Fragility curves; Earthquake vulnerability; Malawi Residential buildings; Unreinforced masonry; Masonry panel test data; Orthotropic modelIn-plane damage; Out-of-plane damage

Giordano, Nicola, De Risi, Raffaele, Voyagaki, Elia, Kloukinas, Panos ORCID: 0000-0002-5158-3109 , Novelli, Viviana, Kafodya, Innocent, Ngoma, Ignasio, Goda, Katsuichiro and Macdonald, John (2021) Seismic fragility models for typical non-engineered URM residential buildings in Malawi. Structures, 32. pp. 2266-2278. ISSN 2352-0124 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.istruc.2021.03.118)

Seismic risk assessment, structural fragility, Seismic resilience, geo-spatial data, disaster risk reduction

Goda, Katsuichiro, Novelli, Viviana, De Risi, Raffaele, Kloukinas, Panos ORCID: 0000-0002-5158-3109 , Giordano, Nicola, Macdonald, John, Kafodya, Innocent, Ngoma, Ignasio and Voyagaki, Elia (2021) Scenario-based earthquake risk assessment for central-southern Malawi: the case of the Bilila-Mtakataka fault. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 67:102655. ISSN 2212-4209 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102655)

Seismic risk, structural fragility, informal housing, developing countries, non-engineered structures

Novelli, Viviana Iris, De Risi, Raffaele, Ngoma, Ignasio, Kafodya, Innocent, Kloukinas, Panos ORCID: 0000-0002-5158-3109 , Macdonald, John and Goda, Katsuichiro (2021) Fragility curves for non-engineered masonry buildings in developing countries derived from real data based on structural surveys and laboratory tests. Soft Computing, 25 (8). pp. 6113-6138. ISSN 1432-7643 (Print), 1433-7479 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-021-05603-w)

adobe bricks, mortar, fiber reinforced soil, masonry

Kafodya, Innocent, Okonta, Felix and Kloukinas, Panos ORCID: 0000-0002-5158-3109 (2019) Role of fiber inclusion in adobe masonry construction. Journal of Building Engineering, 26:100904. ISSN 2352-7102 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2019.100904)

advanced gas cooled reactor, displacement prediction, seismic testing, neural network

Dihoru, Luiza, Dietz, Matt, Horseman, Tony, Kloukinas, Panos ORCID: 0000-0002-5158-3109 , Oddbjornsson, Olafur, Voyagaki, Elia, Crewe, Adam J. and Taylor, Colin A. (2018) Neural networks for displacement analysis in an advanced gas cooled reactor core model. Nuclear Engineering and Design, 332. pp. 252-266. ISSN 0029-5493 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nucengdes.2018.03.039)

advanced gas cooled reactor, seismic resilience, physical model

Dihoru, Luiza, Oddbjornsson, Olafur, Kloukinas, Panos ORCID: 0000-0002-5158-3109 , Dietz, Matt, Horseman, Tony, Voyagaki, Elia, Crewe, Adam J., Taylor, Colin A. and Steer, Alan G. (2017) The development of a physical model of an advanced gas cooled reactor core: Outline of the feasibility study. Nuclear Engineering and Design, 323. pp. 269-279. ISSN 0029-5493 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nucengdes.2017.01.012)

advanced gas cooled reactor; displacement analysis; stacked column; column shape; displacement; seismic testing

White, Rory, Gokce, Tansu, Oddbjornsson, Olafur, Bourne, Kate, Crewe, Adam, Dihoru, Luiza, Horseman, Tony, Dietz, Matthew, Kloukinas, Panos ORCID: 0000-0002-5158-3109 and Taylor, Colin (2021) A mathematical framework for evaluation of column shape profiles for an advanced gas-cooled reactor core model subject to seismic excitation. Nuclear Engineering and Design, 391:111735. ISSN 0029-5493 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nucengdes.2022.111735)

advanced gas cooled reactors, dynamic tracking, seismic testing, high resolution video

Dihoru, Luiza, Crewe, Adam J., Horseman, Tony, Dietz, Matt, Oddbjornsson, Olafur, Kloukinas, Panos ORCID: 0000-0002-5158-3109 , Voyagaki, Elia and Taylor, Colin A. (2019) A computer vision approach for dynamic tracking of components in a nuclear reactor core model. Nuclear Engineering and Design, 344. pp. 1-14. ISSN 0029-5493 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nucengdes.2019.01.017)

building survey, building classification, seismic vulnerability

Ngoma, Ignasio, Kafodya, Innocent, Kloukinas, Panos ORCID: 0000-0002-5158-3109 , Novelli, Viviana, Macdonald, John and Goda, Katsuichiro (2019) Building classification and seismic vulnerability of current housing construction in Malawi. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 11 (1):175085. pp. 57-72. ISSN 1019-7079

dynamic analysis, earth pressures, earthquakes, retaining walls, Winkler model

Kloukinas, Panos ORCID: 0000-0002-5158-3109 , Langousis, Miltiadis and Mylonakis, George (2012) Simple wave solution for seismic earth pressures on nonyielding walls. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 138 (12). pp. 1514-1519. ISSN 1090-0241 (Print), 1943-5606 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0000721)

earthquake response, finite element modelling, multi-body rocking, nuclear core, shaking table experiment

Voyagaki, Elia ORCID: 0000-0001-9991-3149 , Kloukinas, Panos ORCID: 0000-0002-5158-3109 , Dietz, Matt, Dihoru, Luiza, Horseman, Tony, Oddbjornsson, Olafur, Crewe, Adam J., Taylor, Colin A. and Steer, Alan (2018) Earthquake response of a multiblock nuclear reactor graphite core: experimental model vs simulations. Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 47 (13). pp. 2601-2626. ISSN 0098-8847 (Print), 1096-9845 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/eqe.3100)

field survey, building classification, earthquake, seismic vulnerability, risk assessment, sustainable development

Kloukinas, Panos ORCID: 0000-0002-5158-3109 , Novelli, Viviana, Kafodya, Innocent, Ngoma, Ignasio, Macdonald, John and Goda, Katsuichiro (2019) A building classification scheme of housing stock in Malawi for earthquake risk assessment. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 35 (2). pp. 507-537. ISSN 1566-4910 (Print), 1573-7772 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10901-019-09697-5)

hall effect sensors, displacement measurement, 6DoF, stacked column, seismic testing, nonlinear calibration

Oddbjornsson, Olafur, Kloukinas, Panos ORCID: 0000-0002-5158-3109 , Gokse, Tansu, Bourne, Kate, Horseman, Tony, Dihoru, Luiza, Dietz, Matt, White, Rory E., Crewe, Adam J. and Taylor, Collin A. (2021) Design and calibration of a hall effect system for measurement of six-degree-of-freedom motion within a stacked column. Sensors, 21 (11):3740. ISSN 1424-8220 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/s21113740)

model tests, retaining walls, seismic earth pressures, soil-structure interaction

Kloukinas, Panos ORCID: 0000-0002-5158-3109 , Scotto di Santolo, Anna, Penna, Augusto, Dietz, Matthew, Evangelista, Aldo, Simonelli, Armando Lucio, Taylor, Colin and Mylonakis, George (2015) Investigation of seismic response of cantilever retaining walls: limit analysis vs shaking table testing. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 77. pp. 432-445. ISSN 0267-7261 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soildyn.2015.05.018)

retaining wall, seismic earth pressure, limit analysis, lower bound, stress plasticity, Mononobe–Okabe, numerical analysis

Mylonakis, George, Kloukinas, Panos ORCID: 0000-0002-5158-3109 and Papantonopoulos, Costas (2007) An alternative to the Mononobe–Okabe equations for seismic earth pressures. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 27 (10). pp. 957-969. ISSN 0267-7261 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soildyn.2007.01.004)