Tornado Fragility of Large-Box Tilt-Up Buildings Based on High-Fidelity CFD Simulations
Publication: ASCE Inspire 2023
ABSTRACT
The 2021 Midwest tornado outbreak resulted in the collapse of the Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois, which led to six fatalities. It is a large-box tilt-up building. To evaluate the performance of this type of building under tornado hazards, it is important to establish the fragility curve of the large-box tilt-up buildings under tornadic wind loads. The research objective of this study is to develop the fragility curve of large-box tilt-up buildings to tornadoes. To improve the high accuracy of the fragility analysis, the combined CM1 and CFD simulation will be applied to simulate tornado-building interaction to obtain the tornadic wind loads. Monte Carlo simulations will be applied to develop the fragility curves.
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ASCE Inspire 2023
Pages: 274 - 281
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Published online: Nov 14, 2023
ASCE Technical Topics:
- Buildings
- Computational fluid dynamics technique
- Continuum mechanics
- Curvature
- Design (by type)
- Disaster risk management
- Disasters and hazards
- Dynamic loads
- Dynamics (solid mechanics)
- Engineering fundamentals
- Engineering mechanics
- Facilities (by type)
- Fluid dynamics
- Fluid mechanics
- Geometry
- Hydrologic engineering
- Load factors
- Mathematics
- Natural disasters
- Solid mechanics
- Storage facilities
- Structural design
- Structural dynamics
- Structural engineering
- Structures (by type)
- Tornadoes
- Water and water resources
- Wind loads
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