Program Highlights

Conference Program

The Conference Program (pdf) is available for download. Individual sections are available as well:

Corporate Sponsors (pdf)
Welcome and Acknowledgements (pdf)
General Information (pdf)
Agenda and Program at a Glance (pdf)
Exhibitors (pdf)
Invited Speaker Biographies (pdf)
Awards (pdf)
Paper Abstracts (pdf)
Poster Abstracts (pdf)
Organizers, Conference Host and Supporting Organizations (pdf)
Hotel Floor Plan (pdf)

Special Sessions:

T3: Special Session on AASHTO T3 (Seismic) 2008 Ballot Item: Liquefaction and Other Guide-Specification Changes (handout of presentation --pdf)
Moderator: Kevin Thompson, California Department of Transportation
Carolina A room, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm on Monday, July 28, 2008
Special Session on AASHTO T-5 (Loads), Coastal Bridge Guide Specifications
(Agenda and presenter bios --pdf. Presentation not available; for more information, contact presenters.)
Moderator: Hossein Ghara, Louisiana Department of Transportation
Carolina B room, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm on Monday, July 28, 2008

Accelerated Bridge Construction Applications in California

Download the report Accelerated Bridge Construction Applications in California: A Lessons Learned Report (pdf) based on the presentation Strategic Implementation Plan for Accelerated Bridge
Construction in California (pdf) by Kevin Thompson, Michael Keever, and Raymond Wolfe

Invited Speakers

W. Phillip Yen, Federal Highway Administration, Welcome and A Summary of FHWA Sponsored Research
Harry B. Limehouse, Jr., South Carolina Secretary of Transportation, Welcome
King W. Gee, Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Highway Infrastructure in the 21st Centur
Pradeep Talwani, University of South Carolina, The Charleston Earthquake, Then and Now (pdf of PowerPoint presentation)
Gian Michele Calvi, University of Pavia, Italy, Displacement Based Seismic Design of Bridges
Julio Kuroiwa, National University of Engineering, Lima, Peru, Reconstruction of Ica, Pisco, Chincha and Cañete, Peru, Based on Updated Hazard Maps (pdf of paper) | PowerPoint presentation (pdf)

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Awards

James Cooper Best Paper Awards

Two “best paper” awards were given in honor of the late James Cooper, who for many years led the FHWA’s seismic research program.

Structural

The Influence of Vertical Earthquake Motion and Pre-Earthquake Stress
State on the Seismic Response of Precast Segmental Bridge Superstructures
Mark Veletzos and José I. Restrepo, Department of Structural Engineering, University of
California at San Diego

Geotechnical

Static and Dynamic Lateral Load Tests in Liquefied Sand for the Cooper
River Bridge, Charleston, South Carolina
Kyle Rollins, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Brigham Young
University; Seth Bowles, Wright Engineers; Luke Hales, ExxonMobil; Scott Ashford,
School of Civil & Construction Engineering, Oregon State University

Best Poster Award

This award was given to the authors of the poster judged to best communicate the concepts presented in their technical paper and make a significant contribution to extreme event engineering.

Post-Earthquake Bridge Repair Cost Evaluation Methodology
Kevin Mackie, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of
Central Florida; John-Michael Wong and Bozidar Stojadinovic, Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley

Student Bridge Design Competition

The team from the University of Missouri-Columbia won the undergraduate seismic bridge design competition.

Five undergraduate student teams from the University of Missouri - Columbia, University of Colorado at Boulder, Purdue University, Oregon State University and the University of South Carolina participated as finalists in a bridge design competition. The students on each team built a model using their own design and the bridge was subjected to an earthquake simulator test. The winner was a group of sophomores comprising the “Mizzou Seismic Design Team” from the University of Missouri - Columbia.

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