2017 AEES Conference: Canberra

Session One – Chair: Peter McBean 

Keynote – Brendon Bradley, Professor of Earthquake Engineering, University of Canterbury, NZ. Deputy Director of QuakeCoRE: The NZ Centre for Earthquake Resilience

On-going Challenges in Physics-based Ground Motion Prediction and Insights from the 2010-2011 Canterbury and 2016 Kaikoura, New Zealand Earthquakes (Paper 406)

Trevor Allen – Leader of the National Seismic Hazard Assessment (NSHA) project, Geoscience Australia, Symonston, ACT, Australia

Testing the sensitivity of new Australian empirical magnitude conversion equations on seismic hazard analyses (Paper 419)

Ryan Hoult – Senior Tutor/The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Seismic Performance of Lightly Reinforced and Unconfined C-shaped Walls (Paper 398)

Tamarah King – PhD Candidate, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Near-source strong ground motions inferred from displaced geologic objects (Paper 460)

Baris Binici – Professor/Middle East Technical University, Turkey

Behaviour of AAC Infilled RC Frames under In Plane and Out of Plane Seismic Demands (Paper 417)

Poster Talks

Saim Raza – PhD Student/Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
Lateral Load-Drift Model for Normal and High-Strength Reinforced Concrete Columns (Paper 402)

Andrea Thom – Duty Seismologist/Geoscience Australia, ACT, Australia
Australian Earthquakes 2016 (Paper 409)

Gonzalo Barrios – PhD Student/The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Wave Propagation between Adjacent Structures (Paper 438)

Kevin McCue – Adjunct Professor/Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, QLD, Australia
Creating an Earthquake Catalogue for 1911; Local, National and World (Paper 447)

Vic Dent – University Associate/Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia
Earthquake clusters in southwest Australia seismic zone, June 2016 – May 2017 (Paper 458)

Session Two –- Chair: James Daniell

Paul Somerville – Principal Seismologist/AECOM

Conditions under which identified faults contribute significantly to seismic hazard in Australia (Paper 407)

Kaiming Bi – Senior Lecturer/Curtin University, Bentley, WA, Australia

Influence of column types on the seismic responses of bridge structures (Paper 411)

Baris Binici – Professor/Middle East Technical University, Turkey

Seismic Performance Evaluation of Concrete Gravity Dams by Using Pseudo Dynamic Testing and Simulations (Paper 416)

Dee Ninis – Earthquake Scientist/Seismology Research Centre

Upper plate deformation and its relationship to the underlying Hikurangi subduction interface, southern North Island, New Zealand (Paper 459)

Gonzalo Barrios Parga – PhD Student/The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Experimental Analysis of the Seismic Response of Cluster Structures (Paper 422)

Poster Talks

Vic Dent – University Associate/Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia
Investigation of an earthquake cluster near Corrigin, southwestern Australia, July 2017 (Paper 391)

Hugh Glanville – Geophysical Data Team Leader/Senior Duty Seismologist/Geoscience Australia, Symonston, ACT, Australia
Seismic Monitoring at Geoscience Australia (Paper 399)

Majid Ali – Associate Professor/Capital University of Science & Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
Seismic Risk Assessment of Residential RCC Buildings with Street Survey in Urban Areas of Developing Countries (Paper 423)

Majid Ali – Associate Professor/Capital University of Science & Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Brick Masonry Houses with Street Survey in Developing Countries (Paper 425)

Lisa-Mareike Ottenhaus – PhD Candidate/University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Ductility of large-scale dowelled CLT connections under monotonic and cyclic loading (Paper 405)

Dinner talk – Dan Clark, Geoscience Australia

Potential geologic sources of seismic hazard in Australia’s south-eastern highlands: what do we know? (Paper 420)

Session Three – Chair: Nelson Lam

Keynote – Trevor Allen – Leader of the National Seismic Hazard Assessment (NSHA) project, Geoscience Australia, Symonston, ACT, Australia

An updated national seismic assessment for Australia: Are we designing for the right earthquakes? (Paper 433)

Doug Jenkins – Interactive Design Services, Hornsby, NSW, Australia

Design for Extreme Events, Coping with Conflicting Demands; Limit States, Legislation and Black Swans (Paper 424)

Tim Mote – Associate Principal/Arup Sydney, NSW, Australia

Data Analytics Applied to Seismic Disaster Risk Reduction for Building Portfolios (Paper 442)

Jeffrey Chiang – Dean & Professor/SEGi University, Malaysia

Intricacies of addressing distant and local earthquakes in Malaysia in the official design standard EC8 Malaysia NA (Paper 400)

Ryan Hoult – Senior Tutor/The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

Seismic Assessment of the RC building stock of Melbourne from rare and very rare earthquake events (Paper 413)

Mehair Yacoubian – PhD Candidate/The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

Seismic Performance Assessment of Structural Walls Supporting Towers In Tall Buildings (Paper 457)

Jack Pappin – Arup Fellow/Arup Adelaide, SA, Australia

Arup NSHM- Australian National Seismic Hazard Model (Paper 443)

Poster Talks

Nawawi Chouw – Associate Professor/The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Dynamic response of interlocking structures due to harmonic ground motions (Paper 462)

Bruna Rocha – Master of Engineering Science Student/Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, WA, Australia
Sensitivity of the Strut Model for an RC Infill-Frame to the Variations in the Infill Material Properties (Paper 430)

Vic Dent – University Associate/Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia
A new interpretation of the seismicity of the Mukinbudin/Bonnie Rock area of Western Australia (Paper 448)

Rohit Tiwari – PhD Student/The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
Assessment of Displacement Demand for Earth Retaining Structures (Paper 453)

Chao Li – PhD Student/Curtin University, Bentley, WA, Australia
Experimental study of precast BFRP-wrapped segmental concrete columns with external ED device under eccentric cyclic loading (Paper 461)

Session Four –- Chair: John Wilson

Keynote – Michael Griffith – Professor-School of Civil, Environmental & Mining Engineering, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia

Seismic Performance Expectations for Australian Unreinforced Masonry Buildings (Paper 466)

Francisco Galvez – PhD Candidate/The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Discrete Element Modelling to Predict Failure Strength of Unreinforced Masonry Walls (Paper 440)

Mark Leonard – Senior Seismologist/Geoscience Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia

Using hazard curves to examine the sampling of epistemic uncertainty across the Australian continent (Paper 434)

Jonathan Griffin – Geophysical Hazards Modeller/Geoscience Australia, Symonston, ACT, Australia

Performance of national scale smoothed seismicity estimates of earthquake activity rates (Paper 408)

Sriskanthan Srisangeerthanan – PhD Student/Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

Influence of Diaphragm Flexibility on the Seismic Performance of Multi-Story Modular Buildings (Paper 465)

Session Five – Chair: Trevor Allen

Keynote – John Wilson – Professor, Pro-Vice Chancellor, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia

Comprehensive Experimental Testing Program of Limited Ductile Reinforced Concrete Walls (Paper 467)

Anita Amirsardari – PhD Candidate/The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

Seismic fragility curves for non-ductile RC Buildings including the response of gravity frames (Paper 455)

Cvetan Sinadinovski – Canberra, ACT

Synopsis of the Latest European Seismic Hazard Maps: Case Study from Central Italy – 2016 (Paper 445)

Gonzalo Barrios – PhD Candidate/The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Dynamic response of adjacent structures in earthquakes (Paper 437)

Scott Menegon – PhD Candidate/Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

Experimental testing of precast connections for jointed precast building cores (Paper 426)

Xiaoyu Zhang – PhD Candidate/Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

Effect of lateral load on the pile’s buckling instability in liquefied soil (Paper 410)

Poster Talks

Shivang Pathak – PhD Student/University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia
Energy Formulation for Seismic Collapse Assessment of RCC Structures: Improvements in Performance Design (Paper 415)

Majid Ali – Associate Professor/Capital University of Science & Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
Use of Pine-Needle Reinforced Composites in Kashmir, Pakistan – A Critical Review (Paper 450)

Mustafa Al-Mashaykhi – PhD Candidate/Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia & Faculty Member, Tikrit University, Iraq
Seismic Design Methods for Steel Concentric Braced Frame: State-of-the-art Review (Paper 454)

Session Six – Chair: Paul Somerville

Kevin McCue – Adjunct Professor/Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, QLD, Australia

Historical Earthquakes; The 1920s in South Australia (Paper 446)

Majid Ali – Associate Professor/Capital University of Science & Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

Earthquake Risk Assessment using PSHA in ArcGIS for developing countries – An easy and quick approach (Paper 451)

Yuxiang Tang – PhD Student/The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

A generic approach to ground motion predictions (Paper 456)

Alireza Mehdipanah – PhD Candidate/The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

Methods of Structural Analysis of Buildings Incorporating Higher Modes Effects (Paper 463)

Chao Li – PhD Student/Curtin University, Bentley, WA, Australia

Numerical study on the precast concrete filled steel tubular (CFST) segmental column under biaxial cyclic loadings (Paper 444)