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Analyses of disasters such as the Piper Alpha explosion (Sylvester-Evans and Drysdale, 1998), the World Trade Centre collapse (Torero et al, 2002, Usmani et al, 2003) and the fires at Kings Cross (Drysdale et al, 1992) and the Mont Blanc tunnel (Rapport Commun, 1999) have revealed many mistaken decisions, such as that which sent 300 fire-fighters to their deaths in the World Trade Centre. Many ...

Two fully-dynamic Delaunay triangulation methods, which differ in their point-location strategies, are proposed. One method is derived from the (bucket-based) BucketInc scheme of Su and Drysdale. The other is a new method based on a quadtree partitioning of the triangulation domain. The two methods are compared experimentally, and their relative merits discussed.

In 2016, the Office of the State Coroner of New South Wales released its report into the death of an Australian woman, Sheila Drysdale, who had died from complications of an autologous stem cell procedure at a Sydney clinic. In this report, we argue that Mrs Drysdale's death was avoidable, and it was the result of a pernicious global problem of an industry exploiting regulatory systems to sell ...

&1 Tracy K. N. Sweet BSc (Hons), PhD, CChem, MRSC Research Associate, Cardiff School of Engineering, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK &2 Kifah El Khatib MSc Cardiff School of Engineering, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK &3 Noel Bristow MSc Managing Director, Centre for Lifetime and Reliability Testing (CLARET), School of Electronic Engineering, Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd, UK &4 Brian Dry...

Borates have played an ever-increasing role in the preservation of wood worldwide and especially in the USA since the voluntary cancellation of CCA for residential lumber use patterns in 2004. However, there has not been a review of the efficacy and performance of borates, especially Disodium Octaborate Tetrahydrate, outside of the AWPA Data Package submitted by Nicholas and Preston in 1988 and...

&1 Tracy K. N. Sweet BSc (Hons), PhD, CChem, MRSC Research Associate, Cardiff School of Engineering, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK &2 Kifah El Khatib MSc Cardiff School of Engineering, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK &3 Noel Bristow MSc Managing Director, Centre for Lifetime and Reliability Testing (CLARET), School of Electronic Engineering, Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd, UK &4 Brian Dry...