AEES member Col Lynam recently shared an article published on the Queensland Building and Construction Commission blog that references the Australian Building Codes Board guidelines on the design of non-structural building elements for earthquake forces. This generated some discussion by AEES members, which can be viewed here on the AEES forum. This discussion group is…
Australians are well versed in the homegrown natural hazards that we encounter every year, from bushfires in summer to storms in winter, cyclones up north and flooding along our rivers. But we don’t often stop to consider the threat posed by tsunamis. Should we? Read the full article at The Conversation.
Earthquake engineering is getting a lot more exposure recently, with websites like Gizmodo reporting on research into testing light wooden frames for large buildings – traditionally a material only used in small residential buildings in the Western world. It’s nothing new, of course, and with the world’s tallest timber building already residing in Melbourne we…
Here is an interesting article from Queensland University of Technology about a structural health monitoring system embedded in one of its buildings. Buildings are typically noisy locations for seismic monitoring, but the recent earthquakes off Fraser Island were sufficiently large to be detected by this building monitoring system, although it should be noted that the earthquakes…