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Modelling of River Flows, Sediment and Contaminants Transport
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Year: 2022 Publisher: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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This book presents five articles that are also part of a Special Issue titled: Modelling of River flows, Sediment and Contaminants Transport published in the Water Journal under the section: Water Erosion and Sediment Transport. It covers a wide range of topics, such as predicting the impacts of wildfires on sediment transport and water quality in a mountainous region and estimating the sediment erosion due to release of ice-jams in cold region rivers.


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Modelling of River Flows, Sediment and Contaminants Transport
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This book presents five articles that are also part of a Special Issue titled: Modelling of River flows, Sediment and Contaminants Transport published in the Water Journal under the section: Water Erosion and Sediment Transport. It covers a wide range of topics, such as predicting the impacts of wildfires on sediment transport and water quality in a mountainous region and estimating the sediment erosion due to release of ice-jams in cold region rivers.


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Modelling of River Flows, Sediment and Contaminants Transport
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This book presents five articles that are also part of a Special Issue titled: Modelling of River flows, Sediment and Contaminants Transport published in the Water Journal under the section: Water Erosion and Sediment Transport. It covers a wide range of topics, such as predicting the impacts of wildfires on sediment transport and water quality in a mountainous region and estimating the sediment erosion due to release of ice-jams in cold region rivers.

Venus in Transit
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ISBN: 0691115893 Year: 2004 Publisher: Oxford : Princeton University Press,

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In 2004, Venus crossed the sun's face for the first time since 1882. Some did not bother to step outside. Others planned for years, reserving tickets to see the transit in its entirety. But even this group of astronomers and experience seekers were attracted not by scientific purpose but by the event's beauty, rarity, and perhaps--after this book--history. For previous sky-watchers, though, transits afforded the only chance to determine the all-important astronomical unit: the mean distance between earth and sun. Eli Maor tells the intriguing tale of the five Venus transits previously observed and the fantastic efforts made to record them. This is a story of heroes and cowards, of reputations earned and squandered, all told against a backdrop of phenomenal geopolitical and scientific change. With a novelist's talent for the details that keep readers reading late, Maor tells the stories of how Kepler's misguided theology led him to the laws of planetary motion; of obscure Jeremiah Horrocks, who predicted the 1639 transit only to die, at age 22, a day before he was to discuss the event with the only other human known to have seen it; of the unfortunate Le Gentil, whose decade of labor was rewarded with obscuring clouds, shipwreck, and the plundering of his estate by relatives who prematurely declared him dead; of David Rittenhouse, Father of American Astronomy, who was overcome by the 1769 transit's onset and failed to record its beginning; and of Maximilian Hell, whose good name long suffered from the perusal of his transit notes by a color-blind critic. Moving beyond individual fates, Maor chronicles how governments' participation in the first international scientific effort--the observation of the 1761 transit from seventy stations, yielding a surprisingly accurate calculation of the astronomical unit using Edmund Halley's posthumous directions--intersected with the Seven Years' War, British South Seas expansion, and growing American scientific prominence. Throughout, Maor guides readers to the upcoming Venus transits in 2004 and 2012, opportunities to witness a phenomenon seen by no living person and not to be repeated until 2117.


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Resilience and Sustainability of Civil Infrastructures under Extreme Loads
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ISBN: 3039214020 3039214012 Year: 2019 Publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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There are many regions worldwide which are susceptible to extreme loads such as earthquakes. These can cause loss of life and adverse impacts on civil infrastructures, the environment, and communities. A series of methods and measures have been used to mitigate the effects of these extreme loads. The adopted approaches and methods must enable civil structures to be resilient and sustainable. Therefore, to reduce damage and downtime in addition to protecting life and promoting safety, new resilient structure technologies must be proposed and developed. This special issue book focuses on methods of enhancing the sustainability and resilience of civil infrastructures in the event of extreme loads (e.g., earthquakes). This book contributes proposals of and theoretical, numerical, and experimental research on new and resilient civil structures and their structural performance under extreme loading events. These works will certainly play a significant role in promoting the application of new recoverable structures. Moreover, this book also introduces some case studies discussing the implementation of low-damage structural systems in buildings as well as articles on the development of design philosophies and performance criteria for resilient buildings and new sustainable communities.

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artificial neural network --- corrosion --- mined-out region --- finite element --- column-top isolation --- pseudodynamic test --- seismic performance --- sustainability prediction --- shear performance --- nonlinear time-history analysis --- shaking table test --- civil infrastructures --- angle section --- seismic connection detail --- cyclic loading test --- extreme loads --- sudden column removal --- flow --- water supply networks --- displacement response spectrum --- cold-formed steel composite shear wall building --- mitigation --- probabilistic framework --- nonlinearity --- optimized section --- corporation --- GM selection --- seismic damage --- natural hazards --- analysis --- spectrum variance --- viscous damper --- Great East Japan Earthquake --- OpenFresco --- Brazier flattening --- substructure --- damage --- model-based --- tapered cross section --- liquefaction --- measurement --- NDE --- settlement --- seismic behavior --- resilience --- hybrid damper --- numerical simulation --- structural response estimates --- probabilistic --- energy-based approximate analysis --- damping effect --- cold-formed steel structure --- silt --- ground motion --- boundary technique --- energy dissipative devices --- reinforced concrete --- cyclic reversal test --- ground improvement --- simplified modeling method --- beam --- girder --- integration algorithm --- force-displacement control --- reinforced concrete frames --- mid-rise --- intermediate column --- time-frequency energy distribution --- single-layer reticulated dome --- structural robustness --- precast slab --- chloride ingress --- dynamic model --- Brazier effect --- earthquake --- sustainability --- carbonation --- replaceable coupling beam --- railway construction --- concrete --- variational method --- shear wall --- progressive collapse --- abnormal loads --- recovery --- earthquakes --- resilience-based design --- disaster --- OpenSees --- seismic analysis --- response surface method --- subway station --- ratcheting effect --- matching pursuit decomposition --- hybrid simulation --- subway induced vibration --- dynamic structural analysis --- numerical simulations --- structural sensitivity --- inflection point --- system restoration --- infinite element boundary --- simulation model --- Monte Carlo simulation --- nonlinear response

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