Special Issue of the Electronic Journal of Structural Engineering

Electronic Journal of Structural Engineering (EJSE)

2008 Special Issue: Earthquake Engineering in the low and moderate seismic regions of Southeast Asia and Australia

Forward, C. F. Lee

Editorial, NTK, Lam 1

Guest Editor’s Opening, RKL, Su 2-5

Part I Seismic hazard and design ground motion

The New Response Spectrum Model for Australia, Lam NTK & Wilson JL 6-24

Development of the New Australian Earthquake Loading Standard, Wilson JL, Lam NTK & Pham L 25-31

A review of the Current Vietnamese Earthquake Design Code, Ngo TD, Nguyen MD & Nguyen DB 32-41

Seismic Hazard of Hong Kong, Pappin JW, Koo RCH, Free MW & Tsang HH 42-56

Seismic Hazard of Singapore and Malaysia, Balendra T & Li Z 57-63

Evaluation of Site Effects in Hong Kong, Pappin JW, Koo RCH, Free MW & Tsang HH 64-76 Challenges of Low-to-Moderate Seismicity in India, Murty CVR & Malik Javed N 77-87

Part II Seismic effects on buildings and structures in low-to-moderate seismicity regions

An Overview of Research at HKU on HSRC Columns and Beam-Column Joints for Low- Medium Seismic-Risked Regions, Pam HJ, Ho JCM & Li J 88-98

Seismic Behaviour of Buildings with Transfer Structures in low-to-moderate Sesimicity Regions, Su RKL 99-109

Seismic Drift Demand and Capacity of Non-seismically Designed Concrete Buildings in Hong Kong, Su RKL, Lam NTK & Tsang HH 110-120

Overturning of Non-structural Components in Low-moderate Seismicity Regions, Lam NTK & Emad Gad 121-132

Seismic Design of Bridges for Prevention of Girder Pounding, Hao H and Chouw N 133-141 Appendix A (Presentation): The Sichuan Earthquake: structural engineering perspectives, Appendix A RKL, Su 1-40

Appendix B (Report): A report on the visit to the region stricken by the Wenchuan Appendix B Earthquake, Kafle B, Mohyeddin-Kermani A and Wibowo A 1-31