Dr Michael Griffith

Biography/ Background

Dr Griffith is a Professor in the School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering at the University of Adelaide where he has been since completing his PhD at the University of California at Berkeley in 1988.  He has authored or co-authored 2 book chapters and over 140 refereed papers in the field of earthquake engineering and structural dynamics and has attracted over $2.5 million competitive funding since 1990 for his research.  His professional interests are in the field of earthquake engineering and include training practising engineers to work with Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) teams throughout Australia.

 

His current research activity is on trying to develop improved methods for seismic assessment of unreinforced brick masonry buildings and the non-linear dynamic response of reinforced concrete frames and seismic retrofit of concrete columns using composite plating techniques.  He is also currently involved with specialist consultant work for engineering firms in the field of earthquake engineering, is a member of the joint Australia-New Zealand Standards Earthquake Loading committee, and previously worked as a structural engineer in Berkeley, specialising in the earthquake analysis and design of piping systems in nuclear power plants.

Qualifications

1988                Ph.D. in Engineering               University of California, Berkeley

1983                M.Sc. in Civil Engineering      Washington State University (WSU), Pullman, WA

1982                B.Sc. in Civil Engineering      Washington State University, Pullman, WA

Awards & Achievements

2011                TMS Journal Outstanding Paper Award, The Masonry Society (USA)

2010                Awarded Honorary Life Membership to Australian Earthquake Engineering Society

2000                Adelaide University PGSA, nominated for Postgraduate Supervisor of the Year

1995                Master Builders Association Commendation for Excellence in R & D

1992                The University of Adelaide PGSA, Post-Graduate Supervisor of the Year Award

Teaching Interests

During my 21 years at Adelaide, I have taught subjects to students at all year levels of the BE(Civil) degree course as well as some subjects in the Bachelor of Architecture degree course.  I take great pride in my teaching and regard this aspect of university work to be very important.  Indeed, I enrolled in and completed the ACUE (as it was then) course for new university lecturers in 1988 long before it was a requirement for newly appointed lecturers.  I believe that students consider me to be a very good teacher – as evidenced by the anecdotal feedback I receive from them and from the “scores” I receive from them on the SELTs.  For example, only once since 2002 have I received less than 6 out of 7 for their response to “All things considered, how would you rate Dr Griffith’s effectiveness as a university lecturer”. 

 

While my teaching has been primarily in the area of structural engineering, I have also taught Construction and Surveying to our students and regularly assist with the running of group projects in the 1^st year introductory subject Engineering Planning and Design. 

 

Significantly, I was invited to give the “Seismic design of masonry buildings” course to the post-graduate students at the European School for the Reduction of Seismic Risk at the University of Pavia in northern Italy, in January 2007.  This is a very high honour as the lecturers for all the courses in this programme are international experts from highly regarded universities around the world (see school website: http://www.roseschool.it/index.php?option=com_lecturers&Itemid=84).

 

Outside of the classroom I have served as a course advisor to undergraduate students since 1997 and have been heavily involved with curriculum development for the department’s two existing degree programmes as well as implementation of the new Architectural Engineering and Mining Engineering degrees.  A list of the administrative activities related to my undergraduate teaching as well as a partial list of the civil engineering subjects which I have taught is given below.

 

Research Interests

Associate Professor Griffith has nearly 20 years research experience in the area of earthquake resistant design and analysis of structures, beginning with his PhD research at the University of California at Berkeley.  During this time he has published over 140 refereed papers in this area and attracted over $2.5 million dollars in competitive research funding in Australia. 

 

In the field of earthquake engineering, Dr Griffith has been closely involved with the development of new technologies to improve the seismic resistance of both new and existing structures.  His initial work in this field, based on his PhD research, was to demonstrate experimentally and theoretically the feasibility and reliability of seismic isolation as an effective seismic design strategy for a wide range of building heights and earthquake ground motions.

 

His research at the University of Adelaide has focussed on developing methods to prevent earthquake induced damage, including collapse, of unreinforced masonry buildings and non-seismically designed reinforced concrete frames.  Recent outcomes and progress in these areas are described below.

 

Masonry Research:

His research on masonry walls has led to the development of a displacement-based analysis technique for assessing the earthquake resistance of existing and the design of new masonry walls in vertical bending.  Currently he is working with colleagues to extend this innovative design technique to walls subject to bi-axial (two-way) bending.

 

In addition, some of his results from shaking table tests on typical wall connections in masonry buildings have already been incorporated into the Australian Masonry Structures Code in the form of amendments to allow friction to be considered as part of the seismic load path.

 

Two projects that are currently in progress involve (1) establishing deemed-to-comply design guidelines for masonry buildings under 15m tall with respect to earthquake loading; and (2) developing an innovative technique for earthquake strengthening of masonry walls using fibre reinforced polymers in such a way that it does not alter the normal, aesthetic appearance of masonry.

 

Concrete Frame Research:

Earthquake related research on concrete structures at Adelaide has focussed on the seismic performance of concrete frames whose design is dominated by gravity-load considerations and methods for their seismic upgrade.  Experimental research has consisted of shaking table tests of 1/5-scale concrete frame structures, quasi-static cyclic testing of ½-scale concrete frames with and without masonry infill panels, and monotonic static and quasi-static cyclic testing of concrete columns.  Non-linear dynamic modelling procedures have now been developed that can accurately model the dynamic behaviour observed during experiments.  Current research is focussed on developing practical methods to improve the strength and ductility of such concrete columns and frames using composite plating techniques that fully accounts for the partial-interaction behaviour between the concrete sections and the plates.

 

Research Funding

Funding Organisation	Project Title	Funding
ARC LIEF (2010) jointly with Swinburne	Hybrid Testing Facility for Structures under Extreme Loads”	$870,000
ARC Discovery (2009 – 11), 2nd CI with Oehlers and Ali.	A unified reinforced concrete model for flexure and shear	$400,000
ARC Discovery (2008 – 10), 1st CI with Masia & Ingham	Earthquake protection of masonry buildings using fibre reinforced polymer strengthening	$430,000
Clay Brick and Paver Institute (2006-07)	Earthquake design criteria for low-rise unreinforced clay brick masonry buildings	$35,000
Clay Brick and Paver Institute (2005-06)	Earthquake reliability of low-rise unreinforced clay brick masonry construction	$35,000
ARC Discovery (2005-07), 2nd CI with D Oehlers	Ductile FRP retrofit of concrete frames subject to static and earthquake loading	$268,000
ARC Linkage-Int’l (2005-07), 1st CI with Magenes (Italy)	Displacement-based assessment of the seismic resistance of unreinforced masonry buildings	$52,450
ARC Discovery (2004-06), 1st CI with J Wilson & N Lam	Displacement-based earthquake design of unreinforced masonry walls in two-way bending	$185,734
Adelaide Univ. SRG (2003)	Displacement-based design of unreinforced masonry walls in bending	$5,000
Adelaide Univ. SRG (2002)	Dynamic analysis of critical failure modes in brick masonry buildings	$9,000
ARC RIEF (2001) jointly with U. Newcastle & Monash	Very stiff three-dimensional testing facility	$269,500
Adelaide Univ. SRG (2001)	Displacement capacity of brick masonry walls subject to dynamic loading	$12,000
ARC IREX Scheme (2001-02), 1st CI with Monti & Oehlers	Innovative materials and technologies for seismic upgrading of bridge and building structures	$26,300

Publications

PUBLICATIONS (2002 onwards)

1.         Books/Monographs/Symposia

 Oehlers, DJ, Griffith, MC and Seracino, R (editors) (2009).  “Proceedings of the 9^th International Symposium on fiber-Reinforced Polymer Reinforcement for Concrete Structures,” 13 – 15 July, Sydney, Australia, 287p.

 McCue, K, Griffith, MC and Butler, B (editors), (2004).  “Australian earthquake engineering in the new millennium – where to from here?” Proceedings of the 2004 Australian Earthquake Engineering Society Conference, held at Mt. Gambier, South Australia, AEES publisher.

 Griffith, MC, Love, D, McBean, P, McDougall, A and Butler, B (editors), (2002). “Total risk management in the privatised era,” Proceedings of the 2002 Australian Earthquake Engineering Conference, held at the University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australian Earthquake Engineering Society publisher.

 

2.         Journal Articles

 Ingham, J. and Griffith, M. (2011).  “Damage to unreinforced masonry structures byseismic activity,” The Structural Engineer, The Institution of Structural Engineers, 89(3): 14-15.

 

Ingham, J.M. and Griffith, M.C. (2011).  “Performance of unreinforced masonry buildings during the 2010 Darfield (Christchurch, NZ) earthquake,” Australian Journal of Structural Engineering, Engineers Australia, 11(3): 207-224.

Su, Y., Wu, C. and Griffith, M.C. (2011).  “Modelling of the bond-slip behaviour in FRP reinforced masonry,” Construction and Building Materials, 25(1): 328-334.

Dizhur, D., Derakhshan, H., Lumantarna, R., Griffith, M.C. and Ingham, J.M. (2010).  “Out-of-plane strengthening of unreinforced masonry walls using near surface mounted fibre reinforced polymer strips,” Structural Engineering Society of New Zealand (SESOC) Journal, 23(2): 91-103.

Oehlers, D.J., Haskett, M., Mohamed Ali, M.S. and Griffith, M.C. (2010).  “Moment redistribution in reinforced concrete beams,” Proceedings ICE, Structures and Buildings, 163(3): 165-176.

Derakhshan, H., Dizhur, D., Lumantarna, R., Cuthbert, J., Griffith, M.C. and Ingham, J.M. (2010).  “In-field simulated seismic testing of as-built and retrofitted unreinforced masonry partition walls of the William Weir House in Wellington,” Structural Engineering Society of New Zealand (SESOC) Journal, 23(1): 51-61.

Griffith, MC, Ingham, JM and Weller, R (2010).  “Earthquake reconnaissance – forensic engineering on an urban scale,” Australian Journal of Structural Engineering, Engineers Australia, 11(1): 63-74.

Mohamed Ali, M.S., Oehlers, D.J. and Griffith, M.C., (2010).  “Residual strength of confined concrete,”  Advances in Structural Engineering,  13(4):603-618.

 Lumantarna, E., Lam, NTK, Wilson, JL and Griffith, MC (2010).  “Inelastic displacement demand of strength degraded structures,” Journal of Earthquake Engineering, 14(4): 487-511.

Willis, CR, Seracino, R, Wu, C and Griffith, MC (2010).  “Out-of-plane strength of brick masonry retrofitted with horizontal NSM CFRP strips,” Engineering Structures, 32(2): 547-555.

Oyarzo-Vera, C. and Griffith, M.C. (2009).  “The M_W 6.3 Abruzzo (Italy) Earthquake of April 6 2009: on-site observations,” Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 42(4): 302-307.

Willis, C.R., Yang, Q., Seracino, R., and Griffith, M.C. (2009).  “Bond behaviour of FRP-to-clay brick masonry joints,” Engineering Structures, 31(11): 2580-2587.

Lawrence, SJ, Willis, CR, Melkoumian, N and Griffith, MC, (2009).  “Earthquake design of unreinforced masonry residential buildings up to 15 metres in height,” Australian Journal of Structural Engineering, 10(1): 85-99.

Oehlers, DJ, Griffith, MC and Mohamed Ali, MS (2009).  “Ductility components and limits of FRP plated RC structures,” Construction and Building Materials, 23(4): 1538-1543.

Willis, CR, Yang, Q, Seracino, R and Griffith, MC (2009).  “Damaged masonry walls in two-way bending retrofitted with vertical FRP strips,” Construction and Building Materials, 23(4): 1591-1604 .

Su, Y., Wu, C. And Griffith, M (2008).  “Mitigation of blast effects on aluminum foam protected masonry walls,” Transactions of Tianjin University, DOI 10.1007/s12209-008-0096-5, Vol. 14: 558-562.

Sorrentino, L, Masiani, R and Griffith, MC (2008).  “The vertical spanning strip wall as a coupled rocking rigid body assembly,” Structural Engineering and Mechanics, 29(4): 433-453.

Daniell, J.E., Oehlers, D.J., Griffith, M.C., Mohamed Ali, M.S. and Ozbakkaloglu, T. (2008).  “The softening rotation of reinforced concrete members,” Engineering Structures, 30(11): 3159-3166.

 Oehlers, D.J., Mohammed Ali, M.S., and Griffith, M.C. (2008). “Concrete component of the rotational ductility of reinforced concrete flexural members,” Advances in Structural Engineering, 11(3): 293-303.

Mohamed Ali, MS, Oehlers, DJ and Griffith, MC, (2008), “Simulation of plastic hinges in FRP plated RC beams,” ASCE Journal of Composites for Construction, 12(6): 617-625.

 Mohamed Ali, MS, Oehlers, DJ and Griffith, MC (2008).  “Shear transfer across cracks in FRP strengthened RC structures,” ASCE Journal of Composites for Construction, 12(4): 416-424.

Morandi, P, Magenes, G and Griffith, MC, (2008).  “Second order effects in out-of-plane strength of URM walls subject to bending and compression,” Australian Journal of Structural Engineering, Institution of Engineers, Australia, 8(2): 133-144.

Lawrence, SJ, Willis, CR and Griffith, MC, (2008).  “Earthquake performance of unreinforced masonry residential buildings designed to Australian standards,” Australian Journal of Structural Engineering, Institution of Engineers, Australia, 8(1): 49-62.

Mohamed Ali, MS, Oehlers, DJ, Griffith, MC and Seracino, R, (2008), “Interfacial stress transfer of near surface mounted FRP-to-concrete joints,” Engineering Structures, 30(7): 1861-1868.

Griffith, MC and Vaculik J, (2007).  “Static tests of unreinforced brick masonry walls in 2-way bending,” TMS Journal, The Masonry Society, Boulder, Colorado, September, pp. 53-68.  Received ‘TMS Journal Outstanding Paper Award, The Masonry Society (USA)

Griffith, MC, Vaculik, J, Lam, NTK, Wilson, J and Lumantarna, E (2007). “Cyclic tests of brick masonry walls in bending,” Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, John Wiley and Sons, 36(6): 801-821.

Willis, CR, Lawrence, SJ and Griffith, MC, (2006).  “Moment capacities of unreinforced masonry sections in bending,” Australian Journal of Structural Engineering, The Institution of Engineers, Australia, 6(2): 133-146.

Griffith, MC, Lam, NTK and Wilson, JL, (2006).  “Displacement-based assessment of the seismic capacity of unreinforced masonry walls in bending,” Australian Journal of Structural Engineering, The Institution of Engineers, Australia, 6(2): 119-132.

Griffith, MC, Lawrence, SJ and Willis, CR, (2005). “Diagonal bending of unreinforced clay brick masonry,” Masonry International, 18(3): 125-138.

Griffith, MC, Wu, YF and Oehlers, DJ, (2005).  “Behaviour of steel plated RC columns subject to lateral loading,” Advances in Structural Engineering, 8(4): 333-347.

Willis, CR Griffith, MC and Lawrence, SJ, (2004).  “Horizontal bending of unreinforced clay brick masonry walls,” Masonry International, 17(3): 109-121.

Wu, YF, Oehlers, DJ and Griffith, MC, (2004).  “Rational definition of the flexural deformation capacity of RC column sections,” Engineering Structures, Elsevier Publishers, 26(5): 641-650.

Wu, YF, Griffith, MC and Oehlers, DJ, (2004).  “Numerical simulation of steel plated RC columns,” Computers and Structures Journal, Elsevier Publishers, U.K., 82(4-5): 359-371.

Griffith, MC, Lam, NTK, Wilson, JL and Doherty, K, (2004).  “Experimental investigation of URM walls in flexure,” Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, 130(3): 423-432.

Griffith, MC, (2003).  “Australian earthquake engineering: achievements, challenges and obstacles,” Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 36(2): 117-124.

Griffith, MC, Magenes, G, Melis, G and Picchi, L, (2003).  “Evaluation of out-of-plane stability of unreinforced masonry walls subjected to seismic excitation,” Journal of Earthquake Engineering, 7(SI1): 141-169.

Lam, NTK, Griffith, MC, Wilson, JL and Doherty, K, (2003).  “Time-history analysis of URM walls in out-of-plane flexure,” Engineering Structures, 25(5): 743-754.

Wu, YF, Griffith, MC and Oehlers, DJ, (2003).  “Improving the strength and ductility of rectangular RC columns through composite partial-interaction: Tests,” Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, 129(9): 1183-1190.

Jaksa, MB, Griffith, MC, and Grounds, RW, (2002).  “Ground vibrations associated with installing enlarged base driven cast-in-situ piles,” Australian Geomechanics, The Institution of Engineers, Australia, 37(1): 67-73.

Doherty, K, Griffith, MC, Lam, NTK and Wilson, JL, (2002).  “Displacement-based analysis for out-of-plane bending of seismically loaded unreinforced masonry walls,” Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, John Wiley and Sons, 31(4): 833-850.

Griffith, MC, Kawano, A and Warner, RF, (2002).  “Towards a direct collapse-load method of design for concrete frames subjected to severe ground motions,” Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, John Wiley & Sons, 31(10): 1879-1888.

Wu, YF, Oehlers, DJ and Griffith, MC, (2002).  “Partial interaction analysis of composite beam/column members,” Mechanics of Structures and Machines, 30(3): 309-332.

 

3.         Conference Papers

Ismail, N, Ingham, JM and Griffith, MC (2011).  “Performance of masonry buildings during the 2010 Darfield (New Zealand) earthquake,” Proceedings, 11^th North American Masonry Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 5 – 8 June, Paper No. 189.

Kashyap, J, Willis, CR, and Griffith, MC (2011).  “Influence of spacing on flexural strength of FRP reinforced masonry walls,” Proceedings, 9^th Australasian Masonry Conference, Queenstown, New Zealand, 15 – 18 February 2011.

Wenzel, N, Harbison, A, Willis, CR and Griffith, MC (2011).  “Flexural strength of FRP reinforced masonry walls subject to reverse cyclic loading and vertical pre-compression,” Proceedings, 9^th Australasian Masonry Conference, Queenstown, New Zealand, 15 – 18 February 2011.

Griffith, MC, Ingham, JM, Masia, MJ and Page, AW (2011).  “Australia-New Zealand research into seismic retrofit of masonry structures using near-surface mounted FRP strips,” Proceedings, 9^th Australasian Masonry Conference, Queenstown, New Zealand, 15 – 18 February 2011.

Griffith, MC, Ingham, JM and Moon, L (2010).  “Implications of the 2010 Darfield (Christchurch, NZ) earthquake for Australia – are we ready?,” keynote paper, Proceedings, Australian Earthquake Engineering Society Conference, 26-28 November 2010, Perth, Paper No. 55.

Edwards, M, Griffith, M, Wehner, M, Lam, N, Corby, N, Jakab, M and Habili, N (2010).  “The Kalgoorlie earthquake of the 20^th April 2010: Preliminary damage survey outcomes,” Proceedings, Australian Earthquake Engineering Society Conference, 26-28 November 2010, Perth, Paper No. 14.

Derakhshan, H, Griffith, MC and Ingham, JM (2010).  “Out-of-plane stability of unreinforced masonry walls connected to flexible diaphragms,” Proceedings, 8^th International Masonry Conference, Dresden, Germany, 4 – 7 July.

Vaculik, J and Griffith, MC (2010).  “Probabilistic approach for calculating strength of unreinforced masonry in horizontal bending,” Proceedings, 8^th International Masonry Conference, Dresden, Germany, 4 – 7 July.

Derakhshan, H, Ingham, J and Griffith, M (2010).  “Effects of unreinforced masonry wall slenderness ratio on out-of-plane post-cracking dynamic stability,” Proceedings, New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering 2010 Conference, Wellington, NZ, Paper 55.

Dizhur, D, Derakhshan, D, Lumantarna, R, Griffith, MC and Ingham, JM (2010).  “In-situ out-of-plane testing of unreinforced masonry,” Proceedings, New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering 2010 Conference, Wellington, NZ, Paper 86.

Vaculik, J, Griffith, MC and Magenes, G (2010).  “Collapse load predictions for masonry walls in bending,” Proceedings, 8^th International Masonry Conference, Dresden, Germany, 4 – 7 July.

Willis, CR, Griffith, MC and Ingham, J (2009).  “Design of FRP retrofitted masonry under out-of-plane bending,” Proceedings, Asia-Pacific Conference on FRP in Structures, Seoul, South Korea, 9-11 December, pp 163-168.

Overo, C and Griffith, MC (2009).  “The M_W 6.3 Abruzzo, Italy earthquake of April 6 2009: on site observations,” Proceedings, Australian Earthquake Engineering Society Conference, Newcastle, NSW, 11 – 13 December, paper 24.

Willis, C, Kashyap, J and Griffith, M (2009).  “Flexural behaviour of NSM CFRP retrofitted masonry wallettes under static and cyclic loading,” Proceedings, FRPRCS-9 Conference, Sydney, Australia, July 12 – 15.

Su, Y, Wu, C and Griffith, MC, (2009).  “Performance of retrofitted masonry walls under blast loads,” Proceedings, FRPRCS-9 Conference, Sydney, Australia, July 12 – 15.

Lucas, W, Oehlers, D, Mohamed Ali, MS and Griffith, M (2009).  “Design of FRP reinforced concrete beams against shear failure,” Proceedings, FRPRCS-9 Conference, Sydney, Australia, July 12 – 15.

Dizhur, D., Derakhshan, H., Ingham, J.M. and Griffith, M.C. (2009).  “In-situ out-of-plane testing of unreinforced masonry partition walls,” Proceedings, 11^th Canadian Masonry Symposium, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 31 – June 3.

Derakhshan, H., Ingham, J.M. and Griffith, M.C. (2009).  “Out-of-plane assessment of an unreinforced masonry wall: Comparison with the NZSEE recommendations,” Proceedings, 2009 New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering Technical Conference, Christchurch, April 3-5, paper No. 33.

Vaculik, J. and Griffith, M.C. (2008).  “Time history analysis for unreinforced masonry walls in two-way bending,” Proceedings, World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Bejing, China.

Su, Y., Wu, C. and Griffith, M.C. (2008).  “Numerical simulation of bond-slip models between FRP and masonry in pull tests,” Proceedings, 10^th International Symposium on Structural Engineering for Young Experts, Hunan, China, 19-21 October, pp 530 – 560.

Kashyap, J., Griffith, M.C. and Ozbakkaloglu, T. (2008).  “Seismic behaviour of reinforced concrete frames in Australia,” Proceedings, 2008 Australian Earthquake Engineering Conference, Ballarat, Victoria, 21 – 23 November, paper No. 29.

Oehlers, D.J., Mohammed Ali M.S., Haskett, M. and Griffith, M.C. (2008).  “Ductility design of FRP retrofitted RC structures, Proceedings, 5^th International Conference on Advanced Composite Materials in Bridges and Structures (ACMBS-V), Winnipeg, Canada, Sept. 22-24.

Griffith, M.C. (2008).  “Seismic design of masonry buildings in Australia,” Invited Keynote Paper, Proceedings, 14^th International Brick and Block Masonry Conference, Sydney, Australia, February 17-20, 2008.

Willis, C.R., Wu, C., Griffith, M.C. and Seracino, R. (2008).  “Horizontal bending of FRP retrofitted masonry small wall specimens,” Proceedings, 14^th International Brick and Block Masonry Conference, Sydney, Australia, February 17-20, 2008, Paper No. 142.

Yu, S., Wu, C. and Griffith, M.C., (2008).  “Numerical analysis of out-of-plane loaded masonry wall using homogenization technique,” Proceedings, 14^th International Brick and Block Masonry Conference, Sydney, Australia, February 17-20, 2008, Paper No. 146.

Vaculik, J., Lumantarna, E., Griffith, M.C., Lam, N.T.K. and Wilson, J.L. (2008).  “Out-of-plane seismic response of unreinforced masonry walls: an overview of research in Australia,” Proceedings, 14^th International Brick and Block Masonry Conference, Sydney, Australia, February 17-20, 2008, Paper No. 206.

Oehlers, D.J., Mohammed Ali, M.S., Haskett, M. and Griffith, M.C. (2008).  “ A partial-interaction ductility model for FRP plated RC flexural members,” Proceedings, 4^th International Conference on FRP Composites in Civil Engineering (CICE 2008), Zurich, Switzerland, July 22-24.

Oehlers, D.J., Mohammed Ali M.S., Griffith, M.C. and Ozbakkaloglu, T (2007) “Fundamental issues that govern the rotation of FRP retrofitted RC columns and beams: the intractable plastic hinge ductility problem”, Asia-Pacific Conference on FRP in Structures, APFIS 002, Hong Kong, December, KEYNOTE.

Willis, CR, Wu, C, Seracino, R and Griffith, MC (2007).  “Displacement-induced and intermediate crack debonding in FRP strengthened one-way masonry beams,” Proceedings, Asia-Pacific Conference on FRP in Structures, Hong Kong, December.

Brunsdon, D, Bull, D, Hammond, D, Griffith, M and Wilson, J (2007).  “Training engineers for urban search and rescue across the Pacific: Background, current status and future challenges,” Proceedings, 8^th Pacific Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Singapore, Dec 5 – 7.

Kashyap, J, Griffith, M and Ozbakkaloglu, T (2007).  “Seismic behaviour of reinforced concrete frames in Australia,” Proceedings, 8^th Pacific Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Singapore, Dec 5 – 7, paper No. 266.

Vaculik, J and Griffith, MC (2007).  “Shake table tests on masonry walls in two-way bending, Proceedings, Australian Earthquake Engineering Society, Woolongong, 23-25 November, paper No. 58.

Vaculik, J, Lumantarna, E, Griffith, MC, Lam, NTK and Wilson, J (2007).  “Dynamic response behaviour of unreinforced masonry walls subject to out-of-plane loading,” Proceedings, Australian Earthquake Engineering Society, Woolongong, 23-25 November, paper No. 35.

Oehlers, DJ, Ali, M and Griffith, MC (2007).  “Ductility of FRP plated flexural members,” Proceedings of FRPRCS-8 Conference, University of Patras, Greece, July 16-18, paper 3-8.

Willis, CR, Yang, Q, Seracino, R and Griffith, MC (2007).  “Analysis of damaged masonry walls retrofitted with vertical FRP strips subjected to out-of-plane loading,” Proceedings of FRPRCS-8 Conference, University of Patras, Greece, July 16-18, paper 18-5.

Willis, CR, Yang, Q, Seracino, R, Xia, SH and Griffith, MC (2006).  “Severely damaged unreinforced masonry walls retrofitted with FRP strips subjected to out-of-plane bending,” 3^rd International Conference on FRP Composites in Civil Engineering, Miami, USA, 13-15 December.

Lumantarna, E, Lam, NTK, Wilson, JL, Griffith, MC and Vaculik, J, 2006.  “The dynamic out-of-plane behaviour of unreinforced masonry walls,” Proceedings of the 19^th Australasian Conference on Mechanics of Structures and Materials, Christchurch, New Zealand, 29 Nov - 1 Dec., pp 401 – 408.

Yang, Q, Willis, CR, Seracino, R, Xia, SH and Griffith, MC (2006).  “Bond tests on FRP retrofitted URM prisms,” Proceedings of the 19^th Australasian Conference on Mechanics of Structures and Materials, Christchurch, New Zealand, 29 Nov - 1 Dec., pp 133 – 140.

Lumantarna, E. Vaculik, J. Griffith, MC, Lam, NTK and Wilson, JL (2006).  “Seismic fragility curves for unreinfrced masonry walls,” Proceedings of 2006 Conference, Australian Earthquake Engineering Society, Canberra, pp 33 – 40.

Russell, AP, Ingham, JM and Griffith, MC (2006).  “Comparing New Zealand’s unreinforced masonry details with those of other seismically active countries,” Proceedings of the 7^th International Masonry Conference, London, Paper No. 42.

Vaculik, J and Griffith, MC (2006).  “Cyclic behaviour of unreinforced masonry walls in two-way bending,” Proceedings of the 7^th International Masonry Conference, London, Paper No. 30.

Vaculik, J, Griffith, M, Lam, N, Wilson, J and Lumantarna, E, (2005).  “Cyclic response of unreinforced clay brick masonry walls,” Proceedings of 2005 Conference, Australian Earthquake Engineering Society, Albury, paper No. 40.

Lumantarna, E, Lam, N, Wilson, J, Griffith, M, and Vaculik, J, (2005).  “Out-of-plane Displacement Behaviour of Unreinforced Masonry Walls from Time-History Analyses,” Proceedings of 2005 Conference, Australian Earthquake Engineering Society, Albury, paper No. 34.

Lawrence, SJ, Willis, CR and Griffith, MC, (2005).  “Further developments in the design of masonry walls in bending,” Proceedings of the Australasian Structural Engineering Conference, Institution of Engineers, Newcastle, Australia.

Vaculik, J and Griffith, MC, (2005).  “Flexural strength of unreinforced clay brick masonry walls,” Proceedings of 10^th Canadian Masonry Symposium, Banff, Alberta Canada.

Vaculik, J, Griffith, M, Hogarth, B and Todd, J,(2004).  “Out-of-plane flexural response testing of dry stack masonry,” Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Earthquake Risk Mitigation, Australian Earthquake Engineering Society, Paper No. 18.

Willis, C, Griffith, MC and Lawrence, SJ, (2004).  “Implications of recent experimental and analytical studies for the design of face-loaded URM walls,” Proceedings of the 7^th Australasian Masonry Conference, Newcastle, pp. 255 – 264.

Griffith, MC, (2003).  “Earthquake engineering in Australia – international collaborations and future directions,” invited keynote paper, Proceedings of Joint NCREE/JRC Workshop on International Collaboration on Earthquake Disaster Mitigation Research, Taipei, pp 101-110.

Griffith, M, Wu, YF and Oehlers, DJ, (2003).  “Steel plated seismic retrofit for RC columns in soft-storey frames,” Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Earthquake Risk Mitigation, Australian Earthquake Engineering Society, Paper No. 9.

Griffith, MC and Magenes, G, (2003).  “Accuracy of displacement-based seismic evaluation of URM wall stability,” Proceedings of the 2003 Pacific Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Christchurch, New Zealand, paper No. 127.

Griffith, MC, (2003).  “Australian earthquake engineering: achievements, challenges and obstacles,” invited keynote paper, Proceedings of the 2003 Pacific Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Christchurch, New Zealand, paper No. 149.

Willis, CR, Griffith, MC and Lawrence, SJ, (2002).  “Horizontal bending of face loaded brick masonry wallettes,” Proceedings of the 6^th International Masonry Conference, London, Published by the British Masonry Society, Stoke-on-Trent, pp. 551-558.

Willis, CR, Griffith, MC and Lawrence, SJ, (2002).  “Non-linear behaviour of out-of-plane loaded URM walls,” Advances in Mechanics of Structures and Materials, Proceedings of 17^th ACMSM, Gold Coast, Balkema Publishers, pp. 539-544.

Potger, GM and Griffith, MC, (2002).  “Using performance criteria to evaluate structural response factors for seismic design,” Advances in Mechanics of Structures and Materials, Proceedings of 17^th ACMSM, Gold Coast, Balkema Publishers, pp. 751-756.

 

 

Professional Associations

Fellow, Institution of Engineers, Australia (CPEng and NPER-3)

Member, Australian Earthquake Engineering Society (National President 2002 - 2004)

Member, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (USA)

Member, New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering

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