Earthquake Engineering and Seismic Risk Mitigation

Earthquake engineering is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering that outlines and examinations structures, for example, buildings and bridges, in view of earthquakes. Its general objective is to make such structures more impervious to earthquakes. An earthquake (or seismic) build means to develop structures that won't be harmed in minor shaking and will stay away from genuine harm or crumple in a noteworthy earthquake. Earthquake engineering is the logical field worried about securing society, the indigenous habitat, and the man-made condition from earthquakes by constraining the seismic hazard to socio-monetarily worthy levels. Customarily, it has been barely characterized as the investigation of the conduct of structures and geo-structures subject to seismic stacking; it is considered as a subset of structural engineering, geotechnical engineering, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, applied physics, and so on.

In any case, the tremendous costs experienced in late earthquakes have prompted a development of its extension to include disciplines from the more extensive field of structural engineering, mechanical engineering and from the social sciences, especially sociology, political science, economics and finance.

Sub-Tracks:

• Advanced Structures

• Integrating Science into Disaster Risk Reduction

• Natural and Environmental Disasters

• Finite Element Modelling and Numerical Methods

• Design & Analysis of Structural Systems

• Catastrophe Risk Modelling

• Earthquake Seismology and Earthquake Hazard

• Project Management