NHERI Debris Impact Experiments Jupyter Notebook

Damage caused by tsunamis to coastal communities is often the result of transported debris. Although there have been efforts to characterize these forces from single debris impacts, a more general scenario of multiple debris has not been studied experimentally. To address this need, experimental studies were performed considering the effect of orientation of debris and the number of debris field components on peak impact and damming forces on coastal structures. These forces were evaluated both qualitatively and quantitatively to provide insight into the nature of these impacts. For a few selected cases multiple trials were conducted and an initial statistical study of the debris field collision phenomena was performed. Curated data for this project can be found at (DOI:https://doi.org/10.17603/DS2T09V). This Jupyter Notebook helps visualize and analyze the recorded data. In this context, the notebook presents details on the experimental facility and setup, experimental program and results in terms of raw and filtered data. The user can navigate the notebook, select images and videos and perform filtering for any recorded signal using any selected frequency and range. The lessons from this work provide an initial data-set that can be used to guide further experimental and numerical studies on debris-laden tsunami flows.