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2005 Annual Meeting
Ixtapa, Mexico
February 2-6, 2005		 View presentations given
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The 2005 Annual Meeting Reflected on the 1985 Mexico Earthquake
With the theme of 20 Years after Mexico City, the EERI Annual Meeting Organizing Committee, led by Co-Chairs Richard Klingner and James Jirsa, put together an excellent program in collaboration with our Mexican colleagues, led by Sergio Alcocer (director of the Engineering Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and president of the Mexican Society of Structural Engineering) and Arturo Tena-Colunga (president of the Mexican Society for Earthquake Engineering).

The first Annual Meeting to be held outside the United States, it took place in Ixtapa, Mexico, February 2-6, 2005. One day longer than previous Annual Meetings, it had built-in “free time” each afternoon so that participants can take advantage of the unique location. The meeting provided opportunities to reflect on this important earthquake and to discuss the following issues:
  • What technical, social, and institutional lessons have been learned in the United States and Mexico as a result of the 1985 Mexico City earthquake?
  • How has the knowledge gained been implemented in each country and how effective (or ineffective) has this implementation been?
  • How have institutions and key people in those institutions changed in each country as a result of, or since, the 1985 Mexico City earthquake?

Some of the technical sessions explicitly invite a Mexican perspective. The Mexico City earthquake initiated extensive research into issues such as overstrength and capacity design principles, torsional response of buildings, building separation and pounding, and soft-soil amplification. Sessions will look at these areas and the resulting impacts on building codes in both countries. The 2003 NEHRP Provisions and Mexican provisions regarding design ground motion maps will be analyzed. There will beevaluations of the effectiveness of performance-based design, post-disaster response and recovery, and prediction and warning systems such as the California Integrated Seismic Network and the Mexican Seismic Alert System. Speakers will present the latest information on large-scale urban rehabilitation and urban risk.

Other members of the organizing committee responsible for the dynamic program include Paul Flores, Anna Lang, Ron Mayes, Kim Shoaf, and Carlos Ventura.

Members of the Mexican earthquake engineering and structural engineering associations will receive the same preferential member registration rate as EERI members, and their students will be eligible for the EERI student member rate (50% of full registration).

The meeting was held at the picturesque Las Brisas (“The Breezes”) Hotel (formerly the Westin Ixtapa).

 

 Presentations

20 Years after Mexico City: Old Issues, New Issues, and Accomplishments
Sergio M. Alcocer, Director, Instituto de Ingeniería, UNAM


 
 
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