SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT

SECOND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON STRUCTURAL CONTROL

"Next Generation of Intelligent Structures"

18-21 December 1996

LOCATION: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

SPONSOR: International Association of Structural Control (IASC) in conjunction with the Japan Panel on Structural Response Control and US Panel on Structural Control Research.

HOST: The local host is the Research Centre at HKUST which is a branch of the university charged with developing applied research programs that are relevant to Hong Kong's economic and social development.

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this Workshop is to bring together engineers and others interested in the general field of response control and monitoring of buildings, bridges and other civil infrastructure systems, in order to facilitate research, development and applications of these technologies to improve safety, serviceability and economy of these structures when subjected to environmental loads. To achieve this objective, the Workshop program is structured so that participants can: (1) share new information and ideas relating to these technologies, (2) work together to promote international cooperation for advancing these technologies by sharing knowledge, resources and test facilities.

PAPERS: Approximately 60 invited and contributed papers are to be presented on applications and research in response control and monitoring of buildings, bridges and other infrastructure systems. Contributed papers were selected on the basis of abstracts submitted in response to an earlier Call for Papers.

ACCEPTED PAPERS AND INVITED PAPERS ARE DUE BY October 31, 1996 at:

Prof. Jay Chen, Research Centre Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong either as an electronic file sent by email to : IASCWS96@USTHK.UST.HK (in MIME, IMAP, NNTP or SMTP format) or by mailing 3.25" a PC or Mac formatted disk. Either a LATEX, MS WORD or WORDPERFECT file may be submitted. Papers should not exceed 12 pages in length, and should follow the format of Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, official journal of IASC. This format, which is described inside the back cover of each journal issue, is included here as Attachment 2 for convenience. The figures should be in separate POSTSCRIPT files or mailed in camera-ready form so they can be scanned and converted to POSTSCRIPT. Papers will be published in an electronic Workshop Proceedings and will be made available via Internet. Printed copies will also be distributed at the Workshop.

WORKING GROUPS: Participants will be organized into six working groups: Building Control; Bridge Control; Health Monitoring; Case Studies of Control; Design Philosophy for Control Codes; and Future Directions for IASC.

Please indicate your preferences for participation in these Working Groups on the attached form which is to be submitted with your registration fee.

PRELIMINARY WORKSHOP PROGRAM:

DAY 1 -

PLENARY SESSIONS (all day): Current Status of Research Programs in Control, Monitoring and Wind Engineering; Current Status of Implementations in Control and Monitoring; Present and Future for IASC; Reception

DAY 2 -

WORKING GROUP SESSIONS (am) and BRIDGE FIELD TRIP (pm)

DAY 3 -

PARALLEL SESSIONS (am): Modelling, Monitoring and System ID; Control Algorithms and Systems; Control Devices, Tests and Applications

PLENARY SESSION (pm): Working Group Reports; General Discussion and Resolutions; Banquet

DAY 4 -

LANTAU ISLAND FIELD TRIP (all day)

FIELD TRIPS: Participants will have the opportunity on Thursday, December 19 to visit the site of the Tsing Ma suspension bridge which is currently under construction to provide access to the new Chek Lap Kok Airport on Lantau Island.

If there is sufficient interest, a field trip will also be organized for Saturday, December 21 to Lantau Island by ferry. The construction site for the new international airport will be visited, followed by a visit to the Po Lin Monastery for lunch and to see the temples and the largest outdoor Buddha statue in the world.

Please indicate whether you wish to participate in either, or both, of these field trips on the attached form which is to be submitted with your registration fee.

PARTICIPATION: Participation in the Workshop is limited because of restricted capacity for meeting facilities and field trips. First priority will be given to the speakers and working group chairs and reporters. Any remaining space will be assigned in the chronological order of registration.

REGISTRATION: The Workshop registration fee is US$300 or HK$2340 which includes lunches, reception, banquet, daily transport between Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, and the HKUST campus, and field trips. An early registration fee of US$250 or HK$1950 will apply before September 30, 1996. All registration must be done by November 15, 1996. There will be no on- site registration. The registration fee in the form of a cheque, bank draft or money order in US or HK dollars and made payable to IASC should be sent along with the completed registration form below (Attachment 1) to Prof. Jay Chen at the Research Centre.

ACCOMMODATION: Participants should make their own hotel reservations. Arrangements have been made for a block of rooms to be available at a discounted rate from December 17 to 22 at each of the following hotels in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon:

(1)

New World Hotel @1

22 Salisbury Road

Tsimshatsui, Kowloon

Tel: +852 2369 4111

Fax: +852 2721 8594

Discounted Daily Room Rate:

Single HK$1,437.50 (US$184)

Double HK$1,552.50 (US$199)

(2)

Royal Pacific Hotel @2

3 Canton Road, China HK City

Tsimshatsui, Kowloon

Tel: +852 2736 2222

Fax: +852 2738 2332

Discounted Daily Room Rate:

Single HK$1,058 (US$135)

Double HK$1,058 (US$135)

(3)

YMCA Hostel @3

41 Salisbury Road

Tsimshatsui, Kowloon

Tel: +852 2369 2211

Discounted Daily Room Rate:

Single HK$883.60 (US$113)

Double HK$883.60 (US$113)

(4)

Stanford Hillview Hotel

13-17 Observatory Road

Tsimshatsui, Kowloon

Tel: +852 2722 7822

Fax: +852 2721 7511

Discounted Daily Room Rate:

Single HK$819 (US$105)

Double HK$819 (US$105)

@1 If our total bookings are less than 10 rooms, the normal daily corporate rate at

HK$1,569.75 (US$201) for single room and HK$1,690.5(US$217) for double

room will apply.

@2 Please contact the Research Centre for a Reservation Form to make reservations at the

Royal Pacific Hotel.

@3 Reservations for YMCA Hostel should be directed to e-mail:

IASCWS96@USTHK.UST.HK or fax no. +852 2358 1334.

These rates are inclusive of service charges and tax. The pick-up points for transport to and from the HKUST campus will be the Royal Pacific Hotel and the New World Hotel.

Please make your reservation directly with the hotel (except the YMCA Hostel). All reservations should be made before 1 November 1996 and be sure to mention that you are a participant of "Second International Workshop on Structural Control" hosted by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Please furnish the following information when making your reservation:

(1) Your name (2) Type of room (single or double) and number of rooms required (3) Check-in date and Check-out date (4) Arrival flight number (5) Credit Card details (Credit card type and number, cardholder name and expiry date)

Please note that your booking must be guaranteed by your credit card. Written notice should be furnished at least three days prior to arrival in case of cancellation otherwise one night cancellation charge by the hotel will apply.

STEERING COMMITTEE:

J. Chen, HKUST, Hong Kong (Chair); J. Beck, Caltech, USA F. Casciati, Univ. of Pavia, Italy; G. Hirsch, RWTH Aachen, Germany H. Iemura, Kyoto Univ., Japan; Y. Inoue, Osaka Univ., Japan S. Masri, Univ. of Southern Cal., USA; A. Nishitani, Waseda Univ., Japan T. Soong, S.U.N.Y. Buffalo, USA; L. Xie, Harbin Inst. of Eng. Mech., PRC C. Yeh, Nat. Cent. for Res. on Earthq. Eng., Taiwan

ATTACHMENT 1: Registration Form

FINAL REGISTRATION FOR SECOND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON STRUCTURAL CONTROL

REG. NUMBER: _______ (if previously assigned)

Last Name: _____________________________________________________

First Name: _____________________________________________________

Title: _____________________________________________________

Affiliation: _____________________________________________________

Address: _____________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________

Fax Number: _____________________________________________________

E-mail: _____________________________________________________

PREFERENCES (1 to 6) FOR WORKING GROUP PARTICIPATION (1=first choice):

Building Control: ____ Bridge Control: ____ Health Monitoring: ____

Case Studies of Control: ____ Design Philosophy for Control: ____

Future Directions for IASC: ____

FIELD TRIP PARTICIPATION:

Tsing Ma Bridge (Dec. 19): ____ Lantau Island (Dec. 21): ____

Payment for the registration fee of US$300 (US$250 before September 30, 1996) is enclosed.

ATTACHMENT 2 - Format for Workshop Papers

In submitting the electronic version of a paper, a note at the front of the email or a label on the mailed disk should give the previously assigned Workshop registration number for the paper, date of submission, and the hardware and software used to do the word processing (Latex, MS Word or WordPerfect). If submitted on disk, the label should also include the principal author's name and the name(s) of the paper file(s) on disk. Use a 3.5 inch disk for a PC (MS-DOS or Windows) or Macintosh.

Points of Style [Adapted from Earthq. Eng. and Struc. Dyn. Journal]

The body of the paper should be preceded by a Summary (maximum length 200 words) which should be a summary of the entire paper, and not of the conclusions alone.

The paper should be reasonably divided into sections, and if necessary subsections. Numbering of these is optional.

Tables and figures should be numbered consecutively and titled. The title should be placed before the body of the table or under the figure. All table columns should have an explanatory heading.

Authors must use the International System of Units for describing any dimensional results in the text, figures and tables. If the author wishes, values in terms of other units may be added in parentheses, following the appropriate SI values.

References to published literature should be numbered in the sequence that they appear in the text, quoted using the numbers as superscripts in the text, and grouped together in a Reference section at the end of the paper in numerical order. The entries in the Reference list should be presented in the following forms, depending on the type of reference:

Journal Article: 1. J. C. de la Llera and A. K . Chopra, 'Using accidental eccentricity in code-specified static and dynamic analyses of buildings', Earthquake eng. struct. dyn. 23, 947-967 (1994).

Book: 2. R.W. Clough and J. Penzien, Dynamics of Structures, 2nd edn, McGraw Hill, New York, 1993.

Report: 3. J. A. Inaudi, A. Zambrano and J. M. Kelly, 'On the analysis of structures with viscoelastic dampers', EERC Report No, 93/06, Earthquake Eng. Research Center, University of California at Berkeley, CA, 1993.

Department of Civil Engineering
Phone: (213) 740-0602
FAX: (213) 744-1426
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Andrew Smyth
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