Thursday, 14 April 2011

8:00 – 8:30 Registration L0 Foyer

8:30 – 8:50 Conference Opening F&PPA

President Welcome 8:50 – 9:00 F&PPA Peter Wood, President of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering

Christchurch Earthquakes Summary I Session Chair: Peter Wood

Seismotectonics Kelvin Berryman, GNS Science Civil Defence John Hamilton, Ministry of Civil Defence Emergency Management 9:00 – 10:30 Urban Search and Rescue F&PPA David Brunsdon, Kestrel Group Ground Performance Misko Cubrinovski, University of Canterbury Structural Performance John Hare, Holmes Consulting Ltd. Heritage Building Matters Win Clark, New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering

10:30 – 10:50 Morning Tea

Christchurch Earthquakes Summary II Session Chair: David Middleton

Performance of Lifelines To be advised Earthquake Commission Hugh Cowan, EQC 10:50 – 12:20 F&PPA Rebuilding (Housing and Infrastructure) Mark Binns, Fletcher Building Limited Land Remediation Sjoerd Van Ballegooy, Tonkin & Taylor Limited Question and Answer Session

12:20 – 1:05 Lunch

Keynote Session Problems with Seismic Design Based on Elastic Stiffness 1: 05 – 1:45 Professor Nigel Priestley, Emeritus Professor of Structural Engineering at the University of California at San Diego F&PPA Session Chair: Stefano Pampanin

Christchurch Earthquake Forums Theme 1: Building Societal Resilience Theme 2: Understanding the Natural Environment Theme 3: Resilient Buildings and Infrastructure 1:50 – 3:20 Chair: David Johnston and Chair: Hannah Brackley and Chair: David Brunsdon and Ljubica Mamula-Seadon OGGB 3 Misko Cubrinovski OGGB 4 David Hopkins F&PPA

3:20 – 3:40 Afternoon Tea sponsored by GNS Science

Technical Streamed Session 1 1.1 - Seismic Loss and Risk Modelling 1.2 - Seismic Response of Non-Structural 1.3 - Advances in Experimentation Components Session Chair: David Middleton OGGB 3 Session Chair: Rajesh Dhakal OGGB 4 Session Chair: Jason Ingham F&PPA Engineering the Finance of Earthquake Risk Building Seismic Ceiling Fragility using Spectral Effects of Actuator Tuning on Pseudo-Dynamic Zafer Aslan, Ivan Damnjanovic and John B. Acceleration Tests Mander Jaspreet Singh, Gregory A. MacRae, Rajesh P. John O'Hagan and Quincy T. Ma Dhakal and S. Pampanin Economic Analysis of Structures Deficient in A Model-based Predictor-Corrector Algorithm for Earthquake Resilience Ceiling Fragility of Japanese Ceiling Systems Substructure Hybrid Test System George R. Walker and Rade Musulin Yasuaki Sato, Shojiro Motoyui, Gregory A. Tao Wang and Chun Cheng MacRae and Rajesh P. Dhakal Comparison of Main Shock and Aftershock Damage Assessment of Seismically-Excited 3:40 – 5:10 Fragility Curves Developed for New Zealand and Seismic Retrofit and Shaking Table Test of Buildings through Incomplete Measurements US Buildings Medical Equipment in a Hospital Ging-Long Lin, Chi-Chang Lin and Kun-Shu Hsieh S.R. Uma, Hyeuk Ryu, Nicolas Luco, Abbie B. Liel Juin-Fu Chai and Fan-Ru Lin and Meera Ragunandan Image-based Measurement Techniques for Design Recommendations for the Improvement of Earthquake Engineering Rapid Modelling of Direct and Indirect Losses for the Seismic Performance of Steel Storage Racks Yuan-Sen Yang, Chang-Wei Huang and Chiun-lin Seismically Damaged Structures Barry J. Davidson and Anthony P. McBride Wu Sandeep Ghorawat, John B. Mander and Ivan D. Damnjanovic A Revised Guide for the Design, Construction and Experimental Testing of Full-scale Timber Floor Operation of High Level Storage Racking Systems Diaphragms in Unreinforced Masonry Buildings Developing Fragilities for Main Shock-Damaged Following the Experience of the Darfield Aaron W. Wilson, Pierre J. H. Quenneville and Structures through Incremental Dynamic Analysis Earthquake Jason M. Ingham Hyeuk Ryu, Nicolas Luco, S.R. Uma and Abbie B. G J. Beattie and S R. Uma Liel The Role of Spandrels within Masonry Walls with Openings: An Experimental Investigation F. Parisi, N. Augenti and A. Prota

5:10 – 5:40 NZSEE Annual General Meeting F&PPA

5:40 – 9:30 Cocktail Function L0 Foyer Friday, 15 April 2011

8:00 – 8:15 Registration L0 Foyer

Keynote Session Chile 27 F: Lessons and Future Challenges 8:15 – 8:55 Ernesto Rios, Head of the Regulation Division of SVS, Chilean Insurance and Securities Authority F&PPA Session Chair: Hugh Cowan

Technical Streamed Session 2 2.1 - Self Centring System 2.2 - Concrete Structures I 2.3 - Post Earthquake Assessments Session Chair: Quincy Ma OGGB 3 Session Chair: Les Megget OGGB 4 Session Chair: Caroline Holden F&PPA Hysteresis Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Non- AIJ-Level 1 Seismic Screening of Some RC Modelling of Rigid Rocking of Structures during Ductile Beam-Column Joints Buildings Damaged by the 1990 Luzon Earthquake Using Linear Functions Piyali Sengupta and Bing Li Earthquake Peter Yu, Stefanie Gutschmidt and Gregory A. Andres Winston C. Oreta MacRae Shake Table Tests of Non-ductile As-built and Repaired RC Frames Post-Earthquake Physical Damage Assessment Recentering Requirement for the Seismic Design P. Quintana Gallo, U. Akguzel, S. Pampanin and for Gas Networks of Self-centring Systems A.J. Carr Simona Esposito, Sonia Giovinazzi and Lunio Richard Henry, Sri Sritharan and Jason Ingham Lervolino Seismic Behaviour of RC Columns with Light Development of the Self-Centering Sliding Hinge Transverse Reinforcement under Different The Dallington Cable and Foot Bridge: A Case Joint Loading Directions Study Example of Successful Engineering Hsen-Han Khoo, Charles Clifton, John 9:00 – 10:30 Bing Li and Thanh Phuong Pham Lifelines Mitigation Butterwort, C.D. Mathieson and Gregory A. John Mackenzie Macrae Application of Post-Installed Anchors for Seismic Retrofit of RC Beam-Column Joints: Design Darfield Earthquake 2010 Lateral Spreading NMIT Arts & Media Building - Damage Mitigation Method Actions on Dallington Pedestrian Bridge using Post-tensioned Timber walls Giovacchino Genesio, Rolf Eligehausen and M. Le Heux, A. Palermo and John R. Mackenzie Carl Devereux, Tony Holden, A.H. Buchanan and Stefano Pampanin S. Pampanin Case Studies of Observed Pounding Damage Effects of Bond Deterioration due to Corrosion in During the 2010 Darfield Earthquake Design of UFP-coupled Post-tensioned Timber Reinforced Concrete Gregory Cole, Rajesh Dhakal, Athol Carr and Shear Walls Anton Kivell, Alessandro Palermo and Allan Scott Des Bull Michael Newcombe, D. Marriott, W.Y. Kam, Stefano Pampanin and Andrew H. Buchanan The Effect of Reinforcement Strength on the Field Measurements of Lateral Spreading Overstrength Factor for Reinforced Concrete Following the 2010 Darfield Earthquake The Demountability, Relocation and Re-use of a Beams Kelly Robinson, Misko Cubrinovski, Patrick Kailey High Performance Timber Building Nicholas J Brooke and Jason M Ingham and Rolando Orense Tobias Smith, Ricky Wong, Micheal Newcombe, David Carradine, Stefano Pampanin andy Buchanan, R. Seville and E. McGregor

10:30 – 10:50 Morning Tea sponsored by BRANZ

10:50 – 12:20 Poster Session (Session Co-ordinator: Bruce Deam) Poster Viewing Area

12:20 – 1:05 Lunch

Keynote Session Performance-based Seismic Design in the United States 1:05 – 1:45 Dr. Robin McGuire, past director of EERI and a past president of the Seismological Society of America F&PPA Session Chair: Andrew King

Technical Streamed Session 3 3.1 - Advance Control Systems for Seismic 3.2 - Structural Engineering Innovations 3.3 - Observations from the Canterbury Protection Earthquakes I Session Chair: John Butterworth OGGB 3 Session Chair: Charles Clifton OGGB 4 Session Chair: Kelvin Berryman F&PPA A Full-Scale Experimental Study on Seismic Integrated Modelling of the Seismic Response a The Canterbury Accelerograph Network (CanNet) Behaviour of Vibration Isolated Multi-Storey Framed Structure Supported on Pile and some Results from the September 2010, Mechanical/Electrical Equipment Foundations M7.1 Darfield Earthquake Fan-Ru Lin, Ching-Wen Cheng, Min-Fu Chen, Liam Wotherspoon and Michael Pender John Berrill, Hamish Avery, Michael Dewe, Shiang-Jung Wang, J. S. Hwang and K. C. Andrew Chanerley, N. Alexander, Colin Dyer, Chang Effect of Construction Quality Variability on Caroline Holden and Bill Fry Seismic Fragility of Reinforced Concrete Building Upgrading the Seismic Performance of Soft First P. Rajeev and S. Tesfamariam Preliminary Source Model of the Mw 7.1 Darfield Story Frame Structures by Isolators with Multiple Earthquake from Geological, Geodetic and Sliding Surfaces The Continuous Column Concept - Development Seismic Data Muhannad Fakhouri and Akira Igarashi and Use C. Holden, J. Beavan, B. Fry, M. Reyners, J. Gregory A MacRae Ristau, R. Van Dissen, P. Villamor and M. Adaptive Control of Tall Buildings under Seismic Quigley Excitation Low Cost Lightweight Buckling Restrained Maryam Bitaraf and Stefan Hurlebaus Braces for Low Rise Buildings Surface Rupture Displacement on the Greendale Audsley Jones Fault during the Mw 7.1 Darfield (Canterbury) Development and Spectral Analysis of an 1:50 – 3:20 Earthquake, New Zealand and its Impact on Advanced Control Law for Semi-Active Resetable Lateral-Resisting Systems Capable of Multiple Seismic Performances Man-Made Structures Devices R. Van Dissen, D. Barrell, N. Litchfield, P. J. Geoffrey Chase, Geoffrey W. Rodgers, Sylvain T. Trombetti, S. Silvestri, G. Gasparini and I. Ricci Villamor, M. Quigley, A. King, K. Furlong, J. Corman and Gregory A. MacRae Begg, D. Townsend, H. Mackenzie, T. Stahl, D. Active Valve Control for Controlled Energy Experimental Investigation on the In-plane Noble, B. Duffy, E. Bilderback, J. Claridge, A. Release in Non-Linear Semi-Active Devices Behaviour of Non-ductile RC Walls Klahn, R. Jongens, S. Cox, R. Langridge, W. Sylvain Corman, J. Geoffrey Chase, Gregory A. A.S. Gebreyohaness, G.C. Clifton and J.W. Ries, R. Dhakal, A. Smith, S. Hornblow, R. Nicol, MacRae and Geoffrey W. Rodgers Butterworth K. Pedley, H. Henham, R. Hunter, A. Zajac and T. Mote Seismic Control of Nonlinear Benchmark Building Geological Engineering Study of Liquefaction with a Novel Re-centering Variable Friction after the 2010 Darfield Earthquake in an Area of Device Complex Fluvial Geology Osman E. Ozbulut and Stefan Hurlebaus S. Ward, M. Brown, I. Brown and T. Larkin Preliminary Assessment of Liquefaction in Urban Areas Following the 2010 Darfield Earthquake Merrick Taylor and Misko Cubrinovski Observation and Characterisation of Land Damage Due to Liquefaction and Lateral Spreading M. Jacka and K. Murahidy

3:20 – 3:40 Afternoon Tea

Technical Streamed Session 4 4.1 - Special Session: New Perspectives in 4.2 - Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering 4.3 - Observations from the Canterbury Seismic Hazard Earthquakes II Session Chair: Mark Stirling and Matthew Session Chair: Liam Wotherspoon OGGB 4 Session Chair: Carl Ashby F&PPA Gerstenberger OGGB 3

Precis of the New National Seismic Hazard Effects of Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction on The Canterbury Earthquake: a Consultant’s Model for New Zealand Performance Level of Moment Resisting Response Mark Stirling, Graeme McVerry, Matthew Buildings Resting on Different Types of Soil Simon Robertson, Will Parker and Sheryl Keenan Gerstenberger, Nicola Litchfield, Russ Van Hamid Reza Tabatabaiefar, Behzad Fatahi and Dissen, Phil Barnes, Kelvin Berryman, Laura Bijan Samali Lessons Learnt from the Darfield Earthquake: A Wallace, Pilar Villamor, Robert Langridge andy Bridge Consultants Perspective Nicol, Martin Reyners, David Rhoades, Warwick Lateral Loading Test on Spread Foundation in an Anthony Rooke and Michael Cowan Existing Reinforced Concrete School Building Smith, Kate Clark, Philip Barnes, Geoffroy Performance of Masonry Buildings in the Lamarche, Scott Nodder, Brendon Bradley, Jarg Toshikazu Kabeyasawa and Toshimi Kabeyasawa Christchurch Earthquakes Pettinga and Katrina Jacobs Jason Ingham, Lisa Moon and Jocelyn Dickie Undrained Cyclic Shear Behaviour of Partially Development of Ground Motion Time Histories Performance of Reinforced Concrete Multi-Storey for Seismic Design Saturated Decomposed Granite Soil Rolando Orense, Masayuki Hyodo and Norimasa Buildings to the Darfield Earthquake P. Somerville & H. Thio Bruce Galloway, John Hare and Des Bull 3:40 – 5:25 Yoshimoto Designing and Implementing a Fault Avoidance Estimation of Steady State of Sands Containing Considerations on the Seismic Performance of Zone Strategy for the Alpine Fault in the West pre-1970s RC Buildings in the Christchurch CBD Coast Region Crushable Materials Yasuyo Hosono and Mitsutoshi Yoshimine during the 4th Sept 2010 Canterbury Earthquake: Robert Langridge, Mary Trayes and Will Ries Was That Really a Big One? Stefano Pampanin, Ground-Motion Based Tests of the New Zealand Snap-back Testing for Estimation of Nonlinear W. Kam, A. Tasligedik, P. Quintana Gallo and U. National Seismic Hazard Model Behaviour of Shallow and Pile Foundations Akguzel Matt Gerstenberger and Mark Stirling Michael Pender, Thomas Algie, Norazzlina M.Sa'Don, Rolando Orense and Liam The Performance of Residential Houses in the Quantifying the Effect of Declustering on Wotherspoon Darfield Earthquake of 4 September 2010 Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment G. Beattie, R. Shelton, S. Thurston and A. Liu Implications of Soil Variability for Performance Annemarie Christophersen, Matt Gerstenberger, The Performance of the Telecommunication David Rhoades and Mark Stirling Based Shallow Foundation Design Jeremy Toh, Michael Pender and Rory McCully Network in the Darfield Earthquake: a Success Development of the Next Generation Australian Story National Earthquake Hazard Map Recommendations for the Calibration of Robert Davey and Colin Foster Nonlinear and Equivalent Linear Ground Trevor Allen, David Burbidge, Dan Clark, Andrew McPherson, Clive Collins and Mark Leonard Response Analyses for Soft and Liquefiable Sites Eng Sew Aw, Marc Ryan, Kevin Burlingham, Zhi- A Methodology for Probabilistic Assessment of Liang Wang, John Egan and Annmarie Behan Building Collapse Risk Nicolas Luco, Matthew Gerstenberger, S. Uma Hyeuk Ryu, Abbie Liel and Meera Raghunandan

Conference Banquet Pullman Hotel 6:30 – 11:00 (Venue opens at 6:00pm) Princes Ballroom BC

Saturday, 16 April 2011

8:00 – 8:15 Registration L0 Foyer

Keynote Session Human Casualties in Earthquakes: Modelling and Mitigation 8:15 – 8:55 Professor Robin Spence, Emeritus Professor of Architectural Engineering Cambridge University F&PPA Session Chair: Peter Wood

Technical Streamed Session 5 5.1 - Social Scientific Perspectives 5.2 - Concrete Structures II 5.3 - Lessons from Recent Earthquakes Session Chair: Luke Allen OGGB 3 Session Chair: Alessandro Palermo OGGB 4 Session Chair: Jitendra Bothara F&PPA Feasibility of High-Rise Buildings with PRESSS- The Performance of Lifeline Utilities following the Disaster Recovery Funding Mechanisms: a Technology 27th February 2010 Maule Earthquake Demolition and Debris Management Perspective Michele Palmieri and Stefano Pampanin Noel Evans and Craig McGhie Charlotte Brown, Mark Milke and Erica Seville Tests and Analysis on Flexural Deformability of Observed effects of the 4th September 2010 Exploring the Elements of an Effective Recovery Reinforced Concrete Columns with Wing Walls Darfield Earthquake on Modern and Historic Process Toshimi Kabeyasawa, Yousok Kim, Mitsuharu Earth Buildings David Johnston, Julia Becker, Douglas Paton, Sato, Hwang Hyunseong and Yoji Hosokawa Hugh Morris, Richard Walker and Thijs Michele Daly, Maureen Coomer, Graham Drupsteen Leonard, Wendy Saunders, Levi Timar, Kim Drift Capacity of Lightly Reinforced Soft Storey Wright, Bruce Glavovic, Emma Doyle, Miriam Structures Seismic Assessment of the R/C buildings: the Hughes, Ros Houghton, Sarb Johal, Susan Jolly, A. Wibowo, J.L. Wilson, E.F. Gad, N.T.K. Lam case study of Di.Coma.C Centre after L’ Aquila 9:00 – 10:30 Ian de Terte, Chris Raine, Ruth Tarrant, Robyn and P. Collier (Italy) 2009 Seismic Sequence Tuohy, Steve Glassey, Shane Cronin, Lesley F. C. Ponzo, A. Mossucca, A. Di Cesare, D. Patterson, Robin Peace, Heather, Taylor, Kevin Seismic Retrofit of Masonry Buildings with Nigro, M. Dolce and C. Moroni Ronan, Kathy Stuart and Tom Wilson Polymer Grid Alberto Dusi, Elena Manzoni, Marco Mezzi and Post earthquake field mission to Haiti Community Resilience, Latent Resources and Gordon Stevens Gopal Madabhushi, Edmund Booth and Keiko Resource Scarcity After an Earthquake: Is Saito Society Really Three Meals Away from Anarchy? Shake Table Test of a Three-Span Bridge Model J. Thomas, K. Mora, S. Murray, D. Walton and V. Hao Sun, Bo Li, Nawawi Chouw and John Soil Liquefaction during the 2010 Darfield and Dravitzki Butterworth 1990 Luzon Earthquakes: A Comparative Study Rolando P Orense Variations in Pedestrian Traffic Count in Christchurch due to the September 2010 Darfield Building Evaluation Processes Following the (Canterbury) Earthquake Darfield Earthquake A.J.M. Harding and F.I. Powell H. John Hare and Bruce D. Galloway Impacts of the Property Investment Market on Seismic Retrofit Decisions T.K. Egbelakin, S. Wilkinson and P. Nahies

10:30 – 10:50 Morning Tea

Technical Streamed Session 6 6.1 - Bridge Engineering 6.2 - Special Session: Advances in Seismic Retrofit of Reinforced Concrete Buildings Session Chair: Graeme Beattie OGGB 3 Session Chair: Stefano Pampanin and W.Y. Kam F&PPA Performance Based Retrofit Strategies and Solutions for pre-1970s Bridge Structure Impact Modelling Reinforced Concrete Buildings: an overview of latest developments Gregoire Labrosse andrej Kujikis, Geoff Chase, Gergory Cole, Gregory S. Pampanin, W.Y. Kam, U. Akguzel, MacRae and Geoff Rodgers Recent Tests on Seismically Damaged Reinforced Concrete Beam-Column Seismic Pounding of Bridge Super Structures at Expansion Joints Joints Repaired Using Fiber-Reinforced Polymers Blair Lindsay, Bo Li, Nawawi Chouw and John Butterworth Bing Li and Tso-Chien Pan Dynamic Stability and Design of Cantilever Bridge Columns Displacement-based seismic retrofit design for non-ductile RC frame 10:50 – 12:20 Trevor Yeow, Gregory MacRae, Vinod Sadashiva and Kazuhiko structures using local retrofit interventions at beam-column joints Kawashima W.Y. Kam and S. Pampanin Design of Linkage Bolts for Restraining Bridge Spans in Earthquakes An Update of Innovative Retrofitting Techniques for R/C and Masonry John Wood and Howard Chapman Buildings: From Experimental Investigations to Practical Applications Retrofit to Improve the Earthquake Performance of Bridge Abutment Slopes Felice C. Ponzo, Antonio Di Cesare, Domenico Nigro and Mauro Dolce P. Brabhaharan, J. Duxfield, S. Arumugam and G. Gregg Seismic Strengthening of a Non-ductile RC Frame Structure Using GFRP Forced Vibration Testing of In-situ Bridge Span to Determine Effects of Soil- Sheets Structure Interaction U. Akguzel, P. Quintana Gallo, S. Pampanin Lucas Hogan, Liam Wotherspoon, Sherif Beskhyroun and Jason Ingham Seismic Retrofit of St. Joseph Hospital Using Advanced Composite Materials for the Enhancement of Columns, Slabs, Walls and Beam Elements S. Arnold, M. Chiewanichakorn, L. Toranza

12:20 – 1:05 Lunch

Keynote Session The AISC 2010 Seismic Provisions for Composite Structures: Towards an Application of PBD Principles for Connection 1:05 – 1:45 Design F&PPA Professor Roberto Leon, Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology Session Chair: Alessandro Palermo

Technical Streamed Session 7 7.1 - Recent Projects 7.2 - Engineering Seismology Session Chair: Pathmanathan Brabhaharan OGGB 4 Session Chair: John Berrill F&PPA Timber Piles to Mitigate Liquefaction and Lateral Spreading, Aotea Quay Comparison of Attenuation Characteristics Between the Data from Two Wellington Distant Regions: New Zealand and Japan Richard Cole John X. Zhao and Matt C. Gerstenberger Auckland Art Gallery a Celebration of the New and Old A Procedure for Interactively Processing Digital Acceleration Records to Stuart Oliver and Chris Mackenzie Extract Permanent Displacement and a Comparison with GPS Data from 1:50 – 3:10 the 2010 Darfield Earthquake Studies on the Material Properties of the Aurora Tavern, Auckland John X. Zhao, John Beavan, X.W. An, X.D. Yang and T.S. Song Ronald Lumantarna, Dmytro Dizhur, Peter Liu and Jason Ingham Site-effect Terms as Continuous Functions of Site-period and Vs30 Seismic Strengthening of the Synchronous Condenser Transformer Graeme H. McVerry Building at Haywards Kate Grinlinton, David Wood, Francis Ayan and Philip Clayton NZS1170.5:2004 Site Subsoil Classification of Wellington City Stephen Semmens, Nick Perrin, Grant Dellow, Russ Van Dissen SH2 Westshore Bridge Seismic Retrofit Peter McCarten, Ah Seng Chew and N. Lloyd Modelling Strong Ground Motions for Subduction Events in the Wellington Region, New Zealand. Retrofit Options for Residential House Foundations to Resist Earthquakes Caroline Holden and John Zhao Geoff Thomas and Kevin McGowan

3:20 – 3:40 Afternoon Tea

3:40 – 4:00 Conference Closure F&PPA

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