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Cem Polat Cetinkaya and Mert Can Gunacti
Dry periods and drought are inherent natural occurrences. However, due to the increasing pressures of global warming and climate change, these events have become more frequent and severe on a global scale. These phenomena can be traced with various indic...
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Luigi Sorrentino and Linda Giresini
This paper presents a safety tool to assess the risk of road blockage during and after emergency situations, mainly due to earthquakes. This method can be used by public authorities to calculate the risk of road paths prone to blockage in case of seismic...
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Dongkeun Lee, Chaeog Lim, Sang-jin Oh, Minjoon Kim, Jun Soo Park and Sung-chul Shin
Capsizing accidents are regarded as marine accidents with a high rate of casualties per accident. Approximately 89% of all such accidents involve small ships (vessels with gross tonnage of less than 10 tons). Stability calculations are critical for asses...
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Matthew G. Montgomery, Miles B. Yaw and John S. Schwartz
Probabilistic risk methods are becoming increasingly accepted as a means of carrying out risk-informed decision making regarding the design and operation policy of structures such as dams. Probabilistic risk calculations require the quantification of epi...
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Ahmad Abu Arra and Eyüp Sisman
As a catastrophic phenomenon, drought has destructive impacts on water resources, the environment, and the ecosystem. Consequently, drought plays a vital role in risk assessment, water resources management, and drought mitigation plans. The main aim of t...
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Alessandro Pucci, Daniel Eickmeier, Hélder S. Sousa, Linda Giresini, José C. Matos and Ralph Holst
The existing literature on bridge fragility curves for floods mainly uses analytical approaches. However, it is crucial to validate these models and to identify failure trends and patterns to detect vulnerabilities. Therefore, fragility curves obtained u...
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Sung-Eun Cho
The maintenance of water-retaining structures involves evaluating their performance against current and future operating water levels. Fragility curves are commonly used for this purpose, as they indicate the conditional probability of failure for variou...
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Tharindu Malinga Abeysiriwardena, Kushan Kalmith Wijesundara and Roberto Nascimbene
The assessment of seismic risk for critical and strategic structures like schools and hospitals remains crucial, even in regions with low seismic activity. Presently, operational school buildings in Sri Lanka are primarily designed to handle gravitationa...
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Emilia Damiano, Martina de Cristofaro, Antonia Brunzo, Goffredo Carrieri, Luisa Iavazzo, Nadia Netti and Lucio Olivares
Broad mountainous areas in the western Campania (southern Italy), where young pyroclastic deposits extensively outcrop, frequently experience rainfall-induced slope movements of different degrees of mobility, causing heavy damage and fatalities. Such lan...
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Francisco Grajales-Saavedra, Alexis Mojica, Carlos Ho, Krysna Samudio, George Mejía, Saddy Li, Larisa Almengor, Roberto Miranda and Melisabel Muñoz
The City of David constitutes one of the most important commercial centers of the Republic of Panama. However, it is located on a coastal plane, close to an area with high seismic activity and has been affected by significant earthquakes (18 July 1934, M...
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