The TCLEE 2009 conference, “Lifeline Earthquake Engineering in a Multi-hazard Environment,” will be held on June 28-July 1, 2009 in Oakland, CA.
Major natural (earthquakes, floods, extreme winds, and tsunami) and man-made hazards have caused significant regional disruptions that have often had national and international impacts. The disrupted region’s post-event resilience and sustainability will strongly depend on the performance of its lifelines during and after the event.
TCLEE 2009 will address this issue by providing a comprehensive array of technical papers pertinent to current practices, recent innovations, and future directions associated with performance requirements, design, analysis, and planning of lifelines subjected to these hazards. Emphasis will be placed on technologies for reducing risks from earthquakes. However, TCLEE 2009 will address these technologies from a unique perspective that includes comparisons with lifeline risk-reduction technologies for other natural hazards and man-made hazards.
Please go to www.asce.org/tclee2009, to submit an abstract or for more information.
