Abstract: Ice scouring poses a significant threat to underwater pipelines for offshore oil production facilities in ice-infested waters. For most locations, the only options against this hazard are to protect the pipeline by trenching, ...

Abstract: Major dams in the world are often instrumented and monitored in order to detect anomalies, and to enable a timely response either in the form of repairs, reservoir management, or evacuation. Traditionally, the analysis of ...

Abstract: Building façades play an important role in building aesthetics and in protecting the structural system and contents from deterioration due to exposure to an aggressive environment. Well-designed façades can also help improve ...

Abstract: A multistep strategy for the prioritization of maintenance and repair funds for the monitoring of embankment dams is proposed wherein the most important device in the worst condition is preferred. The strategy involves ...

Abstract: A risk indexing tool is proposed to assist in the prioritization of maintenance, repair, and evaluation tasks on embankment dams that are generally less than 33 m (100 ft) high and for which there is little or no ...

Abstract: Ten embankment dams managed by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Management Office of Dam Safety have been prioritized according to their physical deficiencies. Based upon visual inspection reports by several ...

Abstract: The earthquake-induced rock avalanche in the Tangjia Valley was the most notable geological disaster triggered by the Lushan earthquake in 2013. In order to investigate the transport kinematics and depositional mechanism ...