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Qingteng Yuan, Ming Xiao, Ci Kong and Kaicheng Wang
The foundation of a seismic safety assessment of cross-fault hydraulic tunnels is an acceptable and accurate seismic response. A dynamic contact force algorithm that may take into consideration the interaction between the fault?surrounding rock?lining st...
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Huan Chen, Ke Zhang, Kun Zhou, Tugen Feng, Xiaotong Sun, Xingchen Kuang, Yang Li and Zuocai Wang
The stability of a steel bracing system is one of the most important indicators by which to measure the stability of the foundation pit. Although a steel bracing system can be monitored using the axial force data, it is subject to the risk of sudden chan...
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Dayi Qu, Haomin Liu, Hui Song and Yiming Meng
As the main road type in an urban traffic system, the increasingly severe congestion of the expressway restricts social and economic development. It is essential to explore the evolution law of congestion and dissipation to ensure the efficient operation...
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Francisco Javier Parada Pino
Pág. 159 - 176
El incendio de 2014 en Valparaíso es considerado el mayor evento de estas características ocurrido en la historia de esta ciudad, dejando un área urbana de devastación de 148 hectáreas, 2.910 casas destruidas y alrededor de 12.000 damnificados; siendo lo...
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Dingtao Shen, Tianlu Qian, Yu Xia, Yu Zhang and Jiechen Wang
Assessments of urban flood hazards are crucial for planning and early warning flood system design. Moreover, hazard risk assessment is useful for emergency planning and insurance. There are two common methods for conducting flood hazard risk assessments ...
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Yu Fu, Jianjun Yao, Honghao Zhao, Gang Zhao and Zhenshuai Wan
Recently, bio-inspired artificial muscles based on ionic polymers have shown a bright perspective in engineering and medical research, but the inherent tremor behavior can cause instability of output response. In this paper, dynamic additional grey catas...
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Massimo Mariani,Paola Amoruso
Pág. 1760 - 1767
The rapid growth of catastrophe bonds in financial markets is due to increasing environmental disasters and consequent economic losses, barely covered by insurance and reinsurance companies. These securities represent an effective solution, allowing the ...
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Gloria Biern, Jesús Giraldo, Jan-Paul Zock, Gemma Monyarch, Ana Espinosa, Gema Rodríguez-Trigo, Federico Gómez, Francisco Pozo-Rodríguez, Joan-Albert Barberà and Carme Fuster
Micronuclei, comet and chromosome alterations assays are the most widely used biomarkers for determining the genotoxic damage in a population exposed to genotoxic chemicals. While chromosome alterations are an excellent biomarker to detect short- and lon...
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Timothy M. Maher, Jr. and Seth D. Baum
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Elirea Bornman, Alison Odendaal
Pág. 16 pages
The study reports on an investigation into the perceptions of white and black South African youths regarding the future of the country as well as their own prospects. The qualitative research design consisted of five focus group discussions conducted bet...
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Joshua Macabuag, Tiziana Rossetto, Ioanna Ioannou and Ian Eames
Catastrophe models quantify potential losses from disasters, and are used in the insurance, disaster-risk management, and engineering industries. Tsunami fragility and vulnerability curves are key components of catastrophe models, providing probabilistic...
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Joshua Macabuag, Tiziana Rossetto, Ioanna Ioannou and Ian Eames
Catastrophe models quantify potential losses from disasters, and are used in the insurance, disaster-risk management, and engineering industries. Tsunami fragility and vulnerability curves are key components of catastrophe models, providing probabilistic...
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Shaoyong Xuan, Shenping Hu, Zhuang Li, Wei Li and Boyin Li
Liquefied nature gas (LNG) is a green energy. LNG-fueled vessels are extremely complex engineering systems. In view of the inherent hazardous properties of LNG fuel, LNG fueling is not only an important part, but it is also full of high risks in the oper...
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Christian Paulo Matus Madrid, Camila Eugenia Barraza Huaiquimilla, Constansa Marcela Vergara Andrade, Rodrigo Patricio Ganter Solís
Pág. 89 - 110
El estudio de caso de la Población Aurora de Chile evidencia la existencia de una estrategia de renovación urbana que promueve la gentrificación y que utiliza el desastre como una herramienta simbólica para justificar el desarrollo de operaciones urbanas...
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Alejandra Rasse, Francisco Letelier
Pág. Pág. 139 - 164
Talca fue una de las ciudades con mayor daño en vivienda después del terremoto del 27F. Su casco histórico y 15 barrios fundacionales en torno a él, quedaron con la mayor parte de sus viviendas dañadas o destruidas. A dos años de ocurrido el terremoto, g...
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Alessandro Pucci, Daniel Eickmeier, Hélder S. Sousa, Linda Giresini, José C. Matos and Ralph Holst
The existing literature on bridge fragility curves for floods mainly uses analytical approaches. However, it is crucial to validate these models and to identify failure trends and patterns to detect vulnerabilities. Therefore, fragility curves obtained u...
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A. V. Radkevych,S. O. Yakovlev,O. I. Shaptala,I. Ye. Kramar
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The paper is devoted to the problems of determination of rules and order of application, interaction of subdivisions of the State Special Service of Transport with subdivisions of the Ministry of Transport and Communications of Ukraine and the Ministry o...
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Hongyin Yang, Wei Zhang, Aixin Zhang, Nanhao Wu and Zhangjun Liu
A new damage identification method is proposed to solve the problem of no correspondence between the element division form of the finite element model and the actual damage location. The three basic operators in the traditional genetic algorithm are impr...
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Hossein Hassani, Stephan Unger and Christina Beneki
This article investigates the impact of big data on the actuarial sector. The growing fields of applications of data analytics and data mining raise the ability for insurance companies to conduct more accurate policy pricing by incorporating a broader va...
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Julio Garrote, Andrés Díez-Herrero, Mar Génova, José M. Bodoque, María A. Perucha and Pablo L. Mayer
Flash floods represent one of the more usual natural hazards in mountain basins, and, combined with the lack of reliable flow data and the recreational use of the drainage basin by tourists and hikers, there is a significant risk of catastrophe. Here, we...
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