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Highbank Power Station Redevelopment – Design Process for a Concrete Encased Turbine and Generator Plinth Replacement
(2024-04-09)Manawa Energy, a renewable energy provider in New Zealand, operates a network of 26 power schemes from the Bay of Plenty in the North to Otago in the South. The Highbank Power Station stands as one of Manawa’s highest ... -
Holistic Considerations for Low-Rise Building Design
(2024-04-09)Two low-rise residential structures, a single-storey residential structure (SSRS) and one triple-storey structure (TSS), are initially described using building information modelling (BIM) software. The structures are then ... -
How beneficial is earthquake prediction?
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How effective is a composting toilet system for protecting human health in an emergency context?
(2021-04-14)The Wellington Region is highly vulnerable to large earthquakes as it is crossed by active faults. Expected timeframes of 1 to 2 years for the re-establishment of networked wastewater management services provide urgency ... -
How practitioners can work together to achieve better seismic performance outcomes for buildings and infrastructure
(2021-04-14)A key recommendation from the Canterbury Earthquakes Royal Commission was that there should be “greater cooperation and dialogue between geotechnical and structural engineers” to help improve the seismic performance of ... -
How to assemble elemental damping?
(2023-04-19)An elemental damping model has recently been proposed as an alternative to the Rayleigh damping model to avoid spurious damping forces during inelastic seismic response. It has shown great potential because it has the ... -
How would changes to serviceability limit state design criteria impact likely repair costs?
(2020-04-22)The earthquake engineering community is currently grappling with the need to improve the post-earthquake reparability of buildings. As part of this, proposals exist to change design criteria for the serviceability limit ... -
Hurricane Camille
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Hysteresis loops for timber structures
(1986-06-30)