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RISOn the Job versus Graduate School Training of Forensic Engineers—An Instructor and Professional Engineer’s View
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: This paper provides insights from a graduate forensic engineering course for civil engineers and analyses its success from the instructor and student perspectives. The objective of the study was to evaluate teaching methods ...
Wind Tunnel Studies on Sawtooth and Monosloped Roofs
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: Wind tunnel studies were conducted on 1:100 scale building models of monosloped and several (two- through five-span) sawtooth roof buildings to determine appropriate peak and area-averaged wind pressure coefficients. The ...
Empirical Approach to Evaluating the Tornado Fragility of Residential Structures
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: Tornado-induced wind load modeling has advanced significantly in recent years, but comparison of the experimental or numerical models to observed tornado damage is limited. This paper describes the development of empirically ...
In Situ Nail Withdrawal Strengths in Wood Roof Structures
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: Premature failure of wood roof sheathing under wind loading has primarily been blamed on poor nail installation resulting in reduced nail withdrawal strengths. However, this increased vulnerability could also result from ...
Wind-Uplift Capacity of Residential Wood Roof-Sheathing Panels Retrofitted with Insulating Foam Adhesive
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: This research evaluated and compared the wind-uplift capacity of wood roof-sheathing panels fabricated by using nails with retrofitted roof panels made with nails and closed-cell sprayed polyurethane foam (ccSPF) adhesive. ...
Engineering Perspectives on Reducing Hurricane Damage to Housing in CARICOM Caribbean Islands
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: The annual hurricane related losses to Caribbean residential buildings in the past two decades highlight the societal and socioeconomic vulnerability of these islands. Despite considerable hurricane disaster mitigation ...
Linking Building Attributes and Tornado Vulnerability Using a Logistic Regression Model
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: The residential building stock in the United States suffers a disproportionately large amount of tornado damage, which is linked to vulnerability of the building and its components. Whereas the building stock exhibits a ...
Wind Resistance and Fragility Functions for Wood-Framed Wall Sheathing Panels in Low-Rise Residential Construction
Publisher: ASCE
Abstract: The wind uplift resistance of wood roof sheathing panels has been the subject of many engineering studies due to the high probability that roofs are subjected to large uplift loads during intense wind events. However, few ...
Epistemic Uncertainties in Fragility Functions Derived from Post-Disaster Damage Assessments
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: Fragility functions define the probability of meeting or exceeding some damage measure (DM) for a given level of engineering demand (e.g., base shear) or hazard intensity measure (IM; e.g., wind speed, and peak ...
A Unified Multievent Windstorm Performance Testbed for Single-Family Residential Buildings
Publisher: ASCE
Abstract: Recent advancements in technology and infrastructure have greatly improved the capabilities of the natural hazards community to collect robust samples of building performance following hazard events and make them available ...