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Hassan Soltanmohammadi, Mohammadreza Mashayekhi, Mohammad Mahdi Memarpour, Denise-Penelope N. Kontoni and Masoud Mirtaheri
Investigating the impact of near-field ground motions on the fragility curves of multi-span simply supported concrete girder bridges is the main goal of this paper. Fragility curves are valuable tools for evaluating seismic risks and vulnerabilities of b...
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Panagiota S. Katsimpini
The aim of this study is to investigate the seismic behavior of concrete/steel mixed structures. In engineering praxis, many buildings consist of two parts: one made of reinforced concrete and the other made of steel. There are several difficulties in th...
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Evangelos Sapountzakis, Georgios Florakis and Konstantinos Kapasakalis
This paper investigates the implementation of supplemental vibration control systems (VCS) in base isolated (BI) structures, to improve their dynamic performance. More specifically, the aim of the VCS is to reduce the base displacement demand of BI struc...
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Yizhou Zhuang, Xiaoyao Hu, Wenbin He, Danyi Shen and Yijun Zhu
Landslides not only cause great economic and human life losses but also seriously affect the safe operation of infrastructure such as highways. Rainfall is an important condition for inducing landslides, especially when a fault and weak interlayer exist ...
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Tingting Fan, Yuchen Wang, Zhiguo Xu, Lining Sun, Peitao Wang and Jingming Hou
Tsunami monitoring and early warning systems are mainly established to deal with seismogenic tsunamis generated by sudden seafloor fault displacement. However, a global tsunami triggered by the 2022 Tonga volcanic eruption promoted the need for tsunami e...
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Weihan Huang, Ke Gao and Yu Feng
Predicting earthquakes through reasonable methods can significantly reduce the damage caused by secondary disasters such as tsunamis. Recently, machine learning (ML) approaches have been employed to predict laboratory earthquakes using stick-slip dynamic...
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Ahmed Elgamal and Nissreen Elfaris
The tunnel boring method (TBM) is a widely used and effective tunneling technology in various rock mass quality circumstances. A ?faulted rock mass? can range from a highly fractured rock mass to a sheared weak rock mass, making the ground conditions cha...
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Xiaokai Li, Xiaolong Zhang, Faming Zhang, Jian Huang, Shixiong Tang and Zhiqing Liu
The mountainous areas of Southwest China have the characteristics of valley deep-cutting, a large topographic gradient, complex geological structures, etc. With the development of infrastructure construction in the area, the construction of bridges acros...
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Qingteng Yuan, Ming Xiao, Ci Kong and Kaicheng Wang
The foundation of a seismic safety assessment of cross-fault hydraulic tunnels is an acceptable and accurate seismic response. A dynamic contact force algorithm that may take into consideration the interaction between the fault?surrounding rock?lining st...
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Andrian Batugin, Alexander Kobylkin, Konstantin Kolikov, Alexander Ivannikov, Valeria Musina, Evgeny Khotchenkov, Byambasuren Zunduijamts, Elmira Ertuganova and Daniil Krasnoshtanov
The hypothesis of the piston effect during mine gas migration caused by fault reactivation was studied, with the use of computer modeling, to explain cases of a sudden appearance of mine gases on the earth surface in coal mining areas. The study is based...
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