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Olga Petrucci and Roberto Coscarelli
In the future, as a result of global warming, it is possible that rainfall could become more intense and frequent. This could lead to more frequent triggering of damaging phenomena such as floods and landslides (named as a whole damaging hydrogeological ...
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Soleymani, A.,Safi, M.
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Damage assessments of concrete structures are essential to determine their seismic performances under earthquake events. In this paper, six three bays two dimensional concrete frames, five to ten story high, were analyzed under 30 near-field earthquake r...
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Sahar Sahyoun, Hua Ge, Michael A. Lacasse and Maurice Defo
This paper evaluates the reliability of the currently used climate-based indices in selecting a moisture reference year (MRY) for the freeze-thaw (FT) damage risk assessment of internally insulated solid brick walls. The evaluation methodology compares t...
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Naseer Muhammad Khan, Liqiang Ma, Muhammad Zaka Emad, Tariq Feroze, Qiangqiang Gao, Saad S. Alarifi, Li Sun, Sajjad Hussain and Hui Wang
The brittleness index is one of the most integral parameters used in assessing rock bursts and catastrophic rock failures resulting from deep underground mining activities. Accurately predicting this parameter is crucial for effectively monitoring rock b...
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?eljana Nikolic, Elena Benvenuti and Luka Runjic
The seismic risk assessment of existing urban areas provides important information for the process of seismic risk reduction in different phases of planning and emergency management. Between different large-scale assessment approaches, a vulnerability in...
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Maryam Nasim and Sujeeva Setunge
The structural safety and serviceability during extreme weather, such as floods and storms, is critical. Due to global warming in the last decades, the increase in the intensity of natural disasters, i.e., flood loading and the durability of the road str...
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Christine Schubert Kabban, Richard Uber, Kevin Lin, Bin Lin, Md Yeasin Bhuiyan and Victor Giurgiutiu
The validation of structural health monitoring (SHM) systems for aircraft is complicated by the extent and number of factors that the SHM system must demonstrate for robust performance. Therefore, a time- and cost-efficient method for examining all of th...
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Ioannis Karampinis, Lazaros Iliadis and Athanasios Karabinis
Structures inevitably suffer damage after an earthquake, with severity ranging from minimal damage of nonstructural elements to partial or even total collapse, possibly with loss of human lives. Thus, it is essential for engineers to understand the cruci...
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Kohei Fujita, Tsuyoshi Ichimura, Motoki Kazama, Susumu Ohno and Shingo Sato
A soil-amplification analysis method is developed that uses high-resolution ground data and a three-dimensional nonlinear dynamic finite-element method to screen for possible areas of seismic damage to buried water-distribution pipeline networks. The met...
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C.D. Rullan-Silva,A.E. Olthoff,J.A. Delgado de la Mata,J.A. Pajares-Alonso
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Aim of study: This paper reviews the global research during the last 6 years (2007-2012) on the state, trends and potential of remote sensing for detecting, mapping and monitoring forest defoliation caused by insects.Area of study: The review covers rese...
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Stergios Roumeliotis, Kyriakos Lampropoulos, Ekaterini Delegou, Elisavet Tsilimantou, Vasileios Keramidas, Asterios Bakolas and Antonia Moropoulou
The restoration of historic buildings and structures involves a wide range of scientific and technical fields. The grouting process is among an array of rehabilitation and preservation interventions and aims to homogenize the structure after the implemen...
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Kwang-Ming Liu, Kuan-Yu Su and Chien-Pang Chin
Cetacean and shark depredations in a small-scale longline fishery in the southeastern Taiwan waters were estimated based on interviews of 21 fishermen and logbooks of 12 sampling vessels, including 649 operations (681,310 hooks) from October 2009 to Dece...
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Tian-Ye Zhang, Dong-Rui Di, Xing-Liang Liao and Wei-Yu Shi
Forests, being the primary repository of terrestrial biodiversity, possess a significant capacity to regulate the phenomenon of climate change. It is additionally crucial to consider how natural disasters affect the state and development of forest biodiv...
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Rustem Sakhapov, Regina Nikolaeva
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This paper presents tasks solutions targeting sustainable development of transport systems in condition of structural reforms from safety viewpoint. The paper defines economic aspects of road transport traffic safety management comprising three groups: (...
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Gneneyougo Emile Soro, Dabissi Noufé, Tié Albert Goula Bi and Bernard Shorohou
Extreme rainfall events are meteorological hazards that cause great damage and many casualties in the world. This paper examines the trends in extreme rainfall from 10 sub-daily time series and 44 daily time series in Côte d?Ivoire. Rainfall data were co...
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Hao Qi, Shaowei Hu, Xiang Xue, Changxi Shan, Wenhao Li, Yajia Wang and Peiyi Wang
To prevent brittle damage and improve the post-earthquake rapid repair capability of beam-column connections, a precast reduced beam section (PRBS) connection joint that can be rapidly repaired under earthquake action was proposed in this study. Four spe...
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M. Saqib Hameed, Zheng Li and Kaihong Zheng
A damage estimation method based on continuous wavelet transformation (CWT) of the normalized Lamb wave signals is proposed here. Lamb waves are actuated and sensed using piezoelectric (lead zirconate titanate, PZT) transducers arranged in the form of sq...
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Kathrin Einzmann, Markus Immitzer, Sebastian Böck, Oliver Bauer, Andreas Schmitt and Clement Atzberger
With climate change, extreme storms are expected to occur more frequently. These storms can cause severe forest damage, provoking direct and indirect economic losses for forestry. To minimize economic losses, the windthrow areas need to be detected fast ...
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Athos Agapiou, Vasiliki Lysandrou and Diofantos G. Hadjimitsis
Looting of archaeological sites is illegal and considered a major anthropogenic threat for cultural heritage, entailing undesirable and irreversible damage at several levels, such as landscape disturbance, heritage destruction, and adverse social impact....
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Xuejun Zhang, Lei Guo, Jinshan Yan, Zenglu Shi, Mengchen Kang and Jieting Yao
The extended duration of mulching in Xinjiang cotton fields leads to a significant decline in the tensile strength of plastic film. When recycling is in operation, the soil and the spring teeth of the machinery used can easily cause secondary damage and ...
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