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Conflict-resilience framework for critical infrastructure peacebuilding
Apart from security issues, war-torn societies and countries face immense challenges in rebuilding damaged critical infrastructure. Existing post-conflict recovery frameworks mainly focus on social impacts and mitigation. Also, existing frameworks for resilience to natural hazards are mainly based on design and intervention, yet, they are not fit for post-conflict infrastructure recovery for a number of reasons explained in this paper. Post-conflict peacebuilding can be enhanced when resilience by assessment (RBA) is employed, using standoff observations that include data from disparate remote-sensing sources, e.g. public satellite imagery, forensics and crowdsourcing, collected during the conflict. This paper discusses why conflicts and warfare require a new framework for achieving post-conflict infrastructure resilience. It then introduces a novel post-conflict framework that includes different scales of resilience with a focus on asset and regional resilience. It considers different levels of knowledge, with a focus on standoff observations and data-driven assessments to facilitate prioritisation during reconstruction. The framework is then applied to the transport network of the area west of Kyiv, Ukraine to demonstrate how resilience by assessment can support decision-makers, such as governments and multilateral financial institutions, to address infrastructure needs and accelerate financial and humanitarian assistance, absorb shocks and maximise infrastructure recovery after conflict
A hysteretic multiscale formulation for nonlinear dynamic analysis of composite materials
This article has been made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund.A new multiscale finite element formulation
is presented for nonlinear dynamic analysis of heterogeneous
structures. The proposed multiscale approach utilizes
the hysteretic finite element method to model the microstructure.
Using the proposed computational scheme, the micro-basis functions, that are used to map the microdisplacement components to the coarse mesh, are only evaluated once and remain constant throughout the analysis procedure. This is accomplished by treating inelasticity at the micro-elemental level through properly defined hysteretic evolution equations. Two types of imposed boundary conditions are considered for the derivation of the multiscale basis functions, namely the linear and periodic boundary conditions. The validity of the proposed formulation as well as its computational efficiency are verified through illustrative numerical experiments
System identification of a super high-rise building via a stochastic subspace approach
Structural identification of the new Guangzhou TV tower
DETECTING THE TORSIONAL BEHAVIOR OF A TALL BUILDING BY GPS RECEIVERS
Научная работа выполнена в Белорусском государственном университете. Научный руководитель - Кожинова Алла Андреевна, доктор филологических наук, профессор, профессор кафедры теоретического и славянского языкознания Белорусского государственного университета.Цель исследования: выявить общие и специфические особенности глаголов разрушения, установить закономерности номинации действия разрушения в русском и английском языках в донациональный период (XI–XVII вв. в русском языке и VII–XV вв. в английском языке.Research objective: to identify the general and specific features of the verbs of destruction, to establish the regularities of the nomination of destructive actions in the Russian and English languages in the pre-national period (XI–XVII cc. in Russian and VII–XV cc. in English