Lifeline Earthquake Engineering in a Multihazard Environment

Take this opportunity to share your lifeline engineering insights and experience by submitting an abstract for consideration.

Abstract submission now open

www.asce.org/tclee2009

Over the years, major natural hazards (earthquakes, floods, extreme winds, tsunami) and man-made hazards have caused significant regional disruptions that have often had national and even international impacts. Furthermore, this experience has consistently shown that the disrupted regionís post-event resilience and sustainability will strongly depend on the performance of its lifelines during and after the event...

• LIFELINES
• Electric power — Communications
• Gas and liquid fuels — Waste and wastewater
• Transportation (highways, rail, mass transit, ports and air)

TCLEE 2009, the 7th in a series of international lifeline earthquake conferences held every four years, will address this issue. This focus will feature a comprehensive array of technical papers pertinent to current practices, recent innovations, and future directions associated with performance requirements, design, analysis, and planning of lifelines subjected to natural and man-made hazards.

In the TCLEE conference tradition, emphasis will be placed on technologies for reducing risks from earthquakes. However, TCLEE 2009 will address these technologies from a unique perspective that includes comparisons with lifeline risk-reduction technologies for other natural hazards and man-made hazards. In particular, the conference will include sessions that focus on:

• Differences and commonalities of technologies used to engineer lifelines to resist earthquakes vs. other natural and man-made hazards, and
• How engineering and risk-reduction technologies for each of these hazard types might benefit from exposure to technologies developed for other hazard types.

With this unique perspective, this conference will attract a diverse group of attendees involved in the innovative application of technologies for enabling lifelines to resist not only earthquakes but the full range of other natural and man-made hazards as well. These attendees will exchange ideas; debate points of view; discuss case studies, methods, and standards; and share experiences, solutions, and lessons learned.

Join us on June 28 - July 1, 2009 to continue the traditions of past TCLEE conferences by participating in the unique multi-hazard focus of TCLEE 2009.