The SPONSE Association organized Special Sessions dedicated to the Seismic Performance of Nonstructural Elements (SPONSE Session) at the upcoming 11th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering (11NCEE) and the 16th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering (16ECEE). The sessions will be focused on recent developments for the three main categories of non-structural elements：1) Architectural elements; 2) Building Utility Systems; and 3) Building Contents. Abstracts can be related to any of the following topics: 1) Lessons from earthquakes; 2) Methods of design, evaluation and retrofit; 3) Standards and codes; 4) Experiments; and 5) Analysis and simulation;

Please visit the conference websites for more information:

– 11NCEE: https://11ncee.org/

– 16ECEE:  http://www.16ecee.org/