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Establishing the Transverse Load Capacity of a Timber-framed Classroom Block
(New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 2023-04-19)
In 2013, longitudinal testing of single storey timber-framed classroom blocks was initiated by the Ministry of Education and completed by BRANZ to better understand the seismic resilience of timber-framed buildings within ...
Testing of heavily damaged reinforced concrete walls repaired using concrete and steel replacement
(New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 2023-04-19)
Post-earthquake damage assessments are essential to decisions on the need for and extent of structural repairs. Despite this, New Zealand currently has no official guidelines to evaluate the residual capacity of ...
Development, verification, and validation of a buckling-fatigue steel material model
(New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 2023-04-19)
Currently, there are limited constitutive models available in finite element analysis packages that reliably capture the coupled effects of bar buckling and fatigue. However, such a model is needed for reliable estimation ...
Field miniature prototype development and pilot project design of subsurface compacted Rubble Raft (SCRR)
(New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 2023-04-19)
Subsurface Compacted Rubble Raft (SCRR) is a patented wide-area ground improvement solution that focuses on solving severe liquefaction hazards. SCRR technique directly targets the liquefaction layers by constructing a ...
Reimagining Community Resilience through a Te Ao Maori Worldview
(New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 2023-04-19)
Efforts to improve community resilience have seen universal efforts to grow capabilities in disaster management for the built environment. Although comprehensive frameworks exist, the perspective used to derive these ...
Seismic hazard analysis for a bridge across Marikina River with consideration of near-fault effects
(New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 2023-04-19)
The Valley Fault System in Metro Manila, Philippines is widely considered to be an impending threat in releasing a large-scale earthquake. Such earthquake is forecasted to impose severe casualties and economic losses to ...
Predictive models for changes in reinforcement characteristics due to strain ageing effects
(New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 2023-04-19)
One of the factors affecting repair feasibility of buildings damaged by earthquakes is the potential effects of strain ageing of reinforcement. Since strain ageing can lead to an increase in structural member strength and ...
Simplified approach to rapidly predict road blockages caused by co-seismic landslides
(New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 2023-04-19)
The 2016 Kaikōura earthquake triggered tens of thousands of landslides leading to several road blockages which isolated the population in Kaikōura and disrupted the transport services across the South Island. The prediction ...
Three-dimensional numerical simulation of tsunami-borne debris-loads on bridges
(New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 2023-04-19)
Tsunamis are natural disasters that sometimes follow large-magnitude offshore earthquakes and cause significant damage to coastal bridges. In addition to the destructive power of the tsunami bore, shipping containers and ...
Case Study for Seismic Assessment of an Existing Asymmetric non-prismatic Unique Reinforced Concrete- encased Steel Plate Column in Wellington
(New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 2023-04-19)
This case study presents a tailored approach to assessing a high-rise building in the Wellington CBD constructed primarily from reinforced concrete encased steel frames. This construction is rare in New Zealand, and it is ...