Mitigating the Risk of Coastal Infrastructure through understanding Tsunami-Structure Interaction and Modeling (NEES-2009-0663)

<p><strong>Title:</strong> Mitigating the Risk of Coastal Infrastructure through understanding Tsunami-Structure Interaction and Modeling (NEES-2009-0663)</p> <p><strong>Year Of Curation: </strong>2015</p> <p><strong>Description: </strong>The current tsunami evacuation strategy in the U.S. puts large populations at high risk because it requires everyone to evacuate the flooded areas and does not consider the possibility of using tall buildings for shelter. Part of the unwillingness to adopt vertical evacuation strategies stems from an inability to estimate the damage level in the flooded area for a range of building types, including reinforced concrete (e.g., modern hotel), unreinforced concrete masonry units (e.g., older motel, light commercial) and light-frame wood (mostly residential and some light commercial) structures. The goal of this project is to model building damage by studying water flow and debris hazard of collapsed buildings in the flooded areas. This will help us understand the expected damage to cities and town and to design buildings to withstand these forces.</p> <p><strong>Award: </strong>http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0830378</p> <p><strong>PIs & CoPIs: </strong>Daniel Cox, Rakesh Gupta, Jennifer Irish, John Van de Lindt</p> <p><strong>Dates: </strong>October 01, 2008 - September 30, 2011</p> <p><strong>Organizations: </strong></p> <p><strong>Facilities: </strong>Oregon State University, OR, United States</p> <p><strong>Sponsor: </strong>NSF - 0830378</p> <p><strong>Keywords:--</strong></p> <p><strong>Publications: -- </strong></p> <nb:citations></nb:citations>