Flood Fragility of a Cavity Wall: Experimental results on the deformations of a window-featured cavity wall due to hydrostatic flood actions and failure of the window-wall interface

Because of the fortunate absence of great flood events in The Netherlands during the second half of the twentieth century, no physical data was added to the structural understanding of flood fragility on walls. Considering that during the same period the cavity wall became standard in the construction of houses, a certain inconsistency can be...

Return Level Analysis of Hanumante River using Structured Expert Judgment: A reconstruction of historical water levels

Like other cities in Kathmandu Valley, Bhaktapur faces rapid urbanisation and population growth. Unsafe, new settlements are partly located at the floodplains and the government lags behind in implementing proper land-use policy to control unrestrained settlement. The rivers are not only constrained by uncontrolled settlements, but also by...