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Challenges in Creating a Disaster Resilient Built Environment [PDF]

, 2014
With the increase in occurrences of high impact disasters, the concept of risk reduction and resilience is widely recognised. Recent disasters have highlighted the exposure of urban cities to natural disasters and emphasised the need of making cities ...
AFP, Albrito, Bosher, Dainty, Dubbeling, Georgieva, Godschalk, Haigh, Haigh, Kapucu, Kreimer, Malalgoda, Malalgoda, Mannakkara, Manyena, Manyena, McAllister, Neil, O’Keefe, Pelling, PWC, Quarantelli, UN ESCAP, AIT, UN-ISDR, UN-ISDR, UN-ISDR, Voogd, Wamsler   +27 more
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Hybrid Auxetic Architectures: Integrating Curvature‐Driven Design for Enhanced Mechanical Tunability and Structural Performance

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Curvature‐tuned auxetic lattices are designed, fabricated, and mechanically characterized to reveal how geometric curvature governs stretchability, stress redistribution, and Poisson's ratio evolution. Photoelastic experiments visualize stress pathways, while hyperelastic simulations quantify deformation mechanics.
Shuvodeep De, Giovanni Meli, Meysam Khalighian, Anahita Emami   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Evaluation of Disasters

Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 2005
In the last few years, we have seen some mighty catastrophes on the face of the earth, some wrought by human hands directly and others from great national disasters. We must ask, what has evaluation contributed to aiding humankind cope with these events,
Michael Scriven
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Engineering Deformation and Failure in Diamond Triply Periodic Minimal Surface Lattices via 3D Wall‐Thickness Grading

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
The work demonstrates that strategic wall‐thickness grading in diamond triply periodic minimal surface lattices enables precise tuning of deformation and failure behavior under compression. Different gradation patterns guide how and where the structure collapses, improving energy absorption or promoting controlled brittle failure.
Giovanni Rizza, Danilo Bruson, Manuela Galati, Luca Iuliano   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mapping Fire Susceptibility in the Brazilian Amazon Forests Using Multitemporal Remote Sensing and Time-Varying Unsupervised Anomaly Detection

Remote Sensing, 2022
The economic and environmental impacts of wildfires have leveraged the development of new technologies to prevent and reduce the occurrence of these devastating events.
Andréa Eliza O. Luz, Rogério G. Negri, Klécia G. Massi, Marilaine Colnago, Erivaldo A. Silva, Wallace Casaca   +5 more
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Book review: The economic impacts of natural disasters [PDF]

, 2013
"The Economic Impacts of Natural Disasters." Edited by Debarati Guha-Sapir and Indhira Santos. Oxford Univesity Press. May 2013. --- Since the turn of the millennium, more than one million people have been killed and 2.3 billion others have been directly
McDermott, Tom
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Natural disasters: blessings in disguise? [PDF]

, 2011
This study examines the impact of natural disasters on market returns and on several industries that are likely to be affected by the disasters. We find that different natural disasters have different impacts on the returns of the market and on those of ...
Koerniadi, Hardjo, Krishnamurti, Chandrasekhar, Tourani-Rad, Alireza   +2 more
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Atomic Size Misfit for Electrocatalytic Small Molecule Activation

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This review explores the application and mechanisms of atomic size misfit in catalysis for small molecule activation, focusing on how structural defects and electronic properties can effectively lower the energy barriers of chemical bonds in molecules like H2O, CO2, and N2.
Ping Hong, Changfan Xu, Huaping Zhao, Yong Lei   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Functional Materials for Environmental Energy Harvesting in Smart Agriculture via Triboelectric Nanogenerators

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This review explores functional and responsive materials for triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) in sustainable smart agriculture. It examines how particulate contamination and dirt affect charge transfer and efficiency. Environmental challenges and strategies to enhance durability and responsiveness are outlined, including active functional layers ...
Rafael R. A. Silva, Giulio Fatti, Emanuel Carlos, Guilherme Ferreira, Sumita Goswami, Suman Nandy, Luiz H. C. Mattoso, Elvira Fortunato, Caio G. Otoni, Rodrigo Martins   +9 more
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Engineered Interface and Spatial Arrangement of Inorganic Components for Dendrite‐Free Li Anodes in Carbonate‐Based Electrolyte

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A solid‐state ion exchange strategy constructs dentrimental Li2CO3 into a high‐modulus, high‐surface‐energy interface to enable dendrite‐free deposition of Li metal anode in the harsh carbonate‐based electrolyte. Abstract The practical application of lithium metal batteries (LMBs) in carbonate‐based electrolytes is hindered by uncontrolled lithium (Li)
Qiannan Zhao, Kaiqi Zhao, Jae‐Hoon Baek, Ronghua Wang, Chaohe Xu, Jong‐Beom Baek   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source