2019

Newcastle, NSW

Session One – Chair: Peter McBean


Keynote – DAVE BRUNSDON

Director, Kestrel Group, New Zealand

DES BULL

Technical Director, Holmes Consulting LP, New Zealand

Reflections on Thirty Years of Significant Earthquakes in Australasia and Beyond: Earthquake Engineering into the Future (Paper 65)


Ryan Hoult – Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Experimental Tests of Thin RC U-shaped Walls with a Single Layer of Reinforcement (Paper 30)

Bin Xing – PhD Candidate-Melb University, Victoria, Australia

Prioritisation strategy for seismic retrofitting of reinforced concrete buildings in Australia
(Paper 21)

Scott Menegon – Research Fellow, Department of Civil and Construction Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology; and Senior Structural Engineer, Wallbridge Gilbert Aztec, VIC, Australia

Proposed Confinement Rules for the Seismic Design of Limited Ductile RC Walls (Paper 1)

Elisa Lumantarna – Department of Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne; and Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre (BNHCRC), VIC, Australia

Predicting Maximum Displacement Demand of Asymmetric Reinforced Concrete Buildings (Paper 43)

2.40pm Mahdi Gharib – Senior Structural Analyst/Engineer, Taylor Thomson Whitting, NSW, Australia

On the adjustment of the stress-based criterion in AS3600 for the requirement of confined boundary elements in reinforced concrete walls with low to moderate ductility (Paper 18)

Poster Talks

Mina Mortazavi – Lecturer, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, NSW
Seismic restraints for non-structural components in Australian marketplace: prefabricated solutions (Paper 34)

Yu Nie – School of Civil, Environmental & Mining Engineering, University of Adelaide, South Australia
The application of mixed-mode de-cohesion criteria in masonry finite element analysis (Paper 60)

Ram Singh – Senior Structural Advisor, Public Works Advisory, NSW; and Member Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) taskforce TF2
Seismic risk management of NSW Education’s buildings including heritage buildings (Paper 13)

Vidal Paton-Cole – Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne, VIC
Rocking response of non-structural free-standing components (Paper 6)

Jordan Bartlett – Product Risk Consultant, Proactive Design, Australia
Non-structural elements: structural provisions and a holistic approach (Paper 68)

David Beale – Industrial & Hydropower Engineer, Industrial Designer, NSW, Australia
Environmentally Sensitive Electricity Infrastructure and the 1989 Newcastle Earthquake (Paper 36)


Session Two – Chair: James Daniell

Matt Chesnais – A/Executive Manager, Hazard and Risk Unit, Community Resilience and Risk Mitigation, Emergency Management and Community Capability, Queensland Fire and Emergency Services, QLD, Australia

The State Earthquake Risk Assessment 2019 – Contextualising the National Seismic Hazard Assessment 2018 for the Emergency Management Sector in Queensland and New South Wales (Paper 20)

Trevor Allen – Positioning and Community Safety Division, Geoscience Australia, ACT, Australia

Real-Time Community Internet Intensity Maps and ShakeMaps for Australian Earthquakes (Paper 29)

Kevin McCue – Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, QLD, Australia

Response Spectra for Selected Papua New Guinea Accelerograph Records (Paper 16)

Paul Somerville – AECOM, USA

Probabilistic fault displacement hazard analysis for dams in Australia (Paper 19)

Hing-Ho Tsang – Swinburne University of Technology, VIC, Australia; and Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre

How Safe is Safe Enough? Melbourne Case Study (Paper 66)

Raneem Alazem – PhD Candidate, Dept of Infrastructure Engineering, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Development of Cost-effective Mitigation Strategy for Limited Ductile Reinforced Concrete Buildings (Paper 55)

John Mullard – Principal Engineer, Lindsay Dynan Consulting Engineers, Newcastle, NSW, Australia

Dynamic Analysis of Mine Blasting Using the Spectral Response Analysis Methods of AS1170.4 (Paper 24)

Poster Talks

Hugh Glanville – Geoscience Australia, ACT, Australia
Seismic monitoring of CSG regions in NSW (Paper 11)

Luke Johnstone – Engineering Geologist, Transport and Resources, Arup, NSW, Australia
Seismic and Geohazard Assessment for a Pumped Hydroelectric Scheme in South Australia (Paper 28)

David Love – Seismological Association of Australia, Adelaide, South Australia
Possible clustering in space and time of aftershocks of the ML 5.7 Lake Muir earthquake, southwest Australia, 16 September 2018 (Paper 64)

David Love – Seismological Association of Australia, Adelaide, South Australia
Seismicity in 2019 in the Great Southern region of Western Australia (Paper 69)

Kevin McCue – Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, QLD, Australia
The Last of the Great Earthquakes of 1906 – Finisterre Ranges New Guinea (Paper 17)

Kevin McCue – Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, QLD, Australia
Geotomography Trials on the Edge of the Australian and European Plates (Paper 12)


Session Three – Chair: Mike Griffith

Uchenna Maduh – PhD Student, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Auckland, New Zealand

In-plane testing of URM Wall Panels Retrofitted using Timber Strong-Backs (Paper 49)

Mark Edwards – Geoscience Australia, ACT, Australia; and Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre

Modelling the vulnerability of old URM buildings and the benefit of retrofit (Paper 2)

Ioannis Prionas – Director of Structural Engineering, Blue Barn Consulting Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand

Low Damage Seismic Retrofit of a Heritage URM Building in Wellington, NZ (Paper 39)

Jerry Vaculik – Research Associate, School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering, University of Adelaide, South Australia

Out-of-plane fragility of URM parts and components based on time-history analysis—comparison to simplified force-based assessment approaches (Paper 62)

Chris Burton –School of Civil, Environmental & Mining Engineering, University of Adelaide, South Australia

Pull out capacity of chemical and mechanical anchors in clay masonry under quasi-static, cyclic and impact loading (Paper 63)

Dmytro Dizhur – Senior Research Fellow, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Auckland, New Zealand

URM cavity walls: Simple and experimentally proof-tested retrofit (Paper 40)

Arash Nazari Rad – Head of Engineering, Eurofast Pty Ltd, NSW, Australia

Adequacy of Australian Standards for Non-Structural Component systems (Paper 52)

Poster Talks

Orod Zarrin – Centre for Infrastructure Performance and Reliability, The University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia
The Seismic Evaluation of Pile Behaviour in liquefiable and non-liquefiable Soil (Paper 45)

Geoff Rodgers – QuakeCoRE: NZ Centre for Earthquake Resilience; and Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Influence of Damper Sub-System Stiffness on the Structural Performance of a System Equipped with a Viscous Damper (Paper 35)

Wenzhi Zheng – PhD Student, Key Laboratory of C & PC Structures of Ministry of Education, Southeast University, Nanjing, China; and Centre for Infrastructure Monitoring and Protection, School of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia
Case study on using the sliding-LRB system with SMA devices for seismic protection of continuous bridges (Paper 61) 


Session Four – Chair: Bill Jordan


Keynote – ROBERT MELCHERS

Professor, Centre for Infrastructure Performance and Reliability, The University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia

The Newcastle Workers Club in retrospect – what can we still learn? (Paper 71)


Adrian Page – Emeritus Professor, Centre for Infrastructure Performance and Reliability, School of Engineering, The University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia

The Newcastle Earthquake and the Masonry Structures Code AS3700 (Paper 53)


Session Five – Chair: Trevor Allen


Keynote – JAMES DANIELL

Geophysical Institute & Centre for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction Technology (CEDIM), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany

Post-disaster socioeconomic earthquake loss modelling and evaluation: the challenges, implementation and future needs for Australia and beyond (Paper 56)


Yiwei Hu – PhD Candidate, Department of Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia; and Bushfire and Natural Hazard Cooperative Research Centre, VIC, Australia

Ground Motion Accelerograms for Nonlinear Time History Analysis in Low-to-Moderate Seismicity Regions (Paper 26)

Hyeuk Ryu – Geoscience Australia, ACT, Australia

Earthquake Management Logistics for York, WA, Pre and Post Mitigation (Paper 70)

Maruf Rahman – Geoscience Australia, ACT, Australia

Key elements for effective study of seismic vulnerabilities of lifeline infrastructure to develop informed mitigation strategies: trust, collaboration, and a generalised infrastructure model (Paper 5)

Dan Clark – Positioning and Community Safety Division, Geoscience Australia, ACT, Australia

The 2018 Lake Muir earthquake sequence, southwest Western Australia: rethinking the relationship between magnitude and surface rupture length for Australian stable continental region earthquakes (Paper 14)

Kevin McCue – Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, QLD, Australia

A Comparison of Earthquake Hazard Modelled Results (Paper 31)


Session Six – Chair: Nelson Lam

Hong Hao – John Curtain Distinguished Professor, School of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Curtin University, Western Australia

Performance of Dry Exterior Beam-Column Joints Using CFRP Bolts and SFRC under Cyclic Loading (Paper 8)

Lisa Imperatori – Master Student, Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

Modelling reinforced concrete coupling beams designed for low-to-moderate seismic regions (Paper 48)

Rohit Tiwari – Ph.D. Student, Department of Infrastructure Engineering, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Displacement Based Estimate of Seismic Actions on Retaining Walls and Bridge Abutments (Paper 51)

Omar El-Hawat – PhD Candidate in Structural, Geotechnical and Earthquake Engineering, School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, NSW, Australia

The effectiveness of Restrainers on the Seismic Performance of Bridges with Rocking Foundations (Paper 47)

Yuanzheng Lin – PhD Student, School of Civil Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China; and Centre for Infrastructure Monitoring and Protection, School of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia

Shake table tests of a steel-concrete composite rigid-frame bridge subjected to a surface fault rupture (Paper 25)

Kaiming Bi – Senior Lecturer, Centre for Infrastructure Monitoring and Protection, School of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia

Development of a novel deformation-amplified shape memory alloy-friction damper for mitigation of seismic effects on buildings (Paper 27)

Saim Raza – PhD Student, Department of Civil and Construction Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology, VIC, Australia

Influence of Loading History on the Drift Capacity of Limited Ductile Reinforced ConcreteColumns (Paper 54)

Mohamed Mafas – PhD student, Department of Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Safety of Modular Buildings in Seismic Conditions (Paper 33)