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Bosman, Janek (author)Being a highly earthquake-prone country, Nepal gets hit by a major earthquake roughly every 80-100 years. The recent major tremor in 2015 showed how the houses in the Kathmandu Valley were not ready: 9000 lives and half a million houses were lost. <br/>This thesis describes the changes in earthquake-resistant elements in the residential...student report 2023
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Stavridou, EVDOKIA (author)Although relevant information regarding the curtain walls structural damage state is available, hardly any data referring to the seismic loading effect on the overall façade performance is found in the literature. The present research attempts to assess the unitised curtain walls seismic performance by identifying the occurring damage mechanisms...master thesis 2023
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van Zwieten, G.J. (author)A vital component in the management of seismic hazard is the study of past seismic events. Classically, this has been the domain of seismology, which studies the dynamic manifestations of the event to infer properties such as epicenter and moment magnitude. More recently it has become possible to perform similar analyses on the basis of the...doctoral thesis 2023
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Jain, Uday (author)A large share of the buildings today is still masonry buildings, both reinforced and unreinforced. Post-earthquake reconnaissance studies have shown a remarkable difference between the performance of reinforced and unreinforced masonry buildings. While the unreinforced masonry buildings tend to suffer severe damage, even collapse, resulting in...student report 2023
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Sensitivity of the seismic response of monopile-supported offshore wind turbines to soil variabilityPanagoulias, S. (author), de Winter, C.M.A. (author), Navalkar, S.T. (author), Nernheim, A. (author)The expansion of the offshore wind industry in areas with high seismicity has led to engineering challenges related to the design of the offshore wind turbines (OWTs). Monopiles, i.e., tubular steel piles of large outer diameter, low aspect ratio (penetration depth over outer diameter), and relatively thin pile wall, are traditionally the...journal article 2023
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D’Acquisto, M. (author), Herman, M. W. (author), Riva, R.E.M. (author), Govers, R. (author)Greater landward velocities were recorded after six megathrust earthquakes in subduction zone regions adjacent to the ruptured portion. Previous explanations invoked either increased slip deficit accumulation or plate bending during postseismic relaxation, with different implications for seismic hazard. We investigate whether bending can be...journal article 2023
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Anikiev, Denis (author), Birnie, Claire (author), Waheed, Umair bin (author), Alkhalifah, Tariq (author), Gu, Chen (author), Verschuur, D.J. (author), Eisner, Leo (author)The confluence of our ability to handle big data, significant increases in instrumentation density and quality, and rapid advances in machine learning (ML) algorithms have placed Earth Sciences at the threshold of dramatic progress. ML techniques have been attracting increased attention within the seismic community, and, in particular, in...review 2023
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Gonzalez Acosta, J.L. (author), van den Eijnden, A.P. (author), Hicks, M.A. (author)Soil liquefaction is investigated considering a saturated soil deposit and by implementing standard techniques of random field theory to distribute initial void ratio values and assess liquefaction risk. The soil domain is represented in a 2-dimensional (2D) random finite element model for the dynamic analysis of coupled behavior. Multiple...conference paper 2023
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Bouwmeester, Boudewijn (author)The increasing global demand of renewable and clean energy has led to the exponential growth, development, and interest in the offshore wind energy industry and expansion towards earthquake-prone areas. Offshore wind turbine structures, typically supported by a tubular monopile foundation, are increasing in size to meet the increasing human...master thesis 2022
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Aalbers, Jesper (author)This study presents the structural response of a Submerged Floating Tunnel (SFT) subjected to earthquake loading and other relevant static loading types. The SFT is a competitive solution for crossings of deep seas, canals and fjords, as it is submerged in water and floats at a fixed submersion depth. It is supported by its buoyancy and tethers,...master thesis 2022
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van den Belt, Glenn (author)Earthquakes can have tremendous effects. They can result in casualties, massive damage, and hurt the economy. Therefore, one would like to predict earthquakes as early as possible and with the highest accuracy possible. This paper contains the proposal for the optimal prediction-time, which is the time between the execution of a prediction and...bachelor thesis 2022
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Krisiukėnas, Pijus (author)Due to the devastating consequences of earthquakes, predicting their occurrence before the first strike has been a long standing research topic. Deep learning models have been used to facilitate prediction, using seismograph data to attempt to classify an earthquake right before it happens. However, this is a difficult task and research needs to...bachelor thesis 2022
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Zhu, Kevin (author)Earthquake prediction is the field of seismology concerned with predicting the time, location, and magnitude of earthquakes within a small time frame, usually defined in terms of minutes or seconds before an event. Such predictions can have a large impact on minimizing the damage caused by these seismic events, by providing early warnings to the...bachelor thesis 2022
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Charlot, Amaury (author)Different methods have been studied to predict earthquakes, but the results are still far from optimal. Due to their seemingly dynamic and unpredictable nature, it has been very hard to find data correlating with earthquakes happening. But recently, various research has been done using neural networks, and some has suggested that it could...bachelor thesis 2022
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Georgiev, Gancho (author)Earthquakes are one of the most destructive natural phenomena, both in terms of human lives, and property damage. Although they are treated as a random phenomenon, the ability to predict them, even few seconds before they occur, could be of great benefit to society. Lots of research has been done on this topic but without any significant results...bachelor thesis 2022
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Willems, Rick (author)Mining activities at the Groningen gas field are causing earthquakes which result in building damage. This has started a discussion on what type of damage is caused by earthquakes. These discussions are typical in the forensic engineering field, especially in complex cases. The problem is the lack of regulations, in terms of standardizations and...master thesis 2022
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Houbaer, Maikel (author)Earthquakes can do great harm to the environment and people's daily lives. Being able to predict an earthquake moments before it happens could therefore reduce harm and save human lives. Traditional methods have not been successful yet, but with the rise of techniques focused on deep learning, there is a growing interest to apply them to the...bachelor thesis 2022
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van den Akker, Daniel (author)Multi-Layer Perceptron and Support Vector Machine have both been widely used in machine learning. In this research paper, these models have been applied to binary classification on an individual time series basis. The goal was to see whether they can predict earthquakes, using earthquakes measured at specific stations across New Zealand. As it...bachelor thesis 2022
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Du, XIANGYU (author)Earthquake prediction has raised many concerns nowadays, due to the massive loss caused by earthquakes, as well as the significance of accurate forecasting. Lots of trials have been investigated and experimented but few achieved satisfying results on short-term prediction (i.e., usually those earthquakes that will happen in three months). It is...bachelor thesis 2022
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Hashmi, Irtaza (author)Earthquakes are one of the most dangerous natural disasters that occur worldwide. Predicting them is one of the unsolved problems in the field of science. In the past decade, there has been an increase in seismic monitoring stations worldwide, which has allowed us to design and implement data-driven and deep learning solutions. In this paper, we...bachelor thesis 2022