Literature Review of Residential Aboveground Storm Shelter
Publication: Construction Research Congress 2022
ABSTRACT
Almost fifty million US citizens living in the coastal regions of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, Carolinas, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii face hurricane or other storm threats quite frequently. The massive evacuation of a city or even a small town is threatened by the heavy traffic and time-limited. Realizing the problems with evacuation load, in-residential storm shelters that provide life protection are popular in no flood zones. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has developed and published several storm shelter guidelines. This article did a detailed literature review of in-residential storm shelters in history and conducted a market survey for the current products. Several important factors have been analyzed, including capacity, weight, cost-effectiveness, installation, and risk performance. Through the reviews, the authors found that most storm shelters mainly paid attention to improving structural designs during the past ten years. Compared with other building material markets, there are fewer research updates and breakthroughs in developing new materials for shelter-related products. As a result, storm shelter products using advanced construction materials can be said rarely. This article details the possibility and necessity of upgrading product materials for the products of aboveground residential hurricane shelters.
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Pages: 658 - 665
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Published online: Mar 7, 2022
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