Abstract: In high-risk industries, the development of reliable safety systems has made it easy to forget that operators may one day be confronted with dramatic, life-threatening situations. This article examines one such catastrophe, ...

Abstract: This case study identifies human factors that ought to be considered when studying industrial accident conditions, focusing on lessons learned from government involvement in the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear accident, which ...

Abstract: n this study the capability of eight state-of-the-art ocean?atmosphere coupled models in predicting the monsoonal precipitation in the Sahel on a decadal time scale is assessed. To estimate the importance of the initialization, ...

Abstract: An experimental procedure was developed for determining both the density and flow rate of a gas from measurements of pressure drops caused by an abrupt flow area contraction in a cylindrical ...

Abstract: The first decay shown by masonry subjected to an aggressive environment is the loss of surface material. The great randomness of this kind of decay phenomenon suggests studying it from a probabilistic point of view. Here, ...

Abstract: The paper describes a study to characterize intentional human dynamic loads (vandal loads) and their induced effects on a footbridge. A numerical model to characterize the dynamic behavior of the footbridge has been ...

Abstract: This paper presents an analysis of the data collected in the ambient vibration test of the International Guadiana cable-stayed Bridge, which links Portugal and Spain, based on different output-only identification techniques: ...

Abstract: The aim of this study is to develop a method to mitigate the ionospheric delay bias in long baseline differential global positioning system (GPS). The ionospheric delay is the main source of error when single frequency GPS ...