Mini-Symposium

Recent advances and challenges in geotechnical earthquake engineering

Significant developments have been made, in the last few decades, to provide more accurate and reliable design methods
for structures, infrastructures and foundations, particularly, when subjected to dynamic (mainly seismic) actions.
Numerical methods have played a major role in these advances. Nevertheless, their remarkable potential should be
broadened and improved, since geotechnical earthquake engineering hazards are still difficult to mitigate.

The Mini-Symposium “Recent advances and challenges in geotechnical earthquake engineering” will offer an
opportunity for the presentation and discussion on several geotechnical earthquake engineering issues. All those involved
with computational mechanics, related to geotechnical earthquake engineering, are welcome to present their recent
experience and research findings. Contributions related to hybrid, analytical, as well as, experimental methods in the field
of soil dynamics and earthquake engineering are also welcome.

This Mini-Symposium aims to attract academic staff, researchers, post-graduate students and professional engineers
dealing with advanced topics, which include but are not limited to: Performance-based design; Liquefaction and other
types of major soil failures; Dynamic soil-structure interaction; Codes, standards and safety evaluation; Foundations and
Ground Improvement; Retaining structures; Slopes, dams and embankments; Tunnels and lifelines; Wind turbines; Man-
made vibrations.

In order to submit your abstract, first you need to register on the Conference website. After completing the pre-
registration form, you will receive an email to validate your Account. After validation, you will receive a second email with
your Username and password, which will be used to login to your COMPDYN 2019 Account. From your Account Overview
Menu click My Abstracts/My Papers, click Submit an Abstract, choose Submit to Minisymposium and enter the MS code:
MS-02-CB and proceed with the Abstract Submission following the instructions. The deadline for abstract submission to
the Minisymposium is 30 October 2018.

The Proceedings of the Conference – the full-length accepted papers- will be indexed by SCOPUS database.

MS Organizers:

Castorina Silva Vieira Yiannis Tsompanakis

University of Porto, Portugal Technical University of Crete, Greece
cvieira@fe.up.pt jt@science.tuc.gr