TY - GEN
T1 - Performance of low-rise construction under wind and coastal hazards during the landfall of hurricane harvey
AU - Kijewski-Correa, T.
AU - Gong, J.
AU - Kennedy, A.
AU - Womble, J. A.
AU - Cai, C. S.
AU - Cleary, J.
AU - Dao, T. N.
AU - Leite, F.
AU - Liang, D.
AU - Peterman, K.
AU - Sun, C.
AU - Taflanidis, A.
AU - Wood, R. L.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors gratefully acknowledge the leadership of the NSF-supported Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance (GEER) Association (CMMI 12-66418) in recognizing the importance of mobilizing structural assessments after Hurricane Harvey. GEER leadership worked to secure supplemental funding from NSF to expand their support for this event beyond geotechnical and coastal assessments by issuing a subcontract to Notre Dame for this effort. The team recognizes the leadership of Ellen Rathje (University of Texas at Austin), who was the overall coordinator for the three GEER teams deploying in response to Harvey, and Jonathan Bray (University of California, Berkeley), GEER PI, for their leadership. The team especially thanks Dr. Richard Fragaszy and Dr. Joy Pauschke of NSF for their willingness to support this unorthodox funding model in order to mobilize teams so quickly after this event. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. John Cleary additionally acknowledges the financial support of the Metal Building Manufacturers Association (MBMA). The authors further wish to thank Logistics Coordinator Andrew Bartolini (University of Notre Dame) for his support throughout the missions, as well as Data Librarians Matthew Musetich and Brendan Woods at Notre Dame for their dedication in post-processing the event data. The mission also benefited from the assistance and participation of Douglas Allen and Charles Moser of Simpson Strong-Tie, as well as graduate students: Yijun Liao (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), Zhiming Zhang (Louisiana State University), Yi Yu (Rutgers University), Xuan Hu (Rutgers University), Zixiang Zhou (Rutgers University), Yuanshen Ji (University of Texas at Austin), Siyuan Xian (Princeton University), Kairui Feng (Princeton University) and Dominic Wirkijowski (Rutgers University). The team is particularly grateful to Michael Starek (Texas A&M, Corpus Christi) and his team for conducting the UAS. Special thanks also go to Dr. Marc Levitan of NIST for sharing the simulated wind field data from ARA. All data and data products from this study are curated in the NHERI Data Depot at www.designsafe-ci.org/ under project PRJ-1685: Hurricane Harvey (Texas) Supplement --Collaborative Research: Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance (GEER) Association: Turning Disaster into Knowledge (doi:10.17603/DS2Q38J).
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© 2018 American Society of Civil Engineers.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Hurricane Harvey made landfall August 25, 2017, near Rockport, Texas. With maximum winds of 130 mph, Harvey was the first Category 4 hurricane to make landfall in the U.S. in over a decade and the first storm of this intensity to hit Texas since 1961. Four sub-teams were assembled to document damage in the landfall region in three coordinated waves from September 8-17, 2017. A pair of teams worked sequentially to conduct door-to-door Damage Assessments in Rockport, Port Aransas, Aransas Pass, and Bayside, supplemented by unmanned aerial surveys (UAS) of select residential areas. These teams were flanked by a Coastal Scout Team measuring high water marks as far east as Palacios. These damage assessments were followed by block-level scans of these same neighborhoods using a mobile LiDAR van. 3D point clouds were acquired for select structures obtained using portable LiDAR/imaging laser scanners. This study will present a summary of the observed damage, correlated by age of construction and roof characteristics, followed by illustrative examples highlighting the performance of wood-framed, single-family residential construction, and metal-framed buildings to underscore common failure modes observed.
AB - Hurricane Harvey made landfall August 25, 2017, near Rockport, Texas. With maximum winds of 130 mph, Harvey was the first Category 4 hurricane to make landfall in the U.S. in over a decade and the first storm of this intensity to hit Texas since 1961. Four sub-teams were assembled to document damage in the landfall region in three coordinated waves from September 8-17, 2017. A pair of teams worked sequentially to conduct door-to-door Damage Assessments in Rockport, Port Aransas, Aransas Pass, and Bayside, supplemented by unmanned aerial surveys (UAS) of select residential areas. These teams were flanked by a Coastal Scout Team measuring high water marks as far east as Palacios. These damage assessments were followed by block-level scans of these same neighborhoods using a mobile LiDAR van. 3D point clouds were acquired for select structures obtained using portable LiDAR/imaging laser scanners. This study will present a summary of the observed damage, correlated by age of construction and roof characteristics, followed by illustrative examples highlighting the performance of wood-framed, single-family residential construction, and metal-framed buildings to underscore common failure modes observed.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85079616740&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1061/9780784482018.098
DO - 10.1061/9780784482018.098
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85079616740
T3 - Forensic Engineering 2018: Forging Forensic Frontiers - Proceedings of the 8th Congress on Forensic Engineering
SP - 1017
EP - 1027
BT - Forensic Engineering 2018
A2 - Liu, Rui
A2 - Lester, Michael P.
A2 - Diaz de Leon, Alicia E.
A2 - Drerup, Michael J.
PB - American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Y2 - 29 November 2018 through 2 December 2018
ER -