|
|
|
|
|
Iau-Teh Wang
The evaluation of portal locations for mountain tunnels is among the most crucial considerations during route selection and structural layout planning. The development of spatial information technology has provided a more objective approach for assessing...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Isabel Santibáñez,José Cembrano,Tiaren García-Pérez,Carlos Costa,Gonzalo Yáñez,Carlos Marquardt,Gloria Arancibia,Gabriel González
Pág. 32 - 65
The Chilean Andes, as a characteristic tectonic and geomorphological region, is a perfect location to unravel the geologic nature of seismic hazards. The Chilean segment of the Nazca-South American subduction zone has experienced mega-earthquakes with Mo...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sonia Giovinazzi, Corinna Marchili, Antonio Di Pietro, Ludovica Giordano, Antonio Costanzo, Luigi La Porta, Maurizio Pollino, Vittorio Rosato, Daniel Lückerath, Katharina Milde and Oliver Ullrich
Historic areas (HAs) are highly vulnerable to natural hazards, including earthquakes, that can cause severe damage, if not total destruction. This paper proposes methods that can be implemented through a geographical information system to assess earthqua...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Marcello Arosio, Chiara Arrighi, Luigi Cesarini and Mario L. V. Martina
The development of strategies to adapt to and mitigate the potential adverse consequences of natural hazards requires support from risk assessment studies that quantify the impacts of hazardous events on our society. A comprehensive analysis of risk comm...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Dracos Vassalos and M. P. Mujeeb-Ahmed
The paper provides a full description and explanation of the probabilistic method for ship damage stability assessment from its conception to date with focus on the probability of survival (s-factor), explaining pertinent assumptions and limitations and ...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Isabelle Bonnard, Louis Bornancin, Klervi Dalle, Mireille Chinain, Mayalen Zubia, Bernard Banaigs and Mélanie Roué
In the last decades, an apparent increase in the frequency of benthic cyanobacterial blooms has occurred in coral reefs and tropical lagoons, possibly in part because of global change and anthropogenic activities. In the frame of the survey of marine ben...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jonas Aust and Dirk Pons
Background?Bowtie analysis is a broadly used tool in risk management to identify root causes and consequences of hazards and show barriers that can prevent or mitigate the events to happen. Limitations of the method are reliance on judgement and an ad ho...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Qingsheng Meng, Yang Li, Wenjing Wang, Yuhong Chen and Shilin Wang
Silt liquefaction can occur due to the rapid cyclic loading of sediments. This can result in the loss of the bearing capacity of the underlying sediments and damage to the foundations and infrastructure. Therefore, assessing liquefaction hazards is an im...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
María-Victoria Soto, Joselyn Arriagada-González, Martina Molina-Benavides, Misael Cabello, Miguel Contreras-Alonso, Ignacio Ibarra, Gabriela Guevara, Sergio A. Sepúlveda and Michael Maerker
In this paper, we study natural hazards and their potential impacts on productive activities in the Comau Fjord in Chilean Northern Patagonia. We carried out hazard mapping to identify areas with evidence of geomorphological activity on slopes in terms o...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Gregory P. De Pascale
Pág. 175 - 183
Understanding the location and nature of Quaternary active crustal faults is critical to reduce both the impact of fault rupture and strong ground motions hazards (when these faults rupture causing earthquakes). It is also important for understanding how...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Xiao-li Chen, Xin-jian Shan, Ming-ming Wang, Chun-guo Liu and Na-na Han
On 8 August 2017 an earthquake (MS7.0) occurred within Jiuzhaigou County, Northern Aba Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China, triggering 4834 landslides with an individual area greater than 7.8 m2 over a more than 400 km2 region. Instead of correlating geo...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jonas Aust and Dirk Pons
Background?The inspection of aircraft parts is critical, as a defective part has many potentially adverse consequences. Faulty parts can initiate a system failure on an aircraft, which can lead to aircraft mishap if not well managed and has the potential...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Paolo Caccianiga, Saverio Ceraulo, Gérard Rey, Dario Monai, Marco Baldoni and Gianluigi Caccianiga
Introduction: Within the field of periodontology, there has been a proposal for the utilization of noninvasive laser therapy as a potential treatment for persistent periodontitis. The Laser-Assisted New Attachment Procedure (LANAP) employs an Nd:YAG lase...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Bouwèdèo Toi Bissang, Antonio J. Aragón-Barroso, Gnon Baba, Jesús González-López and Francisco Osorio
Drinking water requires excellent physico-chemical quality. It must therefore not contain any substance which is harmful, or which may harm the health of the consumer. The drinking water supply of Bangeli canton (Togo) is provided by ground water and sur...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jorge E. Romero,Frederick J. Swanson,Julia A. Jones,Daniele Morgavi,Guido Giordano,Matteo Trolese,Felipe Aguilera,Tatiana Izquierdo,Diego Perugini
Pág. 319 - 345
The 22-23 April 2015 eruption of the Calbuco volcano (Southern Andes, Chile) led to extensive pyroclastic density currents (PDCs) interactions with vegetation. We seek to describe the PDCs which affected both Tepu and Frío rivers, northern Calbuco, from ...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Md Asif Rahman and Yang Lu
The assessment of concrete infrastructures? functionality during natural hazards is fundamental in evaluating their performance and emergency response. In this work, the alkali?silica reaction (ASR) in concrete is evaluated under the climate change impac...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Kleomenis Kalogeropoulos, Konstantinos Tsanakas, Nikolaos Stathopoulos, Demetrios E. Tsesmelis and Andreas Tsatsaris
Floods are natural hazards with negative environmental and socioeconomic impacts at a local and regional level. In addition to human lives, facilities, and infrastructure, flooding is a potential threat to archaeological sites, with all the implications ...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Tahira Ullah, Sven Lautenbach, Benjamin Herfort, Marcel Reinmuth and Danijel Schorlemmer
Natural hazards threaten millions of people all over the world. To address this risk, exposure and vulnerability models with high resolution data are essential. However, in many areas of the world, exposure models are rather coarse and are aggregated ove...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ping Wu, Linxi Yang, Wangxin Li, Jiamin Huang and Yidong Xu
The challenging nature of nearshore tunnel construction environments introduces a multitude of potential hazards, consequently escalating the likelihood of incidents such as water influx. Existing construction safety risk management methodologies often d...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Eleni Prifti, Helen Kaberi, Vasiliki Paraskevopoulou, Panagiotis Michalopoulos, Christina Zeri, Stylianos Iliakis, Manos Dassenakis and Michael Scoullos
The Saronikos Gulf is under a lot of anthropogenic pressure, such as the urban expansion of the metropolitan area of Athens, the port of Piraeus and marinas, industrial activities, and tourism. Heavy metal pollution has been a major environmental problem...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|