How Natural Disaster Risk Factors of Hazard, Exposure and Vulnerability May Be Managed Positively

by Prof Benito Pacheco, University of the Philippines Diliman, Philippines; paper presented at the 5th Civil Engineering Conference in the Asian Region (CECAR5) and Australasian Structural Engineering Conference 2010 (ASEC 2010), 8-12 August 2010, Sydney, Australia.

5th International Symposium on Wind Effects on Buildings and Urban Environment

The 1st announcement and call for papers for the 5th International Symposium on Wind Effects on Buildings and Urban Environment (ISWE5) has been released. The ISWE5 has the theme “Wind Hazard Resilient Cities: New Challenges.” It will be held in March 2011, in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. For more details, view the 1st announcement or visit the official website.

13th International Conference on Wind Engineering (13ICWE)

The 13th International Conference on Wind Engineering will be held on July 10-15, 2011 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

8th International Conference on Structural Dynamics (EURODYN 2011)

The European Association for Structural Dynamics (EASD), K.U.Leuven, and the Technological Institute of the Royal Flemish Society of Engineers (TI KVIV) are pleased to announce that the Eighth International Conference on Structural Dynamics EURODYN 2011 will be held in Leuven, Belgium, from 4 to 6 July 2011.  For details visit http://www.eurodyn2011.org/.

4th International Operational Modal Analysis Conference (IOMAC 2011)

After the first three IOMAC Conferences held in Copenhagen in 2005 and 2007 and the third conference held in Porto Novo, Italy last year, it was decided by the Scientific Committee, that the next Conference was going to be in Turkey.  The Fourth IOMAC Conference (IOMAC 2011) will be held in Istanbul, Turkey on 9-11 May 2011.

2011 Structures Congress (ASCE/SEI)

The 2011 Structures Congress will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA from April 14-16, 2011. The program of the Structures Congress will provide a forum to advance the art, science, and practice of structural engineering. It is being organized by the Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers. For more details, visit http://content.asce.org/conferences/structures2011/index.html

29th International Modal Analysis Conference (IMAC-XXIX)

The IMAC is a Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics.  The IMAC conference theme highlights specific technologies of interest to the IMAC community. The theme for IMAC-XXIX is Advanced Aerospace Applications.

The 5th Civil Engineering Conference in the Asian Region

The 5th Civil Engineering Conference in the Asian Region (CECAR5), which will also be the Australasian Structural Engineering Conference 2010, will be held in Sydney, Australia on August 8-12, 2010. The conference will bring together a broad cross-section of the civil and structural engineering professions who want to learn, network and advance their technical skills.

MSc theses in Engineering, from the University of the Philippines, Diliman (as of end 2000)

UP Diliman College of Engineering MSc Theses from 1953 to 2000 related to wind engineering. Obtained from http://www.engg.upd.edu.ph/lib/downloads/TCollection.pdf.

Note: 5 found out of 408 total MSc Theses in the list.  If you have access to at least the abstract of any of these publications, please contact us at ronjieaquino at hotmail dot com.

MSc theses and PhD dissertations in Meteorology, from the University of the Philippines, Diliman (as of end 2009)

There are 66 MSc theses and PhD dissertations in Meteorology, from the University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, from 1990 to 2009: http://www.science.upd.edu.ph/iesm/oldsite/theses_dmo.htm, of which 29 are possibly related to wind engineering and listed below.  If you have access to at least the abstract of any one of these publications, kindly contact us at ronjieaquino at hotmail dot com.

1st Day of Pre-CWE2010 Workshops

Today is the first day of pre-conference workshops for the International Symposium on Computation Wind Engineering which will commence on Sunday evening.  Scientists, academics, technologists, architects, and engineers from around the world will assemble at the Fifth International Symposium on Computational Wind Engineering (CWE2010) in Chapel Hill North Carolina, May 23-27, 2010. For more information visit http://www.cwe2010.org/ or for other questions not answered herein contact the symposium chairperson Alan Huber at chairman@cwe2010.org.

2nd ASEP Convention on Concrete Engineering Practice and Technology (a.concept2010)

The Association of Structural Engineers of the Philippines (ASEP) will be holding the 2nd ASEP Convention on Concrete Engineering Practice and Technology (a.concept2010) on May 20-21, 2010 at the Manila Pavilion Hotel.  For details visit http://www.aseponline.org/ convention_concrete_engineering_2010.html.

Wind.PH created

Today marks the date that the Wind.PH website was created.  For more information about Wind.PH, please read the About Us section.

Highest Wind Pattern in the Philippines

by V. Manalo, 2010, Proceedings (CD-ROM) of the Earthquake and Severe Wind Exposure and Vulnerability Workshop, Tagaytay City; co-organized by PAGASA, PHIVOLCS, and Geoscience Australia.

Updating Tropical Cyclone Climatology in the Philippines

by T.A. Cinco, 2010, Proceedings (CD-ROM) of the Earthquake and Severe Wind Exposure and Vulnerability Workshop, Tagaytay City; co-organized by PAGASA, PHIVOLCS, and Geoscience Australia.

Earthquake and Severe Wind Exposure and Vulnerability Workshop

Background
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS), the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) and Geoscience Australia (GA) are currently engaged in programs to better understand and reduce the risks associated with natural hazards in the Philippines. These programs will build upon existing tools and methods to estimate impact for local natural hazard events.