Seismic design of New Zealand houses

New Lateral Force Distribution for Seismic Design of Structures Based on Seismic Demand Ratio

The design of earthquake-resistant buildings starts with defining the maximum lateral earthquake forces or their resultant. The amount of these forces depends on various factors, including coefficient of system behavior which depends on overstrength and its ductility. In this study, a method is presented for designing an earthquake-resistant system in which the distribution of lateral forces is...

Coote New Zealand Futures Trust New Zealand

On Media A workshop report from US Institute for Peace examined Arab media, August, 05 (http://usip.org/virtual diplomacy/publications/reports/18.html), with special focus on attitudes to US and to the West. The relevant Arab governments play a double role since mostly, they control the media, where they appease the ideological positions of their own threatening insurgencies while focusing publ...

Discussion of ‘ A new approach of selecting real input ground motions for seismic design : The most unfavourable real seismic design

Right Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.; This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: Abbas Moustafa, Discussion of ‘A new approach of selecting real input ground motions for seismic design: The most unfavourable real seismic design ground motions’ by C-H Zhai and L-L Xie, Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, 38/9, 1143-1149, 2009, which has been published in ...

Fundamental and higher-mode Rayleigh wave characteristics of ambient seismic noise in New Zealand

[1] In order to use ambient seismic noise for mapping Earth’s structure, it is important to understand the spatiotemporal characteristics of the noise field. This study uses data collected during four austral winter months of 2002 to investigate New Zealand’s ambient seismic noise field in the double-ocean-wave-frequency range (0.1–0.3 Hz). It is shown via beamforming analysis that there are tw...

Window Design in Ardabil Traditional Houses for Conservation of Energy