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Florin Pavel and George Nica
This study is focused on evaluating ground motion durations of Vrancea intermediate-depth earthquakes in Romania, in the context of future updates to the Romanian seismic design code P100-1/2013. The ground motion database compiled for this study consist...
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Spyridon Mavroulis, Ioannis Argyropoulos, Emmanuel Vassilakis, Panayotis Carydis and Efthymis Lekkas
On 6 February 2023, East Anatolia was devastated by two major earthquakes resulting in hundreds of thousands of collapses and tens of thousands of human casualties. This paper investigates the factors related to building properties and earthquake environ...
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Onur Selcukhan and Abdullah Ekinci
Cyprus is the third largest and populated island in the Mediterranean Sea, and is still rapidly expanding. Significant infrastructures, such as hotels, educational institutions, and large residential complexes, are being built. Historically, 15 destructi...
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Leopold I. Lobkovsky, Irina S. Vladimirova, Yurii V. Gabsatarov and Dmitry A. Alekseev
We discussed the peculiarities of the seismic cycle in Aleutian subduction zone, characterized by an oblique subduction setting. It was shown that the orientation of the plate convergence vector relative to the subduction zone axis can have a significant...
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Gaoming Yan and Boming Zhao
Tunnels, where they pass through soft-hard strata, are severely damaged during earthquakes. These issues have not yet been well understood. In this study, the seismic performances of a tunnel passing through soft-hard stratum with a transition tunnel and...
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Mehdi Ghafari, Haslinda Nahazanan, Zainuddin Md Yusoff and Nik Norsyahariati Nik Daud
Due to the world population increasing considerably, there is a need for efficient public transportation, such as the subway. However, it has become a major concern to geotechnical engineers that the development and construction of subways are held under...
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Francesc Xavier Roig-Munar, Antonio Rodríguez-Perea, José Angel Martín-Prieto, Bernadi Gelabert and Joan Manuel Vilaplana
Large boulders have been found in marine cliffs from 7 study sites on Ibiza and Formentera Islands (Balearic Islands, Western Mediterranean). These large boulders of up to 43 t are located on platforms that form the rocky coastline of Ibiza and Formenter...
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Li-Chi Chiang, Yi-Ting Chuang and Chin-Chuan Han
The Chenyulan watershed, located in the central mountain area of Taiwan, has been suffering from earthquakes, typhoons, and heavy rainfalls in recent decades. These sequential natural disturbances have a cumulative impact on the watershed, leading to mor...
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Stella Pytharouli, Panagiotis Michalis and Spyridon Raftopoulos
Unprecedented flooding events put dams and downstream communities at risk, as evidenced by the recent cases of the Oroville and Whaley bridge dams. Empirical models may describe expected ?normal? dam behaviour, but they do not account for changes due to ...
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Hosein Naderpour, Naghmeh Naji, Daniel Burkacki and Robert Jankowski
One of the methods in structural control is the application of combinational control systems in order to reduce the response of structures during earthquakes. The aim of the present paper is to verify the effectiveness of a hybrid control strategy, combi...
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