Seismic Risk Management of a Canal System Model

This paper proposes a seismic risk management scheme for long continuous geotechnical structure, such as road embankment, water canal and so on. In this scheme, the continuous variation of responses, the failure probability and the risk, 50m intervals for instance, of the structure can be estimated with using response surface method. The detail...

The Impact of Historical Geography and Agricultural Land Development Processes on Wetland Restoration Methods Used to Create Ecological Networks: A Comparison of Japan and the Netherlands

In the Osaka area in the 1880s, rice was grown mostly in dry fields in upland areas, and a few paddy fields were situated on the natural wet landforms along the major rivers and streams on the Osaka Plain. As the area developed, dry fields became irrigated, and the lowland fields were filled and converted to urban land uses. For the Osaka city...

Critical two-point functions and the lace expansion for spread-out high-dimensional percolation and related models

We consider spread-out models of self-avoiding walk, bond percolation, lattice trees and bond lattice animals on ${\mathbb{Z}^d}$, having long finite-range connections, above their upper critical dimensions $d=4$ (self-avoiding walk), $d=6$ (percolation) and $d=8$ (trees and animals). The two-point functions for these models are respectively the...

Numerical evaluation of a wave-resistance theory for slow ships

Full scal test on sinkage of super tanker through shallow water

Model test on sinkage of vessel underway in restricted channel.