Abstract: Crushed waste glass bottles accumulating in stockpiles around New Zealand are an environmental concern, but also provide an available resource for potential use in concrete by partially replacing coarse and fine natural ...

Abstract: The large number of earthquake-prone vintage unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings in many seismically active parts of the world results in a need for minimally invasive and cost-effective strengthening techniques to enhance ...

Abstract: As part of a seismic retrofit scheme, surface bonded glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) fabric was applied to two unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings located in Christchurch, New Zealand. The unreinforced stone masonry ...

Abstract: The durability of older reinforced concrete structures is significantly affected by corrosion of the steel reinforcing bars, and assessing the seismic capacity of such corroded RC structures is a challenging task. A ...