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Agendas and presentations of Flagship 4 Monthly Group Meetings are archived below.

24th June 2021 (Overview and update) (Meeting)

1. Risk-targeted seismic design considering factors to be applied to hazard maps (Nick Horspool)
2. Recent advances in probabilistic displacement-based seismic assessment (Tim Sullivan/Amir Orumiyehei).
3. Setting criteria for the seismic design and rating of non-structural elements (Mayank Tripathi).
4. Advancing a simplified loss-oriented design and assessment procedure (Rajesh Dhakal/Shreedhar Khakurel).
5. Use of limit-state loss assessment to inform seismic design criteria (Tim Sullivan).
6. Advancing means to achieve risk-oriented design/assessment as part of the RNC project (Reagan Chandramohan/ Teja Sistla)
7. Plans for risk-targeted design/assessment research as part of QuakeCoRE 2 (Max Stephens/Nick Horspool).
8. Closing comments.

1st June 2021(Overview and update) (Meeting)

1. Welcome and Introductions
2. Overview of research plans for QuakeCoRE II Disciplinary Theme 2: Whole of Building Behaviour (Rick Henry and Santiago Pujol)
3. Overview of research plans for QuakeCoRE II Interdisciplinary Programme 1: Achieving Functional Recovery with Repairable Multi-storey Buildings
4. Brief updates from RNC researchers
5. Any other business and end of the meeting.

22nd March 2021 (Overview and update) (Meeting)

1. Welcome & Introductions (Tim)
2. Developing NZ-specific consequence functions for seismic loss assessment (Matt Fox) 
3. RNC project updates (All those with on-ongoing RNC projects)
4. Upcoming workshops (Tim&Rick)
5. Any other business (All)
6. Closing discussion (All)

28th January 2021 (Overview and update) (Meeting)

1. Welcome & Introductions  
2. QuakeCoRE planning update
3. RNC project updates (All those with on-going RNC projects)
4. Discussion (ALL)
5. Research Pesentation: Modelling of viscous damping for NLTH analyses (Giovanni De Francesco)
6. Closing discussion (ALL)

14th May 2020 (Overview and update)

1. Welcome & Update on QuakeCoRE rebid (Tim) (Presentation)
2. Whole of Building Seismic Performance (Rick) (Presentation)
3. Functional Recovery with Repairable Multi-Storey Buildings (Ken) (Presentation)
4. NZSEE Resilient Buildings Project (Helen) (Presentation)
5. Closing discussion (ALL)

9th May 2019 (Overview and update)

1. Tim Sullivan - Intro and welcome
2. Rajesh Dhakal - Overview of plans for research into the seismic performance of non-structural elements in next ILEE project (Presentation)
3. Tim Sullivan - Update on the 2019-2020 Flagship 4 coordinated project
4. Rick Henry - Plans for structural engineering research in QuakeCoRE rebid 

14th March 2019 (Seismic design objectives - Themed Meeting)

1. Tim Sullivan - Introduction
2. Reagan Chandramohan - Structural collapse risk assessment and building code calibration (Presentation)
3. S.R. Uma - An overview of the loss assessment process used at a regional scale 
4. Kieran Haymes - Developing procedures for the prediction of floor response spectra (Presentation)

31st Aug 2018 (Concrete building residual capacity and repair - Themed Meeting)

1. Rick Henry - Introduction
2. Kai Marder - Residual capacity of damaged and epoxy-repaired RC plastic hinges (Presentation)
3. Giuseppe Loporcaro - Damage assessment of steel reinforcement (Presentation)
4. Mehdi Sarrafzadeh - Determination of a Reparability Limit State for Concrete Structures (Presentation)
5. Rick Henry - RC Wall Residual Capacity and Repair (Presentation)
6. Des Bull - Large frame precast floor tests and opportunities for repair
7. Ken Elwood - ATC/FEMA project and & E-defence test opportunity 
   
   

31th July 2018 (Seismic Design of Non-structural Elements - Themed Meeting)

1. Sullivan - Introduction
2. Filiatrault - Automated Seismic Design of Non-structural Elements using Building Information Modelling (Presentation)
3. Welch - Estimation of floor acceleration response spectra (Presentation)
4. Rashid - Experimental research plans for sprinkler piping systems (Presentation)
5. Dhakal - Plans for testing non-structural elements in the ILEE project (Presentation)
6. Stanway - Industry views on the challenges facing seismic performance of non-structural elements (Presentation)

6th June 2018 (Low Damage Devices- Themed Meeting)

1. Rodgers -Introducton
2. Quinneville - RSFJ research and implementation in Nelson Airport (Presentation)
3. Sause - Viscous damper research and the important influence of damper connection flexibility (Presentation)
   
4. Tobber -  Overview of the on ILEE-EERF  shake table test project

24th May 2018 (Steel-Themed Meeting)

1.  Clifton - Introduction
2.  MacRae- RoBust project overview (Presentation)
3.  Clifton, Ramhormozian, Bagheri, Zhenduo - RoBust project structural concept including GripNGrap (Design Details) (Presentation)

4.  Dhakal, Sullivan, Rashid - RoBust project specific nonstructural element

5. Chaudhari - Slab participation in moment floors
6. Alizadeh - Composite floor diaphragms  overview and WSP connections (Presentation)
7. Hooman Rezaeian - Composite floor diaphragm testing (Presentation)
8. Jian - Buckling restrained brace studies and frame testing (Presentation)
9. Zaboli - Buckling restrained brace research 
10. Ramhormozian  - Optimized sliding hinge joint for moment resisting steel frames (Presentation)
11. Hatami - Update on UoC friction sliding research
12. Tjahjanto - Moment frame connections of beams to columns including slab partitions 
13. Orumiyehei - Effectiveness of friction connections through loss modeling studies (Presentation)
14. Jared Keen (BECA) - Steel seismic issues from consulting engineers perspective (Presentation)

9th April 2018 (Timber-Themed Meeting)

1. Minghao Li - Introduction
2. Smith - International trends in timber design and current industry challenges
3. Morris - overview of timber - BRB research at Auckland (presentation)
4. Wenchen - Overview of timber - BRB research at Canterbury (presentation)
5. Brown - Research into flanged CLT Core-Wall systems (presentation)

21th March 2018 (Concrete-Themed Meeting)

1. Henry - Welcome and Introduction
2. Sritharan - NEES rocking wall project (presentation)
3. Watkins - Modeling of post-tensioned building tested at e-defence. (presentation)
4. Yiqiu Lu - Update on ILEE building test. (presentation)
5. Ryan - Testing of new low damage concrete wall designs. (presentation) 
6. Liu - Recent tests on low-damage bridge piers

2017

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12th December 2017

1. Welcome and general update
2. Henry - low damage wall construction project updates
3. Yeow - cost-effectiveness of steel beam-column friction connections (presentation)
4. Khakurel - development of contribution functions for building cladding elements (presentation)
5. MacRae - Update on ROBUST (new ILEE project for steel systems)

10th November 2017

1. Welcome
2. Elwood - Update on RfP and PhD scholarships
3. Clifton - Update on low damage steel and composite steel concrete seismic projects at UoA (presentation)
4. Hare - Update on low damage guidelines
5. Rodgers - Update on development and system-level implementation of novel damping devices (presentation)

12th September 2017

1. Welcome
2. Review of Flagship 4 thrust areas for research in next 3 years
3. Objectives for 3-year integrated project
4. Opportunities available via RFP process and QuakeCoRE PhD Scholarships
5. Proposal for focused monthly meetings in 2018

August 2017

• No meetings held this month due to QuakeCoRE Annual Meeting being held early September

25th July 2017

1. Welcome
2. Progress update on the five F4 projects for 2017
   • Yeow - Seismic loss assessment to motivate high performance building solutions (presentation)
   • Hatami - Large Friction Connection Performance and Reparability (presentation)
3. Update on the MBIE document on low-damage technologies
4. ILEE concrete building test update (Yiqiu Lu - presentation)
5. ILEE steel building initiative (Gregory MacRae)
6. Future research projects
   • Performance of acceleration-sensitive components
   • Buckling restrained braces out-of-plane performance
   • Emerging steel systems

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