Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics
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| abbreviation = SECED
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| formation = {{Start date|1969}}
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| purpose = Professional association
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}}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.{{cite web|title=Home|url=http://www.seced.org.uk/|website=SECED|accessdate=11 December 2017}}
It is the British branch of both the International Association (IAEE) and the European Association of Earthquake Engineering (EAEE).{{cite web|title=Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics (SECED)|url=http://www.preventionweb.net/organizations/13192|website=Prevention Web|accessdate=11 December 2017}} 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.{{cite web|title=SECED 2015 Conference|url=https://www.jillrogersassociates.co.uk/seced-home.html|website=Jill Rogers Associates|accessdate=11 December 2017}} 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. [https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/bssa/article-abstract/77/2/688/118968/calrust-geophysical-data-release?redirectedFrom=PDF Archive copy]{{cite journal|title=Nicholas Neocles Ambraseys 1929–2012|journal=Journal of Earthquake Engineering|date=2013|volume=17|issue=3|pages=301–303|doi=10.1080/13632469.2013.772011}}
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! YEAR ! LECTURER ! SUBJECT ! AFFILIATION |
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| 1987 | Professor Nicholas Ambraseys | Engineering Seismology {{cite journal|last1=Campbell|first1=Andy|title=The fifteenth Mallet–Milne lecture|journal=Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering|date=May 2016|volume=14|issue=5|pages=1333–1336|doi=10.1007/s10518-016-9869-8|doi-access=free}} |
| 2
| 1989 | Professor George W. Housner |
| 3
| 1991 | Professor Geoffrey Warburton |
| 4
| 1993 | Professor Thomas Paulay | Simplicity and Confidence in Seismic Design | University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand |
| 5
| 1995 | Professor Bruce Bolt | From Earthquake Acceleration to Seismic Displacement |
| 6
| 1997 | Professor Roy Severn | Structural Response Prediction Using Experimental Data |
| 7
| 1999 | Professor Cinna Lomnitz | The Road to Total Earthquake Safety |
| 8
| 2001 | Dr James A. Jackson | Living with Earthquakes: Know Your Faults |
| 9
| 2003 | Professor Nigel Priestley | Revisiting Myths and Fallacies in Earthquake Engineering | University of California, San Diego & Rose School, Italy |
| 10
| 2005 | A Study of Piles during Earthquakes: Issues of Design and Analysis |
| 11
| 2007 | Professor Robin Spence | Saving Lives in Earthquakes: Successes and Failures in Seismic Protection from 1960 |
| 12
| 2009 | Dr. Roger Bilham | The Seismic Future of Cities |
| 13
|2011 | The Practice of Earthquake Geology: Career-Changing Events and Life Stories | Pacific Gas and Electric Company, California |
| 14
|2013 | A History of British Seismology |
| 15
|2015 | Earthquake Safety in India: Achievements, Challenges and Opportunities |
| 16
|2017 | Dealing with Earthquakes: Earthquake engineering as if people mattered {{cite web|title=The sixteenth Mallet-Milne lecture - Dealing with Earthquakes: Earthquake engineering as if people mattered, London|url=https://www.ice.org.uk/eventarchive/mallet-milne-lecture-dealing-with-earthquakes#speaker|website=Institution of Civil Engineers|accessdate=11 December 2017|date=24 May 2017}} |
| 17
|2019 | | | |