Name of Event:
IPENZ Seismic Design for Non Structural Engineers - Hamilton

Description:
SEISMIC DESIGN FOR NON STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS

This one-day workshop is designed for engineers who are not structural engineers but wish to familiarise themselves with earthquakes and their effects on non-building type structures and components. Participants will be given a broad overview of how structural engineers determine seismic forces relating to the components that are part of their discipline.

Course Content
The course will cover:
• A brief overview of New Zealand’s seismicity
• An overview of the differences between limit state design and working stress design
• A brief overview of AS/NZS 1170 Structural Design Actions and NZS 4219: 2009 Seismic Performance of Engineering Systems in Buildings
• How the seismic design forces for non-building elements are determined
• What approaches are available to reduce the effects of earthquakes

Learning Outcomes
By the end of the day, participants will have:
• An understanding of how earthquakes effect items that they design or specify
• An understanding of the legislative requirements covering seismic design
• A working knowledge of some of the more commonly used methods to determine seismic coefficients for items they design or specify

This course aligns with elements 2, 11 and 12 of the Competence Standard for professional engineers, engineering technologists and technicians.

Facilitator: Graeme Lindup, ME, CPEng, IntPENZ, MIPENZ, MICE
Graeme is a Specialist Engineer with Transfield Worley Ltd in New Plymouth. He has over 30 years experience as a structural engineer and since 1980 has worked in the field of structural engineering for industrial facilities such as oil and gas plants, wineries, offshore platforms, refineries and general processing plant. In doing so he has worked closely with mechanical, electrical and instrumentation engineers in providing equipment and non-structural items that are compliant with relevant legislation and the required safety systems to allow safe shutdown post-earthquake. He has presented papers on seismic design relating to industrial structures and his September 2007 paper in the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering Bulletin regarding adapting the Structural Design Actions standard AS/NZS 1170 to the field of industrial structures won the Otto Glogau Award in 2009.

To register, please click on the link above.


Event Begins:
08/09/2010 Time 8:30 for 8.45am start - 5:00pm finish.

Cost:
$495 incl GST for IPENZ Members, $525 incl. GST for Technical Group Members, $580 incl. GST for Non Members. Discount vouchers available to employers and IPENZ members.

Website:
http://www.ipenz.org.nz

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