Mohd Zamri Ramli

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia | UTM · Department of Structure and Materials

Disaster such as earthquake has an impact to water resources particularly groundwater. The migration of pollutant in groundwater is crucial particularly due to earthquake impact. In addition, the soil moisture content also might influence the pollutant migration. Therefore, this paper presents the investigation of light non-aqueous phase liquid (LN...

With the growth of the number of old buildings in urban cities, there is an imperative demand for retrofitting those buildings to minimize their energy consumption and maximize their sustainability. This article seeks to provide a multi-criteria assessment of different retrofitting scenarios in the Malaysian context, focusing replacement of windows...

Buildings account for a substantial portion of environmental burdens. This study assesses modular concrete Prefabricated Prefinished Volumetric (PPVC) with concrete individual panel system (IPS) concrete construction method. This mode of construction is still nascent in many countries. Therefore, the environmental and economic impacts of PPVC concr...

Malaysia is located in a low seismicity area, thus the buildings in Malaysia were not designed as seismic resistant structures. However, on 5 June 2015, Malaysian was been shocked by the 5.9M Ranau Earthquake which killed 18 climbers of 5 nationalities and was recorded as the largest earthquake in Malaysia since 1976. The earthquake affected some b...

Groundwater resources benefits to human activity for developing country. Groundwater contamination is crucial, particularly due to the amount of leakage and spillage of hydrocarbon liquids such as light non-aqueous phase liquids (LNAPLs), resulting in contaminated the groundwater and unsafe for domestic and agriculture activities. Penetration of hy...

In recent years, off-site volumetric construction has been promoted as a viable strategy for improving the sustainability of the construction industry. Most prefabricated prefinished volumetric construction (PPVC) structures are composed of either steel or concrete; thus, it is imperative to carry out life cycle assessments (LCAs) for both types of...

Groundwater contamination is crucial, particularly due to hydrocarbon liquid leakages. Additionally, the vibration impact affects the migration of hydrocarbon through the subsurface soil to the groundwater surface which is causes by the dynamic stress that is imposed on the soils. Therefore, this paper presents the investigation and discussions on...

Recent natural disaster events have caused damage to structures and led to loss of lives. Steel structure industrial building is one of the important structures that needs to be examined as these structures can have huge impact on the surrounding areas. Therefore, this study presents the fragility curves and performance curves of steel structure in...

Recently, numerous natural disaster events have occurred in various parts of the world. Bridges are one of the most critical structures to be examined to check for defects resulting from disaster events like earthquakes. Therefore, the serviceability of the structure is important to maintain the safety of users. Thus, the main objective of this wor...

Groundwater contaminations due to hydrocarbon or organic solvent spills in saturated or unsaturated zones affect the water resources. The quantity of hydrocarbon spills in the groundwater might influence the hydrocarbon migration. In addition, the soil moisture content in influencing the rate of migration is also unknown. Therefore, this paper pres...

Standardization of building process in medical sectors has provided the ground for specialization levels, ensuring the future buildings will have better quality. The life span of Health Centers in Iran is only one quarter of same building in other countries, which leads to extra cost for both structure and non-structure (hospital facilities & equip...

Flood risk is increasing in Malaysia specifically around river which influencing of climate change. The aim of this study is assessing the vulnerability of building materials by revealing the degree of loss for each structure. There are most five common materials has been assessing namely: brick, concrete block, steel wall panels, wooden wall and p...

Vibrations from vehicle traffic, machinery and operations from construction activities such as blasting are examples of some natural and man-made vibration phenomenon’s that can cause dynamic stress when imposed onto soils. In order to ensure sustainability of the geo-environment, the impacts caused by these vibrations as well as the changes in moi...

In engineering practice, natural and man-made vibration phenomenon can cause dynamic stress to be imposed on soils such as blasting, construction operations and machinery, and vehicle traffic vibrations. This issue need to be addressed to ensure the geo-environment is sustainably secure. Laboratory experiments were conducted to characterize the beh...

Structures such as buildings, bridges and towers are prone to collapse when natural phenomena like earthquake occurred. Therefore, many design codes are reviewed and new technologies are introduced to resist earthquake energy especially on building to avoid collapse. The tuned mass damper is one of the earthquake reduction products introduced on st...

Earthquakes in Malaysia, such as 2008 Bukit Tinggi and 2015 Ranau Earthquake, have caused Malaysian authorities to look into the importance of seismic design for their buildings and bridges. The lack of information in British Standard (BS) about seismic activity is because the seismic hazard is very low in the British region, hence, the design of b...

Earthquake vibration is a natural disasters that needs to be addressed in ensuring the geo-environment is sustainable secure. A physical laboratory model was conducted to characterize the phenomena of vibrated deformable double-porosity. The double-porosity soil characteristic is formed by aggregating kaolin soil with distinct moisture content. A v...

Microtremor array measurement surveys were performed in three locations to determine the shear wave velocity profile down to a depth of 30 m. The shear wave velocity results from the data acquisition of the multichannel surface wave method were compared with the microtremor array measurement in terms of the shear wave velocity profile as a function...

The incidence of natural disasters has recently occurred in Malaysia. Earthquake vibration is a problem that needs to be addressed in ensuring the environment is sustainable safe. A physical experiment model was conducted to characterize the physical phenomena of deformable double-porosity. The double-porosity soil characteristic is formed by aggre...

The problems that occur regarding dynamic loading on tower structure have been a great concern for a very long time. Due to the impact of the nearest active seismic activity zone, the high rise buildings in Malaysia may be at risk if no structural retrofitting scheme is performed on the structure. The Tuned Mass Damper (TMD) is found to be a good e...

The development of bridge design in Malaysia has experienced several changes in its approaches. Bridge inspection identifies the current conditions and the problems in the bridge but seismic vulnerability identifies the expected potential of seismic hazards of a bridge due to lateral seismic forces. The influences and effects of the Sumatran earthq...

Earthquake is one of the most devastating natural disasters on earth. Earthquake effects can cover hundreds of thousands of square kilometers; cause damage to structures or infrastructures facilities, result in loss of life and injury to hundreds of thousands of people, and disrupt the social and economic functioning of the affected area. Usually t...

Concrete plate form many part of structures nowadays. As part of the Structural Health Monitoring (SHM), early damage detection in the structures is vital to assess the severity of the damages and remaining life. Damage in the concrete usually begin with crack initiation. This paper presented a study on new method of crack detection in concrete pla...

Base isolator in bridges has faced numerous transformations on the materials used and its design, especially to isolate horizontal forces, such as earthquakes. Hence, in order to gain better comprehension over the behaviour of different bearing designs of seismic isolation, a finite element analysis had been carried out in this study. The normal pr...

Damages to tunnel based on excessive deformation can be due to axial and curvature deformations when seismic waves propagate either parallel or obliquely to the tunnel. The ovaling or racking deformations of a tunnel structure may develop when waves propagate in a direction perpendicular or nearly perpendicular to the tunnel axis, resulting in a di...

Damages to tunnel based on excessive deformation can be due to axial and curvature deformations when seismic waves propagate either parallel or obliquely to the tunnel. The ovaling or racking deformations of a tunnel structure may develop when waves propagate in a direction perpendicular or nearly perpendicular to the tunnel axis, resulting in a di...

The code of practice for the design of bridge bearings (BS 5400 Part 9.1) and the specification for materials, manufacture, and installation of bridge bearings (BS 5400 Part 9.2) are still being widely used amongst Malaysian bridge designers. The shift of the design practices from conventional British Standard to Eurocode provides awareness on the...

The effect of the long-range great Sumatera fault and subduction zone still in debating among several researchers in Malaysia. The design practice of bridges in Malaysia previously using British Standard and now moving to Eurocodes and Eurocode 8 part 2 explains how to make bridges resistant to earthquakes. As Malaysia is one of the world's largest...

In order to promote earthquake engineering and seismic protection education and encour- age students to participate in a creative scientific competition, a program entitled “Intro- ducing and Demonstrating Earthquake Engineering Research in Schools (IDEERS)” which held at the Taiwan National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering (NCREE). Th...

Malaysia is considered as a very low seismic region country. However countries that border Malaysia such as Indonesia and Philippines are the two most seismically active countries with frequent earthquakes. The close proximity of these countries means that Malaysia is prone to risk of distance earthquakes. As such, anticipated problem associated wi...

Buku ini mendokumentasikan perjalanan program pertukaran pelajar UTMSPACE bersama pelajar Konyang University (KYU), Korea Selatan. Program yang dirancang ini adalah program timbal balas yang telah dijalankan oleh KYU ke UTMSPACE. Program yang terdiri daripada 17 orang mahasiswa UTMSPACE bersama 2 orang pensyarah pengiring berjaya menjalin kerjasama...

Buku ini mendedahkan keberkesanan belajar melalui pertandingan yang mana ia dilihat dapat mempercepatkan proses pembelajaran terutama pembelajaran dalam bidang kejuruteraan. Perbincangan berkisarkan kepada satu kajian kes iaitu sepanjang perjalanan program pertandingan dan kesedaran kejuruteraan gempa bumi peringkat sekolah ke peringkat pengajian s...

This paper presents the development of finite element modelling of Putra Light Rail Transit System (PUTRA LRT) tunnel project for seismic vulnerability study. A two-dimensional finite element model of concrete lining of tunnel with various layers of soils was developed and analyses using SAP2000 program. The model is analyzed using Time History Ana...

This paper evaluates the behavior and performance of laminated hollow circular elastomeric rubber bearings (HRB) and compares them to solid circular elastomeric rubber bearing (SRB). This research intend to develop new model of elastomeric rubber bearing to obtain more lengthens flexibility of fundamental period of elastomeric rubber bearing; the h...

Public building structures in Malaysia include hospitals, schools, offices; quarters have been heavily developed for many states in the country. The performance of the structures against seismic hazard effects human safety, loss of properties and maintenance cost. Seismic load in structural design are considered to resist earthquake effect on struc...

In structural earthquake engineering, natural rubber and steel are used as base isolators for energy dissipation systems to reduce earthquake effect on structures. With laminated natural rubber and steel, the bearing can provide high vertical stiffness and flexibility in horizontal direction to ensure the mounts can support the loading from the str...

ABSTRAK Pada masa ini, banyak berlaku kejadian gempa bumi di kawasan Asia Tenggara. Walaupun pusat gempa bumi berkenaan beratus-ratus kilometer daripada Malaysia, negara kita masih lagi terasa akan kesan gegaran tersebut. Kita semua telah melihat kejadian gempa bumi besar yang berlaku di Aceh pada akhir tahun 2004 dan yang terkini di Jogjakarta. Ke...

Earthquakes are one of nature's greatest disasters in this world. Basically the effects of earthquake on the man-made structures are the main problems for architects and engineers because the effects that caused extensive loss of life are collapses of bridges, buildings and dams. Therefore, the earthquake effects may not only be considered by count...