Study on the impact of engineering construction on environmental risk assessment in alpine canyon area: a case study of Chaya County, Xizang [PDF]
Scientific ReportsAs one of the regions with frequent engineering construction and frequent geological disasters, the alpine gorge area of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau is of great significance for its environmental risk assessment.
Zheng Fei +9 more
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Building Information Modeling as Tool for Enhancing Disaster Resilience of the Construction Industry [PDF]
, 2017 As frequencies of the disasters are increasing, new technologies can be used to enhance disaster resilience performance of the construction industry.
Sertyesilisik, Begum
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The End Game of Deregulation: Myopic Risk Management and the Next Catastrophe [PDF]
, 2012 By using the Kingston Fossil Fuel Plant’s spill into the Emory River as a case study, this article offers several explanations for why the twentieth century dynamic of crisis and reform has disappeared in the early twenty-first century.
McGarity, Thomas O., Steinzor, Rena I.
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Engineering vs. Disasters [PDF]
Mechanical Engineering, 2008 This article reviews application of science and technology in predicting and control of disasters. Science and technology can also help to control the severity of a disaster, but here the achievements to date are much less spectacular than those in the prediction arena.
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Is Engineering Ethics Important for Aerospace Engineers?
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2018 Engineering as a profession has a direct effect on society and the environment. Engineering ethics is a part of the essence of engineering. One of the important branches of engineering profession is aerospace engineering.
Haghighattalab Sakineh +2 more
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Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, 2023 The underground hydropower projects in Southwest China is characterized by large excavation sizes, high geostresses, complicated geological conditions and multiple construction processes.
Biao Li +6 more
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Sensors, 2021 In the process of using a long-span converter station steel structure, engineering disasters can easily occur. Structural monitoring is an important method to reduce hoisting risk.
Yunfeng Zhu +5 more
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Developing an approach to assess the influence of integrating disaster risk reduction practices into infrastructure reconstruction on socio‐economic development [PDF]
, 2013 Purpose – Disasters provide physical, social, economic, political and environmental development windows of opportunity particularly through housing and infrastructure reconstruction.
Amaratunga, Dilanthi +2 more
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Testing the shearing creep of composite geomembranes-cushion interface and its empirical model
Soils and Foundations, 2022 An accurate description of composite geomembranes (CGs)–cushion interface behaviour (particularly creep behaviour) is of great importance. This paper presents a creep experiment method for studying the shearing creep characteristics of CGs–cushion ...
Wu Yang +3 more
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ANALYSIS, MANAGEMENT AND TRADE-OFF WITH RISKS OF TECHNICAL FACILITIES [PDF]
, 2020 Submitted work “Analysis, management and trade-off with risk of technical facilities“ deals with the all type of risks associated with the technical facilities, particularly with the complex ones, with aim to ensure their safety. It demonstrates the ways
Procházka J., Procházková D.
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