Resilience of cities to terrorist and other threats: learning from 9/11 and further research issues : Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Urban Structures Resilience under Multi-Hazard Threats: Lessons of 9/11 and Research Issues for F

The volume of hazardous cargo passing increases with the growth of economy and the expansion of technology. As we have seen in the recent past, cities can become too easily a focus of terror. To counter these trends measures have to be taken. This book presents an overview of threats and measures based on a NATO advanced research workshop meant to make an inventory of items on which, for making progress research will be worthwhile to perform. The spectrum of subjects is broad. It covers various types of hazard threats, the mechanisms of collapse of structures including the doubts about why the WTC buildings collapsed following the impact of aircraft and the ensuing fires. Involvement of world’s top specialists in the various domains of interest A highly topical subjectwith some unique contributions A report based on an unique event where such acombination of scientific disciplines is gathering A future oriented study and analysis rather than a report of obtained results INDICE: From the contents Preface. I. Nature And Effects of Possible Threat.- II. Fire And Collapse Risks Of Urban Structures.- III. Material Properties, Structural Design And Testing.- IV. Future Strategies.- V. Warning Systems.-VI. Emergency Response Planning.- Index. List of contributors.

• ISBN: 978-1-4020-8487-4
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 550
• Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés