2019: Recent submissions
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Community science as a tool for increased disaster resilience
(2019)The research explores how community science can be used as a tool for building resilience to disaster events. It presents a framework for hazard scientists and practitioners to use if they want to build more citizen ... -
Strong Ground Motions Simulations for Dunedin: recent progress
(2019)We present our on-going QuakeCoRE-funded work on strong motion seismology for Dunedin–Mosgiel area, focusing on ground motion simulations for the Dunedin Central Business District (CBD). Source modelling and ground motion ... -
CONSPICUOUS INVISIBILITY in Disaster Risk Reduction
(2019)Background: People with very high body mass (extreme obesity) have been left behind in disasters (Gray, 2017). However, disaster risk reduction (DRR) considerations are not visible in literature to understand risk, adaptive ... -
Trust to new seismic-proofing technologies: The influential factors
(2019)Earthquakes cause serious damages to the economy of the impacted regions. Many new methods and technologies have been introduced into the construction industry with the aim of reducing the consequences of earthquake damages ... -
A Value Case for Seismic Isolation of Residential Buildings
(2019)Seismic isolation is an effective technology for significantly reducing damage to buildings and building contents. However, its application to light-frame wood buildings has so far been unable to overcome cost and technical ... -
The Equivalent Ductility approach for designing the structures using Resilient Slip Friction Joints (RSFJs)
(2019)The innovative Resilient Slip Friction Joint (RSFJ) technology has recently been developed and introduced to the New Zealand construction industry. The RSFJ is a friction-based energy dissipation device that provides the ... -
Hybrid Broadband Ground Motion Simulation Validation of New Zealand Earthquakes with an Updated 3D Velocity Model and Modified Simulation Methodology
(2019)Over the past 30 years there has been significant research to advance physics-based ground motion simulations via improvement of the simulation methodologies, and refinement of earthquake source, crustal velocity, and site ... -
The Effectiveness of Retrofit Technologies in Wooden-Framed Houses in Wellington
(2019)New Zealand has a long tradition of using light timber frame for construction of its domestic dwellings. After the most recent earthquakes (e.g. Canterbury earthquakes sequence), wooden residential houses showed satisfactory ... -
Quantifying the seismic risk for electric power distribution systems
(2019)Electric power distribution systems are generally more prone to disruption from natural hazards than transmission systems due to their often less redundant circuit structures. However, seismic risk analysis for distribution ... -
Capturing impacts, experiences, and behaviour during disaster: An online participation and crowdsourcing approach for resilience
(2019)Developing a holistic understanding of social, cultural, and economic impacts of disasters can help in building disaster risk knowledge for policy making and planning. Many methods can help in developing an understanding ... -
Conceptualising a disaster app: consolidating public alerting authorities’ social media and broadcast messages
(2019)Multiple agencies in New Zealand are mandated to warn the public of risks, hazards, or emergencies. The agencies have a plethora of public alerting options; including the capability to deliver alerts to the public through ... -
Smart Resilient Cities
(2019)Emerging technology and data processing tools are transforming the cities we live in, and the way we live in them. Understanding the confluence of trends and evolving relationship between people, systems and data is key ... -
Numerical Seismic Performance Assessment of Precast Pre-stressed Hollow-core Concrete Floors
(2019)Precast pre-stressed hollow-core (PPHC) floors have been historically designed and constructed in ways that jeopardize their seismic performance. Particularly, early use of PPHC floors in ductile frames had support connections ... -
Creating a Tool for Rapid Holistic Assessment and Rating of Post-Earthquake Hospital Functional
(2019)Hospitals play a critical role in ensuring community safety. It is imperative that they remain operational during and after an earthquake, to provide immediate and ongoing medical care. However, experience shows frequent ... -
Seismic Response of an Instrumented Reinforced Concrete Bridge Subjected to Varying Excitation Levels
(2019)The Awatere River Bridge, located in the north-eastern region of the South Island of New Zealand, has experienced a number of earthquakes since its construction in 2007. This includes the Cook Strait earthquake sequence ... -
To cordon or not to cordon: The inherent complexities of post-earthquake cordons learned from New Zealand Experiences
(2019)The use of post-earthquake cordons as a tool to support emergency managers after an event has been documented around the world. However, there is limited research that attempts to understand the use, effectiveness, inherent ... -
Risk judgments and social norms: Do they relate to preparedness after the Kaikoura earthquakes
(2019)Research has shown that preparation for natural hazard events reflects several factors including risk judgments and the cost of the actions. Research has also shown the effects of norms in other domains but very little ... -
Governing community resilience: Interconnections between community resilience, well-being and capitals.
(2019)The lived reality of the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquakes and its implications for the Waimakariri District, a small but rapidly growing district (third tier of government in New Zealand) north of Christchurch, can illustrate ... -
Ground motion simulation validation with explicit uncertainty incorporation for small magnitude earthquakes in the Canterbury region
(2019)This study explicitly investigates uncertainties in physics-based ground motion simulation validation for earthquakes in the Canterbury region. The simulations utilise the Graves and Pitarka (2015) hybrid methodology, with ... -
Leadership challenges and opportunities in extreme contexts
(2019)Research indicates that aside from the disaster itself, the next major source of adverse outcomes during such events, is from errors by either the response leader or organisation. Yet, despite their frequency, challenge, ...