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

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

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

12th June 2017

1. Welcome
2. Presentations for projects aligned by Flaghship 4's aims but not funded by QuakeCoRE
   • Clifton - Steel and composite steel-concrete seismic projects at UoA (presentation)
   • Zarnani/Quenneville - Resilient slip friction joint (presentation)
   • Ryan - NHERI TallWood (presentation)
3. Case study buildings update and discussion (presentation)

9th May 2017

1. Welcome
2. Feedback on Wellington Low-Damage Workshop
3. Update on QuakeCore Wiki webpage
4. 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
   • Henry - Exploration of Lower-Damage Modifications to Conventional Reinforced Concrete Walls (presentation)
   • Rodgers - Development and System-Level Implementation of Novel Damping Devices (presentation)
   • Clifton - Enhanced Seismic Resilience of Light Steel Frame Pallet Racking Systems
5. Description/progress update on other low-damage projects
   • Shahab - Update on Travel to Europe (FREEDAM Project) and Sliding Hing Joint Recent Developments (presentation)
6. Other business
   • Elwood - Reparable Limit State (presentation)

3rd April 2017

1. Welcome
2. Means of development of fragility functions (presentation)
3. Case study buildings update (presentation)
4. Update on low-damage workshop

28th February 2017

1. Welcome
2. Flagship 4 postdoc
3. Possibilities for collaboration to develop fragility functions
4. Case study buildings update and discussion (presentation)
5. Flagship 4 workshop at the upcoming NZSEE conference
6. ILEE project update
7. Proposal for a dedicated zoom call to report on last year's projects
8. Possible update on the MBIE document on low-damage technologies
9. Any other business

19th January 2017

1. Overview of F4 structure and objectives for 2017 with review of RFP process and outcomes
2. Presentations of each successful proposal
   • Sullivan - Seismic loss assessment to motivate high performance building solutions
   • MacRae - Large Friction Connection Performance and Reparability (presentation)
   • Rodgers - Development and System-Level Implementation of Novel Damping Devices
     • Henry - Exploration of Lower-Damage Modifications to Conventional Reinforced Concrete Walls (presentation)
   • Clifton - Enhanced Seismic Resilience of Light Steel Frame Pallet Racking Systems
3. Thoughts on the selection of F4 case study buildings
4. Ides for cross-collaboration
5. Any other items to discuss
6. Date for next meeting

2016