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Athanasios Bakalis, Triantafyllos Makarios and Vassilis Lekidis
The seismic damage in reinforced concrete bridges is identified in this study using the ?M and P? hybrid technique initially developed for planar frames, where M signifies ?Monitoring? and P denotes ?Pushover analysis?. The proposed methodology involves ...
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Jaehyun Shin and Dong Sop Rhee
As the frequency and intensity of natural and social disasters increase due to climate change, damage caused by disasters affects urban areas and facilities. Of those disasters, inundation occurs in urban areas due to rising water surface elevation becau...
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Juan Jin, Seunghan Kim and Jiwon Moon
Korean forests are highly vulnerable to forest fires, which can severely damage property and human life. This necessitates the establishment of a rapid response system and the construction of firebreaks to prevent the spread of fires and protect key faci...
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Jiawei Liu, Hailong Yin, Yixin Zhang, Xiufeng Li, Yongquan Li, Xueru Gong and Wei Wu
Safety barriers (SBs) are important means of reducing failure risks of process systems. As barriers vary in type and function, their effectiveness needs to be evaluated in order to find a more reasonable configuration strategy. However, in practice, ther...
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Bahaa Yamany, Mahmoud Said Elsayed, Anca D. Jurcut, Nashwa Abdelbaki and Marianne A. Azer
Ransomware is a type of malicious software that encrypts a victim?s files and demands payment in exchange for the decryption key. It is a rapidly growing and evolving threat that has caused significant damage and disruption to individuals and organizatio...
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Nilupa Herath, Lihai Zhang, Priyan Mendis, Satheeskumar Navaratnam, Weena Lokuge and Sujeeva Setunge
Damage accumulation due to multiple seismic impacts over time has a significant effect on the residual service life of the bridge. A reliability-based framework was developed to make decisions in bridge maintenance activities. The feature of the framewor...
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Paulo Marcelo Vieira Ribeiro and Pierre Léger
Concrete dams are massive unreinforced quasi-brittle structures prone to cracking from multiple causes. The structural safety assessment of cracked concrete dams is typically performed using computational analysis through numerical methods, with adequate...
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Jingyuan Yang, Huayu Duan, Linxiao Li, Edward Stewart, Junhui Huang and Roger Dixon
Defective droppers pose a significant threat to the performance of the contact between the train pantograph and railway catenary. In this paper, the impact of damaged droppers on the performance of pantograph?catenary interaction behaviour is analysed, a...
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Marek Ce?kovic, Martin Schrötter, Róbert Hunady, Pavol Kurdel and Natália Gecejová
A helicopter in flight can be considered an unstable dynamic system with many unwanted vibrations originating from multiple sources, such as the operation of the engines and individual components. These vibrations cause the degradation of the structural ...
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Jiayu Wen, Yanguo Song, Huanjin Wang, Dong Han and Changfa Yang
Tiltrotor aircrafts have both fixed-wing control surfaces and helicopter rotors for attitude control. The redundancy of control surfaces provides the possibility for the control system to reconfigure the control law when actuator faults occur during flig...
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