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Factors affecting the balancing of Gender Representation in the Engineering Industry
(New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 2021-04-14)
Gender disparity in the engineering industry is a well-recognised problem. Engineering is a growing industry, and the lack of gender balance affects the diversity of thought available to it, as well as the potential ...
Investigating the impact of design criteria on the expected seismic losses of an office building
(New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 2021-04-14)
Low Damage Seismic Design (LDSD) guidance material being developed by Engineering NZ is considering a design drift limit for multi-storey buildings of 0.5% at a new damage control limit state (DCLS). The impact of this new ...
Seaview Wharf: risk-based thinking underpins the future
(New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 2021-04-14)
Wellington’s Seaview Wharf is a critical asset in the Lower North Island fuel supply system, including after significant seismic events. Recent annual fuel supply for the region has exceeded 1 Million tonnes, and there is ...
CentrePort Wellington: Resilient regeneration activity
(New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 2021-04-14)
Wellington’s Pipitea port precinct - a critical lifeline and economic contributor to Wellington and surrounding regions – suffered significant damage and associated operational disruption as a result of the 2016 Kaikoura ...
Full Waveform Tomography for the upper South Island region, New Zealand
(New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 2021-04-14)
In this paper, we apply Full Waveform Tomography (FWT) based on the Adjoint-Wavefield (AW) method to iteratively invert an existing 3-D geophysical velocity model for the upper South Island region, New Zealand. Through the ...
Low damage solution for a biomass boiler structure by a new three-dimensional seismic isolation
(New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 2021-04-14)
The February 2011 Christchurch earthquake caused significant property damage within Christchurch city. Since this devastating event, there has been a shift in engineering practice to Performance Based Design (PBD), to limit ...
Experimental loading protocols to evaluate the seismic performance of floor systems
(New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 2021-04-14)
Major earthquakes, such as the Canterbury and Kaikoura events recorded in New Zealand in 2010 and 2016 respectively, highlighted that floor systems can be heavily damaged. At a reduced or full scale, quasi-static experimental ...
Development of Dissipative Controlled Rocking Bridge Columns on Monopile Foundations
(New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 2021-04-14)
In this research, a low-damage seismic design detail is developed for bridge columns supported on monopile foundations. The low-damage system aims to minimise, and potentially eliminate, the repair time and costs to a ...
Wellington Building Inventory: Rapid Earthquake Response Framework
(New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 2021-04-14)
This paper is focused on the design and implementation of a functional tool to evaluate and communicate the seismic risk to increase resilience and reduce human and economic loss. Wellington has been selected as the case ...
The Assessment of Liquefaction induced Settlement - application within Engineering Practice
(New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 2021-04-14)
The assessment of the magnitude of liquefaction-induced settlements affecting shallow founded buildings and buried services is an important yet challenging task for geotechnical engineers. It is often required when assessing ...