PURPOSE OBJECTIVES CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

A unique professional consortium called Asian-Pacific Network of Centers for Earthquake Engineering Research (ANCER) was established in 2001 in Seoul, Korea. ANCER was founded by seven existing national earthquake engineering research centers - Korean Earthquake Engineering Research Center, Institute of Engineering Mechanics of China Seismological Bureau, Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research of USA, Mid-America Earthquake Center of USA, Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center of USA, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University of Japan and Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering, Chinese Taipei. The vision of ANCER is to broaden the research and development impacts and mitigation practices through cooperative activities that can be best advanced on a center-to-center basis over a large geographical area of common interest in seismic hazard mitigation.

In recent years, many emerging technologies, advanced research and development efforts in the field of health and response monitoring, sensing and structural control, information technology, digital and satellite imaging, high performance materials, etc. have provided various means that can potentially improve the hazard resilience ability of civil infrastructure systems. In order to enable these emerging technologies and new design philosophies and methodologies in earthquake engineering research and to enhance collaborative efforts among ANCER members and researchers around the world, it is proposed to sponsor a second ANCER International Conference on Earthquake Engineering: New Frontier and Research Transformation. This conference will also serve as a forum for grantees of US-China Earthquake Protocol Annex to update, evaluate, and discuss their results and findings. The Conference covers all aspects of earthquake engjneering, structural control, smart structures and structural health monitoring.The theme of the conference will be focused with the following objectives.

OBJECTIVES

1. Enhance performance and safety evaluation of buildings and civil infrastructures;
2. Utilize smart and high-performance structural systems and materials;
3. Adopt sensing and health monitoring of hazard conditions and structural integrity evaluation;
4. Improve next-generation of ground-motion and geotechnical sensing; measurement, modeling, and simulation;
5. Adopt real-time global positioning and information systems;
6. Perform data mining and fusion of sensing systems;
7. Utilize advanced sensor network for monitoring and control of safety and security.

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

Conference Chairs
Prof. Jin-Min ZAI (Nanjing University of Technology, China)
Prof. George LEE (MCEER, USA)

Organizing Committee
Chairs:
Prof. Wei-Qing LIU (Nanjing University of Technology, China)
Prof. Peter C. CHANG (Univ. of Maryland, USA)
Prof. Fuh-Gwo YUAN(North Carolina State University, USA)

Members: Franklin CHENG (Univ. Missouri, USA), Xiu-Li DU (Beijing PolyUniv., China), Qing FANG (PLAUST, China), Zong-Ming HUANG (Zhongqing Univ., China), Norio INOUE (Tohoku Univ., Japan), Xing JIN (Helongjiang Seismological Bureau, China), Jae Kwan KIM (KEERC, Korea), Ai-Qun LI (Southeast Univ., China), Guo-Qiang LI (Tongji Univ., China), Hui LI (Harbin Inst. Tech., China), Hong-Nan LI (DLUT, China), Jie LI (Tongji Univ., China), Qing-He LI (Jiangsu Seismological Bureau, China), Zhong-Xian LI (Tianjin Univ., China), Shou-De LU ( Shanghai Seismological Bureau, China), Di-Tao NIU (Xian Architectural Univ., China), Xiao-Zhai QI (IEM, China), Ji-Ping RU (NSFC, China), Wei-Lian QU (Wuhan Poly Univ., China), Lu SUN (Catholic Univ. America, USA), Xin-Wei WANG (Nanjing Univ. Aero. & Astro., China), Jun TENG (Harbin Inst. Tech., China), Zi-Fa WANG (IEM,China), Xi-Lin LU (Tongji Univ., China), M. Noori (North Carolina State Univ., USA), Cheng WANG (Huazhong Univ. Sci. & Tech., China), Yen-Po WANG (Chiao-Tung Univ., Taiwan, China), Ya-Yong WANG (CABR, China), Hui-Juan WU (MOC, China), Sheng-Xing WU (Hohai Univ., China), You-Lin XU (Hong Kong Poly Univ., China), Liao-Yuan YE (Yunan Univ., China), Lie-Ping YE (Tsinghua Univ., China), Cheng-Gang ZHAO (North Jiaotong Univ., China), Min-zheng ZHANG (IEM,China), Shi-long ZHU (CEA, China), Yun ZHOU (Guangzhou Univ., China )

International Advisory Committee
Chair: S. C. LIU (National Science Foundation, USA)
Members: L. Bergman (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA), Hou-Qun CHEN (RAHE,China), Dajun DING (Southeast Univ.,China), Li-Chu FAN (Tongji Univ., China), T. Furukawa (Osaka Univ., Japan), Y. Fujino (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan), Gao LIN (DLUT, China), Z. K. HOU (Worchester Poly Inst., USA),Yu-Xian HU (Inst. Geophysics CSB,China),Y. Inoue (GBRI, Japan), W.D. IWAN (Caltech), J-M. KO (Hong Kong Poly, China), C-H. LOH (NCEER, Taiwan, China), Zhi-Tao LU (Southeast Univ.), S. MAHIN (Univ. of California-Berkeley, USA), T. OKADA (Shibaura Inst. of Tech., Japan), Jin-Ping OU (Harbin Inst. Tech.,China), Qi-Hu QIAN (PLAUST, China),R. SHOURESHI (Denver Univ., USA), M. SHINOZUKWA (Univ. of California-Irvine, USA), M. SOZEN (Purdue Univ., USA), B. SPENCER (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA), Y. SUZUKI (DPRI, Japan), M. L. WANG (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, USA), Lian WEI (CABR, China), Z. WU (Ibaraki Univ., Japan), Hai-Fan XIANG (Tongji Univ.,China),Li-Li XIE (IEM, China), J.N. YANG (Univ. of California-Irvine, USA), Fu-Lin ZHOU (GZU, China), Xi-Yuan ZHOU (Beijing Poly Univ., China)

Local Steering Committee
Chair: Wei-Min SUN (Nanjing University of Technology)
Members: Guo-Xing CHEN (NJUT), Shao-Ge CHEN (CABR), Zhong-Fan CHEN (SEU), Jie CUI (IEM), Jun DONG (NJUT), Ke XIONG (NUAA), Hong-Jing LI (NJUT), Yin LOU(Jiangsu Univ.), Yan-hua YE(NJUT), Li ZHOU (NUAA)