To this day, the 1981 skywalk collapse in the Kansas City Hyatt Regency resulted in the worst loss of life from a structural engineering mistake in United States history. While many important engineering lessons can be drawn from this disaster, it is just as important to recognize the broader lessons learned in the design and construction process as a whole that can be successfully brought into...

Interim Report of Healthcare Delivery after East Japan Earthquake-Tsunami Disaster – Does EHR Help? M. Kimura1; S. Oku2; R. Yamamoto3 1Hamamatsu University, School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan; 2Center for Advanced Research of Information Science and Technology (CAIST), Aizu Research Cluster for Medical Engineering and Informatics (ARC-Medical), Aidu-Wakamatsu, Japan; 3University of Tokyo, Int...

it is widely accepted in many parts of the world thatcommunity nurses are of vital importance in various phases of disaster response and management. in china, however, it is not clear whether the chinese community nurses are able to assume disaster-related duties due to the lack of a systematic assessment.a pre-designed and well-tested questionnaire was employed to evaluate the competency in di...

The development of design seismic forces is reviewed. The earthquake engineering was shown to have developed in the last 60 years. The characteristics of ground motion and structural response were gradually understood over the last five decades. The damage statistics from recent major earthquakes indicated that the severe damage was observed in taller buildings. The ratios of buildings with ope...

The Pike River mine (PRM), an underground coal mine in New Zealand (NZ), exploded in 2010. This paper analyses the causes of the disaster, with a particular focus on the systems engineering and organisational contributions. Poor systems-engineering contributed via poorly designed ventilation, use of power-electronics underground, and placement of the main ventilation fan underground. Management...

Tsunami hazards along Chinese coast from potential earthquakes in South China Sea Yingchun Liu a,b,∗, Angela Santos d, Shuo M. Wang c, Yaolin Shi b, Hailing Liu a, David A. Yuen c a South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China b Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China c Department of Geology & Geophysics and Minnesota Supercom...

Advances in control engineering and material science made it possible to develop small-scale unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with cameras and sensors. These UAVs enable us to obtain a bird’s eye view of the environment. Having access to an aerial view over large areas is helpful in disaster situations, where often only incomplete and inconsistent information is available to the rescue ...

The first three days after an earthquake disaster demand good decisions in a very complex environment. Members of emergency operation centres (EOC) have to make decisions with limited information and under high time pressure. But the first 72 hours of disaster response activities are essential to minimize loss of life. Within the interdisciplinary German Collaborative Research Center 461: “Stro...

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