The Covid 19 pandemic threaten the life of individuals and there was a lack of information in treatment, handling of patients and disposal of waste. The psychological and behavioral impact on Humans due to outbreak of Covid is studied and based on that a person-centered care center is suggested. The research methodology used are surveys, interviews among stake holders and design details of person-centered care center. Based on the surveys and interviews conducted during pandemic, it is found that 94% of the respondents prefer to use private vehicles with at least one member to ac-company them. People prefer to use 3 ply facemasks, followed by cotton masks and N95. Existing literature discusses the physical effects on the individual, but this paper focuses more on pros and cons on human life during the pandemic and lock down period. Based on the study, care center with facilities to treat patients with different levels of infections and counselling center for the persons suffered from Covid and other infectious diseases to overcome their psycho-logical and behavior changes are recommended.

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Disaster mitigation is one of the ongoing efforts in most of the countries to reduce the impact on people and property. The focus of the present study is to provide design inputs for rehabilitating beam structures using locally available composite materials based on linear and nonlinear dynamic analysis. This study models the tensile zone of a beam structure using finite elements with pre-assigned crack widths and crack depth. In linear modeling, the stiffness is assumed to vary linearly and in nonlinear modeling, bilinear variation of the stiffness is considered for analysis. The linear and non-linear response of cracked beam obtained from the finite element method is given as input for dynamic analysis. The frequency, time-period shift and amplitude are studied for uncracked beam, beams with damage for different types of cracks width and depth and design recommendation for rehabilitation of damaged beam with different types of composites are suggested.