Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics

The Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics (SECED) was founded in 1969 to promote the study and practice of earthquake engineering and structural dynamics, including blast, impact and other vibration problems. It also supports study of societal and economic ramifications of major earthquakes.[1]

Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics
AbbreviationSECED
Formation1969 (1969)
TypeNGO
PurposeProfessional association
Coordinates51.5011°N 0.1290°W / 51.5011; -0.1290
Websitewww.seced.org.uk

It is the British branch of both the International Association (IAEE) and the European Association of Earthquake Engineering (EAEE).[2] It is an Associated Society of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), and is sponsored by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) and the Geological Society.[1]

SECED has organised conferences and lectures (see below). It hosted a 2002 European conference on earthquake engineering in London, and in July 2015 hosted a two-day conference at Homerton College, Cambridge titled Earthquake Risk and Engineering towards a Resilient World.[3] It also organises regular meetings and has published a newsletter since 1987.

Mallet–Milne lectures

It organises the biennial Mallet–Milne Lecture, named after Robert Mallet and John Milne, regarded as the founding fathers of engineering seismology.[1] The inaugural lecture was given at the ICE in London on 27 May 1987.[4][5]

No YEAR LECTURER SUBJECT AFFILIATION
1 1987 Professor Nicholas Ambraseys Engineering Seismology [4][5][6] Imperial College
2 1989 Professor George W. Housner Coping With Natural Disasters [6] California Institute of Technology
3 1991 Professor Geoffrey Warburton Reduction of Vibrations [6] University of Nottingham
4 1993 Professor Thomas Paulay Simplicity and Confidence in Seismic Design University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
5 1995 Professor Bruce Bolt From Earthquake Acceleration to Seismic Displacement University of California, Berkeley
6 1997 Professor Roy Severn Structural Response Prediction Using Experimental Data University of Bristol
7 1999 Professor Cinna Lomnitz The Road to Total Earthquake Safety National Autonomous University of Mexico
8 2001 Dr James A. Jackson Living with Earthquakes: Know Your Faults University of Cambridge
9 2003 Professor Nigel Priestley Revisiting Myths and Fallacies in Earthquake Engineering University of California, San Diego & Rose School, Italy
10 2005 W.D Liam Finn A Study of Piles during Earthquakes: Issues of Design and Analysis Kagawa University & University of British Columbia
11 2007 Professor Robin Spence Saving Lives in Earthquakes: Successes and Failures in Seismic Protection from 1960 University of Cambridge
12 2009 Dr. Roger Bilham The Seismic Future of Cities University of Colorado, Boulder
13 2011 Lloyd Cluff The Practice of Earthquake Geology: Career-Changing Events and Life Stories Pacific Gas and Electric Company, California
14 2013 Roger Musson A History of British Seismology British Geological Survey
15 2015 Professor Sudhir K. Jain Earthquake Safety in India: Achievements, Challenges and Opportunities Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
16 2017 Edmund Booth Dealing with Earthquakes: Earthquake engineering as if people mattered [7] Edmund Booth Associates
17 2019

See also

References
  1. "Home". SECED. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
  2. "Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics (SECED)". Prevention Web. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
  3. "SECED 2015 Conference". Jill Rogers Associates. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
  4. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Vol.77, No.2, pp.688-689, April 1987. Archive copy
  5. "Nicholas Neocles Ambraseys 1929–2012". Journal of Earthquake Engineering. 17 (3): 301–303. 2013. doi:10.1080/13632469.2013.772011.
  6. Campbell, Andy (May 2016). "The fifteenth Mallet–Milne lecture". Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering. 14 (5): 1333–1336. doi:10.1007/s10518-016-9869-8.
  7. "The sixteenth Mallet-Milne lecture - Dealing with Earthquakes: Earthquake engineering as if people mattered, London". Institution of Civil Engineers. 24 May 2017. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
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