University of California, Los Angeles
February 7—11, 2022
Join Us in Los Angeles in 2022!
On behalf of the Program Committee, you are cordially invited to participate in the San Fernando Earthquake Conference on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering, to be held February 7-11, 2022.
The ASCE Infrastructure Resilience Division (IRD), in partnership with The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), is pleased to announce the San Fernando Earthquake Conference – 50 years of Lifeline Engineering (Lifelines2021), focusing on “Understanding, Improving & Operationalizing Hazard Resilience for Lifeline Systems.” The February 9, 1971 San Fernando California Earthquake was a devastating yet seminal event which, for the first time, demonstrated the seismic threat to lifelines that fundamentally support our modern livelihoods. Knowledge gained from this event initiated the study of lifeline systems worldwide, including water, wastewater, electric power, gas and liquid fuels, communications, transportation, and solid waste management systems. The founding efforts of the ASCE Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering, a predecessor unit to the current IRD, by international leaders like the late Charles Martin Duke from UCLA established lifeline systems into a mainstream discipline, now accepted as fundamental for community and regional resilience. The 50th anniversary of the San Fernando Earthquake is an opportunity to reflect on the need to increase the resilience of our critical infrastructure systems to earthquakes and other hazards. The conference will provide a retrospective of where we are today and how we got here, and help define a global vision for where we are going to create resilient infrastructure systems within interdisciplinary and multihazard environments which support community and regional resilience. These encompass the conference goals.
ASCE’s Infrastructure Resilience Division was established in 2014 to develop a unified approach in advancing the concepts of resiliency within lifeline and infrastructure systems. The Infrastructure Resilience Division develops resources for improving the resilience of civil infrastructure and lifeline systems to all hazards. Committee activities focus on the following technical topics:
- Community Resilience
- Disaster Assessments
- Emerging Technologies
- Civil Infrastructure and Lifeline Systems
- Multi-Hazard Characterization
- Risk and Resilience Measurements
- Social and Economic Impacts
IRD Vision: Improve the resilience of civil infrastructure and lifeline systems.
IRD Mission: Serve the civil engineering profession in advancing civil infrastructure and lifeline systems for local, regional, and national resilience against all hazards.
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a world-class university renowned for extraordinary student selectivity, research excellence, community impact, and athletic prowess. Nearly one million people visit the historic campus every year for educational opportunities, cuttingedge medical care, cultural events, and athletic competitions. The Civil & Environmental Engineering Department in the Samueli School of Engineering is hosting the conference.
The conference will be held on the UCLA campus at the Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center and the Ackerman Grand Ballroom.
For more information or questions about becoming a partner or sponsor please email
lifelines2021@samueli.ucla.edu
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Conference Program Committees
Conference Co-Chairs
Craig A. Davis, Ph.D., P.E., G.E., M.ASCE, C A Davis Engineering
Ertugrul Taciroglu, Ph.D., M.ASCE, Chair, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UCLA
Conference Executive Committee
Ron Eguchi, M.ASCE, ImageCat
Jianping Hu, Ph.D., P.E., G.E., M.ASCE, LA Department of Water and Power (LADWP)
Jonathan Stewart, Ph.D., F.ASCE, University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA)
Steering Committee
Rachel Davidson, Ph.D, A.M. ASCE, University of Delaware
Reginald DesRoches, Ph.D, F.SEI, F.ASCE, Rice University
Anne Kiremidjian, Ph.D, Dist.M.ASCE, Stanford University
Thomas O’Rourke, Ph.D, Hon.D.GE, Dist.M.ASCE, Cornell University
John van de Lindt, Ph.D, F.SEI, F.ASCE , Colorado State University
Yumei Wang, P.E., F.ASCE, Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (DOGAMI)
Technical Program Co-chairs
Craig A. Davis, Ph.D., P.E., G.E., M.ASCE, C A Davis Engineering
Kent Yu, Ph.D., P.E., S.E., M.ASCE, SEFT Consulting Group
Technical Committee Members (View)
Fund Raising and Sponsorships Committee Co-chairs
Ron Eguchi, M.ASCE, ImageCat
Yumei Wang, P.E., F.ASCE, Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (DOGAMI)
Technical Tours and Local Events Co-chairs
Jianping Hu, Ph.D., P.E., G.E., M.ASCE, LA Department of Water and Power (LADWP)
Martin Hudson, Ph.D., P.E., G.E., M.ASCE, Turner Construction
Local Lifelines Committee Chair
Jianping Hu, Ph.D., M.ASCE, LA Department of Water and Power (LADWP)
Proceedings Editors
Craig A. Davis, Ph.D., P.E., G.E., M.ASCE, C A Davis Engineering
Kent Yu, Ph.D., P.E., S.E., M.ASCE, SEFT Consulting Group
Ertugrul Taciroglu, Ph.D., M.ASCE, Chair, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UCLA
ASCE Contact Staff
Catherine Tehan, Aff.M.ASCE
UCLA Contact Staff
Oszie Tarula, Digital Media Director