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Abdul Basit, Safeer Abbas, Muhammad Mubashir Ajmal, Ubaid Ahmad Mughal, Syed Minhaj Saleem Kazmi and Muhammad Junaid Munir
This study undertakes a comprehensive experimental and numerical analysis of the structural integrity of buried RC sewerage pipes, focusing on the performance of two distinct jointing materials: cement mortar and non-shrinkage grout. Through joint shear ...
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Nuno Marques de Almeida and Adolfo Crespo
The frequency and severity of natural or human-induced disaster events, such as floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, fires, pandemics, hazardous material spills, groundwater contamination, structural failures, explosions, etc., as well as their impacts, have...
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Charles Lan, Alec Wild, Ryan Paulik, Liam Wotherspoon and Conrad Zorn
This study investigates the direct and indirect impacts of extreme sea level (ESL) flooding on critical infrastructure. While methods to quantify the direct impacts of ESL flooding on coastal areas are well established, the indirect impacts that extend b...
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Jessica Rodwell, James H. Williams and Ryan Paulik
Despite the importance of critical infrastructure for the effective functioning of communities, their vulnerability to tsunamis remains unstudied. This study addresses this issue by developing empirical fragility curves for infrastructure components curr...
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Konstantinos Ntafloukas, Liliana Pasquale, Beatriz Martinez-Pastor and Daniel P. McCrum
Transportation networks are fundamental to the efficient and safe functioning of modern societies. In the past, physical and cyber space were treated as isolated environments, resulting in transportation network being considered vulnerable only to threat...
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Andrew C. W. Leung, William A. Gough and Tanzina Mohsin
The impact of climate change on soil temperatures at Kuujjuaq, Quebec in northern Canada is assessed. First, long-term historical soil temperature records (1967?1995) are statistically analyzed to provide a climatological baseline for soils at 5 to 150 c...
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Ali Güney Özcebe, Francesca Bozzoni and Barbara Borzi
This paper aims to investigate the seismic vulnerability of key port infrastructure components by using the outcomes of advanced numerical analysis. For the first time, to the best knowledge of the authors, a pile-supported wharf structure, the soil depo...
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Guadalupe Isabel Lara Carvajal, Rodolfo Sosa Echeverría, Víctor Magaña, Georgina Fernández Villagómez and Jonathan D. W. Kahl
Accidents in port areas in the Gulf of Mexico have had great economic costs, since this is an area exposed to extreme phenomena. Tropical cyclones or cold fronts, also known as Tehuantepecers, result in intense winds and waves that impact the coastal inf...
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Narcisa Gabriela Pricope and Greer Shivers
Flood mitigation in low-gradient, tidally-influenced, and rapidly urbanizing coastal locations remains a priority across a range of stakeholders and communities. Wetland ecosystems act as a natural flood buffer for coastal storms and sea level rise (SLR)...
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Mark Ziegelaar and Yuriy Kuleshov
Floods are the most common and costliest natural disaster in Australia. However, the Flood Risk Assessments (FRAs) employed to manage them are hazard-focused and tend to overlook exposure and vulnerability. This leaves potential for Australian FRAs to ma...
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