On 22 February 2011 the Mw6.2 Christchurch earthquake occurred with an epicentre less than 10 km from the Christchurch Central Business District (CBD) on an unknown buried fault at the edge of the city. The majority of damage was a result of lateral spreading ...

The work reported in this paper illustrates our conviction that the route to more effective design of structure / foundation systems is through better cooperation between structural and geotechnical specialists. To this end we demonstrate the use of an existing ...