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SUMMARY:Long Span Bridges on Urban Area and Typical Damages due to Major E
 arthquakes
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Ayaho Miyamoto\, Professor Emeritus of Yamaguchi Univers
 ity\, Japan\nBridge is a key structure on the road and train networks. The
 re are many bridge types such as beam (girder)\, arch\, truss\, suspension
  and cable stayed. The most important issues on bridge design and construc
 tion are “load carrying capacity”\, “durability(long life)” and 
 “sustainability (environmental friendly)”. In Japan\, we have construc
 ted more than 700\,000 existing bridges which are not only long span bridg
 es but also short and medium span bridges. Many of them are constructed in
  urban area including coastal area\, such as Tokyo\, Osaka\, Kobe\, etc. I
 n this lecture\, I will introduce mainly not only how to design a beautifu
 l and strong long span bridges in a urban coastal area but also what kind 
 of construction procedures was applied actually to them in the bridge site
 .\nOn the other hand\, because the urban areas are generally in a high pos
 sibility area both of the big earthquake and strong typhoon\, we need to c
 onsider both natural disasters in design process of the long span bridges.
  Especially\, the 1995 Kobe Great Earthquake was a typical “inland earth
 quake” with the impulsive vertical motion at the early stage of the eart
 hquake. Then\, some special damage modes were observed in some parts\, suc
 h as column-cap beam connection\, column-footing connection\, etc. in the 
 bridge system. This fact suggests that such impulsive vertical motion in t
 he earthquake possibly induced the circumferential crack of RC piers and a
 lso induces serious damages in the bridge piers\, bearings\, etc.\nIn this
  lecture also will be focused into what kinds of typical damage modes unde
 r major earthquake were occurred in some parts of long span bridge systems
 \, how to affect the impulsive vertical ground motion on the failure mecha
 nism of them and how to establish an optimal seismic retrofit design in th
 e future from various points of view.\nBio : His recent research activitie
 s are in the area of structural safety assessment on concrete bridges incl
 uding bridge management system(BMS)\, and also establishment of optimal de
 sign concept for concrete structures under soft impact loads.\n• 1975 - 
 1988: Research Associate at Kobe Univ.\, Japan.\n• 1985: Received Dr. of
  Eng. degree from Kyoto Univ.\, Japan.\n• 1988 - 1995: Associate Profess
 or at Kobe Univ.\, Japan.\n• 1995 - 2015: Professor at Yamaguchi Univ.\,
  Japan.\n• 2015.4 - now: Professor Emeritus of Yamaguchi Univ.\, Japan.\
 n• 2015.9-2016.3: Visiting Professor of Aalto Univ.\, Espoo\, Finland.\n
 • 2016.4-2016.9: Visiting Professor of EPFL\, Lausanne.\n---------------
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 ctor\, The Practical Maintenance Engineering Institute\, Yamaguchi Univ.\n
 • 2008.1-:Director\, The Research Center for Environmental Safety\, Yama
 guchi Univ.\n• Japan Society of Civil Engineers(JSCE) member(Fellow).\n
 • Japan Concrete Institute(JCI) member.\n• Japan Society for Fuzzy The
 ory and Systems(SOFT) member.\n• American Society of Civil Engineers(ASC
 E) member.\n• American Concrete Institute(ACI) member.\n• Internationa
 l Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering(IABSE) Fellow member.\
 n• International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety(IABMAS) m
 ember
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STATUS:CONFIRMED
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