Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Site-Vicinity Infrastructure for Supporting the Accident Management of a Nuclear Power Plant by T. J. Katona, A. Vilimi

“…Nuclear power plants shall be designed to resist the effects of large earthquakes. The design basis earthquake affects large area around the plant site and can cause serious consequences that will affect the logistical support of the emergency actions at the plant, influence the psychological condition of the plant personnel, and determine the workload of the country’s disaster management personnel. …”
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State policy for managing seismic territories in Kazakhstan by Kangalakova Dana, Satpayeva Zaira, Kangalakov Kanat

“…Despite the relatively small number of destructive earthquakes in modern times, their numerous faults mean that the danger of earthquakes is still high. …”
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Studi Kinerja Struktur Beton Bertulang Beraturan Yang Didisain Dengan Performance Based Plastic Design by Nidiasari Nidiasari, Jati Sunaryati, Sandy Finanda

“…It is necessary to plan a building structure that can withstand the earthquake load. Indonesia has adopted guidelines on earthquake resistance planning procedures for buildings and non-buildings. …”
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Seismic Performance of a Corroded Reinforce Concrete Frame Structure Using Pushover Method by Meng Zhang, Ran Liu, Yaoliang Li, Guifeng Zhao

“…The degradation characteristics of the seismic performance of the corroded structure under severe earthquake were also analyzed. The results show that the seismic performance of the RC frame decreased significantly due to corrosion of the longitudinal rebars. …”
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Signal Nonstationary Degree Evaluation Method Based on Moving Statistics Theory by Haoxiang He, Shitao Cheng, Xiaofu Zhang

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Acceleration Feedback-Based Active and Semi-Active Seismic Response Control of Rail-Counterweight Systems of Elevators by Rildova, M.P. Singh

“…Based on the observations in the past earthquake events, the traction elevators in buildings are known to be vulnerable to earthquake induced ground motions. …”
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A Modified Newmark Method for Calculating Permanent Displacement of Seismic Slope considering Dynamic Critical Acceleration by Yulong Cui, Aijuan Liu, Chong Xu, Jun Zheng

“…Example calculations indicate that this approach permits to show the dropping cohesion and the dynamic critical acceleration of the slide block during the earthquake time history. The improved method for calculating seismic slope permanent displacement presented in this paper solves the problem that the calculated value from the Newmark sliding method is smaller than the real value and is a useful improvement.…”
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The New Avalanche-Like Stochastic Model for Parameterization of Seismicity and Its Application to the South Sakhalin Island Seismicity by M. V. Rodkin, I. N. Tikhonov

“…This finding is examined in comparison with other indications of an increase in probability of occurrence of a strong earthquake in the South Sakhalin region.…”
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Inspection and Numerical Analysis of an Ottoman Railway Bridge in Jordan by Amin H. Almasri, Qusai Fandi Al-Waked

“…The study includes static analysis under gravity loads and seismic analysis under earthquake loads. Despite the existence of deterioration in the bridge body construction materials due to a combination of human and natural factors, the analysis results proved enough structural capability to sustain the imposed gravity loads, but not a strong earthquake.…”
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Experimental and Numerical Study of Self-Centering Brace with Arc Steel Plate by Mahdi Malek Mohammad Pour, Soheil Monajemi Nejad, AbdolReza Sarvgad Moghadam

“…This paper introduces a novel self-centering brace designed to enhance the seismic performance of structures, while also minimizing permanent deflection after an earthquake. The advantages of this brace include easy construction, compatibility with construction practices in Iran, affordability, high capacity for axial force, efficient energy dissipation, adaptability for development, and applicability in various structures. …”
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AN INVESTIGATION ON THE EFFECTIVE PARAMETERS OF LOOSE SANDS LIQUEFACTION POTENTIAL USING IMPROVED HYPERCUBE SAMPLING METHOD by S. Golmoghani Ebrahimi, A. Noorzad, H. Javaheri Koupaei

“…Sensitivity analysis based on the coefficient of variation on a wide range of liquefaction and non-liquefaction case histories illustrates that the variability of soil parameters and earthquake loading can affect the probability of liquefaction. …”
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Induced seismicity and geothermal energy production in the Salton Sea Geothermal Field, California by Malcolm C. A. White, Nori Nakata

“…We estimate that, whereas there was a 2% chance of a M6.07 earthquake nucleating inside the SSGF within a fifty-year period prior to energy production (pre-production), there is an equal probability that a M6.70 earthquake nucleates there in a fifty-year period during which historically average energy production conditions persist (syn-production). …”
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Effect of Mean Grain Size on the Small-Strain Dynamic Properties of Calcareous Sand by Liwei Wen

“…The shear modulus and damping ratio are two important parameters for earthquake ground response analysis and liquefaction evaluation. …”
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Safety Identifying of Integral Abutment Bridges under Seismic and Thermal Loads by Narges Easazadeh Far, Majid Barghian

“…Although all bridge design codes consider temperature and earthquake loads separately in their load combinations for conventional bridges, the thermal load is an “always on” load and, during the occurrence of an earthquake, these two important loads act on bridge simultaneously. …”
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A Comparative Study of Seismic Performance Evaluation of Reinforced Concrete Frame Structures Using Chinese and African Seismic Codes by Musaab Suliman, Liang Lu

“…The evaluation of various earthquake codes, it is one of the significant challenges in the study area of earthquake engineering. …”
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Combined Effect of Vertical and Horizontal Ground Motions on Failure Probability of RC Chimneys by Xuan Guo, Wei Chen, Jianbing Yu

“…Previous earthquake events have shown that chimneys are one of the most fragile structures. …”
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Bizarre Waveforms in Strong Motion Records by Baofeng Zhou, Haiyun Wang, Lili Xie, Yanru Wang

“…This paper collects a rich set of strong motion records in some typical earthquakes domestic and abroad, checks its seismic events, converts the data format, corrects the zeroline and draws the waveform. …”
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Multi-UAV cooperative channel model for emergency communication by Lu BAI, Mingran SUN, Ziwei HUANG, Tao FENG, Xiang CHENG

“…To carry out the system design and technology development for emergency communications, and greatly improve our ability of risk prevention and emergency disposal, the research on multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (multi-UAV) cooperative channel model for emergency communications was carried out.First, the channel dataset of multi-UAV cooperative emergency communications in two typical emergency environments, i.e., the urban earthquake and suburban blizzard, was established.The channel parameters and statistical properties of multi-UAV cooperative emergency communications were analyzed.Second, a more general geometry-based stochastic channel model (GBSM) was proposed for multi-UAV cooperative emergency communications.The channel impulse response (CIR) and the cooperative non-station arity of multi-UAV cooperative channels in the space and time domains in multi-UAV cooperative emergency communications were calculated and captured.Finally, the channel characteristics of multi-UAV cooperative emergency communication in urban earthquake and suburban blizzard scenarios were analyzed, which could support the practical implementation of multi-UAV cooperative emergency communications.Meanwhile, the statistical characteristic of the proposed model can fit well with that of ray-tracing-based channel data, verifying the utility of the proposed model.…”
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Seismic Fragility Analysis of Self-Anchored Suspension Bridge Considering Damping Effect by Xiangong Zhou, Lei Cao, Heng Han, Xiaobo Zheng, Hanhao Zhang, Zhiqing Zhang

“…The damper device makes the seismic performance of the structure significantly improved, and the reduction effect of the damper device on high-intensity earthquakes is more obvious than that on low-intensity earthquakes.…”
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Experimental Study on the Seismic Behavior of a Steel-Concrete Hybrid Structure with Buckling Restrained Braces by Liang Li, Guoqiang Li, Tianhua Zhou

“…The damage to a concrete wall caused by a strong earthquake is generally concentrated at the bottom of the concrete wall, which seriously threatens the safety of the steel-concrete hybrid structure and is very difficult to repair after an earthquake. …”
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