The risk of floods has increased in South Asia due to high vulnerability and exposure. The August 2022 Pakistan flood shows a glimpse of the enormity and devastation that can further rise under the warming climate. The ...

Blockage detection using transient analysis has emerged as a promising technique because it requires measurements at only one location. This study proposes a modified reconstructive method of characteristics (RMOC) technique ...

This book addresses fire safety of combustible fa�ade systems which has gained much attention in recent times due to several major fire accidents across the world where combustible fa�ade systems had a significant role in ...

The present study proposes a Quonset-type greenhouse integrated with a thin-film photovoltaic thermal (GiPVT) system for crop cultivation in harsh hot climate conditions. A periodic thermal model in terms of input climatic ...

In-situ soil slopes and embankments are often reinforced with nails to improve their static and seismic performance. Michalowski and You (2000) developed an approximate method based on kinematic approach of limit analysis ...

Recorded ground motion is nonstationary in both intensity and frequency contents. Two methodologies were reported by the authors elsewhere for generating spatially varying ground motion (SVGM), namely, (i) auto-spectral ...

Earth System Models (ESMs) are the state of the art for projecting the effects of climate change. However, longstanding uncertainties in their ability to simulate regional and local precipitation extremes and related ...