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Oral Presentations

Keynote Addresses

 

 

Friday, 10 April

11.30 – 12.15

 

Seismic Isolation: Recent worldwide developments, and future trends [PRESENTATION]

Ian Aiken, Seismic Isolation Engineering Inc.

 

 

Saturday, 11 April

08.15 – 09.00

 

Urban Seismology – Contribution of building testings for assessing the seismic response and the seismic vulnerability of actual buildings [PRESENTATION]

Philippe Gueguen, ISTerre, Universitι Joseph Fourier Grenoble

 

 

Sunday, 12 April

08.15 – 09.00

 

Performance-based seismic design and assessment of tall buildings [PRESENTATION]

Gregory Deierlein, Stanford University

 

 

Invited Presentations

 

 

Saturday, 11 April 09.00 – 9.25

 

From event to impact reporting and forecasting: The future of GeoNET [PRESENTATION]

Ken Gledhill, GeoNET

 

 

Sunday, 12 April 09.00 – 09.25

 

Designing regional Resilience [PRESENTATION]

Penny Allan, Victoria University of Wellington

Martin Bryant, Victoria University of Wellington

 

 

Special Session

 

Friday, 10 April

12.15 – 13.00

Re-thinking Seismic Design in New Zealand

Performance outcomes with a performance-based Building Code [PRESENTATION]

Mike Stannard, Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment

 

The New Zealand national seismic hazard model: Rethinking PSHA [PRESENTATION]

Matthew Gerstenberger, GNS Science

 

Performance-based seismic assessment: Myth and fallacies  [PRESENTATION]

Kam Weng Yuen, Beca

 

 

Saturday, 11 April 11.00 – 11.45

 

Updating the NZSEE seismic assessment guidelines: Key points for practitioners  [PRESENTATION]

Rob Jury, Kam Weng Yuen, Nick Harwood, Stefano Pampanin, David McGuigan & Jitendra Bothara

 

 

Sunday, 12 April 14.00 – 14.25

Risk and Society 2

Impact of source model on earthquake hazard and insurance risk in New Zealand [PRESENTATION]

Michael Drayton

 

The development of a formal framework for discussing earthquake resilience of the built environment [PRESENTATION]

George Walker

 

How can building owners be encouraged to retrofit their buildings? developing an evidence base of the outcomes of retrofitting commercial properties  [PRESENTATION]

Jean Beetham

 

Session 1 – Friday 10 April 2015

 

1A: Reinforced Concrete

Room: Opus & Skellerup Room

1B: Site Response

Room: Works Infrastructure Room

1C: Seismic Isolation 1

Room: Bay Trust Forum

14.00 – 14.15

Paper No. O-1:

THE CRACKING BEHAVIOUR OF REINFORCED CONCRETE BEAMS UNDER STATIC AND DYNAMIC LOADING [PRESENTATION]

Charles Clifton

Paper No. O-5:

SIMULATION OF SYSTEMATIC SITE AMPLIFICATION EFFECTS OBSERVED AT HEATHCOTE VALLEY DURING THE 2010-2011 CANTERBURY EARTHQUAKE SEQUENCE [PRESENTATION]

Seokho Jeong

Paper No. O-9:

SEISMIC ISOLATION FOR ARCHITECTS [PRESENTATION]

Andrew Charleson

14.15 – 14.30

Paper No. O-2:

PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION OF ELONGATION IN RC WALLS [PRESENTATION]

Ericson Encina

 

Paper No. O-6:

A HIGH-RESOLUTION SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY MODEL FOR NEAR-SURFACE SOILS IN CHRISTCHURCH USING CPT DATA [PRESENTATION]

Brendon Bradley

Paper No. O-10:

DEVELOPMENT OF A NZ GUIDELINE FOR THE DESIGN OF SEISMIC ISOLATION SYSTEMS [PRESENTATION]

Will Parker

14.30 – 14.45

Paper No. O-3:

DEVELOPMENT OF OUT-OF-PLANE INSTABILITY IN RECTANGULAR RC STRUCTURAL WALLS [PRESENTATION]

Farhad Dashti

Paper No. O-7:

VS30 AND NZS 1170.5 SITE CLASS MAPS OF NEW ZEALAND [PRESENTATION]

Nick Perrin

Paper No. O-11:

RESPONSE PREDICTION AND PARAMETER IDENTIFICATION FOR BASE-ISOLATED BUILDINGS WITH LIMITED SENSORS [PRESENTATION]

Cong Zhou

14.45 – 15.00

Paper No. O-4:

OUT-OF-PLANE BUCKLING OF LIMITED DUCTILE REINFORCED CONCRETE WALLS UNDER CYCLIC LOADS [PRESENTATION]

Scott Menegon

Paper No. O-8:

COST-EFFECTIVE COMMUNITY RESILIENCE: DETAILED EARTHQUAKE HAZARD CLASS MAPPING [PRESENTATION]

Aasha Pancha

Paper No. O-12:

A UNIQUE ROCKING WALL – ITS MOTION AND MECHANICS [PRESENTATION]

Wei Yuen Loo

Session 2 – Friday 10 April 2015

2A: Modelling and Testing of Engineering Structures

Room: Works Infrastructure Room

2B: Structural Steel and Concrete

Room: Opus & Skellerup Room

2C: Soil Structure Interaction

Room: Bay Trust Forum

16.30 – 16.45

Paper No. O-13:

PROGRESSIVE COLLAPSE ANALYSIS OF A  HERITAGE BUILDING USING APPLIED ELEMENT METHOD –HOTEL ST GEORGE, WELLINGTON [PRESENTATION]

Ioannis Prionas

Paper No. O-17:

SCALED SHAKE TABLE TESTS OF A NOVEL GRAVITY ROCKING MOMENT FRAME SYSTEM [PRESENTATION]

Mamoon Jamil

Paper No. O-21:

INTEGRATING FOUNDATION DESIGN FOR A LOW-DAMAGE SUPERSTRUCTURE [PRESENTATION]

Nick Barounis

16.45 – 17.00

Paper No. O-14:

EXPERIMENTAL TESTING AND MODELLING OF REINFORCED CONCRETE WALLS WITH MINIMUM VERTICAL REINFORCEMENT [PRESENTATION]

Yiqui Lu

Paper No. O-18:

REVIEW OF MATERIAL AND FLEXURAL OVERSTRENGTH FACTORS FOR GRADE 300E REINFORCING STEEL USED IN NEW ZEALAND [PRESENTATION]

Scott Davies-Colley

Paper No. O-22:

MONITORING OF THE FOUNDATION OF AN EXISTING RC BUILDING AND SOME MODELLING APPROACHES [PRESENTATION]

Nikolay Milev

17.00 – 17.15

Paper No. O-15:

STATE OF THE ART: CHALLENGES IN ANALYTICAL MODELLING OF MULTI-STOREY SHEAR WALL BUILDINGS [PRESENTATION]

Reza E. Sedgh

Paper No. O-19:

INFLUENCE OF COLUMN BASE ROTATIONAL STIFFNESS AND NON-STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS ON MOMENT RESISTING STEEL FRAME BUILDING RESPONSE TO SEVERE EARTHQUAKES [PRESENTATION]

James Ainsworth

Paper No. O-23:

CENTRIFUGE MODELLING OF THE ROCKING RESPONSE OF SHALLOW BUILDING FOUNDATIONS ON DENSE SAND [PRESENTATION]

Luke Storie

17.15 – 17.30

Paper No. O-16:

FULL SCALE SNAPBACK TESTING OF REINFORCED CONCRETE BRIDGE PIERS [PRESENTATION]

Liam Wotherspoon

Paper No. O-20:

ASSESSMENT OF POST-EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE IN RC ELEMENTS USING LOW-INVASIVE TECHNIQUES [PRESENTATION]

Amirmasoud Malek

Paper No. O-24:

DISPLACEMENT MODIFICATION FACTORS FOR SEISMIC DESIGN CONSIDERING FOUNDATION DEFORMATIONS [PRESENTATION]

Maxim Millen

Session 3 – Saturday 11 April 2015

3A: Damage Avoidance Design

Room: Opus and Skellerup Room

3B: Timber

Room: Works Infrastructure Room

3C: URM/Heritage

Room: Bay Trust Forum

09.30 – 09.45

Paper No. O-25:

DEVELOPMENT OF A RATCHETING, TENSION-ONLY FUSE MECHANISM FOR SEISMIC ENERGY DISSIPATION [PRESENTATION]

Jarrod Cook

Paper No. O-29:

DESTRUCTIVE TESTING OF A TIMBER FRAMED "MULTI" UNIT TO DETERMINE REALISTIC SEISMIC ASSESSMENT PARAMETERS [PRESENTATION]

Paul Connor-Woodley

Paper No. O-33:

SPEIGHTS BREWERY SEISMIC STRENGTHENING, DUNEDIN [PRESENTATION]

John Heenan

09.45 – 10.00

Paper No. O-26:

LOW DAMAGE BRACE USING A SYMMETRICAL FRICTION CONNECTION (SFC) DETAIL [PRESENTATION]

Robin Xie

Paper No. O-30:

THE DISPLACEMENT PARADOX FOR SEISMIC DESIGN OF TALL TIMBER BUILDINGS [PRESENTATION]

Andy Buchanan

Paper No. O-34:

CONTRIBUTION OF TIMBER-FRAMED PARTITION WALLS TO THE DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF AN UNREINFORCED MASONRY BUILDING [PRESENTATION]

Kevin Walsh

10.00 – 10.15

Paper No. O-27:

A STUDY TOWARDS THE DEVELOPMENT OF A LOW DAMAGE MOMENT-RESISTING CONNECTIONS USING BLIND BOLTS, CFCHS COLUMNS AND A REPLACEABLE ENERGY DISSIPATING DEVICE [PRESENTATION]

Yusak Oktavianus

Paper No. 31:

COMPARISON OF FORCE-BASED AND DISPLACEMENT-BASED SEISMIC DESIGN OF DISSIPATIVE POST-TENSIONED ROCKING TIMBER WALL SYSTEMS [PRESENTATION]

Francesco Sarti

Paper No. O-35:

CRITICAL REVIEW OF ANALYTICAL MODELS FOR THE IN-PLANE AND OUT-OF-PLANE ASSESSMENT OF URM BUILDINGS [PRESENTATION]

Serena Cattari

10.15 – 10.30

Paper No. O-28:

LOW DAMAGE DESIGN AND SEISMIC ISOLATION: WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE? [PRESENTATION]

Royce Liu

Paper No. O-32:

DESIGN OF FLOOR DIAPHRAGMS IN MULTI-STOREY TIMBER BUILDINGS [PRESENTATION]

Daniel Moroder

Paper No. O-36:

PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM DAMAGE AND VULNERABILITY ANALYSIS OF URM CHURCHES AFTER THE CANTERBURY EARTHQUAKE SEQUENCE 2010-2011 [PRESENTATION]

Serena Cattari

Session 4 – Saturday 11 April 2015

4A: Engineering Seismology

Room: Bay Trust Forum

4B: Energy Dissipation and Residual Capacity

Room: Works Infrastructure Room

4C: Structural Engineering

Room: Opus and Skellerup Room

11.50 – 12.05

Paper No. O-37:

THE EFFECT OF BOUNDS ON MAGNITUDE, SOURCE-TO-SITE DISTANCE AND SITE CONDITION IN PSHA-BASED GROUND MOTION SELECTION [PRESENTATION]

Karim Tarbali

Paper No. O-41:

RESPONSE ANALYSIS OF HYBRID DAMPING DEVICE WITH SELF-CENTRING [PRESENTATION]

Reza Kordani

Paper No. O-45:

TOWARDS A PERFORMANCE-BASED DESIGN OF PRECAST CONCRETE DIAPHRAGMS USING JOINTED DISSIPATIVE CONNECTORS: CONCEPT AND FEASIBILITY STUDY [PRESENTATION]

Romis Vides

12.05 – 12.20

Paper No. O-38:

RECENT SEISMIC HAZARD STUDIES IN SE ASIA, PACIFIC, AND USA [PRESENTATION]

Mark Stirling

Paper No. O-42:

REAL-TIME STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING OF REINFORCED CONCRETE FRAME STRUCTURE USING A HYSTERESIS LOOP METHOD [PRESENTATION]

Cong Zhou

Paper No. O-46:

BIAXIAL PSEUDODYNAMIC TESTS OF A POST-TENSIONED ROCKING COLUMN WITH EXTERNALLY MOUNTED ENERGY DISSIPATORS [PRESENTATION]

Ronald Gultom

12.20 – 12.35

Paper No. O-39:

GOING DOWN II: ESTIMATING CO-SEISMIC SUBSIDENCE IN THE HUTT VALLEY RESULTING FROM RUPTURE OF THE WELLINGTON FAULT [PRESENTATION]

Russ Van Dissen

Paper No. O-43:

EFFECT OF STRAIN-RATE AND MATERIAL CHARACTERISTICS ON THE SEISMIC RESIDUAL CAPACITY OF REINFORCED CONCRETE PLASTIC HINGES: NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION [PRESENTATION]

Alberto Cuevas

Paper No. O-47:

MITIGATING STRUCTURAL RESPONSE USING SEMI-ACTIVE VISCOUS DAMPERS TO RESHAPE STRUCTURAL HYSTERESIS [PRESENTATION]

Nikoo Khanmohammadi Hazaveh

12.35 – 12.50

Paper No. O-40:

SHAKEMAPNZ: INFORMING POST-EVENT DECISION MAKING [PRESENTATION]

Nick Horspool

Paper No. O-44:

EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF “THE HARDNESS METHOD” TO ESTIMATE THE RESIDUAL DUCTILITY OF PLASTICALLY DEFORMED STEEL REINFORCEMENT [PRESENTATION]

Giuseppe Loporcaro

Paper No. O-48:

AN EARTHQUAKE-RESISTANT BUILDING SYSTEM TO REDUCE FLOOR ACCELERATIONS [PRESENTATION]

Georgios Tsampras

Session 5 – Sunday 12 April 2015

5A: Risk and Society 1

Room: Bay Trust Forum

5B: Lifelines and Earthquake Response Plans

Room: Opus and Skellerup Room

5C: Geotechnical Engineering

Room: Works Infrastructure Room

09.30 – 09.45

Paper No. O-49:

TEMPORAL AND BUILDING USE IMPLICATIONS ON EARTHQUAKE RISK EVALUATION [PRESENTATION]

Andrew King

Paper No. O-53:

THE EFFECTS OF SOIL DENSITY ON THE RESPONSE OF A BRIDGE WITH SOIL-FOUNDATION-STRUCTURE-INTERACTION UNDER NEAR-FAULT EARTHQUAKE: EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION [PRESENTATION]

Darshan Pradhan

Paper No. O-57:

CRUSHING-INDUCED LIQUEFACTION CHARACTERISTICS OF PUMICE SAND [PRESENTATION]

Lifu Liu

09.45 – 10.00

Paper No. O-50:

GEM BUILDING TAXONOMY – AN OPEN GLOBAL BUILDING CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM [PRESENTATION]

Luke Allen

Paper No. O-54:

A COMPARISON OF OPERATIONAL MODAL PARAMETER IDENTIFICATION METHODS FOR A MULTI-SPAN CONCRETE MOTORWAY BRIDGE [PRESENTATION]

Gewei Chen

Paper No. O-58:

LARGE DEFORMATION PROPERTIES OF RECONSTITUTED CHRISTCHURCH SAND SUBJECTED TO UNDRAINED CYCLIC TORSIONAL SIMPLE SHEAR LOADINGS [PRESENTATION]

Gabriele Chiaro

10.00 – 10.15

Paper No. O-51:

HELPING CLIENTS VISUALISE SEISMIC RISK [PRESENTATION]

Neil Horsfield

Paper No. O-55:

POST-EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE PLANS FOR STATE HIGHWAYS IN THE WELLINGTON REGION [PRESENTATION]

Pathmanathan Brabhaharan

Paper No. O-59:

DEVELOPMENT OF DEEP VS PROFILES AND SITE PERIODS FOR THE CANTERBURY REGION [PRESENTATION]

Liam Wotherspoon

10.15 – 10.30

Paper No. O-52:

AFTERSHOCK COMMUNICATION DURING THE CANTERBURY EARTHQUAKES, NEW ZEALAND: IMPLICATIONS FOR RESPONSE AND RECOVERY IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT [PRESENTATION]

Julia Becker

Paper No. O-56:

DEFENDING NZ COMMUNITIES FROM EARTHQUAKES: OUTCOMES AND DISCUSSIONS FROM RECENT WORKSHOPS WITH EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING PRACTITIONERS/COMMUNITIES [PRESENTATION]

Richard Bentley

 

 

Paper No. O-60:

EFFECT OF EARTHQUAKE INDUCED INERTIA LOADS ON SHALLOW FOUNDATION BEARING STRENGTH [PRESENTATION]

Michael Pender

 

Session 6 – Sunday 12 April 2015

6A: Learning from Canterbury

Room: Opus & Skellerup Room

6B: Seismic Isolation 2

Room: Works Infrastructure Room

6C: Non Structural Elements

Room: Bay Trust Forum

12.00 – 12.15

Paper No. O-61:

BENEFIT-COST ANALYSIS FOR SEISMIC REHABILITATION OF UNREINFORCED MASONRY BUILDINGS IN VICTORIA, CANADA [PRESENTATION]

Brandon Paxton

Paper No. O-65:

A CASE STUDY FOR BASE ISOLATION DESIGN: SPARK DATA CENTRE FACILITY – AUCKLAND [PRESENTATION]

Sheri Javadian

Paper No. O-69:

PRAGMATIC APPROACHES TO IMPROVING THE SEISMIC RESILIENCE OF NON-STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS IN EXISTING BUILDINGS [PRESENTATION]

Matthew Lander

12.15 – 12.30

Paper No. O-62:

ENGAGING COMMUNITIES IN EARTHQUAKE RISK REDUCTION: LESSONS FROM THE 2010-2011 CANTERBURY EARTHQUAKES [PRESENTATION]

David Johnston

Paper No. O-66:

DESIGN APPROACH FOR THE SEISMICALLY ISOLATED POWDER DRYER FACTORY AT PAHIATUA [PRESENTATION]

Scott Blain

Paper No. O-70:

SEISMIC DESIGN OF INTERIOR OVERHEAD NON-STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS [PRESENTATION]

Geoff Banks

12.30 – 12.45

Paper No. O-63:

A GEOLOGY-BASED 3D SEISMIC VELOCITY MODEL OF CANTERBURY, NEW ZEALAND [PRESENTATION]

Robin Lee

Paper No. O-67:

MULTI-CRITERIA COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS FOR BASE ISOLATED BUILDINGS [PRESENTATION]

Giacomo Vinci (presented by Stefano Pampanin)

Paper No. O-71:

SHAKE TABLE TESTS OF PERIMETER-FIXED TYPE SUSPENDED CEILINGS [PRESENTATION]

Atefeh Pourali

12.45 – 13.00

Paper No. O-64:

BRIDGE-UTILITY SYSTEMS: LEARNINGS FROM THE CANTERBURY EARTHQUAKES (2010-11) [PRESENTATION]

Adnan Rais

Paper No. O-68:

CRITICAL COMPARISON OF DESIGN PROCEDURES AND ANALYSIS METHODS FOR BASE ISOLATED BUILDINGS [PRESENTATION]

Andrea Santoro (presented by Stefano Pampanin)

Paper No. O-72:

WINE INDUSTRY IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NZSEE GUIDANCE ON THE SEISMIC DESIGN OF LIQUID STORAGE TANKS [PRESENTATION]

Euving Au

 

 

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