Development and evaluation of seismic protection techniques to preserve historic masonry structures in Melbourne

This one-minute video explains my PhD research on protecting Melbourne’s nineteenth-century bluestone masonry buildings from earthquakes. Laboratory shake-table tests on half-scale walls, finite-element ‘digital twins’, and an innovative fibre-reinforced lime coating are combined to map risk across 4 000 heritage structures and offer a cost-effective retrofit that increases drift capacity by sixty percent while preserving cultural value.