A man operating a crane in Cathedral Square, outside the Millennium Hotel.
Punting on the Avon is back operating again. Few signs of the earthquakes are visible in this view of the Worcester Boulevade bridge.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Out of the Box, a new furniture shop in Sumner operating out of a container".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Out of the Box, a new furniture shop in Sumner operating out of a container".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Out of the Box, a new furniture shop in Sumner operating out of a container".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A Thai restaurant operating out of a caravan and container on Bealey Avenue".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A Thai restaurant operating out of a caravan and container on Bealey Avenue".
People dance on Gap Filler's Dance-O-Mat, a dance floor set up in a demolished building site, with a coin operated washing machine offering lighting and music.
Information sheet about the Gap Filler Dance-O-Mat, a dance floor set up in a demolished building site, with a coin operated washing machine offering lighting and music.
People dance on Gap Filler's Dance-O-Mat, a dance floor set up in a demolished building site, with a coin operated washing machine offering lighting and music.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The site of the demolished Piko Cafe, now operating just from the new piece on the left. Corner of Kilmore and Barbadoes Streets".
The washing machine on Gap Filler's "Dance-O-Mat". The washing machine is coin operated. When a two dollar coin is fed into the machine, it lights up the stage and plays a music device.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The food caravans that used to operate in the Arts Centre, now travel to several places in the city. Here they are in the quad at Canterbury University with the lunchtime queues".
A digitally altered photograph of a child next to the "Dance-O-Mat" washing machine. The washing machine is coin operated. When a two dollar coin is fed in, it lights up the "Dance-O-Mat" and plays a plugged-in music device.
Caption reads: "I lived in London all through the Blitz, you get used to these things. Living here after the earthquakes didn’t bother me. I had a small battery operated radio and the neighbour lent me her generator. Initially I used it to run the fridge but after a while I couldn’t get it started. I don’t want to move, to be quite honest. There’s nothing that will be able to replace the life I built here."
Micro - electro - mechanical system (MEMS) based accelerometers are now frequently used in many different parts of our day - to - day lives. It is also increasingly being used for structural testing applications. Researchers have had res ervation of using these devices as they are relatively untested, but now with the wider adoption, it provides a much cheaper and more versatile tool for structural engineering researchers. A number of damaged buildings in the Christchurch Central Business District (CBD) were instrumented with a number of low - cost MEMS accelerometers after the major Christchurch earthquakes. The accelerometers captured extremely high quality building response data as the buildings experienced thousands of aftershocks. This d ata set was amongst one of only a handful of data set s available around the world which provides building response data subjected to real ground motion. Furthermore, due to technological advances, a much larger than usual number of accelerometers has been deployed making the data set one of the most comprehensive available. This data set is utilised to extract modal parameters of the buildings. This paper summarises the operating requirements and preference for using such accelerometers for experimental mod al analysis. The challenges for adapting MEMS based devices for successful modal parameters identification are also discussed.