Title: Damping ratios and natural frequencies of buildings for wind resistant design

Bio:

Yukio Tamura is a Professor and the Advisory Director of Research Center of Wind Engineering, Environment and Energy, School of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University, China. He is also a Professor Emeritus of Tokyo Polytechnic University (TPU), Japan, and the Honorary Director of the TPU Wind Engineering Research Center. He served as the President of the International Association for Wind Engineering (IAWE) for eight years from 2007 to 2015. He is now serving as the Honorary Chairman of the International Thematic Group for Wind-Related Disaster Risk Reduction under the auspices of the United Nations Office of Disaster Risk Reduction. He is also serving as an Honorary/Guest/Adjunct Professor of around 20 universities/institutes in China, Korea, Malaysia, Poland and USA.

He has received many awards including the ASCE Jack E. Cermak Medal in 2004, the ASCE Robert H. Scanlan Medal in 2016, as well as the IAWE Alan Davenport Medal in 2016. In addition, due to his various professional contributions, he has received other important awards, including the Japan Association for Wind Engineering (JAWE) 2015 Design Award for his contribution to the wind resistant design of the 634m-high Tokyo Sky Tree, the Chinese Government Friendship Award in 2017, Chinese National Science and Technology Development Award in 2024, and Chongqing International Scientific Collaboration Award in 2024.

Professor Yukio Tamura has been a member of the Engineering Academy of Japan since 2011, a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering since 2013, and an International Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering since 2017.