Seismic hazard and risk are fundamentally different concepts. Seismic hazard describes phenomena generated by earthquakes that have potential to cause harm, but seismic risk is the likelihood (chance) of experiencing a specified level of seismic hazard in a given time exposure. Seismic hazard occurs naturally and can be evaluated from instrumental, historical, and geological observations. Seism...

The vulnerability of the UHV porcelain arrester is very high under strong earthquake. To rise seismic reliability of the UHV porcelain arrester, a new type lead damper, which is a new patent product, is installed at the bottom of the equipment. To investigate the damping effect of the dampers, the experimental research and finite element analysis on seismic behavior of the UHV porcelain arreste...

Many exploration and drilling applications would benefit from a robust method of integrating vertical seismic profile (VSP) and seismic data to estimate interval velocity. In practice, both VSP and seismic data contain random and correlated errors, and integration methods which fail to account for both types of error encounter problems. We present a nonlinear, tomography-like least-squares algo...

After six years of operation the electron proton collider HERA had reached a luminosity of 1:4 10 cm s , very close to the design value. We present an overview on the HERA upgrade project that pursues the goal to further increase the luminosity three-fold by the year 2000. The increase is achieved by reducing the beam cross sections at the IP to 120 30 m (RMS values). If furthermore design curr...

The performance of a computer network is commonly measured by the maximum minimum time required to move a certain amount of data between any 2 nodes in the network. Due to the advances in technology, certain links in the network may be upgraded, for instance to optical fibre links, so that better performance can be achieved. In this paper, we study the LINK UPGRADE problem for networks. We firs...

The catastrophic nature of seismic risk is attributed to spatiotemporal correlation of seismic losses of buildings and infrastructure. For seismic risk management, such correlated seismic effects must be adequately taken into account, since they affect the probability distribution of aggregate seismic losses of spatially distributed structures significantly, and its upper tail behavior can be o...

To understand the seismic damage characteristics of bottom frame-wall buildings and to study their seismic performance, the seismic damage outcomes of  bottom frame-wall structures in Du jiang weir by the Wen chuan earthquake on May 12,2008, China were field observed and studied. The assesment of the seismic damage to the bottom frame-wall masonry in Du jiang weir urban showed that the damage t...

Subsurface modeling from seismic and borehole data is important for reservoir prediction, geophysical exploration, and production. A reasonable model should honor borehole rock properties and conform to seismic structural and stratigraphic features. Such a subsurface model can be difficult to build in cases complicated by faults and unconformities. Automatic and semiautomatic methods have been ...

This paper introduces a new web based method to remotely upgrade firmwares of Cable Modems (CM) which are integral part in providing high-speed Internet access through Hybrid Fiber Coaxial (HFC) networks. Also, it discusses various practical problems arising in the upgrading process. Traditional upgrade has been performed by modifying the CM configuration file. This paper shows a new web based ...