Civil engineering disasters

In contrast, Professor Kletz documented that more people have been killed by the collapse of dams than by any other peacetime artifact. [28] He explains that in August 1979, a dam collapsed in India killing a large number of people. Various reports gave various counts of fatalities, between 1,400 and 25,000. This collapse could be responsible for more deaths than the dreaded Bhopal Tragedy. Kletz asked the question why people were more concerned about chemical engineering disasters than civil engineering disasters. It could be that water is a familiar chemical and pesticides or radioactive menaces are both poorly understood and not detectable by the man on the street. 

Architecture Institute of Japan and Japan Society of Civil Engineers Record of The 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Disaster, p. 1-39. Maruzen(1995). 

The field of engineering seismology is less than one century old, but in the twenty-first century, it plays an important role in urban development and disaster prevention. Earthquake seismologists work with civil engineers and architects to design buildings, roads, bridges, and tunnels that may withstand the type of seismic activity that has occurred in the past. 

Brown, J. Crozier. Anatomies of Computer Disasters, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computers in Civil Engineering. New York American Society of Civil Engineers, 1981, p. 250. 

Jie Li and Jianbing Chen School of Civil Engineering State Key Laboratory for Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China... 

Disaster Control Research Center, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai-980-8579 JAPAN (e-mail Iiton2005 gmail.com)... 

Asprone, D., Cavallaro, M., Latora, V., Manfredi, G., Nicosia, V. City ecosystem resilience analysis in case of disasters. In Computer Aided Civil Infrastructure Engineering (2013) (submitted)... 

Morgan, A.G. (1971) Dams and Other Disasters A Century of the Army Corps of Engineers in Civil Works. 

Carmine Galasso Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering and Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction University College London, University College London, London, UK... 

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