During the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake in Japan, extreme liquefaction caused extensive damage to residential houses in the Kanto Plain region and resulted settlement [...]

A technique of ground reinforcement by installing logs into loose saturated sand layer was proposed as a countermeasure against soil liquefaction. The principle of this m [...]

This paper deals with damage to water supply system caused by tsunami in the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake in Japan and discusses effects of tsunami on water supply network. The [...]

As we know there are different types of texture order for brick arrangement in construction of brick walls. Among these methods, the one which is very customary, known as [...]

The 2004 Niigata Chuetsu earthquake in Japan caused serious damage to sewerage facilities such as uplift of manholes and settlement of pavement above backfill soil for pi [...]

In general, seismic intensity, peak ground acceleration (PGA), peak ground velocity (PGV) and spectral intensity (SI) have been used as the indices of destructive power o [...]

In this study, we proposed the attenuation relationships for PGA and PGV based on records of main and after shock during the 2007 Noto Hanto earthquake. The amplification [...]

After the destructive Bam earthquake of December 26, 2003 (Mw = 6.6), the present survey was conducted about two months after the earthquake as a part of damage investiga [...]

Usually in masonry building systems, the piers between openings are the most vulnerable in case of earthquake. The failure of such walls is due in the majority of cases t [...]