Soil flow and induced air blasts are of great harm to humanity, and historically they have caused a lot of damage to infrastructure. However, these phenomena cannot be described by traditional analog modeling methods that limit their use in disaster prevention efforts. Computational fluid...

The shaking tables that are used in earthquake engineering are normally driven by hydraulic actuators, which require high maintenance and operation costs. In some studies, when it is only desirable to conduct small-scaled model tests, a pneumatic shaking table can be considered as an alternative...

As it pertains to court cases, the predilection toward a 50% plaintiff win rate is a well-known proposition, first put forward in the Priest-Klein theory (Priest and Klein 1984). Numerous studies have verified this proposition by analyzing the relationship between litigation rates and judgments....

During the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, severe liquefaction occurred in reclaimed ground in Urayasu city, Chiba prefecture. This liquefaction provided important lessons for us to re-recognize the liquefaction mechanism. A distinct feature of the liquefaction in this earthquake is that...

The Shenzhen ETS is the first urban-level “cap-and-trade” carbon emissions trading scheme to operate in China. This paper gives an overview of the economic and emissions situation in Shenzhen and focuses on the development of the Shenzhen ETS regulatory framework. It is devised as an ETS...

1/fα-noise or 1/fα-phenomenon is widely considered as the signature of complexity. We demonstrate the existence of this phenomenon in various model networks, namely random, small-world, scale-free complex networks. Taking the eigenvalues of the adjacency matrix as a discrete time signal, the...