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By comparing different settlement forecast methods, eight methods were selected considering the creep of marine soft soils in this case study, including the Hyperbolic Method (HM), Exponential Curve Method (ECM), Pearl Growth Curve Modeling (PGCM), G...

Undercrossing construction can cause severe structural deformation of the above existing tunnel in operation. The induced longitudinal differential settlement between the segments can pose a huge risk to running subways, hence it is of great importan...

Advances in the availability of multi-temporal, remote sensing-derived global built-/human-settlements datasets can now provide globally consistent definitions of “human-settlement” at unprecedented spatial fineness. Yet, these data only...

Ground surface settlement forecasting in the process of tunnel construction is one of the most important techniques towards sustainable city development and preventing serious damages, such as landscape collapse. It is evident that modern artificial...

Today, the problem of predicting population migration is essential in the concept of smart cities for the proper development planning of certain regions of the country, as well as their financing and landscaping. In dealing with population migration...

In civil engineering applications, piles (deep foundations) are pushed into the ground in order to perform as steady support of structures. As these type of foundations are able to carry a huge amount of load, they should be carefully designed in ter...

Agritourism is a complex activity, a chance maybe today to ensure both human health and the “health” of the environment and rural settlements in order to achieve a most wanted desideratum, the sustainability of the rural environment. The...

Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) have become prevalent in tunnel construction due to their high efficiency and reliability. The proliferation of data obtained from site investigations and data acquisition systems provides an opportunity for the applicat...

Global environmental impacts such as climate change require behavior from society that aims to minimize greenhouse gas emissions. This includes the substitution of fossil fuels with other energy sources. An important aspect of efficient and sustainab...

High-quality growth of the construction industry and an improved human settlements environment are essential to sustainable urbanization. Existing studies have paid limited systematic attention to the spatial and temporal dynamics of the coordinated...

Climate issues have affected the sustainable development of global human settlements, and carbon, an essential factor affecting climate change, has become a hotspot of academic concern. This paper analyzes the research characteristics, stages and pla...

Although the Korean government plans to increase its share of variable renewable energies (VREs), the Korean power market is not sufficiently mature to accommodate a large increase in VRE generation. Thus, the Korean system operator plans to introduc...

The 2050 global ambition for a carbon-neutral society is increasing the penetration of the most competitive variable renewable technologies, onshore wind and solar PV. These technologies are known for their near-zero marginal costs but highly variabl...

Settlement issues at airports pose a significant threat to operational safety, particularly in coastal regions, where land reclamation introduces unique challenges. The complexities of marine foundations, the difficulties in investigating reclaimed l...

A database of 195 field records of long-term settlement of high-rise buildings in Shanghai soft coastal clays is presented. The collected field records are divided into two categories based on pile type, i.e., bored pile and precast pile. Based on th...

To explore the future development state of urban and rural settlements, we combined random forest algorithm (RFA) and cellular automata (CA) to simulate high precision in urban and rural settlements in Aksu city. The settlement distribution was predi...

To ensure the safe repurposing of post-mining landscapes, understanding and managing geotechnical risks, particularly ground movements such as settlements on opencast mining dump surfaces, is critical. Satellite-based radar interferometry (InSAR) tec...

The monitoring, modeling, and prediction of storm events and accompanying heavy rain is crucial for intensively used agricultural landscapes and its settlements and transport infrastructure. In Saxony, Germany, repeated and numerous storm events trig...

A critical review of urban planning scientific aspects of the study of the globalization of settlement systems, including the impact of cross-border and transcontinental links on global urban and interethnic integration and communication processes, i...

We introduce a generalization of the one-dimensional accelerated failure time model allowing the covariate effect to be any positive function of the covariate. This function and the baseline hazard rate are estimated nonparametrically via an iterativ...

Aiming at the problem that it is difficult to consider the prediction of foundation settlement in the case of multi-parameter coupling effect by theoretical formulas and numerical analysis, the fireworks algorithm with gravitational search operator (...

The precise prediction of high-speed railway bridge pier settlement plays a crucial role in construction, maintenance, and long-term operation; however, current mainstream prediction methods mostly rely on independent analyses based on traditional or...

The proliferation of renewable energy sources has presented challenges for Balancing Responsible Parties (BRPs) in accurately forecasting production and consumption. This issue is being addressed through the emergence of the balancing markets, which...

In this paper, a new prediction model for accurately recognizing and appropriately evaluating the trends of domestic chemical products and for improving the forecasting accuracy of the chemical products’ prices is proposed. The proposed model u...

To explore a more accurate prediction method for subgrade settlement induced by underpass construction, this study takes the existing railway project of Ningbo Yuanyi Road underpass as a case to construct a subgrade settlement prediction model based...

The load and settlement histories of stage-constructed embankments provide critical insights into long-term surface behavior under embankment loading. However, these data often remain underutilized in predicting post-construction settlement in the ab...

Rural settlement land consolidation potential calculation is the basic work of land consolidation. An accurate potential is essential to rural development planners and policy makers as a project target or prediction. The traditional calculation metho...

In today’s data-driven world, time series forecasting is an intensively investigated temporal data mining technique. In practice, there is a range of forecasting techniques that have been proven to be efficient at capturing different aspects of...

Local weather forecasts in the Arctic outside of settlements are challenging due to the dearth of ground-level observation stations and high computational costs. During winter, these forecasts are critical to help prepare for potentially hazardous we...

Squeezed branch piles, which boast the advantages of great bearing capacity, small settlement, and good stability, are an important infrastructure in the foundation of buildings, and their safety state is related to the safety of the entire structure...

Ground settlement caused by urban subway construction can significantly impact surrounding buildings and underground infrastructure, posing risks to structural safety and long-term performance. Accurate prediction of settlement trends is therefore es...

Many marine invertebrate larvae undergo complex morphological and physiological changes during the planktonic—benthic transition (a.k.a. metamorphosis). In this study, transcriptome analysis of different developmental stages was used to uncover...

Climate change has the potential to have many significant impacts on aeroallergens such as pollen and mould spores, and therefore related diseases such as asthma and allergic rhinitis. This paper critically reviews this topic, with a focus on the pot...

In recent years, socioeconomic transformation and social modernisation in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states have led to tremendous changes in lifestyle and, subsequently, expansion of urban settlements. This accelerated growth is pronounced n...

Surface subsidence resulting from block caving mining causes considerable environmental and economic harm in mining areas, highlighting the critical need for accurate predictions of surface subsidence. Given the unique features of the block caving te...

Forecasting scenarios of future intra-urban land-use (intra-urban-LU) expansion can help to curb the historically unplanned urbanization in cities in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and promote urban sustainability. In this study, we applied the neural netw...

In the Italian intra-day electricity market (MI-XBID), where energy positions can be adjusted up to one hour before delivery, imbalance charges due to forecast errors from non-programmable renewable sources represent a critical issue. This work focus...

Increasingly volatile and distributed energy production challenges traditional mechanisms to manage grid loads and price energy. Local energy markets (LEMs) may be a response to those challenges as they can balance energy production and consumption l...

With increasing renewable energy integration, electricity spot markets exhibit high volatility and uncertainty, making it difficult to balance profit and risk. To address this challenge, this paper proposes Joint (Version 1.0), a multi-agent closed-l...

This study examines the performance of mat foundations in 13 blocks of eight-story concrete-walled residential buildings. Topographic monitoring bolts were used to monitor the slab’s construction, which was 0.35 m thick and comprised an area of...

City disaster resilience and urban environmental cleanliness are two representative indicators used to assess the safety of human settlements in China’s Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs). Traditional research on SDGs mainly concentrated a...

Empirical findings based on a bivariate logistic regression model with two SME categories (successful and failed) indicate that by adding non-financial indicators to the model based on financial variables, the accuracy of forecasting increases signif...

Whether due to natural causes or human carelessness, forest fires have the power to cause devastating damage, alter the habitat of animals and endemic species, generate insecurity in the population, and even affect human settlements with significant...

The main goal of the article is the evaluation of usefulness of CORINE Land Cover (CLC) data—acquired predominantly by visual interpretation of Landsat satellite imagery—for monitoring of changes in settlement development and land use. Th...

The full-scale static pile loading test is without question the most reliable methodology for estimating the ultimate capacity of large diameter bored piles (LDBP). However, in most cases, the obtained load-settlement curves from LDBP loading tests t...

There is no natural inertia in a photovoltaic (PV) generator and changes in irradiation can be seen immediately at the output power. Moving cloud shadows are the dominant reason for fast PV power fluctuations taking place typically within a minute be...

With advancements in mineral processing technology, the disposal of fine-grained tailings has increasingly become a significant challenge. The geotextile tube method, characterized by its use of a permeable fabric and its cost-effectiveness, has grad...

With the development of data collection and storage capabilities in recent decades, abundant data have been accumulated in geotechnical engineering fields, providing opportunities for the usage of machine learning approaches. Thus, a rising number of...

Coastal environments are globally recognized for their spectacular morphological characteristics as well as economic opportunities, such as fisheries and tourism industries. However, climate change, growth in tourism, and constant coastal urban spraw...

In the context of deep foundation pit excavation, the settlement of surrounding buildings is a critical indicator for safety assessment and early warning. Due to the non-stationary and nonlinear characteristics of settlement data, traditional predict...