The Mediterranean Sea and the Impact of Its Geographical Space and Cosmology upon Shakespeare’s Characters in Pericles by Neslihan Ekmekçioğlu

“…The remarks regarding the wondrous meteorological phenomenon of the tempest point to the symptoms of an earthquake which caused the billow, the swelling of the sea which delivered the chest of Thaisa’s supposedly dead body to the seacoast. …”
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Data Analysis of the Effect of Different Nanomaterials on Antislide Pile Performance in Railway Landslides by Kai Guo, Mingxin Zheng, Yongjiang Ren

“…Many high-rise buildings, bridges, and launch towers are inevitably built on high and steep slopes. Heavy rain, earthquake, human engineering activities, and other factors lead to frequent landslides, soil creep deformation, and overall sliding, resulting in a certain bending moment and flexural deformation of foundation piles, may cause damage to the substructure and foundation pile failure, and then endanger the safety of the superstructure. …”
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A Large-Scale Group Decision-Making Consensus Model considering the Experts’ Adjustment Willingness Based on the Interactive Weights’ Determination by Shizhen Bai, Hao He, Dan Luo, Mengke Ge, Ruobing Yang, Xinrui Bi

“…This study proposes a large-scale group decision-making (LSGDM) consensus model considering the experts’ adjustment willingness based on the interactive weights’ determination, which can be applied to an LSGDM problem through a case of earthquake shelters. The main contributions of our research are of three aspects as follows. …”
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Fuzzy Adaptive Compensation Control for Uncertain Building Structural Systems by Sliding-Mode Technology by Houyao Zhu, Zicong Chen, Jianhui Wang, Yunchang Huang, Wenli Chen, Zheng Huang, Huaqi Zhao

“…Earthquake is a kind of natural disaster, which will have a great impact on the building structure. …”
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Effect of pre-tensioning force on behavior of Buckling Restrained Brace (BRB) supported by double pre-tensioning system by Mohamed Selim, Muhammad E. Kamel, Eman Elshamy, Mohamed Emara

“…The restraining element in an all-steel BRB is built from a rectangular plate with a double cross arm and cables, making it easy to fabricate, inspect, and replace after a severe earthquake. Numerical analyses were conducted on four groups: first group of specimens using dynamic loading to achieve the minimum thickness for stable hysteretic behavior and high efficiency for BRB, and three groups of specimens using monotonic loading to achieve the best pre-tensioning forces value in steel 37, 44 and 52 for greater efficient use of all steel BRB. …”
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The Performance of Resistance Progressive Collapse Analysis for High-Rise Frame-Shear Structure Based on OpenSees by Qiang Zhang, Yaozhuang Li

“…On these bases, 3 groups of typical frame-shear structure systems were designed to perform nonlinear dynamic collapse analysis under different initial failure conditions, in order to study the impact of the number of floors and earthquake resistant design on the progressive collapse resistance of frame-shear structures. …”
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Seismic refraction investigation of the shallow bedrock in New Qena City, Eastern Desert, Egypt by Ahmed M. Abdelgowad, Assem E. El-Haddad, Mohamed I. Aglan, Ahmed Hamed

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Hysteretic Behavior of Eccentrically Loaded Reinforced Air-Entrained Concrete Columns under Combined Effects of Freeze-Thaw Cycles and Seawater Corrosion by Jieqiong Wu, Jian Zhang, Bo Diao, Shaohong Cheng, Yinghua Ye

“…Besides service loads, reinforced concrete structures in cold coastal seismic regions are subjected to multiple attacks of freeze-thaw cycles and seawater corrosion as well as the earthquake struck. An experimental study was conducted to investigate the seismic response of eccentrically loaded reinforced air-entrained concrete columns under alternative actions of freeze-thaw cycles and chloride corrosion. …”
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Transformations in Flow Characteristics and Fluid Force Reduction with Respect to the Vegetation Type and Its Installation Position Downstream of an Embankment by A H M Rashedunnabi, Norio Tanaka, Md Abedur Rahman

“…Compound mitigation systems, integrations of natural and engineering structures against the high inundating current from tsunamis or storm surges, have garnered significant interest among researchers, especially following the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in 2011. Understanding the complex flow phenomena is essential for the resilience of the mitigation structures and effective energy reduction. …”
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Seismic Response of Plan-Asymmetric Structures with Diaphragm Flexibility by Hamed Eivani, Abdolreza S. Moghadam, Armin Aziminejad, Masoud Nekooei

“…Moreover, it was found that a suitable configuration of centers in torsionally stiff structures depends on the degree of diaphragm flexibility, in addition to the intensity of earthquakes (structure yield level) and selected engineering demand parameter.…”
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Lateral Seismic Fragility Assessment of Cable-Stayed Bridge with Diamond-Shaped Concrete Pylons by Chao Zhang, Jianbin Lu, Zhengan Zhou, Xueyuan Yan, Li Xu, Jinjun Lin

“…However, the diamond-shaped pylons have both inward and outward inclinations, which may result in complicated seismic behavior when subjected to lateral earthquake excitations. To end this, the finite element model of a cable-stayed bridge with diamond concrete pylon is developed firstly. …”
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Effect of Seismic Frequency Spectra on Surrounding Rock Damage Evolution of Large Underground Caverns by Yumin Zhang, Zeqi Zhu, Rongchao Xu, Zhiquan Huang

“…Those findings may provide practical data for earthquake-resistant design and construction.…”
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On Factors behind the Reasonable Failure Mode of Concrete-Filled Circular Steel Tubular Composite Frame by Yang-bing Liu, Ping-ping Cui, Fang Chen

“…Compared with conventional reinforced concrete structures and steel structures, CFST structures in strong earthquake showcase more complicated strength and deformation behavior because there are many factors underlying the failure mode. …”
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Nonlinear Regression Based Health Monitoring of Hysteretic Structures under Seismic Excitation by C. Xu, J. Geoffrey Chase, Geoffrey W. Rodgers

“…The resulting damage indicators can robustly and clearly indicate structural condition over different earthquake events.…”
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Policy evaluation on the distribution of disaster stimulant funds in Palu city by Nuraisyah Nuraisyah, Erdiyansyah Erdiyansyah, Aldi Aldi

“…This means that there are many complaints from the affected community as they have not been registered as a beneficiary of stimulant funds.This research contributes to the development of public policies related to the policy of distributing stimulant funds for victims of natural disasters consisting of earthquakes, tsunamis, and liquefaction, so policy formulation needs to be designed comprehensively so that it becomes a recommendation for the future because policies related to earthquake, tsunami, and liquefaction disasters have not previously occurred anywhere in the world so that the findings of this study become recommendations for the government in handling increasingly complex natural disasters.…”
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The Effect of Temperature on Dynamic Characteristics of Frozen Clay under Principal Stress Rotation by Bin-Long Zhang, Da-Yan Wang, Zhi-Wei Zhou, Wei Ma, Le-Le Lei

“…The foundation soil is always subjected to complex stress, including continuous rotation of the principal stress caused by traffic and earthquake loads. To comprehend the dynamic characteristics of frozen clay under complex stress sate, including continuous rotation of the principal stress, this study investigates the effect of temperature on the dynamic characteristics of frozen clay under principal stress rotation using a frozen hollow cylinder apparatus (FHCA-300). …”
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Predictive response to the behaviour of old structures using ambient vibrations by Zoubida Maraf, Mounir Naili, Mohamed Bensoula, Abderrahmane Kibboua, Missoum Missoum

“… The response of ancient structures such as the Saint-Jean-Baptiste church or the current El-Badr mosque in Mostaganem (Algeria) to earthquakes depends on these physical characteristics and consequently on modal properties such as frequencies, damping and modal deformations. …”
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Dynamic Response Law of Loess Slope with Different Shapes by Zhixin Yan, Sen Zhang, Xuedong Zhang, Ping Jiang

“…And with the development number of construction projects still on the rise, this area is a high-intensity region with multiple earthquakes, resulting in landslide under earthquakes which is a very serious problem. …”
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Modeling and Analysis of Postdisaster Aviation Medical Rescue Process Using SPN-MC by Qingsong Zhang, Xuezheng Wang, Yijia Jin, Xingna Luo

“…Finally, the Sichuan Jiuzhaigou Earthquake event was taken as a case study to carry out the performance analysis and sensitivity analysis of the postdisaster aviation medical rescue process model. …”
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Cyclic and Explosive Evaluation of New Proposed Steel Joint by Iman Faridmehr, Yusof Ahmad, Mahmood Md. Tahir, Mohd Hanim Osman

“…The resulting fuller hysteretic loops with large energy dissipation capacity in the proposed saddlebag connection guarantee its ability to address the inelastic deformation demands in earthquake conditions.…”
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