2016 Workshop on "Guidance on the utilization of ground motion simulations in engineering practice"

Objective: This workshop focused on providing a forum for stakeholders to discuss proposed guidance on the utilization of ground motion simulations in engineering practice.  The guidance is in the form of a QuakeCoRE project report.

Date: 15 July 2016

Location: University of Canterbury

Conveners: Brendon Bradley (University of Canterbury), Didier Pettinga (Holmes Consulting), Jack Baker (Stanford University)

Agenda: (presentations can be viewed via the links below)

•  Introduction (Brendon Bradley)
• Industry perspective on simulated ground motions (Pettinga)
• Subgroup discussion
• Break
• Summary of recent progress on ground motion simulation
  • Ground motion simulation basics (Bradley)
  • Ground motion simulation validation (Baker)
• Subgroup discussion
• Lunch
• Proposed structure of guidance document
  
  • Verification and validation (Bradley)
• • Thoughts from a regulatory context (Pettinga) (no slides)
• Break
• Discussion and next steps

Participants: Didier Pettinga, Stu Oliver (Holmes Consulting); Hayden Bowen, Richard Cole (Tonkin & Taylor); James Dismuke, Jeff Fraser (Golder Associates); Brendon Bradley, Chris McGann, Tim Sullivan, Seokho Jeong, Karim Tarbali, Chris de la Torre (University of Canterbury); Mark Stirling (University of Otago); Chris Van Houtte, Matt Gerstenberger, Yoshi Kaneko (GNS Science); Jack Baker (Stanford University); Russell Green, Adrian Rodriguez-Marek (Virgina Tech).