Mission
The Working Commission is, in its field of activity, responsible for the active support of the objectives of the Association. It support in this respect all other committees of the Association.

Field of activity
WC 1 provides a forum for discussion on problems related to structural performance and safety and life-cycle cost. The evaluation of performance includes analytical and experimental approaches. WC 1 deals with structural performance under various actions, both man-made and environmental, the methodology of structural analysis, assessment of design loads, material properties, structural resistance, and problems related to structural safety and serviceability, for buildings, bridges and other civil engineering structures.

Report
to the Technical Committee

Activity Programme

Achievements 2000-2005

• Organisation of workshop 'Robustness of Structures' at BRE, Garston, Watford, UK on November, 28-29, 2005 (JCSS &IABSE WC1) details see www.jcss.ethz.ch

• Organisation of BASAAR sessions connected with the annual meetings and subsequent conferences of IABSE:

	• Lisbon, Portugal, September 15, 2005 'Follow-up of the South East Asian Tsunami'
	• Shanghai, China, September 23,2004 'International Cooperation in Natural Hazard Mitigation'
	• Melbourne, Australia, September 11, 2002 'Consequences of September 11, 2001'
	• St. Julians, Malta, March 21, 2001 'Reduction of Earthquake Vulnerability'
	• Lucerne, Switzerland, September 20, 2000 'Integration of Life-Cycle Cost Analysis with Safety Analysis'

• Active participation (as Co-chair and participant, respectively) in the IABSE Workshops on 'Management Strategy for Ageing Highway Bridges and Construction of a Bridge at an Ecologically Sensitive Site', Melbourne, Australia, September 10-13, 2002.

• Active participation in the 3rd International Workshop 'Life-Cost Analysis and Design of Civil Infrastructure Systems' and fib WG 5.3-1, WG 5.6/Joint Committee on Structural Safety Probabilistic Modelling of Deterioration Processes on Concrete Structures, March 24-26, 2003, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.

• Initiation and promotion of a worldwide enquiry on 'Target Reliability Levels for the Ultimate Limit State'
(T. Vrouwenvelder, 1999-2001)

• Proposal and delegation of members to scientific committees and to the Outstanding Paper Award Committee (OPAC)

Meeting
1 - 2 per year

Membership from November 1, 2009 on:

Chair 
J. Casas, Spain (2009-2013)  (contact)

Vice-Chair
H.M. Koh, Korea (2009-2013)*

Members
F. Biondini, Italy (2007-2011)*
D.-H. Choi, Korea (2009-2013)*
A. Cunha, Portugal (2005-2013)
H. Furuta, Japan (2007-2011)*
A. De Boer, The Netherlands (2007-2011)*
N.P. Hoej, Switzerland (2007-2011)*
D. Laefer, Ireland (2003-2011)
R. Mor, Israel (2005-2013)
M.K. Söderqvist, Finland (2007-2011)*
T. Takada, Japan (2005-2013)
D. Val, UK (2005-2013)
Y.-X. Yang, China (2009-2013)*

*re-election possible

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Last modified: 2009-11-13