Natural hazards such as earthquakes and typhoons pose a considerable threat to the power transmission grid. In regions prone both hazards, overhead infrastructure may experience multi-hazard effects where two consecutive can occur within an interval shorter than time that would be needed repair system for damages occurred in first event. This consequently increases susceptibility damage during ...

Abstract The latest comparative studies of climate policies reinforce the fundamental importance employing adaptation planning alongside national development strategies. While these are necessary to document and share knowledge practices experiences undertaken at level, documents still scarce on regions interest such as Central America. This article scrutinizes state through an exhaustive inves...

Mitigation of collapses of structural systems caused by a strong earthquake shaking is crucial to reduce the potential casualties, injuries and economic losses. Hence, accurate risk assessment of structural collapse under seismic excitations is critical in efforts to promote hazard-resilience of the society. This paper summarizes the authors’ recent efforts for accurate prediction of structural...

INTRODUCTION F OLLOWING Haden’s1#{176}demonstration of the close correlation between spherocytosis and the fragility of erythrocytes to hypotonic saline, Dameshek and Miller5 postulated that spherocytosis was a preliminary stage in the destruction of the red cell; i.e. partial hemolysis. They were able to show experimentally that the degree of spherocytosis was related to the concentration of h...

The aim of the paper is to present the Delta 20 Fragility-Rings plot and its use for robustness-fragility analysis of proportional integral (PI) and proportional integral derivative (PID) controllers. Using the Delta 20 Fragility Index and the Nyquist plot it shows the areas on the L(jω) plane corresponding to robustness-fragile, robustness-non-fragile and robustnessresilient controllers provid...

Nearly all residential houses were damaged due to 6.5 Mw earthquake in Pidie Jaya, 2016. The state of damage can be slight, moderate, and even extensive which lead the collapsing. confined masonry structure, commonly found Aceh, especially for housing construction, seemingly prone excitation. In this paper, analytical-based fragility curves are employed typical house structure. To account vario...

A multi-dimensional definition of fragility is developed considering multiple variables such as floor acceleration and interstory drifts. The limit states which have uncertainties are defined as random variables in the calculation of fragility. A random description of the limit state has been adopted to calculate fragility and different cases have been considered. A case study of a Hospital loc...

In the literature there is no clear evidence of a relationship between thyropathies and fragility fractures. The aim of our study is to define the prevalence of thyroid disease in a study sample made up of subjects with fragility fractures and from the same geographical area. We retrospectively studied the "hospital discharge records" (HDR) in the Apulian Database for the period 2008-2013 in or...