Paul and Sam Corliss's Street Art Photograph (2014:10:12 15:01:15)

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A photograph of street art on the wall of AJ Creative Glass.

Trial Anchors Through Existing Gabions

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

A paper describing the procedure and challenges associated with installing anchors through gabion baskets.

Paul and Sam Corliss's Street Art Photograph (2014:10:12 15:00:17)

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A photograph of street art on the back wall of the AJ Creative Glass building on Fitzgerald Avenue.

Paul and Sam Corliss's Street Art Photograph (2014:03:30 17:17:30)

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A photograph of a painting on the wall of a brick building. The artwork depicts a group of people sitting around a birthday cake.

Paul and Sam Corliss's Street Art Photograph (2014:03:30 16:39:12)

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A photograph of street art on the side wall of Canterbury Museum. The artwork was created by Belgian street artist 'ROA' as part of the RISE Festival.

Paul and Sam Corliss's Street Art Photograph (2014:03:30 16:38:46)

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A photograph of street art on the side wall of Canterbury Museum. The artwork was created by Belgian street artist 'ROA' as part of the RISE Festival.

Paul and Sam Corliss's Street Art Photograph (2014:03:30 16:39:39)

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A photograph of street art on the side wall of Canterbury Museum. The artwork was created by Belgian street artist 'ROA' as part of the RISE Festival.

Paul and Sam Corliss's Street Art Photograph (2014:03:30 16:37:12)

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A photograph of street art on the side wall of Canterbury Museum. The artwork was created by Belgian street artist 'ROA' as part of the RISE Festival.

Paul and Sam Corliss's Street Art Photograph (2014:03:30 16:36:13)

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A photograph of street art on the side wall of Canterbury Museum. The artwork was created by Belgian street artist 'ROA' as part of the RISE Festival.

Paul and Sam Corliss's Street Art Photograph (2014:03:30 16:36:30)

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A photograph of street art on the side wall of Canterbury Museum. The artwork was created by Belgian street artist 'ROA' as part of the RISE Festival.

Paul and Sam Corliss's Street Art Photograph (2014:10:12 14:56:20)

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A photograph of street art on Fitzgerald Avenue. The work was created by DEOW on the back wall of AJ Glass, for the "From the Ground Up" project.

Paul and Sam Corliss's Street Art Photograph (2014:12:02 22:39:38)

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A photograph of street art in Avonside. The artworks are on the walls of a derelict toilet block. The photographer believes that the artworks were created by the artist 'SGC'.

Paul and Sam Corliss's Street Art Photograph (2014:10:01 18:40:01)

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A photograph of street art in Avonside. The artworks are on the walls of a derelict toilet block. The photographer believes that the artworks were created by the artist 'SGC'.

Paul and Sam Corliss's Street Art Photograph (2014:10:01 18:40:44)

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A photograph of street art in Avonside. The artwork is on the walls of a derelict toilet block. The photographer believes that the artworks were created by the artist 'SGC'.

Paul and Sam Corliss's Street Art Photograph (2014:10:01 18:38:00)

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A photograph of street art in Avonside. The artworks are on the walls of a derelict toilet block. The photographer believes that the artworks were created by the artist 'SGC'.

Paul and Sam Corliss's Street Art Photograph (2014:10:01 18:38:16)

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A photograph of street art in Avonside. The artworks are on the walls of a derelict toilet block. The photographer believes that the artworks were created by the artist 'SGC'.

Paul and Sam Corliss's Street Art Photograph (2014:10:12 14:58:27)

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A photograph of street art on the back wall of the AJ Creative Glass building on Fitzgerald Avenue. The photographer believes that the artwork was created by the artist 'Saves'.

Paul and Sam Corliss's Street Art Photograph (2014:10:12 14:58:48)

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A photograph of street art on the back wall of the AJ Creative Glass building on Fitzgerald Avenue. The photographer believes that the artwork was created by the artist 'Paulie'.

Paul and Sam Corliss's Street Art Photograph (2014:10:01 18:40:23)

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A photograph of street art in Avonside. The artworks are on the walls of a derelict toilet block. The photographer believes that the artworks were created by the artist 'SGC'.

Paul and Sam Corliss's Street Art Photograph (2014:10:12 15:32:22)

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A photograph of street art on a brick wall near the corner of Alfred Street and Fitzgerald Avenue. The photographer believes that the artwork was created by the artist 'Paulie'.

Paul and Sam Corliss's Street Art Photograph (2014:03:30 17:11:37)

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A photograph of street art on the wall of the Calendar Girls building on Hereford Street. The artwork is by Australian artist Seb Humphreys, who works under the name 'Order 55'.

Paul and Sam Corliss's Street Art Photograph (2014:10:12 14:56:58)

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A photograph of a detail of street art on Fitzgerald Avenue. The work was created by DEOW on the back wall of AJ Glass, for the "From the Ground Up" project.

Paul and Sam Corliss's Street Art Photograph (2014:10:12 14:56:41)

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A photograph of a detail of street art on Fitzgerald Avenue. The work was created by DEOW on the back wall of AJ Glass, for the "From the Ground Up" project.

Paul and Sam Corliss's Street Art Photograph (2014:10:12 14:59:12)

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A photograph of street art on the back wall of the AJ Creative Glass building on Fitzgerald Avenue. The photographer attributes the work to Deus. The art work is titled "Li'l Elliot".

Paul and Sam Corliss's Street Art Photograph (2014:10:12 14:59:28)

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A photograph of street art on the back wall of the AJ Creative Glass building on Fitzgerald Avenue. The photographer attributes the work to Deus. The art work is titled "Li'l Elliot".

In-Plane Strengthening of Clay Brick Unreinforced Masonry Wallettes using …

Research papers, The University of Auckland Library

New Zealand’s stock of unreinforced masonry (URM) bearing wall buildings was principally constructed between 1880 and 1935, using fired clay bricks and lime or cement mortar. These buildings are particularly vulnerable to horizontal loadings such as those induced by seismic accelerations, due to a lack of tensile force-resisting elements in their construction. The poor seismic performance of URM buildings was recently demonstrated in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, where a large number of URM buildings suffered irreparable damage and resulted in a significant number of fatalities and casualties. One of the predominant failure modes that occurs in URM buildings is diagonal shear cracking of masonry piers. This diagonal cracking is caused by earthquake loading orientated parallel to the wall surface and typically generates an “X” shaped crack pattern due to the reversed cyclic nature of earthquake accelerations. Engineered Cementitious Composite (ECC) is a class of fiber reinforced cement composite that exhibits a strain-hardening characteristic when loaded in tension. The tensile characteristics of ECC make it an ideal material for seismic strengthening of clay brick unreinforced masonry walls. Testing was conducted on 25 clay brick URM wallettes to investigate the increase in shear strength for a range of ECC thicknesses applied to the masonry wallettes as externally bonded shotcrete reinforcement. The results indicated that there is a diminishing return between thickness of the applied ECC overlay and the shear strength increase obtained. It was also shown that, the effectiveness of the externally bonded reinforcement remained constant for one and two leaf wallettes, but decreased rapidly for wall thicknesses greater than two leafs. The average pseudo-ductility of the strengthened wallettes was equal to 220% of that of the as-built wallettes, demonstrating that ECC shotcrete is effective at enhancing both the in-plane strength and the pseudo-ductility of URM wallettes AM - Accepted Manuscript

Soft Stripping

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Victoria Apartments demolition is under way on a walk around the city to find out what is happening in the city. Feb 17, 2014 Christchurch New Zealand. "soft-stripped", which means that any remaining belongings will be removed, as well as furnishings and internal walls.