A photograph of the earthquake damage to the windows of a building on Manchester Street.
People looking at a block of damaged buildings on Manchester Street from the cordon fencing.
A photograph of a damaged building. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Latimer Square".
A photograph of a damaged building. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Latimer Square".
A photograph of a damaged building. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Latimer Square".
A photograph of the earthquake damage to the windows of a building on Manchester Street.
A damaged building on Madras Street. The upper part of the brick wall has collapsed.
A photograph of a damaged building. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Ferry Road".
Damage to the Blackwells building in Kaiapoi. Parts of the facade and roof have collapsed.
A photograph of an emergency management member photographing the interior of an earthquake-damaged building.
A photograph of a damaged building. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Ferry Road".
A photograph of a damaged building. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Ferry Road".
The damaged Villa Antiques building in Merivale, cordoned off with police and civil defence tape.
Damage to the Blackwells building in Kaiapoi. Parts of the facade and roof have collapsed.
Earthquake damage to the Christchurch Chinese Methodist Church at 163 Papanui Road.
Earthquake damage to the Christchurch Chinese Methodist Church at 163 Papanui Road.
Broken gutters on the Christ Church Cathedral where the roof has fallen away. Damage to the brickwork can also be seen to the right.
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 11 November 2013 entitled, "Keeping it real...".
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 2 May 2011 entitled, "B is for broken...".
A photograph of a detail of damage to the Music Centre of Christchurch.
A photograph of a detail of damage to the Music Centre of Christchurch.
A photograph of a detail of damage to the Music Centre of Christchurch.
Damaged buildings in the alleyway leading from Tuam Street to Sol Square. Bricks have fallen from parapets, and one building is leaning out into the alleyway.
A photograph of the Lyttelton Museum. A damaged section of roof and wall is protected by a large tarpaulin.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Christ Church Cathedral.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Christ Church Cathedral.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Christ Church Cathedral.
The 2010-2011 Christchurch earthquakes generated damage in several Reinforced Concrete (RC) buildings, which had RC walls as the principal resistant element against earthquake demand. Despite the agreement between structural engineers and researchers in an overall successfully performance there was a lack of knowledge about the behaviour of the damaged structures, and even deeper about a repaired structure, which triggers arguments between different parties that remains up to these days. Then, it is necessary to understand the capacity of the buildings after the earthquake and see how simple repairs techniques improve the building performance. This study will assess the residual capacity of ductile slender RC walls according to current standards in New Zealand, NZS 3101.1 2006 A3. First, a Repaired RC walls Database is created trying to gather previous studies and to evaluate them with existing international guidelines. Then, an archetype building is designed, and the wall is extracted and scaled. Four half-scale walls were designed and will be constructed and tested at the Structures Testing Laboratory at The University of Auckland. The overall dimensions are 3 [m] height, 2 [m] length and 0.175 [m] thick. All four walls will be identical, with differences in the loading protocol and the presence or absence of a repair technique. Results are going to be useful to assess the residual capacity of a damaged wall compare to the original behaviour and also the repaired capacity of walls with simpler repair techniques. The expected behaviour is focussed on big changes in stiffness, more evident than in previously tested RC beams found in the literature.
Damaged buildings on Hereford Street. One of the store fronts and side wall has crumpled revealing the inside of the building. Scaffolding has been erected outside and fencing placed along the footpath, keeping people away from the dangerous buildings.
Damaged buildings along Manchester Street next to Struthers Lane. The front wall of one building has collapsed, exposing the inside. Scaffolding has been erected in front, as well as fencing and road cones cordoning the building off.