Graduate school was not always part of Casie Venable’s (PhDCivEngr’20) plan. Growing up, she had family members in the construction industry and was surrounded by people who had both a passion and ...

In addition to hurricanes, AI is being trained to predict and manage such natural disasters as earthquakes, floods and forest ...

From the College of Engineering blog: Ilham Siddiq survived the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami and is now using his firsthand disaster knowledge to evaluate the effectiveness of ...

Massive wildfires, major hurricanes and other natural disasters are occurring more frequently than in the past. A new National Academy of Sciences Engineering Medicine (NASEM) report, which included ...

No articles found. State Key Laboratory of Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering, Tongji University did not contribute to any primary research papers from Nature Index journals in the current 12 ...

Fighting a two-front battle is never an ideal arrangement, but it is something we must consider. After all, we will almost certainly face another natural disaster in the coming year, on top of the ...

The potential future effects of global climate change—that include more frequent wildfires, longer periods of drought in some regions and an increase in rainfall—have profound implications for future ...

Disasters. Earthquakes. Hurricanes. Terrorist attacks. Climate change. All have the capacity for immense suffering. But such catastrophes also provide tremendous opportunities to enhance the ...

Yes, the Versailles Wedding Hall Disaster took place in Jerusalem, Israel, on May 24, 2001. It is considered one of the worst civil engineering disasters in Israeli history, caused by the collapse of ...