EXPLOSION AND MITIGATION STRUCTURES
Keywords:
mitigation structure, disaster, explosion, visco-elastic material, explosionAbstract
Man-made disasters like large explosion or a terrorist attack inflict widespread damage and represent major disaster. To minimize such type of effects apart from the precise knowledge of the mechanism of explosion and knowledge of the blast wave properties, the effective risk management through mitigation structures is vital.
Losses can be prevented and alleviate the impact by managing conditions of hazards, exposure and vulnerability. Disaster risk management involves three aspects 1) Prevention 2) Mitigation 3) Transfer and 4) Preparedness
This paper discusses primarily about the role of mitigation structures in disaster management and effective utilisation visco-elastic material in the development of mitigation structure in risk management. A encased soil with polymer film is considered as mitigation structure and its effective blast resisting capacity is discussed in this paper.
