Natural disasters do not destroy buildings evenly. By studying which fall and which are left standing, engineers can develop new strategies for the future. Win McNamee/Getty Images When you first see ...

While it’s right to assume that Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is a branch of engineering used in maintaining the ...

MOE Key Laboratory of Disaster Prevention and Structural Safety, GXU has the following research output in the current window (1 February 2025 - 31 January 2026) of the Nature Index. Click on Count to ...

While dancing on a floor with full energy and excitement, completely carefree, suddenly a structural failure causes a fatal fall that claims your partner’s life or leaves you heavily injured can be an ...

Redeia used advanced simulation to test anti-cascading transmission towers under extreme multi-tower collapse scenarios. The results confirm that current Spanish grid design standards effectively ...

We explore the effect of (big) shocks on the allocation of (bilateral) aid using natural disasters as natural experiments. We find that aid commitment statistically significantly increases following ...