Flood creates the most complex problems of engineering hydrology and extreme flood contains crucial risk for urban areas, infrastructure, industry agriculture. The aim this paper is to study transient flow caused by levee Filyos River. Numerical modeling based on finite element method was performed in analyses. PlaxFlow which an add-on module Plaxis 2D, used time variation seepage several point...

2005 Hurricane Katrina: The extended flooding reminded insurers that storm surge is possibly the most serious threat posed by hurricanes both in terms of human life (WMO, 2007) and in terms of damages (Knutson, et al., 2010). Moreover, the important role engineering (levee design) plays in these situations was highlighted. Casinos floating on barges were swept inland by the surge. These aspects...

Considering a preferential selection mechanism of load destination, we introduce a new method to quantify initial load distribution and subsequently construct a simple cascading model. By attacking the node with the highest load, we investigate the cascading dynamics in some synthetic networks. Surprisingly, we observe that for several networks of different structural patterns, a counterintuiti...

Significant progress has been made in recent years on the development of gravitational wave detectors. Sources such as coalescing compact binary systems, low-mass X-ray binaries, stellar collapses and pulsars are all possible candidates for detection. The most promising design of gravitational wave detector uses test masses a long distance apart and freely suspended as pendulums on Earth or in ...

BACKGROUND Hurricane Katrina and levee failures disrupted healthcare access for hundreds of thousands of New Orleans residents. Few models exist to explain community stakeholders' priorities for post-disaster recovery while building capacity for response. This project engaged community stakeholders in a rapid, participatory assessment of health priorities 1 year post-disaster, to inform the pol...

Seafloor diking-eruptive events represent the irreducible, quantum events of upper oceanic crustal accretion. They record events by which a large portion of the oceanic crust has formed through geological history. Since 1993, the U.S. Navy's real-time Sound Surveillance System has allowed location of ongoing acoustic signatures of dike emplacement and basalt eruptions at ridge crests in the nor...