The water distribution network for Hutt City consists of nearly 700 km of pipes, 6500 valves, 4000 hydrants, and 21 reservoirs located on the surrounding hills. The bulk [...]

For a 30m deep 1-D soil site of about 0.5s period with a soft soil layer at the surface overlying a stiff layer above bedrock, the short-period amplification characterist [...]

The accuracy of six existing R-factor models for estimating inelastic response spectra is evaluated by using a suite of forward-directivity records and single-degree-of-f [...]

Recent earthquakes have demonstrated that damage associated with Non-Structural Components (NSC) constitutes a substantial amount of total loss. Following this, the study [...]

There is often questioning of the credibility of extreme earthquake ground-motion predictions that sometimes arise in probabilistic seismic hazard analyses. Several attem [...]