Zoom to upper 400 m (near-surface sound channel) Numerical modelling of sound propagation is an essential tool to assess the potential risk of air-gun shots on marine mammals and derive exposure zone radii within which certain hearing thresholds are exceeded. Here, the results of a detailed 2.5D finite-difference (FD) modelling study are presented, which takes the sound velocity profile of the ...

An innovative method of estimating the relative risk buildings exposed to seismic and tsunami hazards in volcanic islands is applied Stromboli (Italy), a well-known stratovolcano affected by moderate earthquakes mass-flow-induced tsunamis. The uses pre-existing quali-quantitative analysis assess indices buildings, which provide comparative results useful for prioritisation purposes, combination...

Background: In this research a rapid vulnerability and risk assessment at territorial level is performed. Methods: The methodology used, initially proposed for ancient masonry churches, extended applied to ten historic mosques in Kermanshah city. method could be considered as preliminary approach of structures, refers LV0 method, since the used requires simple qualitative information. It involv...

background: the aim of this paper was the comparison of ergonomic risk assessment results (final score and action levels) for the entire body as determined using quick exposure check (qec) and rapid entire body assessment (reba).  materials and methods: this was a cross-sectional study in which all 82 workers engaged in various processes with different activities in an anodizing and aluminum pr...

background: work-related musculoskeletal disorders (wmsds) are a leading cause of disability and workers compensations. objectives: the research was done in tehran pars-electric factory to prevent inducing wmsds. rapid entire body assessment (reba) was carried out to assess musculoskeletal loads on workers due to their postures, repetition, and force. nordic musculoskeletal questionnaire (nmq) ...

seismic performance and loss assessment studies for stock of buildings are generally based on representative models due to extremely large number of vulnerable buildings. the main problem is the proper reflection of the building stock characteristics well enough by limited number of representative models. this study aims to provide statistical information of structural parameters of turkish bui...

The incremental dynamic analysis is a powerful tool for evaluating the seismic vulnerability and risk of buildings. It allows calculating the global damage of structures for different PGAs and representing this result by means of damage curves. Such curves are used by many methods to obtain seismic risk scenarios at urban level. Even if the use of this method in a probabilistic environment requ...

Knowledge of seismotectonics, active deformation, and the structure Earth’s crust is key for first-order perception assessment seismic hazard, consequently risk, an area [...]