AUA HOSTS SEISMIC WORKSHOP

Armenpress
Jun 15 2006

YEREVAN, JUNE 15, ARMENPRESS: About 40 experts from 9 countries –
Armenia, Iran, Italy, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, and
USA are attending an International Workshop on Base Isolated High-Rise
Buildings that opened today in the American University of Armenia.

The workshop, organized in collaboration with the Armenian Association
for Earthquake Engineering, will end on June 17. It provides
an opportunity for the exchange of updated, detailed information
concerning the state-of-the-art on the development and applications
of the innovative anti-seismic techniques for high-rise buildings.

Topics covered by the Yerevan Workshop are base and roof isolation,
passive energy dissipation, systems formed by innovative anti-seismic
devices, active, semi-active and hybrid control of seismic and
non-seismic vibrations of high-rise buildings.

Armenia was the first among developing nations to exploit the
technology of seismic isolation, and the only such country to have
supported substantial improvement in the technology, especially for
apartments, schools, hospitals and high-rise buildings. Armenia ahs
also pioneered the practice of retrofitting buildings for seismic
isolation and the base and roof without vacating residents or
terminating maintenance.

One day, namely June 17, 2006 will be devoted to Technical Visits to
construction sites in Yerevan.

Participants will be acquainted with base isolated high-rise buildings,
which are currently under construction.