The evaluation of seismic site amplification and its relationship with geological structures
play a vital role in earthquake engineering and hazard assessment. This study presents an …

Interactions between smectite and polyelectrolyte play an essential role in exclusive
adsorption, flocculation, and thixotropic properties of aqueous smectite/polyelectrolyte …

Earthquake-induced slope failure often results in a large loss of life and property, and thus,
understanding how a slope responds to seismic shaking can reveal the mechanism and …

Seismic bedrock depth represents one of the crucial steps in site response analysis as the
input seismic ground motion is propagated from the bedrock level through soil profile …

A methodological approach based on the integration of different survey techniques may be
particularly suitable for the study of areas with complex geology such as those affected by …

The Wenchuan earthquake triggered many landslides in the Longmen Mountain area.
Among them, landslide# 1, which had a unique failure model, occurred in the Liujiawan …

Total seismic hazard assessment (ie the base hazard modified by local site conditions) plays
a key role in seismic risk prevention and mitigation. This is an important topic due to the …

Rockfall risk is usually characterized by a high frequency of occurrence, difficulty in
prediction (given high velocity, lack of noticeable forerunners, abrupt collapse, and complex …

The damage evolving on rock slopes, including unstable mass failure events, is expected to
be associated with a rigidity loss of geomaterials. Therefore, velocity changes (dv/v) inferred …

Għajn Ħadid Tower represents an important cultural heritage of Malta (Central
Mediterranean Sea). This tower, built in 1658 on the Selmun Promontory on the northeast …