Risk assessment and mitigation programs have been carried out over the last decades in
the attempt to reduce transportation infrastructure downtime and post-disaster recovery …

Recent natural extreme events, such as Hurricane Ike in the US (2008), Tohoku tsunami in
Japan (2011), and Typhoon Haiyan in Southeast Asia (2013), have caused significant …

Field surveys in recent tsunami events document the catastrophic effects of large waterborne
debris on coastal infrastructure. Despite the availability of experimental studies, numerical …

Intercity networks constitute a highly important civil infrastructure in developed countries, as
they contribute to the prosperity and development of the connected communities. This was …

Abstract The Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method is applied to investigate the
impact of a tsunami bore on simplified bridge piers in this study. This work was motivated by …

In view of the widespread damage to coastal bridges during recent tsunamis (2004 Indian
Ocean and 2011 in Japan) large-scale hydrodynamic experiments of tsunami wave impact …

Damage from recent earthquakes has shown that substandard bridges are particularly
vulnerable to strong ground motions being the weakest components of a road network …

This article is a new assessment of damaged roads after the Kumamoto earthquake in
southern Japan (2016) using remotely sensed synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data, field …

This study applies the numerical model of GPUSPH, an implementation of the weakly
compressible Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics method on graphics processing units, to …

Modern design codes ensure a large displacement capacity and prevent total collapse for
bridges under earthquakes. However, this performance objective is usually attained at the …