Jaroslav Vaculik

Biography

Australia has a wealth of culturally significant heritage masonry buildings constructed from the colonial years of the early 1800s up to the early-to-mid 1900s. Whilst these buildings tend to be among the most earthquake-prone of our overall building stock, undertaking seismic assessment of such buildings is insufficiently catered for by our modern-day design standards. This research aims to characterise Australia's heritage stone and clay brick masonry buildings in terms of material properties and structural layouts to better understand their behaviour under earthquake loading, and to devise efficient methods for strengthening them for better earthquake performance so that they can survive for future generations.

Research Interest

Medicine,Medical Education,Research,etc