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25-Sep-2006
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Earthquake
remediation initiative demonstrated in Skopje
Science for Peace Project
A Science for Peace (SfP) project on Seismic Assessment and Rehabilitation of Existing Buildings, which resulted from a special initiative of the Science Committee following the severe earthquakes in Istanbul and Athens in 1999, has been featured at commemorations to mark the anniversary of another devastating earthquake in the region - in Skopje, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, in 1963. As part of the events surrounding a conference to mark 40 years of European earthquake engineering and successful city reconstruction, the SfP project team mounted a demonstration of earthquake resistant panels that can be inserted into existing buildings diagnosed as being too weak to withstand such seismic activity.
Attended by the Deputy Minister of Science and Education, and by the US and Netherlands Ambassadors to Skopje, the demonstration attracted sizeable attendance from among the 200 participants at the conference. The research teams are led by Prof. G. Özcebe, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, Prof. J.O. Jirsa, University of Texas at Austin, USA, Prof. K. Pitilakis, Center for Research and Technology, Thessaloniki, Greece, Prof. M.N. Fardis, FORTH, Patras, Greece, and Prof. M. Garevski, University Ss Cyril and Methodius, Skopje.
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