@conference {bnh-6389,
	title = {Development of Cost-effective Mitigation Strategy for Limited Ductile Reinforced Concrete Buildings},
	booktitle = {Australian Earthquake Engineering Society 2019 Conference},
	year = {2019},
	month = {12/2019},
	address = {Newcastle},
	abstract = {<p>With the new awareness that most Australian reinforced concrete (RC) buildings have not been designed to withstand seismic actions, and are considered to have limited ductility, it is essential to consider retrofitting options. This study aims to evaluate the seismic performance of an archetypal Australian RC building, and then implement various retrofit techniques to find the most suitable retrofit. The structural performance of the buildings before and after various retrofitting were compared to study the effectiveness of the proposed methods as well as the effect on the seismic hazard design factor. SeismoStruct software was used to perform the nonlinear analysis of the structures. This paper contributes to a research with the overall aim of assessing the seismic performance of existing buildings and their expected failure modes, impact of retrofitting measures, and the associated costs.</p>},
	keywords = {earthquake, existing structures, limited ductility buildings, performance validation, seismic evaluation and retrofitting},
	url = {https://aees.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/55-Raneem-Alazem.pdf},
	author = {Raneem Alazem and Elisa Lumantarna and Nelson Lam and Scott Menegon}
}
@conference {bnh-6390,
	title = {Prioritisation strategy for seismic retrofitting of reinforced concrete buildings in Australia},
	booktitle = {Australian Earthquake Engineering Society 2019 Conference},
	year = {2019},
	month = {12/2019},
	address = {Newcastle},
	abstract = {<p>This paper presents a study on the seismic evaluation and retrofit of limited ductile reinforced concrete (RC) buildings, which make up the bulk of built infrastructure in the central building districts and high-density residential areas in Australian cities. In low to moderate seismicity regions such as Australia, RC buildings will have structural elements that have been designed with limited to no ductility. The individual building needs to be assessed and ranked for their retrofitting priority. An assessment for retrofitting methodology involving a three-tiered approach will be introduced in this paper. The assessment framework including a tiered approach was developed to evaluate the potential vulnerability of Australian RC buildings and to facilitate decision making in relation to the need for seismic retrofitting. Structural threshold values related to the vulnerable features introduced in the framework were also investigated to support the identification process of the method. It is expected that the developed three-tiered methodology will provide a significant contribution to the seismic evaluation and retrofit of existing RC buildings in Australia.</p>},
	keywords = {reinforced concrete building, seismic evaluation and retrofitting, tiered methodology},
	url = {https://aees.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/21-Bin-Xing.pdf},
	author = {Bin Xing and Elisa Lumantarna and Nelson Lam and Scott Menegon}
}
