Taiwan is a mountainous country, so there is an ever present danger of landslide disasters during the rainy seasons or typhoons. This study aims to develop a fuzzy-rule-based risk assessment model for debris flows and to verify the accuracy of risk assessment so as to help related organizations...

This study uses data from Mao-Luo-Hsi Bridge to model the bridge structure and a set of developed alarm and action values to formulate guidelines for bridge maintenance and seismic hazard prevention. The bridge model is improved by incorporating on-site ambient vibration measurement to perform...

This paper presents an innovative fuzzy regression approach for the assessment of the potential vulnerability of bridge to earthquakes. Taking the Mao-Luo-Hsi Bridge in Nantou County of Taiwan as an example, structural models representing vulnerable sections of the bridge are established and...

This paper aims to develop a model for debris flow hazard assessment, since Taiwan is a mountainous country subject to bouts of heavy rainfall during the rainy and typhoon seasons and is thus frequently subject to landslide disasters. The database used is comprised of information from actual...

Remote computation as well as remote design is a hot topic nowadays and becoming popular and also more diversified in use in the recent years. This study applies the retaining wall design as an example to construct a mechanism for complicated computation in civil engineering directly in a...

This paper is the first attempt to explore the impact of interest groups and transboundary pollution on the welfare effects of pollution taxes and pollution standards in the framework of strategic environmental policies. The main findings of this paper are as follows. First, without interest...