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Directing Low-Damage Seismic Design with Building Functionality
(New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 2021-04-14)
The upcoming New Zealand Low-Damage Seismic Design (LDSD) guidance information, currently in preparation, is widely anticipated to provide a reference point for aligning low-damage seismic performance targets. A key aspect ...
Quantifying the Embodied Carbon Cost from Demolitions Following the Canterbury Earthquakes
(New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 2021-04-14)
The 2010/2011 Canterbury Earthquake Sequence resulted in severe financial loss, loss of life and disruption in Christchurch due to liquefaction and damage from strong shaking, which led to the widespread displacement of ...
Incorporating the influence of duration on dynamic deformation capacity in seismic assessment
(New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 2021-04-14)
The dynamic deformation capacity of a structure is the peak storey drift ratio it can safely withstand without collapsing due to dynamic instability. In a previous study, the authors developed a robust procedure to compute ...
Advances in Floor Diaphragm In-Plane Modelling Using Truss Elements
(New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 2021-04-14)
Different methods to model building floor diaphragm in-plane stiffness with truss elements are compared to identify the method most suitable for analysis in design. The methods considered include (i) Elastic truss, (ii) ...
1170.5 Reimagined: from a structural designers view
(New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 2021-04-14)
Our loadings code has adapted and extended to incorporate new knowledge as it has emerged over the last 50+ years: could a re-write encourage engineers to design better buildings? This paper outlines some intentionally ...