| September 4 |
Vishvendra Bhanu presented a poster titled "Influence of ground motion duration on the dynamic deformation capacity of reinforced concrete frame structures" at the QuakeCoRE Annual Meeting in Nelson, New Zealand. |
| September 4 |
Vahid Loghman presented a poster titled "Validation of ground motion simulations via response history analysis of steel moment resisting frames using an automated workflow" at the QuakeCoRE Annual Meeting in Nelson, New Zealand. |
| August 28 |
Gave a presentation titled "A guide to academic writing" to postgraduate students at the University of Canterbury as part of the Academic Writing & Publishing Workshop organised by the QuakeCoRE Emerging Researchers Chapter. |
| May 13 |
Awarded a research grant under the Vertical Infrastructure theme of the Resilience to Nature's Challenges 2 programme for a project titled "Developing a framework for risk-targeted seismic design". The other investigator on the project is Sullivan TJ. |
| April 5 |
Vishvendra Bhanu presented a paper titled "Investigating the influence of ground motion duration on the dynamic deformation capacity of reinforced concrete framed structures" at the 11th Pacific Conference on Earthquake Engineering in Auckland, New Zealand. |
| April 5 |
Vahid Loghman presented a paper titled "Comparison of recorded and simulated ground motions for NZS1170.5-based 3D building response analysis" at the 11th Pacific Conference on Earthquake Engineering in Auckland, New Zealand. |
| April 5 |
Chaired a technical session titled "Steel Structures" at the 11th Pacific Conference on Earthquake Engineering in Auckland, New Zealand. |
| March 2 |
Delivered an invited lecture titled "Important considerations in the numerical evaluation of dynamic response" as part of the postgraduate course CE 634: Structural Dynamics taught by Dr. Ezra Jampole at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in Newark, New Jersey, USA. |
| February 18 |
Participated in a workshop titled "Post-Earthquake Residual Capacity and Repairability of Concrete Buildings" conducted by QuakeCoRE in Auckland, New Zealand. The objective of the workshop was to determine future research directions in order to establish a repairable limit state for structural assessment and design. |
| January 10 |
Took on the role of Director of Studies (International) of the Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering at the University of Canterbury. |
| December 3 |
Gave a presentation titled "Duration of earthquake ground motion: Influence on structural collapse risk and integration in design practice" at the Wellington Earthquake Resilience Collaboratory Workshop, conducted by QuakeCoRE at the Wellington Region Emergency Management Office (WREMO) in Wellington, New Zealand. The objective of the workshop was to communicate the findings of research conducted by QuakeCoRE to stakeholders from the Wellington City Council. |
| November 29 |
Attended the Canterbury Earthquakes Symposium, jointly hosted by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, and the Christchurch City Council, in Christchurch, New Zealand. The objective of the event was to share lessons from the Canterbury earthquakes and plan for future natural disasters. |
| November 27 |
Chaired a technical session at the 1st NZ-Japan Joint Symposium on Structural and Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering held in Christchurch, New Zealand. |
| September 5 |
Gave a plenary talk titled "Duration of earthquake ground motion: Influence on structural collapse risk and integration in design practice" in the session "Future Great Earthquakes in NZ and their Impacts on Structures" at the QuakeCoRE Annual Meeting in Wairakei, New Zealand. |
| September 4 |
Vishvendra Bhanu presented a poster titled "Characterising the influence of ground motion duration on structural strength and deformation capacity" at the QuakeCoRE Annual Meeting in Wairakei, New Zealand. |
| September 4 |
Srijana Gurung Shrestha presented a poster titled "Effect of ground motion duration and response spectral shape on seismic performance of steel moment resisting frame buildings" at the QuakeCoRE Annual Meeting in Wairakei, New Zealand. |
| September 4 |
Kieran Haymes presented a poster titled "Developing procedures for the prediction of floor response spectra" at the QuakeCoRE Annual Meeting in Wairakei, New Zealand. |
| September 4 |
Vahid Loghman presented a poster titled "Seismic response of complex structural systems using code-compatible as-recorded and simulated ground motions" at the QuakeCoRE Annual Meeting in Wairakei, New Zealand. |
| September 4 |
Vishvendra Bhanu gave a presentation titled "Characterising the influence of ground motion duration on structural strength and deformation capacity" at the workshop "Connecting the earthquake resilience pipeline via end-to-end computational modelling" conducted as part of the QuakeCoRE Annual Meeting in Wairakei, New Zealand. |
| June 27 |
Presented a paper titled "Accounting for the influence of ground motion response spectral shape and duration in the equivalent lateral force design procedure" at the 11th US National Conference on Earthquake Engineering in Los Angeles, California, USA. |
| May 7 |
Joined the editorial team of the Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering as the Web Edition Manager. |
| April 15 |
Presented a paper titled "Duration of earthquake ground motion anticipated at sites in New Zealand" at the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering Conference in Auckland, New Zealand. |
| April 10 |
Represented the Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering at the University of Canterbury Year 12 Discovery Day event, held to show high school students what a day at university could be like. Gave a lecture titled "Warriors of the World: The Gods vs. Heavy Metal" describing Earthquake Engineering and other areas of specialisation within Civil Engineering. |
| February 27 |
Participated in the QuakeCoRE Technology Platform 1/2 workshop held in Auckland, New Zealand. The objective of the workshop was to identify options for the permanent archival of experimental and numerical data produced by QuakeCoRE researchers. |
| February 22 |
Participated in a Structural Health Monitoring workshop conducted by QuakeCoRE in Wellington, New Zealand. The objective of the workshop was to summarise current practice and determine future research directions in the use of Structural Health Monitoring techniques to characterise post-earthquake building damage. |
| February 14 |
Served as a member of the organising committee of the 9th International Conference on the Behaviour of Steel Structures in Seismic Areas held in Christchurch, New Zealand. |
| February 27 |
Participated in the QuakeCoRE Flagship 3 workshop held in Somes Island, New Zealand. The objective of the workshop was to initiate the QuakeCoRE Flagship 3 coordinated project on "Addressing Wellington Multi-Storey Existing Buildings" through interaction of project participants, identification of 2018 milestones, and connectivity between the project components. |
| January 20 |
Authored a white paper for One Concern, Inc., titled "A data-driven approach to block-level earthquake damage assessment", peer reviewing the machine learning algorithms used to implement their disaster intelligence platform for next generation emergency response. |
| January 1 |
Awarded a research grant by QuakeCoRE for a project titled "Addressing Wellington multi-storey existing buildings: Modelling of existing concrete buildings to assess collapse risk". Other investigators on the project include Dhakal RP, Dashti F, and Elwood K. |
| December 14 |
Awarded a research grant by QuakeCoRE for a project titled "Incorporating the influence of ground motion duration and response spectral shape in New Zealand structural design and assessment practice". Other investigators on the project include Horspool N and Bradley BA. |
| November 7 |
Awarded a strategic travel grant by QuakeCoRE to attend the 11th US National Conference on Earthquake Engineering in Los Angeles, California, USA from 25 to 29 June 2018. |
| September 5 |
Presented a poster titled "Accounting for ground motion duration and spectral shape in structural design and assessment" at the QuakeCoRE Annual Meeting in Wairakei, New Zealand. |
| September 4 |
Conducted a workshop on the validation of structural and geotechnical models and response history analysis procedures at the QuakeCoRE Annual Meeting in Wairakei, New Zealand. |
| July 31 |
Served as a judge for the QuakeCoRE Lightning Talks postgraduate student event held in Christchurch, New Zealand. |
| June 19 |
Presented a paper titled "Robust and efficient nonlinear structural analysis using the central difference time integration scheme" at the 1st European Conference on OpenSees in Porto, Portugal. |
| June 1 |
Published a paper titled "Response of instrumented buildings under the 2016 Kaikoura earthquake", co-authored by Ma Q, Wotherspoon LM, Bradley BA, Nayyerloo M, Uma SR, and Stephens MT, in the Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering. |
| May 16 |
Gave a presentation titled "Earthquake Engineering in New Zealand" to visiting undergraduate students from Virginia Tech. |
| March 27 |
Conducted an OpenSees software training workshop at the University of Auckland in Auckland, New Zealand, as part of a QuakeCoRE Technology Platform 4 initiative. |
| March 16 |
Conducted an OpenSees software training workshop at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, as part of a QuakeCoRE Technology Platform 4 initiative. |
| February 3 |
Commenced work as a Lecturer in the Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. |
| January 13 |
Presented a paper titled "Physical mechanisms underlying the influence of ground motion duration on structural collapse capacity" at the 16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering in Santiago, Chile. |
| September 29 |
Graduated with a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford University, California, USA, upon submitting a dissertation titled "Duration of earthquake ground motion: influence on structural collapse risk and integration in design and assessment practice". |
| August 31 |
Presented a poster titled "Influence of ground motion duration on structural collapse risk" at the QuakeCoRE Annual Meeting in Wairakei, New Zealand. |
| August 29 |
Commenced work as a Postdoctoral Fellow under Prof. Brendon Bradley at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. |
| May 20 |
Gave an invited talk titled "Robust and efficient estimation of structural collapse capacity using the central difference time integration scheme" at the OpenSees Days workshop in Richmond, California, USA. |
| April 20 |
Presented a poster titled "Influence of ground motion duration on structural collapse risk" at the SSA Annual Meeting in Reno, Nevada, USA. |
| April 5 |
Received an award at the EERI Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California, USA for winning the 2015 EERI Graduate Student Paper Competition with a paper titled "A structural reliability framework for collapse risk assessment incorporating ground motion duration and response spectral shape". |
| April 5 |
Presented a poster titled "Influence of ground motion duration on structural collapse risk" at the EERI Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California, USA. |
| March 23 |
Gave an invited talk titled "Influence of ground motion duration in structural collapse risk assessment and design" at Arup in San Francisco, California, USA. |
| January 28 |
Presented a poster titled "Influence of ground motion duration on structural collapse risk" at the PEER Annual Meeting in Berkeley, California, USA. |
| January 5 |
Published a paper titled "Impact of hazard-consistent ground motion duration in structural collapse risk assessment", co-authored by Baker JW and Deierlein GG, in Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics. |
| December 11 |
Gave a presentation titled "Influence of ground motion duration on structural collapse risk" at the 2nd ATC SEI Conference in San Francisco, California, USA. |
| November 13 |
Attended the COSMOS Technical Session on "Current ground-motion design value maps: Issues and proposed solutions" in Burlingame, California, USA. |
| June 18 |
Gave a presentation titled "Robust and efficient estimation of structural collapse capacity using the central difference time integration scheme" at the Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference in Stanford, California, USA. |
| May 23 |
Prepared a report titled "Shelter, retrofit, and reconstruction of housing: a summary of previously used strategies in developing regions applicable for the 2015 Lamjung, Nepal earthquake", co-authored by Jampole E, Frank T, and Bandelt M, for the World Bank, Washington DC, USA. |
| May 8 |
Received the Gerard J. Lieberman Fellowship: Stanford University's premier award that recognizes doctoral students who have demonstrated the potential to become outstanding scholars and academic leaders. |
| April 30 |
Won the 2015 ASCE San Jose Branch Student Essay Competition with an essay titled "Civil Engineering: the path behind us and the direction forward". |
