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Jinming Chen, Xiao Yang, Haiya Dao, Haowen Gu, Gang Chen, Changshu Mao, Shihan Bai, Shixiang Gu, Zuhao Zhou and Ziqi Yan
Water, soil, and heat are strategic supporting elements for human survival and social development. The degree of matching between human-land-water-heat elements directly influences the sustainable development of a region. However, the current evaluation ...
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Zhibing Hu, Yong Pang, Ruichen Xu, Hui Yu, Yuan Niu, Changgan Wu and Yuan Liu
Systematic evaluation of water environment carrying capacity (WECC) is a prerequisite for achieving sustainable development, which reflects the water environment comprehensive condition of lake basin under the current economic development scenario. There...
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Khalid Alkhuzai, Luigi Di Sarno, Abdullah Haredy, Raed Alahmadi and Danah Albuhairi
The formation of cracks in concrete structures occurs due to a multitude of causes ranging from shrinkage to external loading and environmental exposure. This phenomenon can significantly affect the lifecycle of concrete structures. Self-healing concrete...
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Mohamed Younus Meeran Mydeen, Murugan Madasamy and Bright Singh Seeni
The sudden occurrence of an earthquake induces a liquefaction effect on foundation soil, which causes a substantial increase in the uplift pressure acting on piles and causes structural damage to superstructures. This forms the basis of the necessity of ...
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Alexis Conides, Theodoros Zoulias, Alexandra Pavlidou, Panagiota Zachioti, Afroditi Androni, Georgia Kabouri, Eleni Rouselaki, Aggeliki Konstantinopoulou, Kaliopi Pagou and Dimitris Klaoudatos
The estimation of the carrying capacity (CC) is a fundamental process in integrated environmental management, policy making, and decision making. Aquaculture carrying capacity has been studied since the 1960s to allow estimation of the production limits ...
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Xinyue Yang, Xianglai Zeng, Carlo Gualtieri, Alan Cuthbertson, Ruo-Qian Wang and Dongdong Shao
With the rapid development of commercial aquaculture in recent decades, large numbers of submerged cages or pens are clustered in fish farms that are commonly located within inland lakes, reservoirs, and coastal embayments around the world. The submerged...
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Stavros K. Kourkoulis, Ermioni D. Pasiou, Andronikos Loukidis, Ilias Stavrakas and Dimos Triantis
The quantitative determination of the current load carrying capability of already loaded structural elements and the possibility to detect proper indices that could be considered as signals for timely warning that the load carrying capacity is exhausted ...
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Penglong Wang, Yao Wei, Fanglei Zhong, Xiaoyu Song, Bao Wang and Qinhua Wang
The water resources carrying capacity (WRCC) strongly determines the agricultural development in arid areas. Evaluation of WRCC is important in balancing the availability of water resources with society?s economic and environmental demands. Given the dem...
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Pattrakorn Nidhinarangkoon, Sompratana Ritphring and Keiko Udo
Sea level rise due to climate change affects beaches, which are a source of high recreational value in the economy. The tourism carrying capacity (TCC) assessment is one of the tools to determine the management capacity of a beach. Pattaya beach represen...
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Jiakai Du, Xushu Wu, Zhaoli Wang, Jun Li and Xiaohong Chen
Anthropogenic activities have a tremendous impact on water ecosystems worldwide, especially in China. To quantitatively evaluate the hydrological alteration connected with aquatic lives and river ecological risks, we took the Beijiang River located in So...
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