Seismic Design to Eurocode 8

23 – 24 September 2010

A two day course organised by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London, in collaboration with the Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics (SECED)

Presenters

Edmund Booth (Consulting Engineer)

After 15 years of keeping his technical interests as broad as possible, Edmund took the specialist route into earthquake engineering in 1982. He founded his own practice in 1995, and undertakes the seismic design, analysis and assessment of a very wide range of structures worldwide. Edmund was a Visiting Professor at Oxford for 5 years, and teaches a module in the earthquake engineering MSc course at Imperial College London. He wrote the second edition of the textbook ‘Earthquake design practice for buildings' published in 2006 and serves as the UK National Technical Representative for EC8. He also acted as technical consultant for the Institution of Structural Engineer's Manual on EC8.

Andy Campbell (Sellafield)

Andy Campbell is currently head of Sellafield Ltd's Independent Structural Assessment Section, which is responsible for the review and approval of structural engineering input to nuclear safety cases at the Sellafield site. The critical areas generally involve abnormal or extreme environmental loading, with seismic effects frequently forming the dominant action. He has many years' experience of seismic design and appraisal with a particular interest in reinforced concrete structures and performance based design. Andy is a SECED Committee member and also serves on the Research and Education sub-Committee.

Ahmed Elghazouli (Imperial College London)

Ahmed Elghazouli is Professor of Structural Engineering and Head of the Structures Section at Imperial College London. He is also director of the postgraduate taught programme in Earthquake Engineering. His main research interests are related to the response of structures to extreme loads, focusing on the areas of structural earthquake engineering, structural fire engineering and structural robustness. He has led numerous research projects and published extensively in these areas, and has worked as a specialist consultant on many important engineering projects worldwide over the last 20 years. He is the UK National Delegate of the International and European Associations of Earthquake Engineering (IAEE and EAEE), and is the current Chairman of the Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics (SECED).

Damian Grant (Arup)

Damian Grant is a Senior Engineer within Arup's Advanced Technology and Research Division. He is a structural earthquake engineer with experience in the design and analysis of tall buildings, bridges, offshore platforms and other structures under seismic action. Prior to working at Arup, he carried out doctoral and post-doctoral studies at the ROSE School in Italy, where his research focused on analytical modelling of seismically-isolated bridges and viscous damping in seismic analysis and design. He currently serves on the US National Institute of Standards and Technology technical committee for "Improved Procedures for Selecting and Scaling Earthquake Ground Motions for Performing Time-History Analyses" and on the SECED Research and Education sub-Committee.

Zygmunt Lubkowski (Arup)

Zygmunt is an Associate Director at Arup, where he is also the seismic business and skills leader for Europe, Africa and the Middle East. He has over 20 years experience of civil, geotechnical and earthquake engineering. He has carried out seismic hazard and geo-hazard assessments and seismic foundation analysis and design for a range of structures in the energy, infrastructure, manufacturing and humanitarian sectors. He has acted as the seismic specialist for major projects such as offshore platforms, LNG plants, nuclear facilities, major bridges, dams, immersed tube tunnels and tall buildings. Zygmunt has been the Chair of SECED and the field investigation team EEFIT. He has also participated in post-earthquake field missions to USA, Turkey and Indonesia and the development of a field guide for the survey of earthquake damaged non-engineered structures. He has recently been awarded the 2009 Shamsher Prakash prize for excellence in geotechnical earthquake engineering.

Gopal Madabhushi (University of Cambridge)

Gopal Madabhushi is a Reader in Geotechnical Engineering at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge. He is also the Assistant Director of the Schofield Centre that houses the centrifuge facility with earthquake modelling capability. He leads the research of the Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering group that focuses on soil liquefaction, soil structure interaction, pile and retaining wall performance, dynamic behaviour of underground structures and performance of earthquake remediation strategies. He received the TK Hsieh award in 2005 by ICE in 2005, the Shamsher Prakash award in 2006 and the ICE Bill Curtin Medal in 2009 for his work in the area of geotechnical earthquake engineering and tsunami resistant buildings. He has an active interest in field investigations following major earthquakes and was the past Chairman of the Earthquake Engineering Field Investigation Team (EEFIT). He recently authored a book on the Design of Pile Foundations in Liquefiable Soils published by Imperial College
Press.

Robert May (Atkins)

Robert May is the Chief Geotechnical Engineer of Atkins Ltd. He has 25 years' experience in geotechnical engineering with a particular interest in seismic design. Recent seismic design projects have included major retaining walls, foundations and slopes. Dr May is a former SECED Committee member and chaired the 12th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering in 2002. He is currently on the Géotechnique Advisory Panel.

Peter Stafford (Imperial College London)

Peter Stafford is a Lecturer in the Structures Section of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London. He is the RCUK Fellow / Lecturer in Modelling Engineering Risk and is also a Fellow of the Willis Research Network. He was formally trained at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand where he completed research into probabilistic seismic hazard analysis and engineering seismology. His current research interests relate primarily to the specification of earthquake actions for hazard and risk assessment applications, with a particular focus upon the development of earthquake loss estimation methodologies.