Abstract
The transport infrastructure was majorly affected by the 14th November 2016 Kaikōura Earthquake. Severe vertical and horizontal peak ground accelerations generated high inertial forces, land-slides, and liquefaction. Most of the bridges in the Hurunui, Malborough and Kaikōura districts were critical nodes to the railway and road networks. In total, 904 road bridges across those districts were affected. Two reached the life safety limit state, suffering severe damage, however, most of the affected bridges experienced only minor to moderate damage. This paper describes the structural performance of the most severely damaged bridges based on observations made from site inspections. In addition to this, several performance issues have arisen from this event and are posed in this paper, hopefully to be addressed in the near future.
Highlights
Registration Welcome and Conference Opening Welcome to Hawkes Bay1.1 Lifelines mitigation in Hawkes Bay 1.2 Improvements in research knowledge: a challenge for engineering 1.3 Earthquake risk reduction actions for New Zealand 1.4 The role of earthquakes in developing an indigenous New Zealand architecture 1.5 The magnitude 8.3 Arequipa, Peru earthquake and tsunami: closing a gap in our understanding of earthquake hazard.
2.1 Guidelines for the use and development of land close to active earthquake faults 2.2 Effective ways to model earthquake risk 2.3 Strong-motion instrumentation of buildings in New Zealand 2.4 Gujarat earthquake, January 2001 – lessons to be learnt 2.5 Kiwi technology to protect Indian hospital from earthquakes.
Conference Reception followed by dinner at the War Memorial Centre3.1 EQC’s use of computer modelling in a catastrophe response 3.2 The Earthquake Commission’s earthquake insurance loss model 3.3 Inelastic response of buildings subject to revised code ground motion 3.4 Seismic design issues and strategies using the proposed loadings code 3.5 Study group on seismic design of storage tanks summary progress report.
Summary
1.1 Lifelines mitigation in Hawkes Bay 1.2 Improvements in research knowledge: a challenge for engineering 1.3 Earthquake risk reduction actions for New Zealand 1.4 The role of earthquakes in developing an indigenous New Zealand architecture 1.5 The magnitude 8.3 Arequipa, Peru earthquake and tsunami: closing a gap in our understanding of earthquake hazard. 2.1 Guidelines for the use and development of land close to active earthquake faults 2.2 Effective ways to model earthquake risk 2.3 Strong-motion instrumentation of buildings in New Zealand 2.4 Gujarat earthquake, January 2001 – lessons to be learnt 2.5 Kiwi technology to protect Indian hospital from earthquakes.
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