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Ewa Dabrowska
The paper deals with an important issue related to the identification, modelling, and prediction of environmental pollution in aquatic ecosystems of the Baltic Sea caused by anthropopressure. Water ecosystems are in danger nowadays because of the negativ...
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Jonathan Sinclair and Paul John Taylor
This study examined the effects of minimal, maximal and conventional running footwear on tibial strains and stress fracture probability using finite element and probabilistic analyses. The current investigation examined fifteen males running in three foo...
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Alessandro Rasulo, Sofia Nardoianni, Azzurra Evangelisti and Mauro D?Apuzzo
Transportation networks are one of the most vulnerable civil infrastructures during an earthquake and an estimation of traffic impacts in the post-earthquake scenario is a crucial aspect in the context of risk assessment and evaluation of remedial measur...
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Konstantinos Ntafloukas, Liliana Pasquale, Beatriz Martinez-Pastor and Daniel P. McCrum
Transportation networks are fundamental to the efficient and safe functioning of modern societies. In the past, physical and cyber space were treated as isolated environments, resulting in transportation network being considered vulnerable only to threat...
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Fawad Ali Mangi, Guoxin Su and Minjie Zhang
The study of business process analysis and optimisation has attracted significant scholarly interest in the recent past, due to its integral role in boosting organisational performance. A specific area of focus within this broader research field is proce...
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Antonino Vitetta
Given two pick-up and delivery points, the best path chosen does not necessarily follow the criteria of minimum travel time or generalized minimum cost evaluated with a deterministic approach. Given a criterion, the perceived cost is not deterministic fo...
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Wael R. Abdellah, Chiaki Hirohama, Atsushi Sainoki, Ahmed Rushdy Towfeek and Mahrous A. M. Ali
This study employs a hybrid approach in which numerical modelling is coupled with probabilistic analysis to determine the optimal overall slope angle of an open-pit mine based on three design parameters, namely, safety, productivity and cost.
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Vincenzo Picozzi, Antonio Malasomma, Alberto Maria Avossa and Francesco Ricciardelli
Wind induced pressures on buildings are the product of a velocity pressure and a pressure coefficient. The way in which these two quantities are calculated has changed over the years, and Design Codes have been modified accordingly. This paper tracks the...
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Utkarsh Bhardwaj, Angelo Palos Teixeira and C. Guedes Soares
This paper presents an approach for probabilistic design and safety assessment of sandwich pipelines under external pressure. The methodology consists of the categorisation of sandwich pipeline collapse strength models based on interlayer adhesion condit...
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Sayyid Zainal Abidin Syed Ahmad, Mohd Khairi Abu Husain, Noor Irza Mohd Zaki, Nurul Azizah Mukhlas, Ezanizam Mat Soom, Nurul Uyun Azman and Gholamhossein Najafian
Offshore installations must be built to resist fatigue as well as extreme forces caused by severe environmental conditions. The structural reliability analysis is the popular practise to assess a variety of natural waves determined by the long-term proba...
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