Lessons learnt from the recent catastrophic earthquakes and tsunami across the world motivate research testing using full -scale earthquake shaking-tables. Through this testing avenue, the effects of an earthquake can be reproduced. The dynamic tests involved play significant roles in ensuring the reliability, durability and functionality of engine...
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The southern Campos Basin comprises syn- and post-rift strata characterised by thick and extensive units of non-marine limestones. These carbonate platforms are scientifically significant due to their unusual palaeoenvironmental setting, and the complexity of the factors controlling their accumulation. They are of economic importance due to discove...
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Vesuvius in Southern Italy is among the most densely populated active volcanoes on Earth. Although famous for its Plinian eruption that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum in AD 79, its recent activity, between 1631 and 1944, was primarily effusive. Data from field studies, analogue modelling and historical accounts are here combined to investigate V...
The dearth of local scale data in remote high latitude areas means that regional scale data is commonly interpolated to fill the gap. These interpolations have limited accuracy due to the influence of complex topography and resultant decoupling of near-surface temperatures from regional free-air temperatures. Thus relatively little is known about h...
Diffuse sources of sediment may have important implications for flood risk management (FRM), especially as catchment sediment yields are predicted to increase in future. UK legislation requires FRM to work with natural processes wherever possible, including accounting for sediments. However, the importance of wash-material load to FRM has been unde...
Historically, volcanic research has been focussed primarily upon the geological hazard of eruptions while the exposure of the population at risk is often understudied. However, contemporary disaster risk management requires the analysis of vulnerability and hazard exposure, which is imperative at Volcan de Colima (VdC), Mexico, due to the predicted...
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