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Wind versus Water: Determining the Cause of Coastal Building Damage in Hurricanes
An important question in the wake of Hurricane Katrina (and other storms) was whether building damage was due to "wind" or "water." The question was particularly technically challenging in those cases when nothing but the building's foundation remained after the storm. Professional opinions and conclusions concerning the cause of damage to many specific, individual residences and commercial buildings, extending from the west side of Mississippi to western Alabama, were developed using a detailed, site-specific, forensic analysis process. The analysis included state-of-the-art estimates of the time-history of storm surge, currents, wave heights, and winds at each specific building location during Hurricane Katrina. These, in combination with the known building characteristics and FEMA/ASCE guidance as well other published results, usually led to a fairly clear picture of the timeline of loads on the building and the likely cause of damage. The proper interpretation of hindcast site-specific model results provides a detailed timeline of all the elements of a storm's impacts on a specific building during passage of a storm and can answer the question of wind or water.
Wind versus Water: Determining the Cause of Coastal Building Damage in Hurricanes
An important question in the wake of Hurricane Katrina (and other storms) was whether building damage was due to "wind" or "water." The question was particularly technically challenging in those cases when nothing but the building's foundation remained after the storm. Professional opinions and conclusions concerning the cause of damage to many specific, individual residences and commercial buildings, extending from the west side of Mississippi to western Alabama, were developed using a detailed, site-specific, forensic analysis process. The analysis included state-of-the-art estimates of the time-history of storm surge, currents, wave heights, and winds at each specific building location during Hurricane Katrina. These, in combination with the known building characteristics and FEMA/ASCE guidance as well other published results, usually led to a fairly clear picture of the timeline of loads on the building and the likely cause of damage. The proper interpretation of hindcast site-specific model results provides a detailed timeline of all the elements of a storm's impacts on a specific building during passage of a storm and can answer the question of wind or water.
Wind versus Water: Determining the Cause of Coastal Building Damage in Hurricanes
Douglass, Scott L. (author) / Dixon, Caren R. (author)
ATC & SEI Conference on Advances in Hurricane Engineering 2012 ; 2012 ; Miami, Florida, United States
Advances in Hurricane Engineering ; 136-144
2012-11-13
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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