May 11 webinar: Dataset of lightly reinforced concrete wall test: Experience of New Zealand researchers publishing on DesignSafe

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May 11, 4:00pm - 5:00pm CT
Registration: DesignSafe Learning Center
<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/learning-center/training/webinars/ds/2021/dataset-lightly-reinforced-concrete-wall-test/>

Advances in earthquake engineering research and practice have historically
accelerated after damaging earthquakes, where observations of performance
provide new insights into previously overlooked areas of seismic design.
The 2010/2011 Canterbury earthquakes in New Zealand provided a unique
opportunity to assess prior seismic design and construction practice, and
in particular the ductile and capacity design philosophies implemented in
buildings from the 1970s onwards.

Several lightly reinforced concrete walls in multi-storey buildings were
observed to have formed only a limited number of cracks at the wall base
with fracture of vertical reinforcement rather than the distributed
cracking expected in ductile plastic hinge regions. A series of tests were
conducted at the University of Auckland to address the lack of experimental
data on flexure-dominant lightly reinforced concrete walls that are
representative of wall designs in many countries with low or moderate
seismicity.

DesignSafe-CI has provided an excellent platform for researchers to archive
and share datasets. Large-scale tests can be resource intensive and so it
is essential that the unique data collected is preserved and made
accessible to other uses. The New Zealand Centre for Earthquake Resilience
(QuakeCoRE) has promoted the use of DesignSafe-CI for publication of
datasets as part of project deliverables. In addition to the dataset on
lightly reinforced concrete walls, a number of other QuakeCoRE datasets
from experimental test programme have been published and will be briefly
described during the webinar.

Speakers: *Rick Henry* is a senior lecturer in the Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering at the University of Auckland. *Yiqiu Lu* is a
chief structural engineer in Zuru Tech – China, leading research projects
into seismic performance of buildings using intelligent construction
technologies.

Details and registration on DesignSafe Learning Center:
https://www.designsafe-ci.org/learning-center/training/webinars/ds/2021/dataset-lightly-reinforced-concrete-wall-test/

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