Tephra cushioning of ballistic impacts : quantifying building vulnerability through pneumatic cannon experiments and multiple fragility curve fitting approaches

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Williams, George T., Kennedy, Ben M., Lallemant, David, Wilson, Thomas M., Allen, Nicole, Scott, Allan, Jenkins, Susanna F.
• مؤلفون آخرون: Asian School of the Environment
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2020
• الموضوعات: Science::Geology; Volcano; Volcanic Hazards
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/137188
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

Ballistic projectiles are the most frequently lethal volcanic hazard close to the vent. Recent eruptions of Ontake in 2014 and Kusatsu-Shirane in 2018 showed that un-reinforced, timber-framed buildings - those typically considered highly vulnerable to the dangerous penetration of ballistics - provid...