Water resources: Defusing conflict, promoting cooperation
Credit: Mimi Abebayehu/Wikimedia Commons Rivers are lifelines for many countries. They create valuable ecosystems, provide drinking water for people and ...
Tag: Civil Engineering
Visualizing a city’s energy use
Pitt civil engineers use Pittsburgh to create energy usage model in commercial buildingsCredit: Bilec Built Environment and Sustainable Engineering Group ...
How managing building energy demand can aid the clean energy transition
New Berkeley Lab study finds that more energy efficient and flexible buildings could be a substantial resource for the electric ...
New optimisation method for computational design of industrial applications
The study has been selected as an outstanding publication by the prestigious scientific journal Physics of FluidsCredit: University of Malaga ...
UTA researcher publishes study showing economic impacts of combating sea-level rise
Economic impacts of floodingCredit: UT Arlington Sea-level rise threatens to produce more frequent and severe flooding in coastal regions and ...
Sea-level rise may worsen existing Bay Area inequities
Credit: Wikimedia Commons Rather than waiting for certainty in sea-level rise projections, policymakers can plan now for future coastal flooding ...
FEWSION: Creating more resilient supply chains through nature-inspired design
Diverse supply chains that mimic ecological systems can more readily adapt to unforeseeable disruptionsCredit: Northern Arizona University A new paper ...
To predict underwater volcano eruptions, scientist looks at images from space
A new study monitored satellite images to obtain sea discoloration data as a novel indicator in detecting if an underwater ...
Diversification in supply chain crucial to avoid ‘food shock’ in cities
Credit: Michael Gomez, Penn State Diversification in the sourcing of food into cities can go a long way to tempering ...
Non-stop signal achieved in high-power Er3+-doped mid-infrared lasers
Credit: QUAN Cong The Mid-infrared lasers (MIR) with high peak power and high repetition rate operating in the range of ...
Researchers create better method to predict offshore wind power
Credit: Ruo-Qian (Roger) Wang New Brunswick, N.J. (June 28, 2021) - Rutgers researchers have developed a machine learning model using ...
Machine learning aids earthquake risk prediction
New framework developed by UT Austin engineers applies big data, supercomputing to soil liquefactionCredit: Martin Luff, CC BY-SA 2.0, via ...
Natural hazards threaten 57% of US structures
Rising temperatures and risky development contribute to heightened exposure to earthquakes, flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes and wildfireCredit: Inglesias et al. (2021) ...
How to deal with radioactive wastes safely
New book shows how geological and engineering barriers can safely isolate radioactive wastesCredit: World Scientific Nuclear energy is a mature ...