TY - JOUR
T1 - Quantitative risk analysis of damage to structures during windstorms
T2 - some multi-scale and system-reliability effects
AU - Vanmarcke, Erik
AU - Lin, Ning
AU - Yau, Siu Chung
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors gratefully acknowledge support for this research, partly through a grant to Princeton University from Baseline Management Company and partly under a project entitled ‘Improved Hurricane Risk Assessment with Links to Earth System Models’, funded through the Cooperative Institute for Climate Science (CICS) by the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Copyright:
Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2014/10
Y1 - 2014/10
N2 - Quantitative risk analysis enables rational accounting for the effect of spatial scale on estimates of damage to individual structures or to groups of closely spaced structures during severe windstorms. The case of window breakage on the façade of an iconic tall building, which motivated a series of such risk-based studies, is presented. The main part of the paper provides an overview of an integrated vulnerability model to estimate structural damage in clusters of residential buildings due to tropical-cyclone winds. This model accounts for the occurrence of a possible 'chain reaction' of events involving wind pressure damage and wind-borne debris damage, amplifying the aggregate losses. Several numerical examples are provided.
AB - Quantitative risk analysis enables rational accounting for the effect of spatial scale on estimates of damage to individual structures or to groups of closely spaced structures during severe windstorms. The case of window breakage on the façade of an iconic tall building, which motivated a series of such risk-based studies, is presented. The main part of the paper provides an overview of an integrated vulnerability model to estimate structural damage in clusters of residential buildings due to tropical-cyclone winds. This model accounts for the occurrence of a possible 'chain reaction' of events involving wind pressure damage and wind-borne debris damage, amplifying the aggregate losses. Several numerical examples are provided.
KW - reliability and risk analysis
KW - structural reliability
KW - uncertainty
KW - wind loading and aerodynamics
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U2 - 10.1080/15732479.2013.791325
DO - 10.1080/15732479.2013.791325
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84905373141
SN - 1573-2479
VL - 10
SP - 1311
EP - 1319
JO - Structure and Infrastructure Engineering
JF - Structure and Infrastructure Engineering
IS - 10
ER -