Wednesday, May 23, 2012

ASEP Continuing Education Lecture: Effects of Unchartered Faults of the NSCP 2010


ASEP Continuing Education Summit 2012 invites you to a lecture on:
What: CEL-08, Part A: Effects of Unchartered Faults of the NSCP 2010
When: June 9, 2012
Time: 16:00-16:40
Where: La Breza Hotel, QC
Who: Resource Speaker – Engr. Carlos M. Villaraza, F.ASEP

About the Lecture:

Earthquake Engineering is both an art and a science that is in continuous evolution. As new data from research and observations of structural performance during actual earthquakes are gathered, existing parameter may either be reinforced or revised. The Philippines has an extensive earthquake data that need to be classified to be of use to the current knowledge in earthquake engineering. These historical non-instrumental data extends from 1589 until 1901 when instrumental records became available. The first Building Code to require seismic analysis was in 1966. Since then, country’s National Structural Code of the Philippines (NSCP) has been updated 8 times to conform to the present state of the art in earthquake resistance design.

Until the 5th Edition of the National Structural Code of the Philippines, it has adopted in its entirety the Uniform Building Code of the United States. Lately, more studies were conducted regarding the seismicity of the country. In the absence of Strong Ground Motion data, simulations were made to come up with its own seismic acceleration map applicable to the country. Although it is still cross-referenced to the International Building Code of the United States, experiences from recent earthquake events in Japan last 11 March 2011 and the February 2011 event in New Zealand has been studied for correlation purposes.

About the Lecturer:
Carlos M. Villaraza is a Structural-Earthquake Engineering Consultant. He has over thirty five years of extensive experience in structural engineering design, seismic design parameter studies and seismic risk analyses. He has been involved in the review of the earthquake provisions of the National Structural Code of the Philippines since 1987 and Chairman of the NSCP 2010 General Requirements and Loads & Actions, a member of the APEC Informal Network on earthquake provisions for the Harmonization of Building Codes in the APEC Region and the review of ISO provisions covering lateral loads and general loading conditions.
A graduate of B.S. Civil Engineering from the University of Santo Tomas – Manila (1976), he received his Post Graduate Diploma in Earthquake from the International Institute for Seismology and Earthquake Engineering in Japan (1986).

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