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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"infrastructure failure"”.
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Dynamic Analysis of Levee Infrastructure Failure Risk: A Framework for Enhanced Critical Infrastructure Management
Current models that assess infrastructure failure risk are "linear," and therefore, only consider the direct influence attributed to each factor that defines risk. These models do not consider the undeniable relationships that exist among these parameters. In reality, factors that define risk are …
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Assessment of flood protection strategies for combined critical infrastructure failure and hurricane/storm surge events in the Meadowlands area
… combined events, e.g., Oradell dam failure under various scenarios (sunny day, water level, etc.) along with a super storm event at various time staging levels. The approach broadens the analytical arsenal available to policy-makers for the purpose of comprehensive risk and …
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“One Place for All the Ways We Play”: The Corporate Sociotechnical Imaginary of Cloud Game Streaming
… platforms, the technology has a vulnerability to infrastructure failure that is absent in traditional methods of playing digital games. This thesis uses the concept of the corporate sociotechnical imaginary — a co-produced ordering of social life that ties an emancipatory vision of the future to a …
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Incorporating Wider Infrastructure Disruption in Urban Flooding Resilience Investments
Resilience planning for critical infrastructure (CI) is essential for mitigating disruptions caused by natural hazards, particularly in flood-prone urban areas. This research explores the application of resilience concepts, CI interdependency models, and quantitative assessment frameworks to …
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Decentralizing Power: Enabling Local Energy Resilience and Equity in Accra
… splintered urbanism and the techno-politics of infrastructure failure, the thesis explores how dumsor reflects institutional fragmentation, political contestation, and inequality in the energy infrastructure space. In response to dumsor, I examine whether decentralized energy systems, …
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Growth and survival of small and medium-scale enterprises in Kenya – an empirical case study of Nairobi County
… of support for SMEs and their reported rate of failure, this study used stratified random sampling to survey a multi-sector representative sample of 179 SMEs in Nairobi County to determine the exact causes of their demise. More specifically, this project sought to establish if poor …
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High-Resolution, High-Frequency Modal Analysis for Instrumented Buildings
Civil infrastructure failure is hard to predict, both in terms of occurrence and impact. This is due to combination of many factors, including highly variable environmental and operational conditions, complex construction and materials, and the sheer size of these structures. Often, the mitigation …
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Hydroclimate Drivers and Atmospheric Dynamics of Floods
… can evoke substantial damages to properties and infrastructure systems. These studies also fell short of fully assessing the interactions of coupled ocean-atmosphere and land dynamics which are capable of forcing substantial changes to the flood attributes by governing the exceeding surface flow …
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Optimisation of offshore wind farm maintenance.
… The design of optimal OWT maintenance requires failure analysis of over 10,000 components in OWT for which there is little published work relating to performance and failure. In this work, inspection reports of over 400 wind turbine gearboxes (source: Stork Technical Services) and SCADA data …
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Systems, models and algorithms for failure diagnosis in networked infrastructure
Failure incidents in networked systems such as datacenters, private or public cloud environments, WAN, and enterprise networks lead to significant downtime and violations of service-level agreements, incurring large financial losses. To mitigate failures quickly, operators seek to implement …