• Three-dimensional numerical simulation of tsunami-borne debris-loads on bridges 

  Buckle, Ian; Hasanpour, Anis; Istrati, Denis (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 ...

• Multistage Friction Connections 

  Chanchi Golondrino, Jose Christian; MacRae, Gregory; Coral Potosi, Hugo Anderson (2023-04-19)

  Multistage friction connections (MFCs) are bolted connections for dissipating seismic energy while reducing peak displacements and encouraging recentring. MFCs comprise two symmetric friction connections co-linearly ...

• Meet EDDIE – QuakeCoRE’s new earthquake test dummy 

  Vinnell, Lauren; Johnston, David; Hogan, Lucas; Stephens, Max; Horspool, Nick (2023-04-19)

  Until recently there has been limited understanding of the relationship between behaviour during earthquake shaking and risk of injury. Studying human behaviour during shaking is important, however, because with a better ...

• Enhancing earthquake and tsunami preparedness and response in Kura Kaupapa Māori/Schools in Tairāwhiti and Waiāriki, Aotearoa New Zealand 

  Tapuke, Kelvin; Kaiser, Lucy; Johnston, David; McCombe, Georgia; Becker, Julia (2023-04-19)

  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 ...

• High capacity glued-in rod connections in Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) structures 

  Shirmohammadli, Youness; Hashemi, Ashkan; Masoudnia, Reza; Quenneville, Pierre (2023-04-19)

  Glued-in rods are efficient and high-capacity connections for achieving high-strength connections in new timber structures and reinforcing existing timber buildings. With the emergence of cross-laminated timber (CLT) and ...

• Design Considerations for Buckling Restrained Braces in Timber Frames Subject to Out of Plane Deformations 

  Dorrance, William; Huang, Matthew; MacRae, Gregory; Bashiri, Mehdi; Li, Minghao (2023-04-19)

  The introduction of using steel buckling restrained braces (BRBs) has proven to greatly improve the in-plane seismic performance of timber structures. However, little is understood about the performance of BRBs subject to ...

• Dynamic Behaviour of Interlocking Plastic-block Structure Using Shake Table 

  Khan, Niaz; Khan, Ilyas; Khan, F. (2023-04-19)

  Severe damage was caused by the earthquake, primarily to non-engineered structures in rural areas. Structures including roads, bridges, buildings and railroad tracks all suffered catastrophic destruction as a result of ...

• Examples of ground improvement applications for earthquake design 

  Yohannes, Mikias (2023-04-19)

  The ground improvement applications and examples in this paper are planned to augment MBIE Module 5. This paper presents some ground improvement applications and their design and specification for earthquake hazard mitigation. ...

• Low Damage Wall To Floor Connections For Seismic Resilient Timber Structures 

  Assadi, Soheil; Hashemi, Ashkan; Quenneville, Pierre (2023-04-19)

  Rocking timber walls provide superior seismic performance in comparison with conventional light timber structures. Nevertheless, there is an uplift movement at the base of the wall that is translated as vertical displacement ...

• Review and suggestions on timber buildings with hybrid lateral force resisting systems 

  Gedyma, Mikhail; Lee, Chin-Long; MacRae, Gregory; Lim, Hyungsuk (Thomas); Liu, Angela; Li, Minghao (2023-04-19)

  Timber-framed structures have long been the default structural form for residential construction in many countries, including New Zealand. However, for some complex low-rise and mid-rise buildings, hybrid Lateral Force ...

• Framework Development for a Hybrid Geotechnical-Geospatial Liquefaction Assessment Model 

  Azul, Kristian; Orense, Rolando; Wotherspoon, Liam (2023-04-19)

  Liquefaction assessment can be performed using various bodies of knowledge, each with an associated accuracy based on the data involved. Liquefaction assessment models based on directly measured subsurface geotechnical ...

• Deformability of lap splices in RC structural walls 

  Kerby, Charles; Pujol, Santiago (2023-04-19)

  Severe structural damage associated with lap splices located near the foundation of reinforced concrete (RC) structural walls has been recorded in the field after recent major earthquakes in Chile, New Zealand, and Taiwan. ...

• Using 3D geological models to create maps of estimated Vs30 and site period 

  Hill, Matthew; Kaiser, Anna; Wotherspoon, Liam; Manea, Elena (2023-04-19)

  The 30-m time-averaged shear-wave velocity (Vs30) and the fundamental site period (T0) are useful parameters for understanding site conditions, informing geotechnical studies as well as infrastructure planning. Unfortunately, ...

• Numerical parametric analysis of gravity column base-plate connections 

  He, Jin Chang Winston; Clifton, Charles; Ramhormozian, Shahab (2023-04-19)

  Gravity column base-plate connections are normally treated as pinned connections in design. Correspondingly, a low rotational stiffness value is specified in the New Zealand steel design standard, NZS 3404. However, previous ...

• Numerical Investigation of Australasian Cold-Formed Steel strap-braced walls under lateral and vertical load 

  Karmakar, Ankeeta; Clifton, Charles; Lim, P.B.P (2023-04-19)

  Cold-Formed Steel (CFS) gained popularity in residential buildings due to its dimensional accuracy, lightweight, resistance to shrinking and creeping, durability, low embodied carbon and CNC manufacturing abilities. The ...

• Learning Importance Sampling Distributions via Normalizing Flows to Estimate Rare-Event Failure Probabilities 

  Dasgupta, Agnimitra; Johnson, Erik (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) ...

• A New Rocking Concrete Shear Wall with Self-Centring Friction Connections 

  Mohammadi Darani, Farhad; Zarnani, Pouyan; Quenneville, Pierre (2023-04-19)

  In recent years, the intention towards developing and utilising low-damage systems in seismic resisting structures has been increasing amongst researchers and engineers. Replaceability and repairability after earthquakes ...

• Performing Structural Assessment using Acoustic Measurements 

  Jiang, Zhaoshuo; Gonzalez, Angelica (2023-04-19)

  Natural hazards, such as earthquakes, could be catastrophic. One challenge that society faces is how to provide a rapid and accurate evaluation of the structural damages after the events. Traditional visual inspection is ...

• Reimagining Community Resilience through a Te Ao Maori Worldview 

  Dunlop, Ezra; Boston, Megan; Owen, Mahonri (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 ...

• Feasibility of capacity spectrum method for analysis of low damage structural systems with friction connections 

  Hashemi, Ashkan; Assadi, Soheil; Agarwal, Setu; Quenenville, Pierre (2023-04-19)

  The use of friction connections for low damage design of new structures has been increasing over the past few years. These connectors have a high energy dissipation ratio and are relatively economical to fabricate and ...

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