CONFERENCE
The Ninth National AFPS Conference, AFPS'15, took place at the IFSTTAR (the French Institute of Science and Technology for Transport, Development and Networks) in Marne-La-Vallée, from November 30th, 2015 to December 2nd, 2015. This french-speaking conference is held every four years and is the opportunity to take a look at the latest improvements in the earthquake engineering field and the seismic risk field.
The conference is open to all. Its aim is to provide an opportunity for the various actors involved in the seismic risk domain - public authorities, civil protection authorities, insurers, academics, architects, engineers...-to discuss different topics. The discussions cover a wide range of topics, from the evolution of seismic faults to the solutions provided through constructions and by society in general (psycho-social and economic aspects).
The title of the 2015 conference is "Anticipating, limiting and managing the consequences of earthquakes in territories", and broadens the range of topics raised during previous conferences, insisting on anticipation and management of risks and their territorial level.
In the past few years, France and its European partners have seen major improvements, in the field of application of technical rules as well as in the content of these rules (new seismic zoning, Eurocodes). This conference will be an excellent opportunity for earthquake engineering actors to take stock of studies and research, but also of the practical aspects of the new legal frameworks.
The final organization plan of the conference will partly depend on the contributions offered. One of the objectives is to enable discussions between authors and participants, insisting on new questions.
You can find here the call for papers and the link to submit papers.
The calendar is the following :
April 17th, 2015 : Deadline for submitting papers > postponed to May 3rd
May 15th, 2015: Notification of the authors
July 24th, 2015 : Deadline for receiving papers
September 15th, 2015 : Approval of the papers
October 8th, 2015 : Reception of papers in their final version
You can find here the scientific topics discussed during AFPS Conferences.
The AFPS, Jacques Betbeder and best poster prizes will also be awarded.
Before precise instructions for the Conference are put online, you will find for information purposes the documents from the 8th National Conference "Towards sustainable control of seismic risk", which was held at the Ecole des Ponts ParisTech in Champs-Sur-Marne from September 6th to September 8th, 2011, the articles, posters and oral presentations.