Performance codes are replacing prescriptive codes in much of the world. As the form of the codes change, the form of standards which support those codes needs to evolve in concert. Thus, performance standards need to be explicit about the purpose(s) served by the standardized systems and to provide quantitative means to assess the degree to which they serve that purpose. Most of the engineerin...

in this paper we propose and construct fuzzy algebraic additive model, for the estimation of risk in various fields of human activities or nature’s behavior. though the proposed model is useful in a wide range of scientific fields, it was designed for to torrential risk evaluation in the area of river evros. clearly the model’s performance improves when the number of parameters and the actual d...

Abstract Project management in construction industry, in many cases, is imperfect with respect to the integration of Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) risks. This imperfection exhibits itself as complications affecting the riskiness of industrial procedures and is illustrated usually by poor awareness of OHS within project teams. Difficulties on OHS regularly came about in the construction i...

flood risk zonation is necessary to control and predict the amplitude of flood damage.the purpose of this research is to evaluate the rate of flood risk vulnerability and the flood damage assessment in tabriz. specific variables of this study are land use , population density , river beds , slope classes residential density , cn coefficient , runoff coefficient , open spaces and old buildings.m...

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In view of the adverse effect of declining cluster, a method of analyzing and assessing declining risks of mature cluster is studied. Through analyzing causes of declining risks, an evaluation index system for declining risks is built. According to the index system, the characteristic patterns of different risk levels are described. Owing to the complexity and uncertainty of cluster system, a T...

this paper seeks two goals concurrently, at one hand tries to assay the capability of topsis, vikor and similarity-based approach as multiple attribute decision making approaches in evaluating mutual funds in iran stock exchange, and at the other hand in this evaluation tries to consider and compare three groups of indices including general evaluating indices (age, net value of mutual fund’s as...