On April 28, 2020, the "Innovation Base of Earthquake Engineering Comprehensive Simulation" held a "Cloud Report” and invited Professor Luis A. Dalguer, an advisor at the "3Q-Lab" consulting company in Switzerland to present a talk about "Modeling fault displacement caused by surface rupturing earthquakes: potential hazard for critical infrastructures ".

This report was hosted by Associate Prof. Jie Xu from the School of Civil Engineering. Prof. Mingjing Jiang, Deputy Dean of the School of Civil Engineering, attended the report and delivered a welcome speech.

By way of an online classroom,Professor Luis A. Dalguer introduced the potential damages to the surrounding important infrastructures caused by the fault displacement, and shared his research results on how to capture the main features of fault displacement and near-source ground motion through simulation.

The audience at the meeting learnt about the fault displacement model caused by the fracture rupture earthquake and the fault displacement evaluation method based on the dynamic rough rupture model.And they conducted an online discussions on related issues after the report.

A total of 125 teachers and students from Tianjin University, Tianjin Chengjian University, Hebei University of Technology, Hohai University, and the Institute of Engineering Mechanics from the China Earthquake Administration participated this “Cloud Report”, including 12 teachers, 68 graduate students,14 international students, and 31 undergraduate students.

Professor Luis A. Dalguer has two doctorates, one of seismology and the other of structural engineering. He is a famous civil engineer and seismologist. He has more than 20 years of professional experience in academia and industry. He served as an advisor to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and an adjunct professor at the Aichi Institute of Technology (AIT) Disaster Prevention Research Center. In the past 20 years, he has been engaged in basic and applied research in seismic physics, and has provided professional services to the industry on issues related to seismology. He has published two monographs, more than 70 papers in international journals, and more than 200 papers in international conferences. He is currently an associate editor of the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA) and a guest editor of the Pure and Applied Geophysics (PAGEOPH).

By the School of Civil Engineering

Editor: Eva Yin