Image showing a "picture" of the Earth's interior. The colour represents how fast the seismic waves travel inside the Earth in the Alaska area. Image courtesy of Lili Feng Image showing a "picture" of ...

Pushover analysis is a nonlinear static procedure that provides a pragmatic approach to evaluating a structure's seismic performance without resorting to computationally expensive dynamic time‐history ...

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Keywords: Earthquake engineering, Seismic fluid-structure interaction, Verification and validation of numerical models, ALE, ICFD, Fluid-filled advanced reactors, ARPA-E Abstract: This report presents ...

This Safety Guide provides recommendations on how to meet the applicable safety requirements in relation to the design aspects of new nuclear installations subjected ...

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BP and SOCAR have partnered to develop a regional pseudo-3D seismic volume in the Caspian basin, combining seismic and well data to improve geological understanding and ...

Keywords: China. Seismicity. Performance based design. Highway systems. Bridges. Seismic evaluation. Long-span bridges. Railway bridges. Seismic design. Seismic ...

The importance of withstanding earthquakes and their consequences has proven to be critical for the safety of nuclear power plants, and seismic re-evaluation has been identified as an important step ...

The catastrophic rockslide of February 7, 2021, in India's Dhauli Ganga Valley and the subsequent flood killed at least a hundred people and destroyed two hydroelectric power plants. Researchers ...

Development of Umiat oil field on Alaska's North Slope has been hindered by geological and logistical difficulties. Discovered more than 80 years ago, the field experienced minimal drilling, and ...