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IMPROVING EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE OF TALL BUILDINGS
Tall buildings are subjected to heavy horizontal forces due to inertia during earthquake. Hence they need shear walls. A shear…
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IMPROVING EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE OF SMALL BUILDINGS
The earthquake resistance of small buildings may be increased by taking some precautions and measures in site selections, building planning…
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SEISMOGRAPH
Seismograph is an instrument for measuring oscillation of earth during earthquakes. It has three major components—the sensor, the recorder and…
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Disaster Resistant Buildings
EARTHQUAKES RESISTANT BUILDINGS An earthquake is a sudden, rapid shaking of the earth surface caused by the breaking and shifting…
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Chemical Disaster
Chemical, being at the core of modern industrial systems, has attained a very serious concern for disaster management within government,…
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Biological disasters
Biological disasters are causative of process or phenomenon of organic origin or conveyed by biological vectors, including exposure to pathogenic micro-organisms,…
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Nuclear and Radiological Emergency
The growth in the application of nuclear science and technology in the fields of power generation, medicine, industry, agriculture, research…
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Heat Wave
A Heat Wave is a period of abnormally high temperatures, more than the normal maximum temperature that occurs during the…
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Tsunami
The Earth’s lithosphere is broken up into a bunch of discrete pieces, called plates that move around the surface of…
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Search and Rescue
The first thing before taking part in a “Search and Rescue” operation is to make sure that you don’t put…
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Collapse of Individual Structures
This refers to mechanical collapse of certain structures, e.g. building, bridges etc. This causes people to get buried in the…
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Structural Damage
Structural damages come under two major categories: 1. Large Scale damage to structures. These are typically caused due to some other…