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Masoud Jafari Shalamzari, Wanchang Zhang, Atefeh Gholami and Zhijie Zhang
Site selection for runoff harvesting at large scales is a very complex task. It requires inclusion and spatial analysis of a multitude of accurately measured parameters in a time-efficient manner. Compared with direct measurements of runoff, which is tim...
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Anna Lisa Cescon, James Andrew Graham Cooper and Derek W. T. Jackson
Beach ridges originate from various depositional processes and occur in a variety of settings. This paper assesses their nature and distribution on the islands of the Greater Caribbean based on a literature review and the identification of sites using Go...
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Z. Jason Hou, Nicholas D. Ward, Allison N. Myers-Pigg, Xinming Lin, Scott R. Waichler, Cora Wiese Moore, Matthew J. Norwood, Peter Regier and Steven B. Yabusaki
The influence of coastal ecosystems on global greenhouse gas (GHG) budgets and their response to increasing inundation and salinization remains poorly constrained. In this study, we have integrated an uncertainty quantification (UQ) and ensemble machine ...
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Martina Hauser, Stefan Reinstaller, Martin Oberascher, Dirk Muschalla and Manfred Kleidorfer
Owing to climate change, heavy rainfall events have increased in recent years, often resulting in urban flooding. Urban flood models usually consider buildings to be closed obstacles, which is not the case in reality. To address this research gap, an exi...
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Shanshan Guo, François Nkinahamira, Bob Adyari, Yiqing Zhang, Anyi Hu and Qian Sun
Rapid urbanization has caused an increase in the discharge of inorganic elements into the environment; however, the knowledge about the fate and annual variations of multiple elements in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) is limited. To understand the d...
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Shengxiang Li, Yongwei Li and Linrong Xu
The prediction of railway embankment failure is still a global challenge for the railway industry due to the complexity of embankment failure mechanisms. In this work, the pre-failure deformation and the settlement from abnormal deformation to the final ...
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Mohamed S. Abdel-Salam, Safa S. Hafez, Mohamed Fadel, Shereen A. H. Mohamed, Wafaa K. Hegazy and Bigad E. Khalil
The most abundant organic carbon source on Earth is cellulosic materials. Its main resources are crop straws which are not commonly used and produce environmental pollution. These resources can be a site of biological hydrolysis to primary sugars by cell...
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Ali Polat, Inan Keskin and Özlem Polat
A doline is a natural closed depression formed as a result of karstification, and it is the most common landform in karst areas. These depressions damage many living areas and various engineering structures, and this type of collapse event has created na...
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Jonathan Tyrer, Chrysothemis Paraskevopoulou, Ravi Shah, Richard Miller and Michael Kavvadas
Urban tunnelling can be highly challenging, especially in areas where limited ground settlements and environmental disturbance is required. Mechanised tunnelling is usually preferred in such ground environments, specifically Slurry or EPBM (Earth Pressur...
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Dominic Ek Leong Ong and Elizabeth Eu Mee Chong
Retaining walls are often used to construct basements and underground station boxes. This unique case study compares the field-measured contiguous bored pile (CBP) wall, surrounding geology, and hydrogeology or groundwater responses against the results u...
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