Crossing Faults

Speaker 3: Dr. Yuan-Sen Yang

Networked Pseudo-Dynamic Testing in Taiwan

Speaker 4: Dr. Tzu-Kang Lin

—Remote Bridge Monitoring System with Optical Fiber Sensors

Social Science

Chairs: Professor Haruo Hayashi

Professor Liang-Chun Chen

Speaker 1: Professor Itsuki Nakabayashi

—Comparative Study on Urban and Housing Reconstruction Process after Earthquake among Taiwan, Turkey and Japan

Speaker 2: Professor Jyh-Cherng Shieh

—A Review of the 1999 Chi-Chi Earthquake Housing Reconstruction Program

Speaker 3: Professor Chao-Ching Yu

—The Experiences and Reflections on the Participatory Community Recovery Processes in the Post-earthquake Recovery Area

Speaker 4: Deputy director Ming-Chin Ho

—Planning and Establishment of Urban Disaster Mitigation Spatial System in Taiwan

 


September 9

Session

Time

Chairs & Speakers

 

8:00-8:30

Check in

Keynote

speech

8:30-9:10

Chair: will be invited

Speaker: Professor Shunsuke Otani

—Earthquake Resistance of Reinforced Concrete Buildings

9:10-9:50

Chair: will be invited

Speaker: Dr. Yoshiaki Kawata

—Improvement and Applicability of Earthquake Disaster Countermeasures after the 1995 Kobe Earthquake Disaster in Japan

 

9:50-10:10

Coffee break and Poster Exhibition

Session IV

10:10-12:10

Earth Science I

Chairs: Professor Yuichi Sugiyama

Professor Jean-Philippe Avouac

Speaker 1: Professor Richard H. Sibson

—Fluid Involvement in Thrust Rupturing: An Overview

Speaker 2: Professor Jean-Philippe Avouac

—Investigating the mechanics of the Seismic Cycle along the Western foothills, Taiwan

Speaker 3: Professor Kenn-Ming Yang

—The Role of Normal Faulting in the Most Recent Tectonics of Western Taiwan

Earth Science II

Chairs: Professor James Mori

Professor Yue-Hua Tzang

Speaker 1: Dr. Lucile Jones

—Fluid Involvement in Thrust Rupturing: An Overview

Speaker 2: Professor Sui-Bai Yu

—GPS Measurement of Postseismic Deformation Following the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, Earthquake

Speaker 3: Professor Chien-Ying Wang

—Mapping the Chelungpu fault surface by deep and shallow reflection seismics to investigate the structural control of the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake, Taiwan

Speaker 4: Professor Jeen-Hwa Wang

—The Energy Release of the 1999 Ms7.6 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, earthquake

Earthquake Engineering I

Chairs: Professor Lap-Loi Chung

Professor Stephen A. Mahin

Speaker 1: Professor Kazuhiko Kasai

—JSSI Manual for Design and Construction of Passively-Controlled Buildings

Speaker 2: Professor Kuo-Chun Chang

—Damage Simulation and Repair Study of Chi-Chi Bridge

Speaker 3: Professor Hirokazu Iemura

—Innovative Dampers  for Seismic Response Control of Flexible Strucutres

Speaker 4: Professor Lyan-Ywan Lu

—Performance Evaluation of Sliding Isolated Structures Subjected To Near-Fault Ground Motions

Earthquake Engineering II

Chairs: Professor Ban-Jwu Shih

Professor George C. Yao

Speaker 1: Dr. Chin-Hsun Yeh

—Development of Taiwan Seismic Scenario Database And Its Applications

Speaker 2: Professor Li-Ling Hong

—Updated Seismic Hazard after Chi-Chi Earthquake.

Speaker 3: Professor Ching-Tung Huang

—An Equivalent System Approach In Estimating Inelastic Structural Responses for Near-Field Earthquakes

Speaker 4: Professor George C. Yao

—Dynamic Amplification Factors for Roof-Top Communication Towers

Social Science

Chairs: Dr. Daniel R. Smiley

Professor Yaw-Tang Shih

Speaker 1: Dr. Daniel R. Smiley

—Transformation from Planning to Operations:  Emergency Medical Services in Disaster Response

Speaker 2: Professor Yu-Chun Lee

—Meeting the Health and Welfare Need of the Community Following a Major Disaster-The Experience of Scholars Learned from the 1999 Chi-Chi Earthquake,Taiwan

Speaker 3: Commissioner Hang Chang

—Overview of Taiwan's National Disaster Medical System Infrastructure

Speaker 4: Superintendent Wen-Ta Chiu (Wan-Fang Hospital)

—Research and Development of Disaster Medicine in Taiwan

 

12:10-13:30

Lunch and Poster Exhibition

Session V

13:30-15:30

Earth Science I

Chairs: Dr. Wayne R. Thatcher

Professor Ruey-Chyuan Shih

Speaker 1: Professor Kerry Sieh

Speaker 2: Professor Wen-Shan Chen

—Paleoseismology of the Chelungpu Fault During the Past1900 yea.

Speaker 3: Professor Chyi-Tyi Lee

—Active Faults and Seismic Hazards in West Central Taiwan

Speaker 4: Professor Ruey-Chyuan Shih

—Recent Shallow Seismic Reflection Studies over Active Faults in Taiwan

Earth Science II

Chairs: Dr. William Ellsworth

Professor Chien-Ying Wang

Speaker 1: Professor James Morris

—Monitoring the Yamazaki Fault in Southwest

Speaker 2: Professor Bor-Shouh Huang

—Insight into Earthquake Source and Wave Propagation Behaviors from Dense Seismic Array Observations

Speaker 3: Professor Yue-Hua Tzang

—Broadband Strong Motion Simulation of the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, Earthquake

Speaker 4: Professor Kuo-Liang Wen

—Comparison of Site Effect and Damage Distribution of Chi-Chi Earthquake in the Western Taichung Area

Earthquake Engineering I

Chairs: Professor Maw-Shyong Sheu

Professor Anil K. Chopra

Speaker 1: Professor Ian Buckle

—New Protective System Technologies for Improving the Seismic Performance of Highway Bridges

Speaker 2: Professor Yeou-Fong Li

—The Recent Research on Seismic Retrofitting of Bridge Columns Using Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastics in Taiwan

Speaker 3: Professor Juin-Fu Chai

—Revision of Seismic Design Code for Buildings in Taiwan

Speaker 4: Dr. Min-Lang Lin

Seismic Retrofit of Rectangular RC Columns

Earthquake Engineering II

Chairs: Professor Howard Hwang

Professor Li-Ling Hong

Speaker 1: Professor Ban-Jwu Shih

—Damage And Contingency Restoration of Electric Power System In The 1999 Chi-Chi Earthquake

Speaker 2: Dr. Gee-Yu Liu

—The Seismic Risk Analysis And Retrofit Strategy for The Electric Power Transmission System In Taiwan

Speaker 3: Dr. Tsung-Jen Teng

Consideration of Near-fault effect on the Seismic Design for Bridges

Speaker 4: Dr. Wen-Yu Chien

—Shake Map Prediction Based on Empirical Site Correction Model

Social Science

Chairs: Dr. Alan M. Steinberg

Professor Yin-Chang Wu

Speaker 1: Dr. Alan M. Steinberg

—Post-Disaster Psychological Assessment of Children and Adolescents

Speaker 2: Dr. Frank Huang-Chih Chou

—Epidemiological studies on post-disorder mental rehabilitation among 921 earthquake survivors in Yu-Chi, Taiwan

Speaker 3: Professor Frank T. Y. Wang

—Politics of Disaster Crisis Intervention: A Sociological Perspective

Speaker 4: Professor Sue-Huei Chen

—Psychosocial Adjustment along the Posttraumatic Flow in Adult Survivors of the Taiwan 1999 Chi-Chi Earthquake: A Four-Year Longitudinal Study

 

15:30-15:50

Coffee break and Poster Exhibition

Session VI

15:50-17:50

Earth Science I

Chairs: Professor Mustafa Aktar

Professor Jyr-Ching Hu

Speaker 1: Dr. Hao-Tsu Chu

Co-seismic deformation structures associated with the 2003 Mw 6.5 Chengkung Earthquake on the surface trace of the Chihshang Fault, eastern Taiwan

Speaker 2: Professor Jian-Cheng Lee

The 2003 Mw 6.5 Chengkung Earthquake and seismotectonics: earthquakes along a creeping fault at the plate suture

Speaker 3: Professor Jyr-Ching Hu

—Fault activity and lateral extrusion inferred from velocity field revealed by GPS measurements in the Pingtung area of southwestern Taiwan

Speaker 4: Professor Yu-Chang Chan

—Precise Landform Characterization of the 1999 (MW=7.6) Taiwan Chi-Chi Earthquake Fault Using Airborne Lidar Data

Earth Science II

Chairs: Dr. Lucile Jones

Professor Jeen-Hwa Wang

Speaker 1: Professor Motoji Ikeya

—Earthquakes and Animals: From Folk Legends to Electromagnetic Seismology through Automatic Observation Networks

Speaker 2: Professor How-Wei Chen

—Source Radiation and 3D Finite-Difference Modeling of

Strong Ground Motion in the Taipei Basin

Speaker 3: Professor Chiou-Fen Shieh

—Earthquakes triggering: static or dynamic stress changes?

Speaker 4: Professor Wei-Hau Wang

—Tectonic implications of stress transfer by the Chi-Chi earthquake

Earthquake Engineering I&II

Chairs: Professor Shyh-Jiann Hwang

Professor Jack P. Moehle

Speaker 1: Professor Anil K. Chopra

Estimating Seismic Demands for Performance-Based Engineering of Buildings

Speaker 2: Professor Douglas A. Foutch

Seismic Vulnerability of Old Long Span
Railway Bridges Supported on Stone Piers

Speaker 3: Professor Chuin-lin Wu

Dynamic Gravity Load Collapse of Low Confinement RC Columns in the 1999 Chi-Chi Earthquake

Speaker 4: Dr. Pei-Yang Lin

Semi-Active Controlled Base-Isolation System with Magnetorheological Damper and Pendulum System

Social Science

Chairs: Professor Daigee Shaw

Mr. Bruce Shephard

Speaker 1: Mr. Bruce Shephard

Preparing for Disaster Operations and Procedures of the New Zealand Earthquake Commission

Speaker 2: Professor Wei-Ling Chiang

Financial Risk Analysis for Residential Earthquake in Taiwan: Using Cat Model

Speaker 3: Mr. Wu-Jen Tseng

Review and Outlook of the Earthquake Insurance System in Taiwan

Speaker 4: Mr. Jim C. Y. Hsieh

Securitization of Taiwan Earthquake Risk