This month saw many new journal articles become available for access online.
CRC reports
Four reports have been published in relation to the Tactical Research Fund project Mapping approaches to community engagement and preparedness in Australia:
State Emergency Service volunteer views on expectations, experiences and motivations, by Hawa Farid, Dr Darja Kragt, Dr Patrick Dunlop, Prof Marylène Gagné, Dr Alex Luksyte and Dr Djurre Holtrop from the Enabling sustainable emergency volunteering project, details the results from a survey conducted in 2017 in relation to the Western Australian State Emergency Services and its retention of volunteers.
Journal articles
Four articles from the Enhancing resilience of critical road infrastructure project are now online:
Health Assessment of a Pedestrian Bridge Deck using Ground Penetrating Radar, written by Saaed Miramini, Massoud Sofi, Ahmed Assem, Ali Baluwala, Lihai Zhang, Priyan Mendis and Colin Duffield and published in Electronic Journal of Structural Engineering, assesses the structural health of a 45-year old pedestrian bridge deck.
Predicting the probability of failure of timber bridges using fault tree analysis, written by Weena Lokuge, Matthew Wilson, Huu Tran and Prof Sujeeva Setunge and published in Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, uses a number of bridge inspection reports to develop a method to predict the probability of failure of a timber bridge.
Floods, bushfires and sectoral economic output in Australia, 1978-2014, written by Prof Mehmet Ulubasoglu, Muhamman Rahman, Yasin Onder, Dr Yang Chen and Prof Abbas Rajabifard from the Optimising post-disaster recovery interventions in Australia project and published in the Economic Record, estimates the direct effects of floods and bushfires on sectoral gross values during the period of 1978 to 2014.
Three new articles from the Cost-effective mitigation strategy for building earthquake related risk project have been made available online:
Innovative Upscaling of Architectural Elements for Strengthening Building Structures, written by Dr Hing Ho Tsang and published in the journal Sustainability, explores an innovative idea of upscaling decorative architectural elements, such as brackets, knee braces and corbels, so that they also possess adequate strength capacity to resist extreme loadings such as earthquake actions.
Framework for seismic vulnerability assessment of reinforced concrete buildings in Australia, written by Scott Menegon, Dr Hing Ho Tsang, Dr Elisa Lumantarna, Prof Nelson Lam, Prof John Wilson and Prof Emad Gad and published in the Australian Journal of Structural Engineering, presents a framework for carrying out vulnerability assessment of limited-ductile reinforced concrete buildings in Australia.
Dynamic Behaviour of Indonesian Bridges using Interferometric Radar Technology, written by Maizuar Maizuar, Sofi Massoud, Oktavianus Yusak, Lihai Zhang, Colin Duffield, Priyan Mendis and Dr Elise Lumantarna and published in the Electronic Journal of Structural Engineering, presents and discusses the capabilities of the recent advanced interferomertic radar technique for remote monitoring structural vibrations of bridges.
Fragility and climate impact assessment of contemporary housing roof sheeting failure due to extreme wind, written by Mark Stewart, Prof John Ginger, Dr David Henderson and Paraic Ryan from the Improving the resilience of existing housing to severe wind events project and published in Engineering Structures, describes a risk analysis of the economic impact of damage to metal roofing of a typical contemporary Australian house subject to extreme wind loading.
The Tools supporting fire management in northern Australia project has two new journal articles on the website:
Tree recruitment dynamics in fire-prone eucalypt savanna, written by Adj Prof Jeremy Russell-Smith, Jay Evans, Harry MacDermott, Peter Brocklehurst, Jon Schatz, Erin Lynch, Cameron Yates and Dr Andrew and published in the journal Ecosphere, contrasts the responses of tree recruitment height classes.
The Seismic retrofitting of RC beam-column joints using metallic haunch project has two papers released online:
Strengthening and repair of reinforced concrete columns by jacketing: state-of-the-art review, written by Saim Raza, Muhammad Khan, Scott Menegon, Dr Hing Ho Tsang and Prof John Wilson and published in the journal Sustainability, provides a state-of-the-art review of various strengthening and repair methods for RC columns proposed by different researchers in the last two decades.
Near real-time extracting wildfire spread rate from Himawari-8 satellite data, written by Xiangzhuo Liu, Binbin He, Xingwen Quan, Dr Marta Yebra, Shi Qiu, Changming Yin, Zhanmang Liao and Hongguo Zhang from the Mapping bushfire hazards and impacts project and published in Remote Sensing, proposes a new method for the use of the Himawari-8 satellite and its potential use for near real-time fire spread rate extraction.
Path dependency of the development contributions system, written by Emily Killin and Prof Alan March from the Urban planning for natural hazard mitigation project and published in the journal Planning News, looks at the importance of planning for the timely delivery of social and physical infrastructure.
Particle tracking and detection software for firebrands characterization in wildland fires, written by Dr Alexander Filkov and Sergey Prohanov from the Threshold conditions for extreme fire behaviour project and published in Fire Technology, examines the short distance spotting dynamics, namely the firebrand density distribution within a distance from the fire front and how distinct fires coalesce in a highly turbulent environment.
Two articles from the Fire spread prediction across fuel types project are available for online access:
Two articles from the Improving decision-making in complex multi-team environments are now available:
Managing cognitive biases during disaster response: the development of an aide memoire, written by A/Prof Benjamin Brooks, Dr Steve Curnin, Dr Christine Owen and A/Prof Chris Bearman and published in Cognition, Technology & Work, discusses the applicability of the aide memoire to decision errors identified in recent man-made and natural disasters.
Identifying the evidence to support incident management team capability, written by Dr Christine Owen, Dr Peter Hayes, A/Prof Benjamin Brooks, Cameron Scott and Geoff Conway and published in the Australian Journal of Emergency Management, outlines the evidence base and the capabilities developed through a review made by AFAC to establish the rationale for capabilities central to effective incident management.
A Temporal Framework of Large Wildfire Suppression in Practice, a Qualitative Descriptive Study, written by CRC PhD student Heather Simpson, Prof Ross Bradstock and Dr Owen Price from the Productivity and effectiveness of suppression resources and tactics on large fires, and published in the journal Forests, presents the results from a qualitative descriptive analysis on existing suppression literature.
Conference papers
Mitigating earthquake risk in Australia, written by Mark Edwards, Dr Muhamman Rahman, Dr Hyeuk Ryu, Martin Wehner, Neil Corby, Prof Michael Griffith and Jaroslav Vaculik, is a conference paper from the 2019 Pacific Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Annual NZSEE Conference. The paper describes how research from the CRC project Cost-effective mitigation strategy for building related earthquake risk is developing knowledge of the factors behind the vulnerability of critical infrastructure facilities and the options to mitigate these.