FP2 Annual Meeting workshop - 31 August

Goals of the QuakeCoRE Flagship Project 2 workshop:

  • Provide an overview of major research on soil liquefaction and its impacts on infrastructure
  • Determine how each of the existing individual projects fit together
  • Improve collaborations between researchers, industry and stakeholders
  • Identify the needs of end-users and industry, gaps in current research efforts, and develop project outlines to fill the gaps in future research
  • Develop a prioritisation of the research needs/projects from various perspectives (industry/end-users/stakeholders/researchers)
  • Discuss how the research findings from the Flagship Project 2 can be facilitated into updates of codes, guidelines and practice notes and incorporated into practice

 

AGENDA

  1. Introduction and background of the Flagship Project 2 (Misko / Sjoerd)
    • 2015 FP2 workshop
    • Three thrust areas in 2015 RfP (no proposals for one area)
    • 2016 Projects
    • Next year’s call for proposals – similar to previous round
    • Emphasis on areas not covered so far
    • Continuation of previous studies
    • Purpose and goals of the workshop
       
  2. Overview of the current (2016) FP2 QuakeCoRE research projects
  3. Overview of other major liquefaction based research projects currently being undertaken in New Zealand
    • Characterization of Christchurch soils  - Misko
    • Case history based studies from 2010 – 2011 Canterbury Earthquakes 
      • Residential land and buildings - Sjoerd
      • Pipe networks & bridges – Misko
      • Pumaceous Soils - Rolando
    • Others studies 
      • (NZTA/GNS?) – Stuart Finland
      • Liquefaction hazard mapping studies in New Zealand - Sjoerd
      • EQC catastrophe liquefaction loss modelling – Minerva - Sjoerd
         
  4.  Overview of international contribution to New Zealand liquefaction research including research teams, capability, and funding sources
    • Introduction - Misko
      • Principal contributors
      • Research teams and areas of research
      • Research capability and funding contribution
    • Liquefaction evaluation methods – Russell Green
    • CBD buildings – Jon Bray
    • Pipe networks  – Tom O’Rourke
    • Lateral spreading  – Ellen Rathje
    • US researchers comments on NZ research in relation to international activities and perspectives – Russell, Jon, Tom, Ellen
       
  5. NZTA / EQC / MBIE perspectives on the current liquefaction research projects and perceived future research needed (Stuart Finland – NZTA, Richard Smith - EQC, John Scott - MBIE)
     
  6.  Discussion of linkages between projects followed by open floor discussion – Misko/Sjoerd
    • Improved interaction and collaboration between research teams and projects
    • Research gaps
    • Prioritization for future research
    • Other ideas
       
  7.  Discussion and summary with smaller groups (parallel sessions)

     Group 1 - Stakeholder-focus group (Sjoerd and Misko)
    • Establish the industry needs and associated gaps in the current liquefaction research projects:
      • Perceived gaps from current researchers
      • Perceived gaps from the industry and building regulators (i.e. NZTA, MBIE, EQC)
      • Prioritization for future research
      • Discuss how the research findings from the Flagship Project 2 can be facilitated into updates of codes, guidelines and practice notes and incorporated into practice
      • Next steps
        • Next round RFP emphasis
        • Report / actions / deliverables
           

          Group 2- QuakeCoRE researchers (Sarah and Mark)

    • Perceived gaps from current researchers
    • Suggestions for the next RFP

 

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