A preliminary design of disaster-survivable building blackbox system for Urban disaster response

Electronic Journal of Information Technology in Construction

Volumn 13, Issue , 2008, Pages 179-192

  Tsai, Min Hsuan ^a   Liu, Liang Y ^a   Peña Mora, Feniosky ^a   Arboleda, Carlos A ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Blackbox; Disaster response; Disaster survivable; Geopolymer; Information systems; Mobile ad hoc network; Redundancy

Indexed keywords

AD HOC NETWORKS; BUILDINGS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

BLACKBOX; CRITICAL PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURES (CPI); DATA REDUNDANCY; DISASTER RESPONSE; DISASTER SURVIVABLE; GEOPOLYMERS; MOBILE AD HOC NETWORK;

DISASTER PREVENTION;

EID: 42949137953     PISSN: 14036835     EISSN: 14006529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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