David Elms (Retired)
Position
Professer Emeritus
Qualifications
BA, MSE, PhD
Contact Details
Phone: +64 3 364 2379 Internal:
45539
Fax: +64 3 364 2758
Email: david.elms@civil.canterbury.ac.nz
Research
Application of systems techniques to risk and environmental management
Seismic behaviour of retaining structures
Professional Affiliations, Activities and Achievements (last 5 years):
CAE Board and CAE Board Executive Member
Academy Council, Royal
Society of New Zealand (RSNZ) member
Council of the RSNZ member
Fellow, IPENZ
Fellow, RSNZ
Publications
Wareham, D.G., Elefsiniotis, P. and Elms, D. G., Introducing Ethics Using Structured Controversies, European Journal of Engineering Education, v31no6, 2006: 650-660
Elms, D.B., Structural Safety:foundations and fallacies, Proc. IABSE Int. Conf. Safety, Risk & Reliability Trends in Engineering, Malta, 2001: 59-64
Elms, D.G., Refinements to the Newmark sliding block model, Proc 12th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Auckland, New Zealand, 2000: 8
Bakir, S.A., Elms, D.G. & Lamb, J., Risk management and lifeline engineering, Proc 12th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Auckland, NZ, Paper 1569, 2000: 8
Brown, C.B., Elms, D.G., Hanson, M. & Worden, R.E, Entropy and granular materials:experiments, J. Engineering Mechanics, v126no6, 2000: 605-10
Elms, D.G., Risk balancing of Code Factors, Applications of Statistics and Probability:Civil Eng Reliability and Risk Analysis: Proc ICASP8 Conference, Sydney, Australia, 1999: 925-30
Elms, D.G, Achieving structural safety:theoretical considerations, Structural Safety, v21, 1999: 311-33