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Safety Forecast for Low-Hazard Earth Dams Beyound their Standard Service Life
More than 95% of hydrotechnical facilities (HFs) are part of a reclamation and water management complex. In most cases, their pressure front is...
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Comprehensive use of the Gutenberg–Richter law and geotomography for improving seismic hazard evaluation in hard coal mines
Mining-induced seismicity occurs in numerous underground mines worldwide where extraction is conducted at great depths or in areas characterised by...
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Resilience Framework for Aged Bridges Subjected to Human-Induced Hazard - Case Study in Ukraine
Bridge structures are key components of transport networks, enabling connections between important centres and regions of countries. Their...
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Integration of Carbon Emissions Estimates into Climate Resilience Frameworks for Transport Asset Recovery
This study describes a framework for optimizing environmental sustainability, climate resilience, and cost in post-hazard transport asset recovery....
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Assessment of the Conditioning Factor for Flash Flood Susceptibility Potential Based on Bivariate Statistical Approach in the Wonoboyo Watershed in East Java, Indonesia
Flash floods that occur suddenly, which cause damage to the weirs or embankments, immediately threaten human life. Identifying the causes of a flash...
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GPS-PPP Transmission Line Geological Hazard Micro Displacement Monitoring and Early Warning
Transmission line is an important part of power system. The geological and topographical conditions of the area through which the transmission line...
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Comparison of Suitable Drought Indices for Over West Nusa Tenggara
The drought has had a significant impact on West Nusa Tenggara. Drought experienced in some areas almost every year, causing crop failure and even...
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Transport and Storage of Nuclear Materials
Every year a very large number of packages containing radioactive material are transported globally in connection with the nuclear fuel cycle...
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Hazard Assessment of Landslides Disasters in the City of Cubatão, State of São Paulo, Brazil
Landslides represent constant threats in mountainous regions with high rainfall and inappropriate anthropic occupation. The city of Cubatão, São...
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Effect of flow rates of gases flowing through a coal bed during coal heating and cooling on concentrations of gases emitted and fire hazard assessment
The flow velocity of gases in gobs directly influences the kinetics and intensity of gaseous components release during heating and cooling of coal....
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Investigating Outdoor Heat Stress Using Environmental Parameters and Selected Thermal Indices in Northern India
Heat stress is often an unacknowledged occupational health hazard especially in develo** countries. Climatic zones like tropical and subtropical...
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Experimental study on the influence of roadway shape on the evolution of outburst fluid static pressure
To explore the static pressure dynamic disaster mechanism of coal-and-gas outburst (CGO) fluid, the self-developed multi-field coupling large-scale...
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Safety design study for energy harvesters
Modern offshore and onshore green energy engineering includes energy harvesting—as a result, extensive experimental investigations, as well as safety...
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Applications to Case Studies
This chapter offers the application of the “behavioural-based” approachBehavioural based approach for Slow Onset Disasters (SLODs) assessment and...
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Incorparation of Disasater Risk Reduction and Disasater Resilient Mechanisms into the Building Tool of GREENSL® Rating System for Built Environment
Disaster risk in Sri Lanka has been increasing mainly due to rapid unplanned commercialization and development of cities, infrastructure with poor...
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Towards a Fuzzy Seismic Vulnerability Index to Assist the Algerian Architects During the Early Designing Stages
According to the architectural parasismic concepts, the lesson brought by the last seismic events shows that a building is really parasismic only if...
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Vulnerability Analysis of Power System Considering Probabilistic Risk Assessment
Combining vulnerability with risk theory, this paper introduces a method of vulnerability analysis based on risk assessment in power system. Based on...
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Groundwater pollution and human health risk based on Monte Carlo simulation in a typical mining area in Northern Anhui Province, China
The main objective of this study was to evaluate eight kinds of trace element pollutants in groundwater from a typical coal mine area, and carry out...
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Organic amendments minimize the migration of potentially toxic elements in soil–plant system in degraded agricultural lands
The contamination of agricultural soil with potentially toxic elements (PTEs) such as cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), chromium (Cr), zinc (Zn), nickel (Ni),...
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Sustainability-Based Selection of Materials for Refractory High Entropy Alloys
Refractory high entropy alloysRefractory High Entropy Alloys (RHEAs) are considered candidate materials for high-temperature applications beyond...