The Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics (SECED) was founded in 1969 to promote the study and practice of earthquake engineering and structural dynamics, including blast, impact and other vibration problems. It also supports study of societal and economic ramifications of major earthquakes.
It is the British branch of both the International Association (IAEE) and the European Association of Earthquake Engineering (EAEE). It is an Associated Society of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), and is sponsored by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) and the Geological Society.
SECED has organised conferences and lectures (see below). It hosted a 2002 European conference on earthquake engineering in London, and in July 2015 hosted a two-day conference at Homerton College, Cambridge titled Earthquake Risk and Engineering towards a Resilient World. It also organises regular meetings and has published a newsletter since 1987.
Mallet–Milne lectures It organises the biennial Mallet–Milne Lecture, named after Robert Mallet and John Milne, regarded as the founding fathers of engineering seismology. The inaugural lecture was given at the ICE in London on 27 May 1987.Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Vol.77, No.2, pp.688-689, April 1987. Archive copy
No YEAR LECTURER SUBJECT AFFILIATION1 1987 Professor Nicholas Ambraseys Engineering Seismology Imperial College2 1989 Professor George W. Housner Coping With Natural Disasters California Institute of Technology3 1991 Professor Geoffrey Warburton Reduction of Vibrations University of Nottingham4 1993 Professor Thomas Paulay Simplicity and Confidence in Seismic Design University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand5 1995 Professor Bruce Bolt From Earthquake Acceleration to Seismic Displacement University of California, Berkeley6 1997 Professor Roy Severn Structural Response Prediction Using Experimental Data University of Bristol7 1999 Professor Cinna Lomnitz The Road to Total Earthquake Safety National Autonomous University of Mexico8 2001 Dr James A. Jackson Living with Earthquakes: Know Your Faults University of Cambridge9 2003 Professor Nigel Priestley Revisiting Myths and Fallacies in Earthquake Engineering University of California, San Diego & Rose School, Italy10 2005 W.D Liam Finn A Study of Piles during Earthquakes: Issues of Design and Analysis Kagawa University & University of British Columbia11 2007 Professor Robin Spence Saving Lives in Earthquakes: Successes and Failures in Seismic Protection from 1960 University of Cambridge12 2009 Dr. Roger Bilham The Seismic Future of Cities University of Colorado, Boulder132011 Lloyd Cluff The Practice of Earthquake Geology: Career-Changing Events and Life Stories Pacific Gas and Electric Company, California142013 Roger Musson A History of British Seismology British Geological Survey152015 Professor Sudhir K. Jain Earthquake Safety in India: Achievements, Challenges and Opportunities Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar162017 Edmund Booth Dealing with Earthquakes: Earthquake engineering as if people mattered Edmund Booth Associates172019
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