Estimating tsunami-induced building damage through fragility functions: critical review and research needs

I Charvet, J Macabuag, T Rossetto - Frontiers in Built Environment, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Tsunami damage, fragility, and vulnerability functions are statistical models that provide an
estimate of expected damage or losses due to tsunami. They allow for quantification of risk …

Coupled SPH–FEM modeling of tsunami-borne large debris flow and impact on coastal structures

A Hasanpour, D Istrati, I Buckle - Journal of Marine Science and …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Field surveys in recent tsunami events document the catastrophic effects of large waterborne
debris on coastal infrastructure. Despite the availability of experimental studies, numerical …

[HTML][HTML] Existing design approaches to nuclear power plants subject to tsunamis: A critical review

K Ishiki, LS Cunningham, BD Rogers - Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident in Japan highlighted the potential
vulnerability of nuclear power plants (NPPs) to tsunami events. In order to ensure the …

Experimental study on the hydrodynamic impact of tsunami-like waves against impervious free-standing buildings

D Wüthrich, M Pfister, I Nistor… - Coastal Engineering …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Tsunamis, landslide-generated waves, and dam failures are rare, but highly destructive
phenomena, associated with extreme loading on infrastructure. Recent events showed that …

Engineering lessons from the 28 September 2018 Indonesian tsunami: Debris loading

J Stolle, C Krautwald, I Robertson… - Canadian Journal of …, 2020 - cdnsciencepub.com
A field survey team went to Palu City, Indonesia in the aftermath of the September 28th,
2018 earthquake and tsunami to investigate its effects on local infrastructure and buildings …

[HTML][HTML] Towards an integrated framework for the risk assessment of coastal structures exposed to earthquake and tsunami hazards

C Reis, M Lopes, MA Baptista, S Clain - Resilient Cities and Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
The spatial distribution of the world population is uneven, with a density of about 40% living
in coastal regions. The trend is expected to continue in both demographic indicators and …

A physical model of tsunami inundation and wave pressures for an idealized coastal industrial site

N Kihara, T Arikawa, T Asai, M Hasebe, T Ikeya… - Coastal …, 2021 - Elsevier
A series of physical model experiments of tsunami inundation over an idealized industrial
site located in a coastal area were performed in this study. Two types of tsunami-like waves …

Performance of an RC building under seismic and tsunami actions in sequence via nonlinear dynamic analysis including soil-structure interaction

C Cortez, R Jünemann, C Fernández, A Urrutia… - Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
This research presents a methodology to study the behavior of buildings subjected to
seismic and tsunami loading in sequence, considering soil structure interaction effects …

Reconstruction of flow field with missing experimental data of a circular cylinder via machine learning algorithm

MH Aksoy, I Goktepeli, M Ispir, A Cakan - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
In this study, artificial neural networks (ANNs) have been implemented to recover missing
data from the particle image velocimetry (PIV), providing quantitative measurements of …

Mitigation of tsunami bore impact on a vertical wall behind a barrier

Z Xu, B Melville, C Whittaker, NAK Nandasena… - Coastal …, 2021 - Elsevier
Since tsunamis pose a threat to many coastal areas, the mitigation of tsunami forces is
important in saving lives and reducing damage when a tsunami comes. Barriers are …