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Global drift ratio limits for historical masonry mosques
Drift-based performance limits are commonly used in seismic performance assessment. However, many studies have indicated substantial considerations...
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Peak drift ratio estimation for unreinforced masonry walls using visual features of damage
This study proposes predictive equations for estimating the peak-experienced drift ratio of unreinforced masonry walls based on the visual...
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Maximum Drift Demands of Earthquake Damaged Reinforced Concrete Columns Based on Residual Flexure Cracks
Assessment of existing reinforced concrete (RC) structures after an earthquake is a challenging task that must somehow relate qualitative and...
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Ekman Drift and Inertial Oscillations
Solutions that illustrate Ekman drift and inertial oscillations are obtained under a variety of settings: for a single mode of the LCS model; as a...
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On estimating the drift capacity of reinforced concrete walls with lap splices at their bases
Failures in reinforced concrete (RC) structural walls have been reported to occur at longitudinal lap splices in earthquakes as far back as 1964...
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A multi-module with a two-way feedback method for Ulva drift-diffusion
The outbreak of Ulva in the Yellow Sea has seriously affected marine ecology and economic activities. Therefore, effective prediction of the...
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Parameterization Method of Wind Drift Factor Based on Deep Learning in the Oil Spill Model
Oil spill prediction is critical for reducing the detrimental impact of oil spills on marine ecosystems, and the wind strongly influences the...
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A Regularised Anisotropic Elastoplastic Damage and Viscoplastic Model and Its Hydromechanical Application to a Meuse/Haute-Marne URL Drift
Clay formations are one of the options currently being considered for the storage of radioactive wastes worldwide. In France, the National...
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Force coefficients for modelling the drift of a victim of river drowning
The global annual death toll due to drowning is of the order of 10 5 . Rescue and search operations in urban rivers show a low rate of success....
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Geotechnical properties of Sines Contourite Drift sediments: their contribution to submarine landslide susceptibility
The Sines Contourite Drift (SCD) in the Alentejo Margin (southwest Iberia margin) is a middle-slope plastered drift mainly comprising hemipelagic and...
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Thermal Impact on the Excavation Damage Zone Around a Supported Drift Using the 2nd Gradient Model
The temperature increase induced by radioactive waste decay generates the thermal pressurisation around the excavation damage zone (EDZ), and the...
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Submarine landslide hazard in the Sines Contourite Drift, SW Iberia: slope instability analysis under static and transient conditions
The Sines Contourite Drift (SCD) is a plastered drift with terraced-like morphology, formed by the Mediterranean Outflow Water (MOW) that emplaced in...
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On the Dynamics of a Drift Flow Under Low Wind
AbstractThe dynamics of a drift flow in the near-surface water layer driven by a turbulent air wind is investigated by direct numerical simulation...
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Machine learning-based predictive models for equivalent dam** ratio of RC shear walls
Energy-based seismic design is being rapidly developed and suggests that the seismic demands are met by the energy dissipation capacity of the...
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Optimum structural design of full-scale steel buildings using drift-tribe-charged system search
In this paper, the potential of utilizing improved metaheuristic approaches in optimal design of building structures is concerned. In this regard,...
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Residual drift control strategies: extension and application to MDOF systems
The paper proposes a new methodology for the control of residual displacements in multi-storey steel structure frames. The work starts from the...
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The model of tracing drift targets and its application in the South China Sea
A Leeway-Trace model was established for the traceability analysis of drifting objects at sea. The model was based on the Leeway model which is a...
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Drift of Surface Lagrangian Buoys in the Central Sea of Japan in October–November 2011
AbstractIn early October 2011, two surface buoys were deployed off Peter the Great Bay in the Sea of Japan. They drifted in that area first, then...
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Hydrodynamic Modeling of Single Well Chemical Tracer Test with Drift Fluid Due to Flooding on the Example of the Oil Field in Western Siberia
Chemical methods of enhanced oil recovery in general and Surfactant Polymer (SP) flooding, in particular, are considered as a promising tertiary...
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Simplified estimation of reliability in structures subjected to seismic loads using the demand-capacity ratio format
In this paper, closed-form expressions to calculate both the mean annual failure rate and the confidence factor are proposed. Reliability indicators...
