Staff profiles
SR UmaSenior Risk and Resilience Engineer
Biography
Earthquake Engineer with in-depth research and consultancy experience in seismic performance assessment of buildings and functional services; - Direct field experience in earthquake damage survey of buildings, services, components - Good experience in analytical modeling. - International reasearch collaboration in earthquake engineering; - Involvement in the development of relevant design standards of New Zealand; - Handling in-house client jobs on site-specific earthquake hazard study based on probabilistic seismic hazard analysis; - Direct experience in interacting with industries and clients and to obtain research grants for end-user driven projects; - Expertise in earthquake risk assessment and loss estimation of regional portfolios; - Leadership skills - Project management skills - Networking and communication skills - Seismic instrumentation of buildings and bridges (leading the project) - Academic with excellent teaching experience at bachelor and master level programmes, curriculum development, laboratory establishment, testing and consultancy experience. Specialties Earthquake risk assessment of building structure, building services Development of design guidelines on high-level storage steel pallet racks Experience with seismic design/assessment for international standards for structural designs Site-specific earthquake hazard study through probabilistic seismic hazard analysis Seismic instrumentation in buildings and bridges
Qualifications
- PhD, Structural Engineering/Earthquake Engineering
- MS, Structural Engineering
- Bachelor of Engineering, Civil Engineering
- Post Doctoral Fellow, Performance-based Earthquake Engineering
Areas of expertise
- Engineering: Post earthquake reconnaissance
- Engineering: Performance based Earthquake Engineering
- Engineering: Seismic instrumentation
- Engineering: Nonstructural components
- Engineering: Natural Hazards Risk Assessment
- Engineering: Structural Health Monitoring
- Engineering: Industrial pallet racks
- Engineering: Structural engineering
- Engineering: Numerical modelling
- Engineering: Team leadership and project management
- Engineering: Stakeholder engagement
- Engineering: Earthquake Engineering (Structures)
Major Publications
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- Probabilistic assessment of road accessibility under cascading hazards, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 91: 26 p.. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.103692.
- Planning for resilience of water networks under earthquake hazard A case study for Rotorua District, New Zealand, Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering 54(2): p. 135-152. DOI: 10.5459/bnzsee.54.2.135-152.
- 'End to end' linkage structure for integrated impact assessment of infrastructure networks under natural hazards, Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering 54(2): p. 153-162. DOI: 10.5459/bnzsee.54.2.153-162.
- Earthquake damage repair loss estimation in New Zealand : what other variables are essential based on experts opinions?, Buildings 11(9): article 385. DOI: 10.3390/buildings11090385.
- Factors impacting post-earthquake damage repair cost estimations, International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment 12(1): p. 29-49. DOI: 10.1108/IJDRBE-10-2019-0071.
- Improving Wellington regions resilience through integrated infrastructure resilience investments, Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering 54(2): p. 117-134. DOI: 10.5459/bnzsee.54.2.117-134.
- Modelling residential habitability and human displacement for tsunami scenarios in Christchurch, New Zealand, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 43: article 101403. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2019.101403.
- From physical disruption to community impact : modelling a Wellington Fault earthquake, Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies 23(2): p. 65-75.
- Empirical fragility curves for non-residential buildings from the 2010-2011 Canterbury Earthquake Sequence, Journal of earthquake engineering 22(5): p. 749-777. DOI: 10.1080/13632469.2016.1264322.
- Response of instrumented buildings under the 2016 Kaikoura earthquake, Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering 50(2): p. 237-252.
- Using failure analysis tools to establish seismic resilience objectives for building components and systems, Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering 49(1): p. 86-97.
- Evaluation of displacement-based vulnerability assessment methodology using observed damage data from Christchurch, Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics 43(15): p. 2319-2339. DOI: 10.1002/eqe.2450.
- Inter-storey drift limits of buildings at ultimate limit states, Implementing lessons learnt : 2012 Conference, 13-15 April, Christchurch, New Zealand : paper 011 (10 p.).
- Comparison of main-shock and aftershock fragility curves developed for New Zealand and US buildings, Ninth Pacific Conference on Earthquake Engineering : building an earthquake resilient society, April 14-16, 2011, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand : paper 227.
- Observed performance of industrial pallet rack storage systems in the Canterbury earthquakes, Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering 44(4): p. 388-393. DOI: 10.5459/bnzsee.44.4.388-393.
- The GeoNet building instrumentation programme, Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering 44(1): p. 53-63.
- A revised guide for the design, construction and operation of high level storage racking systems following the Darfield Earthquake, Ninth Pacific Conference on Earthquake Engineering : building an earthquake resilient society, April 14-16, 2011, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand : paper 178.
- Seismic actions on acceleration sensitive non-structural components in ductile frames, Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering 43(2): p. 110-125.
- Development of probabilistic framework for performance-based seismic assessment of structures considering residual deformations, Journal of earthquake engineering 14(7): p. 1092-1111. DOI: 10.1080/13632460903556509.