Key topics

engineering

Engineering refers to the branch of science concerned with the design, building, and use of machines and structures.

Date	Item	Type		Key Topics
	Drift Performance of Point Fixed Glass Façade Systems	Biblio		earthquake, engineering, mitigation
	Wind load fluctuations on roof batten to rafter/truss connections	Biblio		emergency management, engineering, multi-hazard
	Improving the Resilience of Existing Housing to Severe Wind Events Conference Paper 2014	Biblio	save (922.78 KB)	cyclone, engineering, mitigation
	Modelling the vulnerability of old URM buildings and the benefit of retrofit	Biblio	save (637.68 KB)	earthquake, engineering, vulnerability
	Non-ductile seismic performance of reinforced concrete walls in Australia	Biblio		earthquake, engineering
	Wind loads on contemporary Australian housing	Biblio		cyclone, engineering, severe weather
	Resilience and Mitigation through Hardening the Built Environment	Biblio	save (1011.86 KB)	earthquake, engineering, risk management
	Benefit versus cost analysis and optimal cost effective mitigation strategies	Biblio	save (7.23 MB)	engineering, flood, mitigation
	Final report: seismic retrofit tests of URM cavity walls	Biblio	save (4.81 MB)	earthquake, engineering, mitigation
	Failure mechanisms of bridge structures under natural hazards	Biblio	save (3.04 MB)	engineering, multi-hazard, resilience
	Retrofitting RC Beam-Column Joint in Australia using Single Diagonal Haunch	Biblio		earthquake, engineering
	Progress report on costing of limited ductile reinforced concrete buildings	Biblio	save (578.13 KB)	earthquake, emergency management, engineering
	Seismic retrofitting of RC beam-column joints using metallic haunch	Project		earthquake, engineering
	Simulations of radiation heat flux on a structure from a fire in an idealised shrubland	Biblio	save (1.14 MB)	engineering, fire, fire impacts
	Plastic hinge length for lightly reinforced C-shaped concrete walls	Biblio		earthquake, engineering, mitigation
21 Mar 2014	Enhancing resilience of critical road structures	Resource	save (722.83 KB)	engineering, flood, infrastructure
21 Mar 2014	Resilience to clustered disaster events on the coast	Resource	save (1.67 MB)	coastal, coincident events, engineering
07 Aug 2014	Measuring the impacts of bushfires on human fatalities and building losses	Resource	save (3.25 MB)	engineering, fire
20 Oct 2014	Flaws in our understanding and perception of flood risk - podcast	Resource		engineering, flood, risk analysis
04 Dec 2014	Enhancing resilience of critical road structures	Resource	save (1.4 MB)	engineering, environments, resilience
04 Dec 2014	Cost effective mitigation for flood prone buildings	Resource	save (892.37 KB)	engineering, flood, mitigation
04 Dec 2014	Resilience and mitigation through hardening the built environment	Resource	save (1 MB)	earthquake, engineering, environments
12 Feb 2015	National science briefing told disaster areas should be abandoned	Press Clipping		engineering, multi-hazard, risk analysis
13 Feb 2015	Improving the Resilience of Existing Housing to Severe Wind Events	Resource	save (1.8 MB)	cyclone, engineering, mitigation
24 Apr 2015	CRC magazine details research	News		engineering, fire weather
29 May 2015	Supplementary table - Building walls around flood problems: the place of levees in Australian flood management	Resource	save (249.82 KB)	engineering, flood, governance
29 May 2015	Supplementary information - documents checked for relevance to levees as background research for Building walls around flood problems: the place of levees in Australian flood management	Resource	save (1.46 MB)	engineering, flood, governance
19 Jun 2015	TC Marcia Rapid Assessment Report	Resource	save (1.07 MB)	cyclone, engineering
19 Jun 2015	TC Nathan Rapid Assessment Report	Resource	save (2.42 MB)	cyclone, engineering
19 Jun 2015	Tropical Cyclone Olwyn Rapid Damage Assessment	Resource	save (790.15 KB)	cyclone, engineering
26 Jun 2015	Seismic Assessment and Design Philosophy of Reinforced Concrete Walls in Australia	Resource	save (417.65 KB)	earthquake, engineering
10 Aug 2015	Critical infrastructure resilience in Europe	Blog		engineering, infrastructure, resilience
17 Aug 2015	Symposium talks road infrastructure	News		engineering, exposure, infrastructure
18 Aug 2015	Capturing the Impact of the Failure of Critical Road Structures on the Community	Resource	save (176.07 KB)	engineering, mitigation, multi-hazard
18 Aug 2015	Seismic Assessment and Design Philosophy of Reinforced Concrete Walls in Australia	Resource	save (330.02 KB)	earthquake, engineering
18 Aug 2015	Understanding Progressive Failures to Wind Loads	Resource	save (193.39 KB)	engineering, severe weather
18 Aug 2015	Cost-Effective Mitigation Strategy Development for Flood Prone Buildings	Resource	save (118.41 KB)	engineering, flood, mitigation
18 Aug 2015	Failure Mechanism of a Typical Girder Bridge in Australia due to Seismic Loads	Resource	save (197.86 KB)	earthquake, engineering, mitigation
02 Sep 2015	Investigation of Damage Severe Storm Event in Brisbane on 27 November 2014	Resource	save (3.05 MB)	cyclone, engineering, infrastructure
03 Sep 2015	An earthquake loss scenario for Adelaide	Resource	save (2.16 MB)	earthquake, engineering, risk analysis