Title: High-performance Dynamic Testing Installation for Seismic Isolation Bearings and Damping Devices

Report time: 14:30-16:30, August 18, 2024

Location: Conference Room 316, Civil Engineering Research Building, Campus 2, Harbin Institute of Technology

Organizer: Smart Infrastructure Research Center

About the Speaker:

Professor Akira Wada is a professor emeritus at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. He has been a member of the Science Council of Japan since 2005. He served as the president of the Architectural Institute of Japan, the president of Japan Society of Seismic Isolation. He is now the president of the Structural Engineers World Congress, the representative direction of the Japan Academic Network for Disaster Reduction and the Japan Seismic Isolation Laboratory. He received the Fazlur R. Khan Lifetime Achievement Medal of 2011 by the CTBUH, and the AIJ Grand Prize in 2019.Academic report by Assistant Professor Yunlan Zhang at the University of Texas at Austin