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BeckerFraserPhotos June 2011 photograph 064

Images, UC QuakeStudies

Cracks in the concrete structure of the Lichfield Street car parking building.

WEMO ERT Set 3 - February 2011 - Photograph 240

A photograph of the earthquake damage to a building on Oxford Terrace. The wall to the right has collapsed, the concrete blocks spilling onto the footpath in front. USAR codes have been spray-painted on the ground at the entrance of the building.

WEMO ERT Set 1 - March 2011 - Photograph 66

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A photograph of emergency management personnel standing in a car park behind the Forsyth Barr building. In the background rubble from an earthquake-damaged building has been stacked in a pile. The rubble is mostly made up of concrete staircases.

WEMO ERT Set 1 - March 2011 - Photograph 65

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A photograph of emergency management personnel standing in a car park behind the Forsyth Barr building. In the background rubble from an earthquake-damaged building has been stacked in a pile. The rubble is mostly made up of concrete staircases.

Photograph number UC 11-0186-14

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Diggers breaking up concrete in the old bike stands area under the library.

New Zealand Defence Force photograph 284

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Damage to the Lyttelton Port. A concrete slab has lifted, breaking the asphalt.

Photograph number UC 11-0186-15

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Diggers breaking up concrete in the old bike stands area under the library.

BeckerFraserPhotos February 2011 photograph 013

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A crack in the concrete wall of a block of shops in Kaiapoi.

BeckerFraserPhotos February 2011 photograph 014

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A crack in the concrete wall of a block of shops in Kaiapoi.

Photograph number UC 11-0186-13

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Diggers breaking up concrete in the old bike stands area under the library.

Paul and Sam Corliss's Street Art Photograph (2011:10:15 01:32:37)

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A photograph of some simple street art on a concrete wall. The artwork depicts a masked boy with red hair, nestled between the colourful letters of tag writing. An excavator from Mount Grey Downs Limited and some stacked concrete slabs are in the foreground.

WEMO ERT Set 1 - March 2011 - Photograph 79

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A photograph of the earthquake damage to a block of buildings in central Christchurch. The basement of the buildings have collapsed and the concrete blocks have spilled into the car park. Large cracks have also formed in between the blocks in the walls of the building to the left.

WEMO ERT Set 3 - February 2011 - Photograph 194

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A photograph of the earthquake damage to a stairwell in the Crowne Plaza Hotel on the corner of Kilmore and Durham Streets. Large sections of the concrete wall behind the stair rail have broken away to reveal the steel reinforcement underneath.

BeckerFraserPhotos May 2011 photograph 1021

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "178 Cashel Street (corner of Manchester Street)".

Behaviour of tilt-up precast concrete buildings during the 2010/2011 Chris…

Research papers, The University of Auckland Library

The Christchurch region of New Zealand experienced a series of major earthquakes and aftershocks between September 2010 and June 2011 which caused severe damage to the city’s infrastructure. The performance of tilt-up precast concrete buildings was investigated and initial observations are presented here. In general, tilt-up buildings performed well during all three major earthquakes, with mostly only minor, repairable damage occurring. For the in-plane loading direction, both loadbearing and cladding panels behaved exceptionally well, with no significant damage or failure observed in panels and their connections. A limited number of connection failures occurred due to large out-of-plane panel inertia forces. In several buildings, the connections between the panel and the internal structural frame appeared to be the weakest link, lacking in both strength and ductility. This weakness in the out-of-plane load path should be prevented in future designs.