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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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Dimitrios Noitsis, Georgia A. Beletsioti, Anastasios Valkanis, Konstantinos Kantelis, Georgios Papadimitriou and Petros Nicopolitidis
Traffic on backbone communication networks is growing significantly every year. This results in an increase in both energy consumption and the carbon footprint they leave on the environment. As a response, research efforts are focused on reducing energy ...
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Ahmed Elgamal and Nissreen Elfaris
The tunnel boring method (TBM) is a widely used and effective tunneling technology in various rock mass quality circumstances. A ?faulted rock mass? can range from a highly fractured rock mass to a sheared weak rock mass, making the ground conditions cha...
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Vishnupriya Jonnalagadda, Ji Yun Lee, Jie Zhao and Seyed Hooman Ghasemi
The nation?s transportation systems are complex and are some of the highest valued and largest public assets in the United States. As a result of repeated natural hazards and their significant impact on transportation functionality and the socioeconomic ...
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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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Rafael Ramírez Eudave, Daniel Rodrigues, Tiago Miguel Ferreira and Romeu Vicente
The characterisation of the seismic vulnerability of historical constructions represents a complex problem in which the typological variability, the difficulty of performing reliable large-scale assessments and dealing with a large database all play a ro...
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Tharindu Malinga Abeysiriwardena, Kushan Kalmith Wijesundara and Roberto Nascimbene
The assessment of seismic risk for critical and strategic structures like schools and hospitals remains crucial, even in regions with low seismic activity. Presently, operational school buildings in Sri Lanka are primarily designed to handle gravitationa...
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Maria Luisa Villani, Sonia Giovinazzi and Antonio Costanzo
Natural hazards are increasingly threatening our communities; hence it is imperative to provide communities with reliable information on possible impacts of such disasters, and on resilience measures that can be adopted to recover from disasters. To incr...
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Philippe Rosset, Adil Takahashi and Luc Chouinard
The metropolitan community of Montreal (MMC) is located in Eastern Canada and included in the western Quebec seismic zone characterized by shallow crustal earthquakes and moderate seismicity. Most of the urbanized areas are settled close to the Saint-Law...
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Marianna Rotilio, Giulia D?Alberto, Angelo Di Egidio, Alessandro Contento and Pierluigi De Berardinis
The recent seismic events in Italy, including the earthquakes in L?Aquila in 2009 and central Italy in 2016, have significantly impacted the historical centers of small and medium-sized cities. These events directly affected their ancient masonry buildin...
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