<p>The first Metro Project in Indonesia has commenced finally and half of the packages are underground structure. The civil packages have been achieving some significant progress in construction where the majority of underground stations are under construction ...

<p>The paper reviews literature and codes related to performance-based seismic design (PBSD) of reinforced concrete building. Performance objectives such as immediate occupancy, collapse prevention, or life-safety are used to define the state (condition) ...

<p>The engineering understanding of the behaviour shallow foundation in earthquakes has developed piecemeal over the past sixty years with the emergence and refinement of solutions to several separate aspects of the overall problem, prompted and provoked by ...

<p>The response of surface foundations to large overturning moments is studied under undrained conditions. Rigid circular, strip, and rectangular footings of various aspect ratios are considered, with the soil modeled as an inelastic homogeneous deposit, characterized ...

The Waikato Expressway is being constructed in a number of sections. Opus has been involved in the scheme assessment and specimen design stages for the Hamilton and Cambridge Bypass sections and is currently part of the alliance team constructing the Te Rapa ...

<p>A performance-based methodology for seismic analysis and design of the geosynthetic elements of waste containment systems, including landfills and heap leach pads, has been developed. The methodology offers a rational alternative to the current state of ...

This paper compares the historical and current approaches to building design in New Zealand with the performance based design approaches currently used in the United States under the framework of ASCE 41. Examples of building performance during the recent ...

<p>A geosynthetic-reinforced soil (GRS) mass is formed by placing closely-spaced layers of polymeric geosynthetic reinforcement in a soil mass during soil placement. The reinforcement in a GRS mass serves primarily to improve engineering properties of soil. ...

This paper presents a parametric investigation of the seismic response of circular tunnel. The dynamic response in non-linear conditions due to seismic shaking is analysed numerically making use of the finite element program ICFEP in non-linear conditions. ...

All buildings are subjected to some degree of torsion which in turn changes the member demands from that of translation only. Torsional effects on buildings subjected to earthquakes are not found directly in structural analysis unless full three-dimensional ...