Accuracy Requirements for GIS-Based Seismic Risk Assessments
Accurate assessments of potential earthquake damage and casualty risk are essential to the design of seismic hazard mitigation policies and seismically oriented engineering practice. More...
Considerations in Integrating Geographic Information System Technology in Earthquake Hazard Analyses
Seismic hazard and risk analysis can play a major role in identifying the potential consequences of an earthquake. Recent advances in computer based Geographic Information systems provide...
GIS for Regional Seismic Hazard and Risk Analyses
Earthquake occurrences cannot be accurately predicted or prevented, but their damaging effects can be analyzed and possibly reduced by utilizing the available geologic and geographic information....
Geographic Information System Planning for Geotechnical and Earthquake Engineering Applications at the Savannah River Site, SC
The Savannah River Technology Center (SRTC) of the Savannah River Site is in the planning stages of compiling a geological, geophysical, and seismological data base on an industry standard...
Liquefaction Analysis in a GIS Environment
Liquefaction has been identified as one of the seismic hazards that brings great damage to property and infrastructure, and loss of life. The need for liquefaction analysis that works...
Liquefaction Potential of Western Puerto Rico
The historical seismic record, paleoseismic evidence, high population density, time expired since the last major earthquake, and the presence of liquefiable sands and soft clays combine...
Development of Geographical Information System (GIS) for Seismic Hazard Study of Charleston, SC
One of the most prominent areas of seismicity in the eastern U.S. is near Charleston, SC. The 1886 Charleston earthquake (M=7,5) and liquefaction evidence from at least five prehistoric...
CALTRANS Seismic Hazard/Risk Map and Proposed GIS Applications
The California Department of Transportation (CALTRANS) considers earthquake effects in planning, design, and construction of their structures. Obviously, CALTRANS has to respond to damaging...
A Prospect for Liquefaction Hazard Evaluation Using GIS
A brief description of a recently developed methodology to evaluate liquefaction hazard at a site is presented. In this method, uncertainty and scatter in the data are considered rigorously....
A Geotechnically-Oriented GIS for Seismic Hazard Mapping
A geotechnical GIS has been configured by the California Department of Conservation's Division of Mines and Geology for the purpose of designating seismic hazard zones as mandated by recent...
State of the Art in Spatial Data Transfer: FIPS 173
This paper provides an overview of Federal information processing standard (FIPS) 173. FIPS 173 is a comprehensive spatial data transfer standard that provides solutions to the problem...
Accessibility of Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Data and the Need for Data Storage and Dissemination Standards
Ease of data access and data standards are two issues critical to the success of GIS technology when applied to earthquake hazards research problems that require geotechnical engineering...
Towards a Common Data Exchange Format Between Geographic Information Systems
To make their respective geographic information systems (GIS) software packages more useful to the user community, the GIS software vendors have steady added various database translators...
Steel Exoskeleton Defines Architecture
The Hotel de las Artes multi-use complex in Barcelona, Spain consists of a luxury hotel/apartment tower, a commercial office building, retail, parking and other amenities. The most prominent...
Digital Evaluation of Contaminated Sites
This paper introduces digital techniques to evaluate historical maps and aerial photographs in order to detect contaminations on derelict industrial sites. Special attention is paid to...
Mechanistic Design Models of Loading and Curling in Concrete Pavements
Determination of the critical bending stress at the edge of a concrete pavement due to individual and combination effects of wheel loading and thermal curling is very crucial to any mechanistic...
Unified Constitutive Model for Airport Pavements
A unified constitutive model that allows for significant behavioral characteristics of materials and interfaces in airport pavement is implemented in a nonlinear finite element procedure....
Reliability-Based Analysis and Design of Flexible Airfield Pavements
This paper illustrates, a new reliability-based procedure to analyze existing pavements and design new pavements that is being developed by the U.S. Air Force. The procedure uses a rigorous...
Pavement Design Considerations for Heavy Aircraft Loading at BAA Airports
BAA operates seven airports in the United Kingdom. Two of them, Heathrow and Gatwick, handled 61 million passengers in 1991 with 543,000 air transport movements, 25% by wide-bodied aircraft....
Densification of Asphalt Pavements by Traffic
Since asphalt pavements rut when the voids are filled with asphalt (and voids can become filled by traffic densification) the voids that develop under traffic are vital to any mix design...
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