BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Memento EPFL// BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CESS Seminar : New Design Strategies to Make Earthquake Resilient Steel Bridges DTSTART:20240503T121500 DTEND:20240503T131500 DTSTAMP:20260531T084202Z UID:6333cc76e0f3446691b09f9247cc14e9768dc9e629e2aef77b1a6b9d CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars DESCRIPTION:Prof. Michel Bruneau\, University at Buffalo\, USA\nAbstract\n The concept of resilient infrastructure\, formulated nearly two decades ag o\, has been progressively endorsed over the years.  This has happened in parallel with an at-large shift towards resilience across many discipline s.  Steel structures have an advantage to achieve true resilience objecti ves because making steel buildings and bridges resilient earthquakes is po ssible using simple\, effective design strategies. This session will prese nt findings from recent research on some different ways to achieve steel s tructures that are highly resilient to earthquakes.  This will include\, as a particular focus\, a bi-directional ductile diaphragms concept consis ting of Buckling Restrained Braces (BRBs) to achieve damage-free columns a nd displacements demands that can be easily accommodated by conventional e xpansion joints.  This behavior of this ductile diaphragm concept was inv estigated\, a design procedure was formulated.  Shake table testing of a 40’ long bridge span specimen having various configurations of bi-direct ional diaphragms experimentally demonstrated that the resilience objective can be achieved using this design strategy.\n\nShort bio\nMichel Bruneau is a SUNY Distinguished Professor at the University at Buffalo\, a Disting uished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers\, a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering\, and Emeritus Director of an NSF-funded Earthquake Engineering Center that focused on enhancing the disaster resil ience of communities.  He has spent more than three decades developing en gineering strategies to enhance the resilience of infrastructure. His exte nsive body of research has been instrumental to the inclusion\, in nationa l and international standards\, of specifications for multiple innovative structural systems\, leading to implementation in countless structures wor ldwide.  He has received more than 20 prestigious awards for this innovat ive work\, including a lifetime achievement award.  Dr. Bruneau has condu cted numerous reconnaissance visits to disaster-stricken areas\, is a memb er of many professional and technical code-writing committees\, and has se rved on many expert peer review panels. He is one of the most cited resear chers in structural engineering and earthquake engineering.  He has autho red or co-authored over 550 technical publications\, including more than 1 80 referred journal papers\, 250 papers in conference proceedings. Notably \, he is the lead author of the 900-pages textbook “Ductile Design of St eel Structures\,” used worldwide by structural engineers\, and is the le ad author of the 2003 seminal paper that has formulated a concept and expr ession of disaster resilience that today is at the foundation of most rese arch on this topic.\n\nSandwiches are offered at the end of the seminar.\n   LOCATION:GC B1 10 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==GC%20B1%2010 https://epfl.zo om.us/j/68015627323 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR