2022 November - 13 articles
Risk can be defined as the relationship between the likelihood of a hazard causing a potential disaster and its consequences. This study aims to assess the likelihood that a new industrial region, located in the state of São Paulo (Brazil), wi...
Base isolation of liquid storage tanks has proven to be an efficient seismic protection measure, leading to a drastic reduction of a superstructure’s distress. However, many such tanks are located near seismic tectonic faults, which generate st...
According to Modified Compression Field Theory (MCFT), the ultimate shear capacity of a reinforced concrete section depends on load effects (shear, moment, torsion, and axial force) caused by factored design loads. In many design standards, including...
The T26 tunnel was designed within the scope of the Ankara-Istanbul high-speed railway in accordance with the speed of 250 km/h. Some serious problems and excessive deformations were encountered during the excavation works. The deformations in the tu...
High-speed railway is trending in developing countries for economic reasons, mobility in the aftermath of COVID-19, and environmental concerns. The high-speed railway operators continuously improve the operational speed to transport more passengers i...
The urban drainage system plays an important role in the urban infrastructure resilience discussion. Its functional failures can trigger cascading effects on other urban systems and critical infrastructures. The main aim of this work is to investigat...
Crack is a condition indicator of the pavement’s structure. Generally, crack detection is an essential task for effective diagnosis of the road network. Moreover, evaluation of road quality is necessary to ensure traffic security. Since 2011, a...
Previous studies have addressed railway turnouts (switches and crossings), but research on the performance of 1000 mm gauge turnouts is limited. At present, wooden sleeper structures are used at turnouts in Vietnam. However, these structures have man...
Weigh-In-Motion (WIM) data have been collected by state departments of transportation (DOT) in the U.S. and are anticipated to grow as state DOTs expand the number of WIM sites in order to better manage transportation infrastructure and enhance mobil...
This experimental study proposes a systematic mix-design procedure to develop rubberized geopolymer concrete (RGPC). The developed method is meant to identify the mix ratios for the production of high-strength, low-calcium fly ash-based geopolymer co...
In this paper, Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) have been utilized to predict the stability of a planar tunnel heading in rock mass based on the well-defined Hoek-Brown (HB) yield criterion. The HB model was developed to capture the failure criterion...
The impacts of the changing climate have caused extensive disruption to the road network in the United Kingdom in recent years. Roads are vital for economic growth and social wellbeing, and a disruption to the network can have disastrous consequences...
Structures built on sands worldwide, with shallow foundations, have experienced damage and collapse during and after earthquakes. Two phenomena triggered the collapse: the liquefaction phenomenon and the P-Δ effects. However, current research a...
