Seminar Series 2013
Seminars are on Fridays starting at 3:00 pm in room E11. Any change in venue or time will be highlighted. Usually, presentations will be 35 minutes, leaving approximately 15 minutes for discussion afterwards.
All interested students, staff, practising engineers and public are invited to attend. Postgraduates are expected to attend.
If
no affiliation is noted, the speaker is part of the University of Canterbury
Civil and Natural Resources Engineering Department.
| Date | Title: Presenter | Add to your Outlook Calendar |
Friday 24 May |
One-way or the other, Jeanette Ward, PhD student |
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Motivated by the debate over whether busy streets within central city areas should be one-way traffic flow or two-way, a masters’ project researched how this decision might be best made by local decision makers. The literature review found that were there are a range of reasons why streets are converted from one type of flow to another, the common reason most cited in the literature for one-way to two-way is to contribute to central city regeneration. However no clear link appears to have been established between the type of street system – one-way or two-way – and economic viability. It was also found that pedestrian safety and the convenience benefits of one-way and two-way streets remain areas of debate. A series of industry interviews were undertaken and were aimed at better understanding the views of various industries involved in planning our built environment, primarily transport and urban design; the views of these can often be at odds. Dunedin are considering a conversion of two central city streets from one-way to two-way and this is used as case study for testing the framework. This presentation outlines the case study including a workshop held with DCC and NZTA staff and the resulting framework. Biography All Welcome |
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Alex Copping, University of Bath, Vancouver, Canada
Construction worker sleep deprivation and its effects on personal safety and lost productivity
Lydell Wiebe, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto
Controlled rocking steel frames for damage-resistant design: Insights from large-scale shake table testing and numerical analysis
Professor Andy Buchanan
Timber in Christchurch Rebuild
Ignacio (Nacho) Fraga Cadorniga, University of A Coruña, Spain
Numerical modeling of free surface flows using Iber – a 2D freeware model
Prof. Jutta Geldermann, University of Gottingen, Germany
Optimizing the Production and Distribution System of Bioenergy Villages
Keh-Chyuan (KC) Tsai, NTU Taiwan
Experimental and Analytical Earthquake Response Simulations on Full-Scale Buckling and Buckling-Restrained Braced Frames
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Jonathan Bray, University of Berkeley
Liquefaction-induced Building Movements
Kim Rait, University of Canterbury
Numerical Modelling of the Micromechanical Behaviour of Sturzstrom
Professor Jonathan Bray, University of Berkeley
Simplified Procedures for Estimating Earthquake-induced Devatoric Slope Displacements
Mark Loewen, University of Alberta
Studies of River Ice Processes in Canada
Matthew Hughes, University of Canterbury
Sea-level rise in Christchurch, New Zealand: Envisioning synergistic climate-seismic risks and exploring alternative futures in dynamic coastal landscapes
Ikuo Towhata, University of Tokyo
Geotechnical Damage Caused by the Recent Gigantic Earthquake in Japan
Tom Cochrane, Thanapon Piman, Mr Mauricio Arias
River at Risk: Quantifying the impacts of hydropower development and climate change on critical ecosystems of the Mekong
Kevin Frank, University of Canterbury
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Commissioner Alex Sutherland
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Associate Professor Russell Green (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
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Ramila Peiris, University of Waterloo
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Simona Esposito, University of Naples
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Dr Sonia Giovinazzi, Research Fellow
Recovery of Lifelines following the 22nd February 2011 Christchurch Earthquake: successes and issues
Associate Professor Li Bing, Nanyang Technological University
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Professor Ian Buckle, University of Nevada
Earthquake Engineering in a Flat World: Improving the Performance of Civil Infrastructure
Professor Sue McNeill, University of Delaware
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Daniel Wicke, University of Canterbury
Urban Stormwater Research – a Postdoc’s Perspective
Mr James O'Neill, University of Canterbury
Fire Performance of Timber Floors
Dr Bryan Karney, University of Toronto
Personal Strategies for Coping with Complexity: a Navigational Guide
Dr Matthew Hughes, University of Canterbury
Development of a Liquefaction Resistance Index for Christchurch City
Associate Professor Mark Milke, University of Canterbury
Improving the Writing of Engineering Students through Portfolios
Professor Huub Savenije, Delft University of Technology/UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, The Netherlands
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Dr Ian Mason, University of Canterbury
Understanding Behaviour on Climate Change “An engineer’s intrepid journey into the social sciences
Chan Kim, University of Canterbury
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Dr Ian Mason, University of Canterbury
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Prof Fabio Biondini, Department of Structural Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
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Weng Yuen Kam, University of Canterbury
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Professor Roberto Leon, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Tech, Atlanta
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