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Luigi Sorrentino and Linda Giresini
This paper presents a safety tool to assess the risk of road blockage during and after emergency situations, mainly due to earthquakes. This method can be used by public authorities to calculate the risk of road paths prone to blockage in case of seismic...
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Huan Li, Xixian Chen, Hongliang Chen, Bowen Wang, Weijie Li, Shenglan Liu, Peng Li, Zuoqiu Qi, Zheng He and Xuefeng Zhao
Structural health monitoring (SHM) is of great significance for post-earthquake damage assessment. Smartphone-based monitoring techniques provide the possibility to perform crowdsensing for all buildings in urban regions after an earthquake. However, thi...
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Paola Lorusso, Melissa De Iuliis, Sebastiano Marasco, Marco Domaneschi, Gian Paolo Cimellaro and Valentina Villa
In the last few years, modern technologies such as numerical simulations, virtual and augmented reality, and agent-based models represented effective tools to study phenomena, which may not be experimentally reproduced due to costs, inherent hazards, or ...
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Francesco Cavalieri, Giuseppe Donelli, Rui Pinho, Filippo Dacarro, Nunzia Bernardo and Michele de Nigris
Damage to devices installed in electric substations, which have shown vulnerable behaviour under strong earthquakes in the last decades, may endanger power delivery in the emergency phases during and after an earthquake. Within seismic risk assessment of...
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Ali Güney Özcebe, Francesca Bozzoni and Barbara Borzi
This paper aims to investigate the seismic vulnerability of key port infrastructure components by using the outcomes of advanced numerical analysis. For the first time, to the best knowledge of the authors, a pile-supported wharf structure, the soil depo...
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Farahnaz Soleimani and Donya Hajializadeh
Optimizing the serviceability of highway bridges is a fundamental prerequisite to provide proper infrastructure safety and emergency responses after natural hazards such as an earthquake. In this regard, fragility and resilience assessment have emerged a...
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Julian Estevez, Jose Manuel Lopez-Guede, Gorka Garate and Manuel Graña
This paper deals with the control of a team of unmanned air vehicles (UAVs), specifically quadrotors, for which their mission is the transportation of a deformable linear object (DLO), i.e., a cable, hose or similar object in quasi-stationary state, whil...
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Yibing Yao, Yuyang Zhang, Taoyu Yao, Kapo Wong, Jin Yeu Tsou and Yuanzhi Zhang
Canadian emergency management planners have historically ignored the self-motivated evacuation procedures of people who cannot initially choose the safest evacuation areas. In densely developed urban areas, open spaces can be seen as ideal evacuation are...
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Irina Medved, Gulten Polat and Ivan Koulakov
Here, we investigated the crustal structure beneath eastern Anatolia, an area of high seismicity and critical significance for earthquake hazards in Turkey. The study was based on the local tomography method using data from earthquakes that occurred in t...
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Joongmin Cho, Young-Joo Lee, Seongkwan Mark Lee, Ki Han Song and Wonho Suh
Highway systems play a key role in providing mobility to society, especially during emergency situations, including earthquakes. Bridges in highway systems are susceptible to damage from earthquakes, causing traffic capacity loss leading to a serious imp...
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