Objectives from WTC2014

• To incorporate key country members into the group, for knowledge and information sharing. Done.
• Ömer Aydan: From JSCE, chairman of the Rock Dynamics Committee, more than 25 years of experience in seismic design and analysis.
• Guido Andreotti: From EUCENTRE, one of the most important European research centers for seismic studies and risk analysis. Expert in seismic risk analysis and numerical analysis on ground-structure interaction.
• Tai-Tien Wang: from National Taipei University of Technology, expert in seismic monitoring, instrumentation and numerical analysis.
• To reactivate worldwide the interest for seismic analysis and design, for rock and soil tunnels: Done and still doing it.
  • Professionals from Japan, China, Norway, Chile, Italy and Turkey.
  • Specifically, 11 professionals attended, with the following distribution:
  • Chile: 1, Italy: 2, Japan: 3, China: 1, Taiwan: 2, Turkey: 1, Norway: 1.

• To produce state of the art reports for the tunnelling community. Ongoing:
  • Scope of works ready, contents ready, now        working to publish in two years more.
  • Database of seismic damages in tunnels. Each participant is assigned to a world region to get data.
  • Guidelines for seismic damage classification and register (based on the Japanese standard).