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Seismic Hazard Loss Assessment of Reservoir Dams Based on Random Forest Algorithm
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Reservoir dams can have a significant impact on social production and daily life in the aftermath of earthquakes. Therefore, it is crucial to implement prompt and effective seismic damage assessment and emergency disposal ... -
Enhancing Disaster Risk Management through Understanding Risk Perception: The Role of Identity in Rural Communities
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Risk reduction strategies are guided by vulnerability and hazard assessments, which must be as accurate as possible. Vulnerability is shaped by physical conditions and social characteristics; thus, the response to disasters ... -
Utilizing 3D Building Information Modeling Approaches to Propose Modular Postdisruption Housing Designs
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Disruptive events can cause mass population displacement that leads to decision-making dilemmas regarding homelessness, short-term versus long-term infrastructure investment, and resource use. This research uses building ... -
Minor Damage Recognition from Postearthquake Buildings with an Improved Generative Adversarial Semantic Segmentation Network
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)For postearthquake reconstruction and insurance claims, accurately extracting comprehensive postdisaster building damage is essential. Traditional satellite remote sensing techniques are insufficient for detecting small ... -
Assessing Trust in First Responder Organizations Related to Emergency Management: A Boolean Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)America is seeing a rise in severe weather, which is affecting communities with little to no experience with severe storms. In these moments, communities look to all levels of government to help recover from events. However, ... -
Resilience Evaluation Method for Emergency Management of Infrastructure Construction Projects during Extreme Disasters
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)With the changing external environment, infrastructure construction projects are facing extreme disasters with increasing frequency. To effectively prevent, respond to, and adapt to extreme disaster risks and achieve success ... -
The Most Vulnerable to Housing Rebuilding after Hurricane Maria: Evaluating FEMA’s Individuals and Households Program in Puerto Rico
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)In the aftermath of Hurricanes Maria and Irma in 2017, thousands of households experienced severe housing damage. To ensure that homeowners can get back on their feet after major disasters, the Federal Emergency Management ... -
Pressure Sensor Placement for Pipe Burst Detection and Localization in Water Distribution System
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Pipe bursts in water distribution systems (WDSs) are challenging to detect due to their hidden and complex nature. Such events cause rapid, significant pressure drops that can serve as key indicators. Because pressure ... -
A Method for Solving Short-Term Hydro Unit Commitment Scheduling Based on Equivalent Unit Bundling during the Nonflood Season
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Short-term scheduling aims to achieve refined water allocation within a day under the framework of medium and long-term scheduling, with a focus on optimizing water resource utilization, particularly in the nonflood season. ... -
Methodology for Optimized Location of Boosters in Water Distribution Networks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The operation of pumping stations in a water distribution network (WDN) represents one of the largest expenses due to its energy consumption. The selection and location of pumps are a complex problem, since the dynamic ... -
Nonlinear Consolidation Analysis of Stone Column Composite Foundations Considering Radial and Vertical Flows within the Stone Column and the Variation of Well Resistances
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The clogging effect caused by installing stone columns is depth dependent. The movement of soil particles into the stone column, which is induced by the consolidation of soils, further resulting in a clogging effect on the ... -
Comparing the Hydraulic Performance of Cold-Water Premise Plumbing Systems Designed Based on Traditional and Modern Peak Demand Estimates
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Recent research has developed more accurate methods to estimate the peak demand for premise plumbing design in residential buildings. The improved accuracy produces lower design flow rates, leading to a reduction in pipe ... -
Phasing LID Implementation for Flood Mitigation in Urban Drainage Systems Considering Climate Change Scenarios and Using Genetic Algorithms
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This paper presents a novel methodology for phasing the implementation of a low impact development (LID) system in urban drainage systems (UDSs). The methodology consists of the combination of various elements including ... -
Modeling Farmers’ Irrigation Behaviors under Risk Using a Distributed Hydrological-Agent Model
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The effective use of precipitation forecast enables farmers to optimize rainfall utilization, significantly supporting irrigation management. However, previous studies have seldom accounted for farmers’ irrigation behaviors ... -
Pressure Sensor Placement in Water Distribution Systems Using Leak Resolution–Specific Surrogates for Leak Localization
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The effectiveness of model-based leak localization methods in water distribution systems (WDSs), including optimization-based and machine learning approaches, significantly depends on the quality and quantity of input data. ... -
Self-Balancing of an Open–Close Pumping Station Based on the Second-Order Integrator-Delay Model
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)To minimize unit switching, this study investigates the scheduling optimization of open–close pumping stations (OCPS) by focusing on the concept of pumping station self-balancing (PSSB). Specifically, a novel regulatory ... -
Equity and Infrastructure Asset Management: Promoting Community Outcomes in the Water Sector
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Water utilities across the United States are being tasked with paying increased attention to inequities experienced in the communities they serve. This paper examines whether a widely used decision process within the sector, ... -
Exploring Pathways for Sustaining Stable Transboundary Cooperation for the Lancang-Mekong River Basin under Changing Hydrological Conditions
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Transboundary river cooperation is crucial to maintaining regional security and achieving sustainable development. However, the stability of cooperation is challenged by changing hydrological conditions, hindering enormous ... -
Water Security Assessment in the Typical Ecosystems of the Ghataprabha River Basin
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Understanding the spatial and temporal dynamics of freshwater ecosystems of a basin is crucial for effective water management strategies. Freshwater resources management within a basin can be significantly enhanced by ... -
Global Algorithm Based on Inverse Outflow/Head Relationship for Solving Water Distribution Networks with Multiple Nodal Outflows and Improved Convergence
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This paper presents developments in the global algorithm based on Newton–Raphson linearization of the equations for water distribution network (WDN) resolution and on the inverse outflow–head relationship, in which the ...