We have investigated gravity anomalies around the Niigata plain, which is a sedimentary basin in central Japan bounded by mountains, to examine the continuity of subsurface fault structures of a large fault zone—the eastern boundary fault zone of the Niigata plain (EBFZNP). The features of the Bouguer anomaly and its first horizontal and vertical derivatives clearly illustrate the EBFZNP. The s...

The September 21, 1999, Mw 7.6 Chichi earthquake destroyed several thousand buildings and caused more than 2000 fatalities in central Taiwan. The earthquake occurred along the Chelungpu fault, a thrust fault on the western flank of the Taiwan fold-andthrust belt. The surface rupture was more than 90 km long, and vertical displacements ranged from 3 to 8 m. Although pre-existing scarps were iden...

The Xiadian active fault is one of the most important seismological faults in vicinity Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. This paper mainly focuses on geochemical characteristics to unveil and evaluate its activity. Via application soil gaseous radon measurement, a detailed field study at Qixinzhuang segment proposed. Based all impulse value we acquired 3 profiles area. We plotted trend chart profil...

in this paper, the consequences of well-known characteristics of near-fault ground motions, forward directivity and fling step, on the seismic response control is investigated. an integrated fuzzy rule-based control strategy for building structures incorporated with semi active friction damping system with amplifying braces (fdsab) is developed. the membership functions and fuzzy rules of fuzzy...

Safety systems and protection systems can experience two phases of operation (standby and active); an accurate dependability analysis must combine an analysis of both phases. The standby mode can last for a long time, during which the safety system is periodically tested and maintained. Once a demand occurs, the safety system must operate successfully for the length of demand. The failure chara...

A directory service is a critical component of any distributed computing infrastructure given that its failure may lead to the inaccessibility of many network services. In this work, we propose an architecture that allows to add Byzantine fault tolerance to existing directory services in a transparent way: neither directory services nor client applications need to be modified. Moreover, this ar...