Combined Wind-Wave-Surge Hurricane-Induced Damage Prediction for Buildings
Publication: Journal of Structural Engineering
Volume 145, Issue 1
Abstract
Coastal structures are subjected to multihazard events such as hurricanes which consist of hurricane-induced surge and waves as well as winds. Hurricanes are a common natural hazard in the United States and cause considerable damage every year, with resulting annualized losses in the United States in the tens of billions of dollars. Although improvements in construction practices have been notable over time for individual hazards, there is still a dearth of risk and damage prediction methods in the area of multiple hazards that are based on principles of mechanics. In this study, a methodology to develop multihazard damage fragilities is summarized and illustrated for a wood-frame residential-building archetype subjected to hurricane winds, storm surge, and waves. The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) requires new buildings along the US coastline to be constructed with the first finished floor set at an elevation that exceeds a minimum necessary elevation. Therefore, two different elevations are considered for the lowest horizontal structural member of the archetype to also examine its effect on damage fragilities. The developed multihazard fragilities are used to calculate the time-dependent probability of each damage state at a given location over the timeframe of an event, i.e., hurricane. In this regard, the spatial and temporal data of wind speeds, flood depths, and significant wave heights for Hurricane Ike are simulated by the ADCIRC + SWAN model (a tightly coupled version of the ADvanced CIRCulation model and the Simulating WAves Nearshore model for simulating the propagation of storm surge and waves from deep water to the coastal region). The performance of nonelevated and elevated archetypes is examined at different locations in southeast Texas for Hurricane Ike and a scenario of damage states predicted for this area for the elevated archetype.
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Acknowledgments
The work presented in this paper was supported in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant No. CMMI-1452725. The surge and wave portion of this study was funded by Cooperative Agreement 70NANB15H044 between NIST and Colorado State University, and through a subcontract from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as part of the DHS Coastal Resilience Center of Excellence. These sources of support are gratefully acknowledged. All views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding organizations or government institutes or departments that provided research funding.
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Received: Jan 8, 2018
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Published online: Oct 25, 2018
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