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Environmental policy in an international perspective (2003)
Book
Marsiliani, L., Rauscher, M., & Withagen, C. (Eds.). (2003). Environmental policy in an international perspective. Kluwer

The volume contains papers presented at a conference "On the International Dimension of Environmental Policy". It deals with two issues: international environmental agreements; environmental policies in open economies. Both issues are hot topics. The... Read More about Environmental policy in an international perspective.

Environmental economics and the international economy (2002)
Book
Marsiliani, L., Rauscher, M., & Withagen, C. (Eds.). (2002). Environmental economics and the international economy. Kluwer Academic Publishers

Thirteen papers addressing current issues in international environmental economics. They analyze the relationship between trade liberalization and environmental policy; the impact of trade liberalization on environmental quality; investigate problems... Read More about Environmental economics and the international economy.

Rainfall induced deformation on unsaturated collapsible soils (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moghaddasi, H., Osman, A., Toll, D., & Khalili, N. (2022). Rainfall induced deformation on unsaturated collapsible soils. In E. Tutumluer, S. NazarianImad, & A. Qamhia (Eds.), Advances in Transportation Geotechnics IV (447-456). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77238-3_34

The stability of transportation infrastructure can be affected by seasonal rainfall infiltrated adjacent excavations and natural slopes. The paper investigates the rainfall-induced deformation of an anchored excavation constructed in unsaturated soil... Read More about Rainfall induced deformation on unsaturated collapsible soils.

Water retention and characteristic curves representing tropical clay soils from Africa (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alhaj, K., Biscontin, G., Elshafie, M., & Osman, A. (2020). Water retention and characteristic curves representing tropical clay soils from Africa. In R. Cardoso, C. Jommi, & E. Romero (Eds.), 4th European Conference on Unsaturated Soils (E-UNSAT 2020) proceedings. https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202019501019

Soil water retention curves (SWRCs) form an essential component of frameworks coupling the hydromechanical behaviour of unsaturated soils. The curves describe how suction changes with variables such as degree of saturation, void ratio and volumetric/... Read More about Water retention and characteristic curves representing tropical clay soils from Africa.

Centrifuge modelling of pile pull-out tests in expansive soil (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smit, G., Jacobsz, S., Gaspar, T., & Osman, A. (2019). Centrifuge modelling of pile pull-out tests in expansive soil. In Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ECSMGE) (1-18). https://doi.org/10.32075/17ecsmge-2019-0175

Designing foundations of wind turbines in expansive soils present a challenge. Piled foundations are often used to mitigate some of the problems associated with construction on expansive soils. Swelling clays frequently occur in an unsaturated state... Read More about Centrifuge modelling of pile pull-out tests in expansive soil.

An expansive clay for centrifuge modelling (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gaspar, T., Jacobsz, S., Smit, G., & Osman, A. (2019). An expansive clay for centrifuge modelling. In Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ECSMGE) (1-8). https://doi.org/10.32075/17ecsmge-2019-0421

This paper explores the development of an expansive soil which can be repeatedly reproduced for use in centrifuge models to investigate soil-structure interaction problems involving expansive soils. The study considered two materials, namely a sand-b... Read More about An expansive clay for centrifuge modelling.

Preparations for field testing for the performance validation of piled wind turbine foundations in expansive clays (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
da Silva, T., Haigh, S., Elshafie, M., Jacobsz, S., Day, P., & Osman, A. (2019). Preparations for field testing for the performance validation of piled wind turbine foundations in expansive clays. In D. Kalumba (Ed.), Proceedings of the 17th African Regional Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (661-666)

Field-testing of piles in an expansive clay is required for the validation of the design criteria for wind turbine foundations in such soil profiles. The test programme includes lateral load tests to investigate the horizontal stiffness of the soil a... Read More about Preparations for field testing for the performance validation of piled wind turbine foundations in expansive clays.

Numerical analysis of cavity propagation in deep trapdoor experiments (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Osman, A., Jacobsz, S., & Purchase, C. (2019). Numerical analysis of cavity propagation in deep trapdoor experiments. In roceedings of the 17th European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ECSMGE) (1-7). https://doi.org/10.32075/17ecsmge-2019-0408

Large areas of the economically important Gauteng Province of South Africa are underlain by extensively weathered dolomite bedrock in which sinkholes are a common occurrence. Deep trapdoor experi-ments were conducted in the geotechnical centrifuge to... Read More about Numerical analysis of cavity propagation in deep trapdoor experiments.

The seconomics (security-economics) vulnerabilities of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Massacci, F., Ngo, C., Nie, J., Venturi, D., & Williams, J. (2017). The seconomics (security-economics) vulnerabilities of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations. In F. Stajano, J. Anderson, B. Christianson, & V. Matyáš (Eds.), Security protocols XXV : 25th international workshop, Cambridge, UK, March 20-22, 2017 : revised selected papers (171-179). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71075-4_19

Traditionally, security and economics functionalities in IT financial services and protocols (FinTech) have been perceived as separate objectives. We argue that keeping them separate is a bad idea for FinTech “Decentralized Autonomous Organizations”... Read More about The seconomics (security-economics) vulnerabilities of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations.

FuturesMEX: Secure Distributed Futures Market Exchange (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Massacci, F., Ngo, C., Nie, J., Venturi, D., & Williams, J. (2018). FuturesMEX: Secure Distributed Futures Market Exchange. In 2018 IEEE symposium on security and privacy SP 2018 (335-353). https://doi.org/10.1109/sp.2018.00028

In a Futures-Exchange, such as the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, traders buy and sell contractual promises (futures) to acquire or deliver, at some future pre-specified date, assets ranging from wheat to crude oil and from bacon to cash in a desired c... Read More about FuturesMEX: Secure Distributed Futures Market Exchange.