Coastal residential buildings have suffered significant damage during recent hurricanes,
which illustrates the poor performance of coastal structures. This paper reviews the …

Despite recent advancements in hurricane hazard characterization and a better
understanding of the vulnerabilities of the built environment to hurricane-related hazards …

Sea‐level rise sits at the frontier of usable climate climate change research, because it
involves natural and human systems with long lags, irreversible losses, and deep …

Image data collected after natural disasters play an important role in the forensics of
structure failures. However, curating and managing large amounts of post-disaster imagery …

Over the past several decades, the economic damage from flooding in the coastal areas has
greatly increased due to rapid coastal development coupled with possible climate change …

Hurricanes are devastating natural hazards that often cause damage to the built
environment as a result of their loadings, which include storm surge, waves, and wind, often …

The combined effect of storm surge and wave action during severe storms in coastal regions
can cause significant damage to civil infrastructures with cascading consequences to …

Tropical cyclones (TCs) pose a significant threat to coastal regions worldwide, demanding
accurate and timely predictions of potential disaster impacts. Existing regional-scale impact …

The number of natural catastrophic events has increased remarkably in recent decades, and
the resulting challenges of construction projects have increased even more. It is imperative …

Coastal communities are increasingly exposed to more intense and frequent hurricanes,
accelerated sea-level rise, and prolonged tidal inundation, yet they are often a preferred …