Structural safety

The authors developed an empirical life-loss vulnerability curve for people inside wood-frame buildings as a function of impact pressures from flow-type landslides.

This study shows how flood impact storylines can help emergency managers decide where and when to deploy mobile levees, reducing damage and buying critical time for evacuation during extreme flood events.

Here are the three winning projects of the inaugural Heat Adaptive Architecture Design Competition (HAAD).

This article presents a nationwide framework for prioritizing seismic retrofitting of municipally managed bridges in Japan by combining bridge-level seismic risk, municipal fiscal capacity, spatial clustering of recovery capacity.

In his three decades of responding to catastrophic events around the world, Kamal Kishore, head of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, often observed a curious human tendency to overlook the invisible foundations of our safety.

Residents in Kensington’s Lorne Gardens will get flood defence measures installed in their homes, after the Council committed funding and secured contributions from Thames Water and Peabody.

This study presents a detailed finite element investigation into the in‑plane load‑bearing behaviour of traditional Kath‑Kuni timber–dry‑stone masonry walls, a construction typology widely used in the seismically active Himalayan region.