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Past earthquakes show that a majority of pipe damages occur as leaks. A leak is essentially the discharge of an opening in the pipe wall from which water is discharged in [...]
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In structural engineering, it is always attempted to predict a set of events which greatly contribute to lifecycle of the structure. These factors must be considered by d [...]
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Nowadays investigation of progressive collapse prevention in case of important existing and new buildings due to terrorist attacks, de [...]
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Floating roof tanks, with capacity as large as one million barrel, because of their advantages are among very common tanks in oil industry, and only in Kharg Island of Ir [...]
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Almost all of seismic design codes for building systems accept heavy damages to buildings, in case of large earthquakes, although they don’t accept the building’s col [...]
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Most of seismic design codes for building systems allow heavy damages to buildings, in case of major earthquakes, provided that the buildings are prevented against collap [...]
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One of the effective factors on the amount of input energy of a multi-story building is the mass distribution along the height of building. In the present paper this issu [...]
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Of the three kinds of shelters required after the occurrence of a destructive earthquake in a populated area, namely emergency shelters, temporary shelters, and permanent [...]
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The number and severity of natural disasters have increased continuously over recent decades, especially in developing countries. The World Bank has estimated that 97 per [...]
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Damages created in several relatively new buildings in recent earthquakes have shown that some of seismic design codes, which are strength-based, do not necessarily resul [...]
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