Natural Hazards Review: Recent submissions

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    • Proposed Seismic Risk Reduction Program for the Megacity of Tehran, Iran 

      H. Shakib; S. Dardaei Joghan; M. Pirizadeh (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2011)
      Urban development has been rapidly progressing in the megacity of Tehran without the proper development of a disaster prevention system for potential earthquakes. Considering the high level of seismic hazard and the number ...

    • Post-2004 Hurricane Field Survey of Residential Building Performance 

      K. R. Gurley; F. J. Masters (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2011)
      This paper presents the methodology and results of a study of the performance of site-built single-family structures in Florida constructed after Andrew-related changes to the

    • Economic Losses from a Hypothetical Hurricane Event in the Houston-Galveston Area 

      Qisheng Pan (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2011)
      Most articles in the literature on hurricane impact analysis have focused on historical hurricanes, and few of them have examined the potential losses caused by a hypothetical hurricane event that may occur in the future. ...

    • Performance of Coastal Structures during Cyclone Sidr 

      Akm Saiful Islam; Sujit Kumar Bala; Mohammad Asad Hussain; Mohammed Abed Hossain; Md. Mafizur Rahman (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2011)
      On November 15, 2007, Bangladesh was hit by the category 4 storm Severe Cyclonic Storm Sidr. At least 3,447 deaths were reported in coastal areas of Bangladesh, mainly owing to the storm surge, which was

    • Testing of Residential Homes under Wind Loads 

      Emil Simiu; Girma Bitsuamlak; Arindam Gan Chowdhury; Ruilong Li; Amanuel Tecle; DongHun Yeo (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2011)
      Aerodynamic testing of low-rise structures is fraught with difficulties that can be the cause of large measurement errors, resulting in the underestimation of aerodynamic pressures by a factor of as much as two. The errors ...

    • Hurricane Damage and Loss Estimation Using an Integrated Vulnerability Model 

      Siu Chung Yau; Ning Lin; Erik Vanmarcke (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2011)
      An integrated vulnerability model is presented to estimate structural damage and related economic losses in clusters of residential buildings resulting from hurricane winds. The model accounts for the occurrence of a ...

    • Framework for Modeling Mass Disasters 

      Hamed Assaf (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2011)
      This paper introduces a generic mass Disaster Modeling Framework (DMF) to support integrated sociophysical risk assessment and management of disasters. The DMF draws on the principles that disasters have many common features ...

    • Wood Frame Building Response to Rapid-Onset Flooding 

      Andrea B. Becker; William M. Johnstone; Barbara J. Lence (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2011)
      Floods are considered to be among the deadliest, costliest, and most common natural disasters. Rapid-onset, catastrophic floods inundate the shore quickly and manifest as deep water with high velocities, inflict great ...

    • What We Know about Demand Surge: Brief Summary 

      Anna H. Olsen; Keith A. Porter (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2011)
      Demand surge is a process resulting in a higher cost to repair building damage after large disasters than to repair the same damage after a small disaster; this higher cost can be an additional 20% or more. It is of interest ...

    • Flood of the Red River Basin in 2009 and Effectiveness of Rapid Mitigation Efforts 

      Yail J. Kim; Xuefeng Chu; Sivapalan Gajan (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2011)

    • Cyclone Damage Risks Caused by Enhanced Greenhouse Conditions and Economic Viability of Strengthened Residential Construction 

      Yue Li; Mark G. Stewart (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2011)
      Hurricanes and tropical cyclones constitute significant sources of economic loss and social disruption. Furthermore, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, enhanced greenhouse conditions may increase ...

    • Railroad Damage from Two Hurricanes 

      William G. Byers (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2011)
      Railroads adjacent to the coast in areas subject to hurricanes are vulnerable to damage from storm surges. Galveston, Texas has been struck by 11 hurricanes which caused minor to severe damage to railroad facilities in the ...

    • Limited Involvement of Socially Vulnerable Populations in Federal Programs to Mitigate Wildfire Risk in Arizona 

      Ryan Ojerio; Cassandra Moseley; Kathy Lynn; Neil Bania (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2011)
      Currently, biophysical risk factors figure prominently in federal resource allocation to communities threatened by wildfire. Yet, disaster research demonstrates that socioeconomic characteristics impact disaster risk and ...

    • “Three Little Pigs” Project: Hurricane Risk Mitigation by Integrated Wind Tunnel and Full-Scale Laboratory Tests 

      Gregory A. Kopp; Murray J. Morrison; Eri Gavanski; David J. Henderson; Han Ping Hong (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)
      This paper describes the “Three Little Pigs” Project at the Insurance Research Lab for Better Homes of the University of Western Ontario. The goal of the project is to find optimal solutions for mitigating wind damage to ...

    • Improving Flood Insurance and Flood-Risk Management: Insights from St. Louis, Missouri 

      Carolyn Kousky; Howard Kunreuther (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)
      This paper examines the history of St. Louis, Mo. in coping with riverine flood risk over the past 15 years, with a focus on flood insurance. Six observations from a detailed case analysis are presented. They are (1) many ...

    • Natural Hazard Risk Reduction: Making St. Lucia Safe in an Era of Increased Hurricanes and Associated Events 

      Michelle Mycoo (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2011)
      This paper seeks to answer the question, “how to make islands safer using natural hazard risk reduction measures.” It uses St. Lucia as a case study. Among the key findings of the paper is that physical risk reduction ...

    • Traffic Impacts and Dispersal Patterns on Secondary Roadways during Regional Evacuations 

      Brian Wolshon; Ben McArdle (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2011)
      The evacuation of southeast Louisiana in the days prior to Hurricane Katrina represented the largest concentrated movement of traffic in the history of the state. Traffic data showed that nearly a half million vehicles, ...

    • Understanding the Demand for Flood Insurance 

      Carolyn Kousky (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2011)
      In this paper, I examine the demand for flood insurance using data from every flood insurance policy-in-force in St. Louis County, Missouri, for the years 2000–2006. The contract choices of policyholders are examined, as ...

    • Earthquake Prediction and Disaster Preparedness: Interactive Analysis 

      C. Davis; V. Keilis-Borok; G. Molchan; P. Shebalin; P. Lahr; C. Plumb (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)
      Recent studies in earthquake predictions, having time windows of several years and possibly down to several months, have led to a reformulation of the intertwined problems linking disaster preparedness with earthquake ...

    • Development of a Large-Scale Traffic Simulation Model for Hurricane Evacuation—Methodology and Lessons Learned 

      Praveen Edara; Siddharth Sharma; Catherine McGhee (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)
      This paper focuses on traffic modeling of large-scale hurricane evacuation networks. Several research efforts to date have addressed the evacuation problem from a local perspective. The largest network found in the open ...