Developments in the field of earthquake engineering over the past few decades have
contributed to the development of new methods for evaluating the risk levels in buildings …

Determining the risk priorities for the building stock in highly seismic-prone regions and
making the final decisions about the buildings is one of the essential precautionary …

The current study presents a novel combination of artificial neural network cross-validation
(fourfold ANN-CV) with a hybrid analytic hierarchy process-Technique for Order of …

Recurrent floods are severely affecting the built assets and people of numerous Indian cities.
Urban flood being a comparatively nascent area of research is often dealt with strategies apt …

Buildings on hills behave dynamically, very different from buildings on flatlands. Due to
irregularity in horizontal and vertical planes, they inhibit non-uniform mass and stiffness …

Earthquakes are one of the most terrible and catastrophic natural disasters, responsible for
widespread infrastructure and population losses. This study presented an integrated …

Due to rapid growth in tourism and other economic activities, several small cities and towns
in the Indian Himalayan region are facing problems of unplanned construction and extended …

A rapid method to assess the potential seismic risk of a building due to its height or,
equivalently, to the number of stories above ground is described. It was applied, despite …

Earthquakes can cause serious damage to buildings, roads and other infrastructure. The
large amount of dust and particulate matter generated when these structures collapse and …

The entire Himalayan belt extending from Shimla to Gangtok and the North-East Indian
region lies in high seismic risk zones. In the recent past, this region has experienced several …