Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics


The Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics 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 and the European Association of Earthquake Engineering. It is an Associated Society of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and is sponsored by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the Institution of Structural Engineers and the Geological Society.
SECED has organised conferences and lectures. 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.
NoYEARLECTURERSUBJECTAFFILIATION
11987Professor Nicholas AmbraseysEngineering SeismologyImperial College
21989Professor George W. HousnerCoping With Natural DisastersCalifornia Institute of Technology
31991Professor Geoffrey WarburtonReduction of VibrationsUniversity of Nottingham
41993Professor Thomas PaulaySimplicity and Confidence in Seismic DesignUniversity of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
51995Professor Bruce BoltFrom Earthquake Acceleration to Seismic DisplacementUniversity of California, Berkeley
61997Professor Roy SevernStructural Response Prediction Using Experimental DataUniversity of Bristol
71999Professor Cinna LomnitzThe Road to Total Earthquake SafetyNational Autonomous University of Mexico
82001Dr James A. JacksonLiving with Earthquakes: Know Your FaultsUniversity of Cambridge
92003Professor Nigel PriestleyRevisiting Myths and Fallacies in Earthquake EngineeringUniversity of California, San Diego & Rose School, Italy
102005W.D Liam FinnA Study of Piles during Earthquakes: Issues of Design and AnalysisKagawa University & University of British Columbia
112007Professor Robin SpenceSaving Lives in Earthquakes: Successes and Failures in Seismic Protection from 1960University of Cambridge
122009Dr. Roger BilhamThe Seismic Future of CitiesUniversity of Colorado, Boulder
132011Lloyd CluffThe Practice of Earthquake Geology: Career-Changing Events and Life StoriesPacific Gas and Electric Company, California
142013Roger MussonA History of British SeismologyBritish Geological Survey
152015Professor Sudhir K. JainEarthquake Safety in India: Achievements, Challenges and OpportunitiesIndian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
162017Edmund BoothDealing with Earthquakes: Earthquake engineering as if people matteredEdmund Booth Associates
172019