[Abstract] Inertia relief analysis is regarded as an effective technique for the modeling of unconstrained structural systems. In this paper the principle of inertia relief analysis is first described. Inertia relief capability of commercial finite element packages is discussed. The paper studies the implementation of inertia relief techniques into finite element analysis of a variety of struct...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to compare performance measurement in the humanitarian relief chain with performance measurement in the commercial supply chain, develop performance metrics for the humanitarian relief chain, and present a framework that can be used as a basis for a performance measurement system in the relief sector. Design/methodology/approach – The performance measureme...

Following the occurrence of unexpected events and natural disasters, a highly important relief operation is the transferring of relief commodities from the distribution centers (CDs) to shelters. In this paper, a three-level network consisting of depot of vehicles, distribution centers and shelters has been considered for routing and scheduling of relief vehicles through introducing a multi-obj...