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Seismic vulnerability assessment of the old city centre of Seixal, Portugal [PDF]

, 2012
The seismic vulnerability assessment of old traditional masonry building stocks, in a seismic risk mitigation perspective, is truly essential not only for buildings with recognized historical and patrimonial value, but also, in relation to regular ...
Costa, A., Ferreira, T., Varum, H., Mendes da Silva, J. A. R., Vicente, R.   +4 more
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Numerical Simulations of 5‐Story Building Using Wood Light‐Frame Shear Walls and Post‐Tensioned Cross‐Laminated Timber Rocking Wall Dual Systems

Earthquake Engineering &Structural Dynamics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores the seismic performance of a five‐story prototype building using different configurations of a dual lateral force‐resisting system (LFRS) combining post‐tensioned cross‐laminated timber rocking walls (PT‐CLT‐RW) with conventional wood light‐frame shear walls (LiFS).
Ruben Jerves, Adam R. Phillips
wiley   +1 more source

Deteriorated Hysteresis Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Bridge Columns With Lap‐Spliced Circular Hoop Reinforcement

Earthquake Engineering &Structural Dynamics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Five lap‐spliced circular hoop (CH) concrete bridge columns, designed in accordance with the current Japanese bridge design code and Taiwan bridge design practice, were tested in this study to investigate the effects of longitudinal reinforcement and aspect ratios on deteriorated hysteresis behavior.
Ping‐Hsiung Wang, Cheng‐Yu Huang, Chiao‐Chu Tseng   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Structural vulnerability of Nepalese Pagoda temples [PDF]

, 2012
Nepal is located in one of the most severe earthquake prone areas of the world, lying between collisions of Indian to the Eurasian plate, moving continuously, resulting in frequent devastating earthquakes within this region.
Costa, A., Shakya, M., Varum, H., Vicente, R.   +3 more
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Score Reliability and Validity of a Mexican Dialect Spanish Translation of the Flourishing Scale With Mexican Earthquake Survivors

Journal of Counseling &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Flourishing Scale (FS) scores have demonstrated acceptable psychometric properties in general adult populations, but no previous research has validated its use among natural disaster survivors. This study examined the reliability, validity, and measurement invariance of a Mexican dialect Spanish translation of the FS in 289 Mexican ...
Scott Marshall, Bradley T. Erford, Martin F. Sherman, Laura R. Shannonhouse   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mercury cycling during the last glacial period in Arctic Lake El'gygytgyn, NE Russia

Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tectonic processes play a key role in the global mercury (Hg) cycle on geological timescales, by mobilising Hg from deep Earth reservoirs to the surface. These natural fluxes also introduce a dynamic component to the terrestrial Hg cycle that can interact with other environmental signals and influence Hg delivery to sedimentary records.
Alice R. Paine, Joost Frieling, Bernd Wagner, Martin Melles, Volker Wennrich, Tamsin A. Mather, Stuart A. Robinson, David M. Pyle   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Monitoring shallow geothermal aquifers with active‐source distributed acoustic sensing: A prognostic feasibility study on the University of Leeds Geothermal Campus

Near Surface Geophysics, EarlyView.
Abstract The United Kingdom's shallow aquifers offer significant but underdeveloped geothermal energy resource. Seismic methods can help address this by improving the understanding of aquifer heterogeneity and potentially allowing long‐term monitoring of thermal plumes.
Adam D. Booth, Roger A. Clark, Andy Nowacki, Ravi Myanger, Joseph Kelly, Sjoerd de Ridder, Arka Dyuti Sarkar, Fleur Loveridge, Richard Collier, Emma Bramham, David Healy   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vulnerability to Earthquake Hazard: Bucharest Case Study, Romania

International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2017
Recent seismic events show that urban areas are increasingly vulnerable to seismic damage, which leads to unprecedented levels of risk. Cities are complex systems and as such their analysis requires a good understanding of the interactions between space ...
Iuliana Armaş, Dragos Toma-Danila, Radu Ionescu, Alexandru Gavriş   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

RETRACE Project: How to Enhance Resilience to Climate Risks in Pacific and Arctic Indigenous Communities?

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Risk management has evolved to analyze risks in a systemic way, integrating local knowledge with the abstract concept of resilience, which is now an imperative for vulnerable and exposed communities. However, existing decision‐support tools are mainly focused on technical‐functional aspects and, although based on rigorous and scientific ...
Pascal Emanuel Egli, Guangqing Chi, Hugo Comes, Erika Gavenus, Emma Lea Wheeler, Martina Calovi, Jeanne Gherardi, Tomasz Opach, Sabrina Scherzer, Damien Serre, Charlotte Heinzlef   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessment of the Relationship Between Seismic Vulnerability and Seismic Risk Perception: A Case Study of Peshawar, Pakistan

GeoHazards
Earthquakes pose a serious threat to urban areas located in seismically active regions, particularly in developing countries where rapid urbanization and weak enforcement of building regulations increase the vulnerability of the built environment ...
Riazud Din, Faheem Butt, Farhan Ahmad, Ali Raza   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source