Perth, WA
Session One – Chair: Paul Somerville
Keynote – Tuna Onur
Principal, Onur Seemann Consulting, Inc.; Adjunct Professor, University of Victoria, BC, Canada; Member, Standing Committee of Earthquake Design, National Building Code of Canada
Evolution of National Seismic Hazard Assessments and Seismic Provisions in Building Codes – the Canadian Experience
Dan Clark – Geoscience Australia, Canberra, Australia
What have we learnt regarding cratonic earthquakes in the fifty years since Meckering? (Paper 10)
James Daniell – Geophysical Institute & Center for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction Technology (CEDIM), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
The risk of wineries and their associated components to earthquake in Australia (Paper 11)
Mohsen Yazdanian – PhD student. Dept of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Flat-based wine tank buckling predictions using NZSEE recommendations and 2016 Kaikōura earthquake damage observations (Paper 41)
Poster Talks
Cvetan Sinadinovski – Global SeismiCS, Canberra, ACT, Australia
The 2001/02 Burakin and 1968 Meckering WA earthquakes (Paper 46)
Hyun Woo Jee – Graduate Student, Department of Architectural Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea
A model for simulating ground motions for the 2017 Pohang earthquake occurred in Korean peninsula (Paper 67)
Chang Seok Lee – Post-doctoral Student, Department of Architectural Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea
Seismic Retrofit of Old School Buildings Using Friction Dampers (Paper 68)
Jay Lee – Associate Director, Ground Engineering, AECOM, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Assessment of Impact of Earthquake Surface Fault Rupture on Buried Pipes Using Numerical Analysis (Paper 25)
Session Two – Chair: Nelson Lam
Nicholas Haritos – Managing Director, Strucomp Pty Ltd, Kew, Victoria, Australia
Teaching Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering – Meeting the Practical Work Challenge (Paper 55)
James Fooks – CEO, Eurofast Pty Ltd, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Seismic Performance of Non-Structural Components (Paper 53)
Javad Hashemi – Lecturer, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
Seismic Collapse Assessment of Concrete-Filled Steel Tube Columns through Multi-Axis Hybrid Simulation (Paper 4)
Peter Lalas – Principal Façade Engineer, Janus Facades Pty Ltd, Banksmeadow NSW, Australia
Curtainwalls; Seismic Experience, Design and Assessment (Paper 39)
Vic Dent – University Associate, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia; Hon. Research Associate, Institute of Agriculture, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia
A review of seismicity in the Norseman region of Western Australia, 1970 – 2018 (Paper 35)
Papua New Guinea Session
Hadi Ghasemi – Geoscience Australia, Canberra, Australia
A low-cost seismic network for Papua New Guinea (Paper 12)
Kevin McCue – Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
Aftershocks, Crustal Structure and Faulting in the Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea (Paper 43)
Cvetan Sinadinovski – Global SeismiCS, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Probing the crust under the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea (Paper 44)
Kevin McCue – Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
Monitoring Aftershocks in the Southern Highlands Papua New Guinea (Paper 45)
Session Three – Chair: Peter McBean
Keynote – Jason Ingham
Professor of Structural Engineering and Head of Department at the University of Auckland, New Zealand
Forecasting and reducing the earthquake risk of precincts of URM buildings
Michael Griffith – Professor, School of Civil, Environmental & Mining Engineering, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia
Seismic Upgrade of Heritage Masonry – A Case Study of St Peter’s Cathedral in Adelaide (Paper 60)
Jaroslav Vaculik – Research Associate, School of Civil, Environmental & Mining Engineering, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia
Seismic Assessment of unreinforced masonry buildings in a heritage-listed township (Paper 59)
Yiwei Hu – PhD Candidate, Department of Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia; Bushfire & Natural Hazard Cooperative Research Centre, Melbourne, Australia
Development of a Soil Site Ground Motion Database for Australian Seismic Structural Design (Paper 17)
Ahmad Dehghanpoor Sichani – School of Civil Engineering and Built Environment, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
The Influence of Vertical Ground Motions on Critical Damage Parameters in the Piles for Soil-Pile-Superstructure Systems
Ioannis Prionas – Director of Structural Engineering, Blue Barn Consulting Engineers, Auckland, New Zealand
Innovative dissipative (INERD) pin connections for seismic resistant braced frames – A state of the art and cost effective low damage technology (Paper 28)
Poster Talks
Vic Dent – University Associate, Curtin University, Perth, W.A.: Hon. Research Associate, Institute of Agriculture, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia
An earthquake cluster east of Wyalkatchem, Western Australia, in late 2017 (Paper 64)
Vic Dent – University Associate, Curtin University, Perth, W.A. Hon. Research Associate, Institute of Agriculture, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia
Clustered seismicity in southwest Australia, June 2012 – May 2013 (Paper 66)
Session Four – Chair: Michael Griffith
Keynote – Hong Hao
Professor of Structural Engineering, and Director of Centre for Infrastructure Monitoring and Protection, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia
Living Laboratory Project at Curtin University for Building Structural Condition Monitoring (Paper 49)
Scott Menegon – Research Fellow, Dept of Civil and Construction Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Structural Engineer, Wallbridge Gilbert Aztec, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Experimental Testing of Limited Ductile High-Strength Reinforced Concrete Columns under Bi-Directional Cyclic Actions (Paper 9)
Kaiming Bi – Senior Lecturer, Centre for Infrastructure Monitoring and Protection, School of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia
Seismic performance of precast segmental columns: shake table tests (Paper 3)
Pierre Quenneville – Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
A New Self-Centering Tension-Only Brace for Seismic Proofing of New and Existing Structures (Paper 20)
Scott Menegon – Research Fellow, Dept of Civil and Construction Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Structural Engineer, Wallbridge Gilbert Aztec, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Development of Simple and Transparent Non-Linear Analysis Methods for RC Walls (Paper 54)
Session Five – Chair: James Daniell
Keynote – Mark Edwards
Structural Engineer and Section Leader in the Community Safety Branch at Geoscience Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
Are We Ready for the next big shake? : Evidence to inform risk mitigation (Paper 47)
Paul Somerville – Principal Seismologist, AECOM, Los Angeles, California, United States
Impacts of Geoscience Australia’s NSHA18 on Seismic Hazard Assessments for Low Annual Probabilities in Australia (Paper 24)
Trevor Allen – Seismologist, Geoscience Australia, Symonston, ACT, Australia
Opportunities to enhance seismic demand parameters for future editions of the AS1170.4 (Paper 1)
Hing-Ho Tsang – Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
The Risk of Being Killed by Earthquakes in Melbourne: A Preliminary Study (Paper 63)
Mark Leonard – Leonard Seismic Consulting, Canberra, ACT, Australia
In defence of low hazard in stable continental regions: the likelihood of the 1991 seismic hazard map of Australia being correct (Paper 19)
Michael Griffith – Professor, School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia
Seismic Capacity of Heritage Masonry Buildings in Australia – A Progress Report (Paper 61)
Poster Talks
Vic Dent – Adjunct Research Fellow, CQUniversity, Rockhampton, Queensland; Lead Seismologist, Central Queensland Seismology Research Group (CQSRG), Queensland, Australia
Observations of the Bowen, Queensland ML5.7 Earthquake and its Ongoing Aftershock Sequence (Paper 56)
Vic Dent – University Associate, Curtin University, Perth, W.A.; Honorary Research Associate, The UWA Institute of Agriculture, UWA, Perth
Seismicity of the Quairading area, Western Australia, with special reference to an earthquake cluster in 1992 (Paper 36)
Majid Ali – Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Capital University of Science and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
Behaviour of interlocking plastic block structure under harmonic loading using locally developed low-cost shake table (Paper 51)
Majid Ali – Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Capital University of Science and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
Estimating seismic resistance of fibrous plastering effect on mortar less interlocked masonry walling with finite element modelling (Paper 22)
Session Six – Chair: Kevin McCue
Yuxiang Tang – Department of Infrastructural Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
A Review of GMPEs that Have Been Proposed for Use in South-eastern Australia by Comparison with MMI Data (Paper 15)
Adam Pascale – Chief Technology Officer. Seismology Research Centre, Richmond, Victoria, Australia
Velocity Sensor Mega Test: a Noise, Response, and Value Equation (Paper 18)
Majid Ali – Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Capital University of Science and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
Awareness of preparedness in institutional buildings of developing countries for a disaster (Paper 14)
Elisa Lumantarna – Department of Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia; Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre (BNHCRC), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Fragility Curves for Limited Ductile Reinforced Concrete Buildings (Paper 69)