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SUMMARY:Tsunami Impacts on Structures 
DTSTART:20150508T121500
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Dr Ioan Nistor\, Associate Professor at University of Ot
 tawa\, Canada\nAbstract:\nOn March 11\, 2011\, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake 
 occurred along the Sanriku Coast\, offshore north-east Japan\, at 3:46 p.m
 . local time. The earthquake generated massive tsunami waves which hit the
  Japanese coast\, reaching up to 45 meters of runup. Significant damage oc
 curred in coastal and inland engineered structures located in several coas
 tal towns that were largely destroyed. The first international research te
 am composed of group of four researchers (three from US and one from Canad
 a)\, visited the affected area four weeks after the event to conduct recon
 naissance field investigations on behalf of the American Society of Civil 
 Engineers (ASCE). Dr. Ioan Nistor\, a coastal engineering professor at the
  Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Ottawa\, was a membe
 r of this field reconnaissance team and will present findings on the perfo
 rmance of infrastructure and the damage induced by tsunami waves.\nThe lec
 ture may be of interest to hydraulic\, structural and geotechnical enginee
 rs interested in disaster prevention and mitigation\, with a particular em
 phasis on the design of structures prone to extreme hydrodynamic loading d
 ue to tsunamis\, extreme waves\, and flash floods.\nBio :\nDr. Ioan Nistor
  is an Associate Professor of Hydraulic and Coastal Engineering in the Dep
 artment of Civil Engineering of the University of Ottawa with both academi
 c and consulting engineer experience. He is currently working on hazards a
 ssociated with extreme hydrodynamic loading on infrastructure (tsunamis\, 
 flash floods) as well as blast-induced loading. He obtained his Dipl. Eng.
  degree in Hydrotechnical Engineering from the Technical University Iasi\,
  Romania in 1991 and his PhD in Coastal Engineering in 1998 from Yokohama 
 National University\, Japan. He is currently the Chair of the Maritime and
  Coastal Division of International Association for Hydro-Environment Engin
 eering and Research (IAHR) and a member of the Board of Directors of the C
 anadian Coastal Science and Engineering Association. He is also a Voting M
 ember of the ASCE7 Tsunami Loads and Effects Subcommittee for the elaborat
 ion of New Design Guidelines for Tsunami-Resistant Buildings.
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