Abstract: Subsidized insurance is often described as a perverse incentive, moral hazard, or maladaptation that perpetuates coastal residencies in vulnerable homes despite increasing safety and economic risks from hurricanes, sea ...

Abstract: Coastal communities are increasingly vulnerable to devastating losses caused by extreme climatological events such as hurricanes. As risk escalates, an urgent need arises to accelerate learning from these disasters. ...

Abstract: Coastal communities are increasingly vulnerable to devastating losses caused by extreme climatological events such as hurricanes. As risk escalates, an urgent need arises to accelerate learning from these disasters. ...

Abstract: Two independently emerging time-frequency transformations in Civil Engineering, namely, the wavelet transform and empirical mode decomposition with Hilbert transform

Abstract: Recently, there has been growing utilization of time-frequency transformations for the analysis and interpretation of nonlinear and nonstationary signals in a broad spectrum of science and engineering applications. The ...

Abstract: Time-frequency transformations have gained increasing attention for the characterization of nonstationary signals in a broad spectrum of science and engineering applications. This study evaluates the performance of two ...

Abstract: The Civil Engineering community has long needed methods of accurate global displacement measurement for use in construction and more recently in the areas of structural health monitoring. Global Positioning Systems (GPS) ...

Abstract: Access to affordable and safe housing represents a critical challenge for many low- and middle-income countries. Technical and economic constraints frequently lead aspiring homeowners in these countries toward informally ...

Abstract: The NatHaz Aerodynamic Loads Database (NALD) (http://aerodata.ce.nd.edu) introduced in 2000 has served an important first step in establishing an on-line experimental archive of high-frequency base balance (HFBB) data for ...