TY - BOOK AU - Jain, Sudhir K. & others Eds. TI - Engineering response to hazards of terrorism SN - 8190613019 U1 - 624.1762 PY - 2008/// CY - Kanpur PB - National Information Center of Earthquake Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology N1 - CONTENTS : EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1 KEYNOTE LECTURE Lessons of World Trade Centre Collapse 9 Venkatesh Kodur, Michigan State University, USA SECTION I - BUILDINGS & STRUCTURES Concepts in Robust Structural Design against Terrorism 31 P. Dayaratnam (formerly of IIT Kanpur) Disaster Reduction in Structures subjects to Terrorist Threat 63 Mahesh C. Tandon (TCPL, New Delhi) Blast Resistant Design of Buildings for Explosions Above Ground 79 A. S. Arya (NIDM, New Delhi) On Use of Conventional Blast Design for Terrorist Attacks 107 Durgesh C. Rai (IIT Kanpur) Guidelines on Measures to Mitigate Effects of Terrorist Attactks on Buildings 113 C. V. R. Murty (IIT Kanpur) Terrorism Related Hazard in Dams 133 M. S. Munde (MERI, Nashik) & Chandra Mohan Hangekar (DSO, Nashik) Analysis of Aircraft Impact on Containment Structure 175 Rajiv Ranjan, Prabhakar Gundlapalli and U.S.P. Verma (NPCIL, Mumbai) Risk Assessment of Intetentional Threats : A New Perspective 221 Shailendra Bajpai (NIT, Jalandhar) and J. P. Gupta (GERMI, Gandhinagar) Consideration and Scope of Terrorist Hazards in Structures 263 Shambhoo Sharan (SECL, Bilaspur) SECTION II - USE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN COMBATING TERRORISM Cryptanalysis 289 Manindra Agrawal (IIT Kanpur) Multimodal Biometric System at IIT Kanpur 297 Phalguni Gupta (IIT Kanpur) Anti-terrorism Incident Response using Information Technology 325 Lt. Cdr. Shashwat Raizada (Indian Navy) Automation of Video Surveillance: Some Recent Advances 341 K. S. Venkatesh (IIT Kanpur) SECTION III - SENSORS, DEVICES AND SYSTEMS Application of Remotely Operated Vehicle for Hazard Detection 357 Dilip Makhwana (DRDO, Pune) A Survey on Techniques for Detection of Chemical Explosives 369 V. Jayaraman, T. Gnanasekaran, P. R. Vasudeva Rao and Baldev Raj (IGCAR, Kalpakkam) ER -