European Association for Structural Dynamics

EASD was founded in 1990 (Founding President: Prof. W.B. Krätzig of Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany) as a joint European initiative of experts in Structural Dynamics. The idea of this series of conferences goes back to the early 1980s when a Research Centre on Structural Dynamics was founded at the Ruhr-University in Bochum. Structural Dynamics at that time had just overcome the phase of Single Degree of Freedom Systems. This was clearly because of the strong impact of computational technologies on structural engineering, but it also was due to the emphatic demand from dynamic problems of the engineering praxis which just at that time opened the gate to new frontiers in structural engineering: Long-span bridges for high-speed trains, high-rise structures, structural safety under seismic, wind and other time-dependent actions, just to mention some of them. Also, new qualitative requirements appeared, for example, vibration protection or dynamic reliability.

In the course of this mentioned Special Research Centre Prof. Krätzig got in contact with many European researchers from various fields of structural dynamics, such that the idea of a conference solely on structural dynamics arose, the 1st EURODYN in 1990 in Bochum. This first EURODYN was the starting point of now 12 conferences (Bochum, Trondheim, Florence, Prag, Munich, Paris, Southhampton Leuven, Porto, Rome, Athens and Delft) on this fascinating engineering discipline. The next EURODYN is scheduled to take place in Hannover 2026.