Abstract: Postdisaster temporary housing has long been a challenging problem because of its interlinked socioeconomic, political, and financial dimensions. A significant need for automated decision support was obvious to address ...

Abstract: Residence in temporary housing is a critical period for the social, economic, and psychological recovery of displaced families following disasters. Temporary housing locations define the displacement distance between ...

Abstract: There is a high risk of ground collapse during the construction of closely spaced overlapping metro tunnels in sensitive environments. When overlapping tunnels pass beneath important structures such as high-speed railway ...

Abstract: Present gas-assisted injection molding simulations are all based on either a midplane model or a 3D model, in which second modeling is unavoidable for a midplane model, and a 3D simulation ...

Abstract: This paper presents an analytical method to determine the effective thermal conductivity of asphalt mixture, considering morphological characteristics and thermal properties of each component. The heat transfer process in ...

Abstract: In this study, electrical resistivity was related to the fundamental geotechnical properties of cement solidified/stabilized heavy metal–contaminated soils. Lead-contaminated soils were artificially prepared with various ...

Abstract: The purpose of the paper is to present an approach for pipe burst detection, localization, and cross-sectional area quantification based on the changes in the discrete harmonic spectrogram and analysis of damping of fluid ...

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to present a technique for burst detection, localization, and cross-sectional area quantification based on the damping of fluid transients. The Fourier components of the transient signal are ...