Category: Webinar Archive

Date: Mar 19, 2026 Abstract: Risk-informed pathways are being developed for the design and licensing of next generation nuclear facilities. This presentation will address one such pathway to implement seismic base isolation, which involves the development of a) isolation-system-specific seismic displacement demand curves from seismic hazard curves, and b) fragility functions for seismic isolation systems.…

Date: Jan 21, 2026 Abstract Earthquakes are among the most destructive natural disasters, capable of causing severe casualties and significant economic losses. For building owners, assessing and mitigating seismic risks in existing buildings poses both technical and economic challenges. In Canada, there has long been a need for nationwide technical guidelines for seismic evaluation and…

Date: Dec 3, 2025 Abstract Earthquakes are among the most destructive natural disasters, capable of causing severe casualties and significant economic losses. For building owners, assessing and mitigating seismic risks in existing buildings poses both technical and economic challenges. In Canada, there has long been a need for nationwide technical guidelines for seismic evaluation and…

Date: Nov 5, 2025 Abstract: Earthquakes are among the most destructive natural disasters, capable of causing severe casualties and significant economic losses. For building owners, assessing and mitigating seismic risks in existing buildings poses both technical and economic challenges. In Canada, there has long been a need for nationwide technical guidelines for seismic evaluation and…

Date: Oct 8, 2025 Abstract: The John Hart Dam, constructed in the late 1940s on Vancouver Island, required upgrades to address seismic vulnerabilities and ensure resilience against a potential magnitude M9 mega earthquake originating from the nearby Cascadia Subduction Zone. The Middle Earthfill Dam (MED), one of three earthfill structures at the site, was determined…

Date: Apr 9, 2025 Abstract: The seismic design of bridges in British Columbia has followed international evolving practices since the early 1980’s. Circa 1990, the Province of BC embarked on a bridge retrofit program including the Vancouver region’s nine major river and harbour crossings. These projects drew on local engineering skills plus technical expertise from…

Date: Jan 15, 2025 Abstract:Prediction of probabilistic earthquake ground motion inclusive of local site effects across Metro Vancouver is a multi-faceted challenge. The Metro Vancouver seismic microzonation mapping project is a near decade multi-million dollar effort to achieve regional-scale seismic hazard mapping of Metro Vancouver including earthquake shaking de/amplification due to site and basin effects,…

Date: Nov. 29, 2024 Abstract: Timber construction is pushing new boundaries, particularly in relation to multistorey construction. Because of the higher wind and seismic loads that have to be resisted, earthquake anchoring (hold-downs) must have high load-carrying capacity to withstand these loads, high stiffness to minimize lateral deformations, and deformation compatibility to achieve the desired…

Date: Oct. 30, 2024 Abstract: A M7.8 earthquake occurred in southeast Türkiye, 33 km south-east of Kahramanmaraş on February 6, 2013 at 4:17 local time at a depth of 10 km. A second earthquake with M7.6 hit the region only 9 hours later at 13:24 local time, 62 km north-east of Kahramanmaraş at a depth…

Date: Oct. 3, 2024 Abstract: On February 6th, 2023, two major earthquakes hit Türkiye, with magnitudes of 7.7 and 7.6, in districts of Kahramanmaraş city, at 04:17 and 13:24 local time, respectively. On February 20th, 2023, another earthquake with a magnitude of Mw 6.4 occurred in Hatay, at 20:04 local time. These earthquakes, all of…