Emergency response to any large scale environmental incidents on the Texas - Mexico will not be easy. Any large scale incident that crosses jurisdictional boundaries, including the international boundary, may require joint ...

International construction projects are managed most effectively by planning for and addressing the risks that occur to all participants across the project’s entire life cycle. The first step in this process is the ...

Seismic site response analysis is used to assess the effect of site-specific soil conditions on expected earthquake ground motions. For this purpose, input earthquake rock motions are propagated through a site-specific ...

Environmental Justice (EJ) legislation and regulation are designed to protect the health and welfare of specific populations. Although the importance of environmentally just transportation projects is widely recognized, ...

Statistical extrapolation is required to predict extreme loads, associated with a target return period, for offshore wind turbines. In statistical extrapolation, “short-term" distributions of the load random variable(s) ...

Private car use continues to increase in most urban areas around the world, exacerbating various associated problems such as traffic congestion, environmental degradation and high fuel consumption. With the dispersion ...

When estimating the impacts of air pollutant control measures on future air quality, it is typically presumed that land covers remain constant. However, changes in land cover can have an impact on air pollutant ...

The spatial nature of flood hazards makes GIS a proper means to address and integrate flood damage assessment components. Geography, relational databases, and engineering models are proposed as central elements to develop ...

This research focused on the development of a structural system composed of a reinforced concrete (RC) deck and fiber reinforced plastic (FRP) girders and arches. The deck and the girders were designed to carry the load ...

Ash-flow tuff (ignimbrite) is a general term indicating consolidated deposits of volcanic ash flow; a flow of a mixture of gas and pyroclastic materials as products of explosive volcano eruptions (Smith, 1960). Two different ...