As part of the American Society of Civil Engineers E-Newsletter at page 5&6.

Masonry structures represent the highest proportion of building stock worldwide. Currently, the structural condition of such structures is predominantly manually inspected which is a laborious, costly and subjective process. With developments in computer vision, there is an opportunity to use digital …

During the 2015 Gorkha earthquake of 7.8 Mw that hit Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, numerous Nepalese Pagodas suffered extensive damage while others collapsed. Risk reduction strategies implemented in the region focused on disassembling historical structures and rebuilding them with modern material without …

Circa 30% van de mensen met een chronische aandoening ervaart problemen met arbeidsparticipatie. Aandacht voor werk is niet altijd een vanzelfsprekend onderdeel van revalidatie, en het is niet altijd bekend welke interventies gebruikt kunnen worden om de arbeidsparticipatie te verbeteren. Dit artikel …

Als leerkracht geniet ik het meest wanneer er tijdens de instructie een rustige sfeer is, waarin de leerlingen met aandacht en interesse actief meedenken. Soms reageren leerlingen hierbij te impulsief, waardoor andere leerlingen geen kans krijgen om te antwoorden. Een reactie stoppen of uitstellen kan …

In recent years, the number of human-induced earthquakes in Groningen, a large gas field in the north of the Netherlands, has increased. The majority of the buildings are built by using unreinforced masonry (URM), most of which consists of cavity (i.e. two-leaf) walls, and were not designed to withstand …

The assessment of the out-of-plane response of unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings with cavity walls has been a popular topic in regions such as Central and Northern Europe, Australia, New Zealand, China and several other countries. Cavity walls are particularly vulnerable as the out-of-plane capacity …

National regulatory regimes for supervising ongoing clinical trials are affected by external challenges, both international, such as harmonization of EU legislation, and national, such as critical reviews of incidents. This study examines how supervisory bodies dealing with ongoing trials respond to …