TY - GEN
T1 - Quantitative risk analysis of damage to structures during windstorms
T2 - International Conference on Vulnerability and Risk Analysis and Management, ICVRAM 2011 and the International Symposium on Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis, ISUMA 2011
AU - Vanmarcke, Erik
AU - Lin, Ning
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Quantitative risk analysis (QRA) enables rational accounting for the effect of spatial scale on estimates of damage to individual (multi-component) structures or to groups of closely spaced structures during severe windstorms. The case of the window breakage on the facade of Boston's John Hancock Tower, which motivated a series of such risk-based studies, is summarized. We further describe and illustrate an integrated vulnerability model to estimate structural damage in clusters of residential buildings due to tropicalcyclone winds, accounting for the "chain reaction" of events involving wind pressure damage and wind-borne debris damage, amplifying aggregate losses. The last part of the paper provides relevant background information on new methodology to analyze multi-scale random fields, presented in the second (2010) edition of the first author's book Random Fields.
AB - Quantitative risk analysis (QRA) enables rational accounting for the effect of spatial scale on estimates of damage to individual (multi-component) structures or to groups of closely spaced structures during severe windstorms. The case of the window breakage on the facade of Boston's John Hancock Tower, which motivated a series of such risk-based studies, is summarized. We further describe and illustrate an integrated vulnerability model to estimate structural damage in clusters of residential buildings due to tropicalcyclone winds, accounting for the "chain reaction" of events involving wind pressure damage and wind-borne debris damage, amplifying aggregate losses. The last part of the paper provides relevant background information on new methodology to analyze multi-scale random fields, presented in the second (2010) edition of the first author's book Random Fields.
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U2 - 10.1061/41170(400)2
DO - 10.1061/41170(400)2
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79958158186
SN - 9780784411704
T3 - Vulnerability, Uncertainty, and Risk: Analysis, Modeling, and Management - Proceedings of the ICVRAM 2011 and ISUMA 2011 Conferences
SP - 11
EP - 20
BT - Vulnerability, Uncertainty, and Risk
Y2 - 11 April 2011 through 13 April 2011
ER -