Civil Contractors' Environmental Guide
Articles, UC QuakeStudies
A document which provides simple, easy to understand environmental advice and guidance for civil construction contractors.
A document which provides simple, easy to understand environmental advice and guidance for civil construction contractors.
A document which describes the process that SCIRT took to work with industry organisations to develop a civil trade qualification.
A document which outlines SCIRT's best practice approach to recruitment and training.
This paper presents on-going challenges in the present paradigm shift of earthquakeinduced ground motion prediction from empirical to physics-based simulation methods. The 2010-2011 Canterbury and 2016 Kaikoura earthquakes are used to illustrate the predictive potential of the different methods. On-going efforts on simulation validation and theoretical developments are then presented, as well as the demands associated with the need for explicit consideration of modelling uncertainties. Finally, discussion is also given to the tools and databases needed for the efficient utilization of simulated ground motions both in specific engineering projects as well as for near-real-time impact assessment.