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Disaster prevention and mitigation in railway engineering

Applied and Computational Engineering, 2023
With the rapid development of railway engineering, the scope of railway construction has been extended to mountainous areas, basins and other geological environments. In these areas, railway construction needs to pay attention to landslides, earthquakes and other disasters, otherwise it will threaten unnecessary economic losses and even personal safety.
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Disaster Risk Reduction and Civil Engineering—An Introduction

2021
This chapter presents the definitions and concepts of disaster risk reduction and its relation to the discipline of civil engineering. It is important to have the infrastructure resilient to disaster. In addition, civil engineering has the potential to offer solutions that can reduce the risk during a disaster.
Sreevalsa Kolathayar   +2 more
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On civil engineering disasters and their mitigation

Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration, 2018
Civil engineering works such as buildings and infrastructure are the carriers of human civilization. They are, however, also the origins of various types of disasters, which are referred to in this paper as civil engineering disasters. This paper presents the concept of civil engineering disasters, their characteristics, classification, causes, and ...
Lili Xie, Zhe Qu
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Engineering Risk and Disaster: Disaster-STS and the American History of Technology

Engineering Studies, 2014
For a long time the historiographies of engineering and technology focused on technological intensification and progress across society, the economy, and government. Little specific attention was reserved in these narratives for risk, disaster, failure, and blame.
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Disaster SitRep - A vertical search engine and information analysis tool in disaster management domain

2012 IEEE 13th International Conference on Information Reuse & Integration (IRI), 2012
With the rise of heterogeneous information delivering platform, the process of collecting, integrating, and analyzing disaster related information from diverse channels becomes more difficult and challenging. Further, information from multiple sources brings up new challenges for information presentation.
Li Zheng   +7 more
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Civil Engineering and Disaster Responses in Developing Countries

Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, 1996
This paper raises issues of how natural disasters affect developing countries. Responses to natural disasters, disaster risk, and the role of disaster research and practice are identified.
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