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- Title
- Proceedings of the First PRC-US Workshop on Seismic Analysis and Design of Special Bridges. Held in Shanghai, China on October 8-10, 2002.
- File
- PB2004104387.pdf
- Author(s)
- Fan, L.; Lee, G. C.
- Source
- Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC., July 15, 2003, 290 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- MCEER-03-0004
- Abstract
- This seismic analysis and design of special bridges (SADSB) workshop series is based on a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER), University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York and the State Key Laboratory for Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering (SLDRCE), Tongji University, Shanghai China. The MOU was signed by Professor George C. Lee of MCEER and Professor Lichu Fan of SLDRCE on May 26 2001, and resulted from the PRC-US earthquake engineering and earthquake disaster mitigation collaboration project. Four international workshops will be carried out in China and US between 2002-2005, alternating locations each year. The first workshop was held on October 8 - 10, 2002 at Tongji University in Shanghai. A total of 35 participants, ten from the US 12 from China, and 11 observers attended this workshop. Following the two-day meeting and discussion, a technical tour to the LuPu Bridge, a tied arch bridge under construction over the Huangpu River in Shanghai, was arranged. The lead designer of the energy dissipation system in the main span was Professor Shi-de Hu, one of the workshop organizers. Workshop themes included seismic design and retrofit of long span bridges, performance based design, seismic safety evaluation, soil-pile-structure interaction and pseudo-dynamic and hydrodynamic experimental study. These proceeding contain 22 papers covering a wide range of research fields, including a discussion of seismicity in China.
- Keywords
- Wuhu Yangtze River Bridge; Seismic design; Cable stayed bridges; Research projects; New Jersey; California; Retrofitting; China; United States; Golden Gate bridge; Earthquake engineering; Meetings; Highway bridges; Bridge design; International cooperation; Conference proceedings; Shanghai (China)