National Colloquium on Wind & Earthquake Engineering

Abstract

PREFACE NCWE 2018It is a great privilege for us to organise the 2nd National Colloquium on Wind and Earthquake Engineering (NCWE) in 2018 which was held in Swiss Garden, Kuantan, Malaysia from 17 until 18 August 2018.Once again the NCWE in 2018 was successfully organized by the Faculty of Civil Engineering & Earth Resources (FKASA) of the Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP) with the support from the Disaster Research Nexus, School of Civil Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). NCWE’18 aims to provide a platform for discussing issues, challenges, opportunities and findings relating with the wind and earthquakes in the Asian region, with an overarching colloquium theme of “Disasters in Malaysia: Tomorrow is a Mystery”.This volume of proceedings from the colloquium provides an opportunity for readers to engage with a selection of refereed papers that were presented during the 2nd NCWE 2018. Divided into few sections, the papers published here were picked up on the multi disciplines including seismology, geodesy, geology, civil engineering and environment. The papers selected depended on the quality and the relevancy to the aim of colloquium and in the interest of participants in general.There were also two key note lectures within the colloquium; Professor Dr. Yukio Tamura- a prominent professor at the Chongqing University, China, presented his lecture on the Mathematical Model for Understanding Phenomena: Physical View and Mind View, and the second keynote speaker is the well-known “Bapa Gempa” in Indonesia, Professor Ir. H. Sarwidi from the Islamic Univesity Indonesia, with a lecture on the Lesson to Learn from Recent Earthquakes.The National Colloquium on Wind and Earthquake Engineering (NCWE) in 2018 also served as a forum to researchers and scholars from different disciplines that have an interest in natural disasters and geo-hazard mitigation to share and discuss their research activities. There were some 50 participants including students, engineers, researchers and academicians whom had many fruitful discussions and exchanges which contributed to the success of the colloquium. Finally on behalf of the organizing committee of NCWE 18, I would like to thank all the presenters and participants for their unduly support. This is something that we will strive to do again in the conferences that will follow next.Chairman, NCWE 2018Dr. Mohamad Idris Ali