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Gap effects on the seismic ductility of brick infilled concrete frames
No full textM.C. Griffith & R. Alai
Playing with Fire: Understanding the Sunni-Shi'a Sectarian Lifecycle
No full textThis article discusses the ingrained impediments which are likely to stifle India's rise and growth - a phenomenon which has figured prominently in scholarly and official assessments, in India and outside, for over a decade now. Intriguingly India's rise as a global power has already been adjudged a certainty in these assessments, but the author contends that there exists an apparent disjuncture between how the world sees India and the prevailing internal impediments. Therefore, any assessment of India as a global power without incorporating these impediments would be incomplete, misplaced and hyperbolic. Of late, in the light of India's growing internal and external socio-economic and political difficulties, more and more writings and proclamations by Indian and international experts indicate emerging scepticism over India's potential as a global power. This paper takes a rollcall of India's internal impediments including, human development, institutional and security challenges which according to the author have already begun restraining India's global ascent.Griffith Business School, Griffith Asia InstituteFull Tex
Pullout strength of NSM CFRP strips bonded to vintage clay brick masonry
No full textAbstract not availableD. Dizhur, M.C. Griffith, J.M. Ingha
Canyons and Ice: The Wilderness Travel of Dick Griffith
No full textDick Griffith journeyed across Alaska, Canada, Mexico, and the American West. According to Jon Krakauer, "Griffith is simply afflicted with an irresistible inclination to attempt what others say can't be done. When asked what possesses a man to repeatedly strike out alone across hundreds of miles of rugged, lonely country, he replies, 'Every so often, it's just time to walk.'" Kaylene Johnson is author of five books about Alaska including her memoir A Tender Distance: Adventures Raising My Son in Alaska
Prediction of Wave-Induced Seabed Maximum Liquefaction Depth Using Artificial Neural Network Model
No full textIn the last few decades, considerable effort has been devoted to the phenomenon of wave-induced liquefaction. In deed, it is one of the most important factors used in analysing
the seabed stability and in designing marine structures. As waves propagate and fluctuate
over the ocean surface, energy is carried within the medium of the water particles. When
this energy is transmitted into the seabed, the results are a rather complex mechanism of
soil behaviours that significantly affect the stability of the seabed.
The prediction of wave-induced seabed liquefaction has been recognised by coastal
geotechnical engineers as an important factor when considering the design of marine
structures. All existing prediction of wave-induced seabed liquefaction models have been
based on conventional approaches of engineering mechanics, with limited laboratory work.
Previous studies have involved complicated procedures and complex mathematical methods.
The present meticulous study has been based on the existing poro-elastic wave-induced
seabed liquefaction solution, and has adopted Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to
predict maximum wave-induced seabed liquefaction. The author has proposed an alternative
approach for prediction of the maximum liquefaction depth, based on the Artificial
Neural Network (ANN). Unlike previous engineering mechanical approaches, the various
proposed ANN models are based on data learning knowledge, rather than on the knowledge
of the mechanisms. The author has concluded that ANN models can be applicable
to such engineering exercise at least this study.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Griffith School of EngineeringScience, Environment, Engineering and TechnologyFull Tex
Australian earthquake engineering in the new millennium - where to from here?: proceedings of a conference held by the Australian Earthquake Engineering Society, Mt. Gambier, South Australia 2004
No full textEditors K. McCue, M.C. Griffith, B. Butlerhttp://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/57657/20060405-0000/www.aees.org.au/Proceedings/2004_Index.pd
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Oral History Interview with Dotty Griffith, November 21, 2014
No full textInterview with Dotty Griffith, journalist and author from Dallas, Texas. The interview includes discussion of her youth, education, and career in journalism and as an author
Total risk management in the privatised era: Proceedings of a conference held by the Australian Earthquake Engineering Society, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia 2002
No full textEditors: M.C. Griffith, D. Love, P. McBean, A. McDougall, B. Butle
Will the Emerging India Ever Arrive?
No full textThis article discusses the ingrained impediments which are likely to stifle India's rise and growth - a phenomenon which has figured prominently in scholarly and official assessments, in India and outside, for over a decade now. Intriguingly India's rise as a global power has already been adjudged a certainty in these assessments, but the author contends that there exists an apparent disjuncture between how the world sees India and the prevailing internal impediments. Therefore, any assessment of India as a global power without incorporating these impediments would be incomplete, misplaced and hyperbolic. Of late, in the light of India's growing internal and external socio-economic and political difficulties, more and more writings and proclamations by Indian and international experts indicate emerging scepticism over India's potential as a global power. This paper takes a rollcall of India's internal impediments including, human development, institutional and security challenges which according to the author have already begun restraining India's global ascent.Full Tex
The Need for Australian Constitutional Theory
No full textThis article was published to help launch the Australian Constitutional Theory project, whose purpose was to examine fundamental aspects of the Australian polity and constitution. The author poses a series of questions for Australian constitutional theory in the 1990s: questions for whom traditional responses are no longer adequate. These include: democracy, rights, federalism, judging, and the rule of law. Whilst advocating the development of an Australian constitutional theory, the author discusses the mistakes theory laden work can fall into, in particular the problem of importing theory. Key distinctions about the Australian context are discussed, especially the primacy of federalism, limited government and the diffusion of power, and the problems and undesirability of searching for an original intent in Australian constitutionalism (which forms a response to Professor Greg Craven).Full Tex
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