Distribution centers (DCs) play important poles in supply chain managements. How to decide an effective and reasonable distribution center location is a first goal for supply chain design, which directly influences the efficiency of the network of facilities and activities that procure, produce, and distribute goods to customers. In the previous literatures, authors seldom consider unexpected e...

landslide like phenomena such as earthquake, flood, and volcano eruption are considered as the important natural events which happen every year in the mountainous and the elevated regions of the country and incur substantial damages and losses. today, in the countries involved with the issue of earthquake sliding, there is an increasing tendency in evaluating and zoning of the danger and damage...

CRISIS AUDIT Natural Disaster • Lightning • Earthquake • Extended severe cold/heat • Extreme snow/ice conditions • Flood/drought • Hurricane/Tornado/Tsunamis Operations • Accident involving a company vehicle • Bomb threat • Data/telecommunications failure/loss of critical data • Construction delay • Cost over-run • Design error/issue • Explosion • Fire • Major utility failure • Neighborhood/com...

As wireless sensor networks find wide applications nowadays, reliability analysis of them is necessary before commercial deployment of the same. Unpredictable environmental noise, presence of obstacle in signal path, effect of natural phenomena like earthquake or flood severely affects performance of sensor networks. This motivates reliability analysis of them. So, in this thesis we calculate s...

Many engineering applications require the calculation of the distribution of the maximum of a number n of indendent, identically distributed (iid) variables. A typical situation is the design of a system for the “n-year demand” when the maximum demands in different years are iid (design of a dam for the n-year flood, design of an offshore platform for the n-year wave, design of a building for t...

1. introduction flood is one of natural hazard which ranks the most one just like earthquake and drought according to the report of the natural hazard program of the united nations. besides physical factors, and lack proper management will increase the flood potential. therefore, in order to prevent flood damage it seems to be necessary to provide essential requirements before physical expansio...

This paper presents a new and easily repeatable method for assessing the susceptibility of glacial lakes to outburst floods (GLOFs) within the Peruvian region of the Cordillera Blanca. The presented method was designed to: (a) be repeatable (from the point of view of the demands on input data), (b) be reproducible (to provide an instructive guide for different assessors), (c) provide multiple r...