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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 ...
Philosophical reflexions following the Lyttleton 2011 New Zealand Earthquake: Ten years after
(New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 2021-04-14)
At 12:51 p. m. on 22 February 2011, the Mw 6.3 Lyttelton earthquake struck the Canterbury region of New Zealand. The seismic event was reported as the result of the rupture of a previously unknown geological fault, 5.9 km ...
Risk-Targeted Hazard Spectra for Seismic Design in New Zealand
(New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 2021-04-14)
The promotion of risk-targeted hazard spectra as the basis of seismic design internationally has increased over the past decade. Risk-targeted hazard spectra are derived through convolution of hazard curves with representative ...
Earthquake Stories: Experiences of Building Performance in Earthquakes to enhance future building performance
(New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 2021-04-14)
The performance of the built environment during earthquakes plays an important role in reducing risk and enhancing the resilience of New Zealand’s urban centres. Although engineering codes and building standards regulate ...
Design of RSFJ Self-centring Brace for Ultimate Limit State
(New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 2021-04-14)
In previous studies, it was shown that the RSFJ brace assembly is prone to elastic buckling for which a new mechanism composed of two telescopic sections was introduced as a remedy to increase the elastic buckling load, ...
The shaky south (or not): towards improving communities understanding of earthquake risk in Otago and Southland
(New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 2022-04-27)
Understanding how people interpret and respond to earthquake risks is vital to any strategy for earthquake risk reduction. Acknowledging that there is a wide range of interpretations of risk is important in determining how ...
The role of in-plane strengthening within a proposed non-specific design approach to seismic improvement for URM buildings
(New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 2022-04-27)
Recent research shows that a significant number of earthquake-prone unreinforced brick masonry buildings may not receive seismic strengthening within the deadlines mandated by the Building (Earthquake-prone Buildings) ...
Enhancing earthquake and tsunami preparedness and response in Kura Kaupapa Māori/Schools Aotearoa New Zealand: learnings from the 5 March 2021 East Cape earthquake sequence
(New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 2022-04-27)
Aotearoa New Zealand is exposed to numerous potentially damaging impacts from various hazard events. The east coast of the North Island, one of the most active seismic regions in New Zealand, faces significant earthquake ...
Post-earthquake functional recovery: A critical review
(New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 2022-04-27)
Functional recovery not only transforms the retrofit of damaged buildings from an earthquake event but also contributes to community resilience. This paper aims to provide a state-of-the-art literature review of functional ...
Integrating Maori Perspectives into Community Resilience Frameworks for the Built Environment
(New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 2022-04-27)
Many governments and organisations have attempted to construct frameworks for improving community resilience, particularly as related to the built environment. Many frameworks take a large overview of society and miss the ...