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The TCLEE 2009 conference will be the seventh in a series of international lifeline earthquake engineering conferences held approximately every four years since 1977.

Over the years, major natural hazards (earthquakes, floods, extreme winds, tsunami) and man-made hazards have caused significant regional disruptions that have often had national and even international impacts. Furthermore, this experience has consistently shown that the disrupted region’s post-event resilience and sustainability will strongly depend on the performance of its lifelines during and after the event.

TCLEE 2009 will address this issue by providing a comprehensive array of technical papers pertinent to current practices, recent innovations, and future directions associated with performance requirements, design, analysis, and planning of lifelines subjected to natural and man-made hazards. In the TCLEE conference tradition, emphasis will be placed on technologies for reducing risks from earthquakes. However, TCLEE 2009 will address these technologies from a unique perspective that includes comparisons with lifeline risk-reduction technologies for other natural hazards and man-made hazards. In particular, the conference will include sessions that focus on:

• Differences and commonalities of technologies used to engineer lifelines to resist earthquakes vs. other natural and man-made hazards, and

• How engineering and risk-reduction technologies for each of these hazard types might benefit from exposure to technologies developed for other hazard types.