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A quantitative risk assessment of seismic slope stability for a tailings dam
(New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 2023-04-19)
Tailings are a by-product of mining, consisting of silts and sands from the processed rock or soils and susceptible to liquefaction under earthquakes. Tailings Storage Facilities (TSFs) include dams that are designed and ...
Seismic Behaviour of Slender Rectangular Reinforced Concrete Walls based on analytical methods
(New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 2023-04-19)
In the seismic design and assessment of structures, one of the key parameters is the displacement capacity of the structural elements. Slender reinforced concrete (RC) structural walls are one of the more commonly used ...
Base isolated building preformance and the impact of the national seismic hazard model
(New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 2023-04-19)
The NZSEE/MBIE recently released seismic design guidelines aiming to provide a more consistence design performance of base-isolated buildings in NZ. This paper confirms the superior performance of base-isolated buildings ...
Investigating the effect of stiffness on the seismic performance of RC structures
(New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 2023-04-19)
This study investigates the correlation between stiffness and the seismic performance of RC structures. Structural performance was compared for buildings affected by four different earthquakes, Tokachi-Oki (1968), Chile ...
A Sensitivity Study of the Design Parameters Affecting the Global Stability of Buckling-Restrained Braced Frames
(New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 2023-04-19)
Recent research has focused on the ability of buckling-restrained braces and their connecting elements to act together as a series of resisting elements to resist mechanism formation. This potential failure mode is known ...
Learning Importance Sampling Distributions via Normalizing Flows to Estimate Rare-Event Failure Probabilities
(New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 2023-04-19)
Engineered systems are typically designed to be robust and have very low probabilities of failure. However, developing accurate estimates of these probabilities can be challenging given the complex (and typically nonlinear) ...
Seismic Damage States and Damage Quantification of Light Timber Framed Walls in Residential Houses
(New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 2023-04-19)
New Zealand (NZ) has a performance-based code environment. The essence of performance-based seismic design of buildings is to achieve multiple performance requirements including damage control. However, the current seismic ...