1st INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON RESILIENCE

The 1st International Workshop on Resilience will be held on September 20-22, 2016 in Torino, Italy. To address the fundamental issues of the Workshop, both senior researchers who have a broad view of the field and young researchers who will lead the activities in the decades to come, are invited to the workshop. First the state of knowledge will be examined in light of the lessons learned from recent major earthquakes about disaster Resilience. Hereafter the views form Japan, Asia, Europe, South and North America on the new directions for Resilience-Based Design (RBD) will be presented.

In these path-forward sessions, the group coordinator and six or seven speakers from each region will present their vision of where seismic engineering needs to be to better steward the build environment and make our society more resilient to natural disasters, and what needs to be done to get there. Small-group discussion will foster on design and improvement of new and existing structures and infrastructure, implementation in engineering practice to immediately affect the resilience of our communities, and new research to develop and adopt new civil/structural technologies and modeling tools. Different approaches in the world and their eventual synergetic effects on future development will be examined and discussed, as well as ideas how to coordinate efforts among the world-leading engineering communities. Finally, the written contributions for the workshop shall be merged together with the conclusions and resolutions and published in a special issue in the ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems.

For more information about the workshop visit: http://www.workshop-torino2016.resiltronics.org/