Evaluating and enhancing resilience in water infrastructure is a crucial step towards more sustainable urban water management. As a prerequisite to enhancing resilience, a detailed understanding is required of the inherent resilience of the underlying system. Differing from traditional risk analysis, here we propose a global resilience analysis (GRA) approach that shifts the objective from anal...

A detailed understanding on rock failure modes testifies the competence of support designs for engineering work. Studying such using physical models specimens under laboratory conditions can be time efficient, informative and economically viable. In this study, mechanical behavior massive metabasalts were characterized with reference to through index tests as point load Brazilian tests. Rock te...

The theoretical background of practical structural reliability methods encompassing numerical integration, approximate methods and simulation techniques is reviewed in the context of windexcited structures. Their relative merits, shortcomings and limitations are addressed from the standpoint of their accuracy and computational efficiency. Quantitative reliability estimates of a concrete chimney...

This paper proposes to study the stability of underground chambers while taking into account nonlinear characteristics geotechnical materials and pore water. According upper bound theorem limit analysis reliability theory, failure mode model are established considering water effect. The solution expression surrounding rock pressure in chamber is deduced. variation law analyzed under different p...

the need to establish power plants to supply the required electricity of the country has been rising due to increasing demand levels as well as the lack of governmental resources. furthermore, the available traditional attitude in performing and conducting power plant projects has made government seek a modern attitude. this paper tries to use the topics that have been employed in automotive in...