A. Geotechnical Aspects of Italy 2002 and Alaska 2002, Mexico 2003, and other
recent Earthquakes including:
Liquefaction
Ground Motion and Amplification, Comparison with other recent Earthquakes
Failure of Ground
Damage to Geotechnical Structures and similar topics
B. Mitigation and Design for Liquefaction including:
Analysis and Design of Laterally Loaded Large Diameter Piles and Pile Groups
using Advanced Caliberated Computer Models in As-IS and Liquefied Conditions,
Earthquake drains for Mitigation of Liquefaction
Load tests for piles for Liquefied and Improved Soil Ground Conditions,
Lateral Load Testing of Pile Groups,
Caliberation Studies of the DSSI problem from Recent Earthquakes in Seisomlogical-geotechnical-structural
hand shake in the performance based design conditions of Ground Deformations
Related to Soil Liquefaction and similar topics.
The last date for abstracts: April 1, 2003
The last date for full manuscripts: August 1, 2003
RECENT UPDATES
1. We have received over 350 abstracts from 49 countries including, Algeria,
Armenia, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada,
China, Colombia, Czech Republic, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany,
Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea,
Lebanon, Luxemburg, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Philippines, Poland,
Puerto Rico, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore , Slovenia, Sweden,
Thailand, Turkey, UK, USA, Uzbekistan and Venezuela.
2. Conference web site has been updated to include:
a) Registration for the conference
b) Short course on “Soil Dynamics in Engineering Practice
c) Post conference tour
d) Spouses program
e) Exhibition information
3. Hotel reservation form for the Special conference special rates has also
been posted on the web site. The conference hotel is New York Hotel Pennsylvania,
401 7th Avenue on 33rd Street (opposite Madison Square Garden,) New York, NY.
For any questions, you may contact furnissw@umr.edu or Prakash@umr.edu
Shamsher Prakash, Conference Chairman
Wanda Furniss, Conference Secretary
Distance and Continuing Education
University of Missouri – Rolla
1870 Miner Circle, 106 ME Annex
Rolla, MO 65401 (USA)
Tel: (573) 341-4442
Fax: (573) 341-4992