Staff profiles
Vinod SadashivaSenior Risk and Resilience Engineer
Qualifications
- PhD, Structural Engineering
- MTech, Construction Technology
- BE, Civil Engineering
Areas of expertise
- Engineering: Earthquake Engineering (Structures)
- Engineering: Natural Hazards Risk Assessment
- Engineering: Natural hazards assessment
- Engineering: Numerical modelling
- Engineering: Performance based Earthquake Engineering
- Engineering: Risk assessment
- Engineering: Structural engineering
- Engineering: Structural response
- Engineering: Engineering Softwere
- Engineering: Nonstructural components
- Engineering: Liquefaction assessment
- Engineering: Post earthquake reconnaissance
- Engineering: Seismic resilience of infrastructure
- Engineering: Team leadership and project management
- Business Development: Impact Assessment
- Business Development: Numerical Modelling
- Business Development: Risk Assessment
- Business Development: Risk Communication
- Business Development: Risk Transfer
- Business Development: Risk reduction
- Geophysics: Assets models
- Geophysics: Commercial Project Management
- Geophysics: Earthquake loss modelling
- Geophysics: Earthquake vulnerability studies
- Geophysics: Landslide Modelling
- Geophysics: Probabilist hazard and risk
- Geophysics: Volcano loss modelling
Publications
Selection of major publications
- Quantifying effects of explicit representation of buildings in tsunami inundation simulations, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 81: article 103277. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103277. article 103277
- Reducing disaster impact by targeted infrastructure resilience investments : a case study involving the water and wastewater networks in Wellington, New Zealand, Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure 7(5): p. 439-458. DOI: 10.1080/23789689.2021.1925400. p. 439-458
- 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. p. 117-134
- Seismic fragility curves for stainless-steel wine storage tanks, Structures 33: p. 4766-4780. DOI: 10.1016/j.istruc.2021.07.054. p. 4766-4780
- Assessment of the historic seismic performance of the New Zealand highway bridge stock, Structure and Infrastructure Engineering 17(5): p. 689-701. DOI: 10.1080/15732479.2020.1762675. p. 689-701
- Transport infrastructure performance and management in the South Island of New Zealand, during the first 100 days following the 2016 Mw 7.8 "Kaikoura" earthquake, Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering 50(2): p. 271-299. DOI: 10.5459/bnzsee.50.2.271-299. p. 271-299