1. Seismic Capacity Reduction Factors for a RC Beam and two RC Columns -- 2. Characterization of the wave field around an existing end-supported pontoon bridge from simulated data -- 3. Prediction the Seismic Demands of Tall Buildings Using An Adaptive Force-based Multi-mode Pushover Analysis -- 4. Ambient vibration testing of a 3-storey substandard RC building at different levels of structural…
Introduction -- Copula function -- Copula-based seasonal design flood calculation -- Drought analysis using copulas -- Copula-based flood coincidence risk analysis -- Copula-based multi-site streamflow simulation -- Copula-based forecast uncertainty evolution model for flood risk analysis -- Copula entropy -- Determination of input for Artificial Neural Networks for flood forecasting using the …
Part – I: Introduction to Landslide Dynamics -- 1. Mass Wasting: An Overview -- 2. Dump Slope Stability -- 3. Shear Strength Behaviour of Jointed Rock Masses -- 4. Rockfall: A Specific Case of Landslide -- Part – II: Landslide Monitoring and Prediction -- 5. Study of Jointed and Weathered Rock Slopes through the Innovative Approach of Infrared Thermography -- 6. Ground Based Real Time Monit…
Introduction -- Biosphere as a still unlearned living sphere -- How many of us will be? Population of the Earth -- Technogenesis and Its impact on the biosphere state -- Populaltion load. Adaptation corridor of a man -- What does happen with the climate? -- Living with natural disaster risk -- Market economy and ecology -- Nature conservation and nature use. Ecological safety -- Nature as a liv…
Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations and Definitions -- Part I: How Lightning Kills, Injures, and Causes Damage -- Introduction -- Mechanisms of Lightning Injury -- Lightning Effects on the Body -- Research on Pathophysiology of Medical Effects by Lightning -- Economic Damages of Lightning -- Part II: Estimates of People Killed and Injured by Lightning -- Current Glob…
Dedication -- Present use of Geofoam -- Expanded Polystyrene -- Material properties and modeling -- Design specifications -- Construction applications -- New concepts and special topics.These proceedings of the EPS 2018: 5th International Conference on Geofoam Blocks in Construction Applications, held in Kyrenia, Northern Cyprus on May 9 to 11, 2018, present a collection of contributions on the…
Chapter 1: Methods to study Pedology and Edaphology of Indian Tropical Soils: An Overview -- Chapter 2: Evidence of Clay Illuviation in Soils of the Indo-Gangetic Alluvial Plains (IGP) and Red Ferruginous (RF) Soils -- Chapter 3: Clay Illuviation and Pedoturbation in SAT Vertisols Chapter 4: Cracking Depths in Indian Vertisols: Evidence of Holocene Climate Change -- Chapter 5: Unique Depth Dis…
Landslides: An Overview -- Geomorphic, Geo-tectonic and Hydrologic Attributes and Landslide Susceptibility -- Slope instability analysis: A Sub-Watershed Scale Study -- Geomorphic Diversity and Landslide Susceptibility: A Multi-Criteria Evaluation Approach -- Landslide Susceptibility Prediction and Assessment using Bivariate Models -- Multivariate Models and Prediction and Assessment of Landsli…
Hydrology, Climatology and Water-Related Ecosystems -- Hydrochemistry Quality and Isotopic Hydrology -- Groundwater Assessment, Management, and Modelling -- Water Resources Sustainability and Climate Change -- Hydrologic Engineering and Urban Groundwater.This book comprises the selected papers from the 1st Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-1), Tunisia 2018. The vol…
Part 1: Reference Frames -- Chapter 1: DGFI-TUM analysis and scale investigations of the latest terrestrial reference frame realizations -- Chapter 2: Impact of different ITRS realizations on VLBI combined EOP and Scale -- Chapter 3: Testing special relativity with geodetic VLBI -- Chapter 4: Development of wideband antennas -- Part 2: Static Gravity Field -- Chapter 5: Boundary complexity and …