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SUMMARY:Performance of Unreinforced Masonry Walls under Seismic Loads
DTSTART:20170524T121500
DTEND:20170524T131500
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Dr Michael Griffith\, School of Civil\, Envirnmental and
  Mining Engineering\, University of Adelaide\, Australia\nUnreinforced mas
 onry buildings are very vulnerable to earthquake loading. Such buildings c
 an fail due to in-plane or out-of-plane failure modes. Professor Griffith
 ’s research group is a leading group in the field of the seismic respons
 e of masonry buildings in general and the development of out-of-plane asse
 ssment methods in particular. He will give a brief overview of Adelaide Un
 iversity’s Structural Engineering Research Group and their research inte
 rests at the University of Adelaide before highlighting recent and ongoing
  research into the seismic behaviour of unreinforced masonry (URM) constru
 ction.  His talk will focus primarily on:\n\n	the seismic vulnerability o
 f URM to out-of-plane bending and the associated local failure mechanisms\
 ;\n	feasibility of near surface mounted FRP strips for seismic retrofit of
  URM walls\;\n	preliminary results of recent in-situ testing of clay brick
  cavity walls in ‘1960s constructed’ Adelaide houses which are being d
 emolished for road widening projects\; and\n	influence of flexible floor a
 nd roof diaphrams on the seismic response of URM buildings.\n\nBio: Michae
 l Griffith is Professor in the School of Civil\, Environmental and Mining 
 Engineering at the University of Adelaide.  He obtained his PhD in Struct
 ural Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley (1988) afte
 r completing his BSc (Civil Eng.) and MSc (Civil Eng.) degrees at Washingt
 on State University in the US.  Dr. Griffith is a member of the Standards
  Australia ‘Earthquake Loading Code’ committee\, a Fellow of the Insti
 tution of Engineers\, Australia\, state committee member of the SA Structu
 ral College and Past-President and now Honorary Life Member of the Austral
 ian Earthquake Engineering Society.  His main professional and research i
 nterests are in the field of earthquake engineering and structural dynamic
 s with a particular interest in the performance of unreinforced masonry st
 ructures in earthquakes.  He has co-authored over 200 research papers in 
 the field of structural engineering and sits on the Board of Directors for
  the International Association of Earthquake Engineering which is based in
  Tokyo.\n 
LOCATION:GRA330 http://plan.epfl.ch/?lang=fr&room=GRA330
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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