New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering: Recent submissions
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Effective and economic combination of seismic isolation and vibration insulation within one innovative device
(2024-04-09)Seismic isolation is a well-known approach to reduce the risk of casualties as well as structural and content damage due to earthquakes. Vibration insulation on the other hand is increasingly a requirement in urban areas ... -
Shake-table test of flexural RC beams subjected to different levels of repair
(2024-04-09)Typically, damaged reinforced concrete (RC) building components are fully repaired to achieve the highest performance recovery. However, this repair objective may not necessarily be essential to achieve building performance ... -
Investigating the interaction between rocking amplitude and ground motion characteristics via artificial neural networks
(2024-04-09)Unreinforced masonry structures are particularly vulnerable to out-of-plane seismic loading. During an earthquake, masonry walls behave as rigid bodies undergoing rocking motion. Thus, from a dynamics perspective, their ... -
Three-dimensional numerical simulation of tsunami-borne debris-loads on bridges
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 ...