Hurricanes and their cascading hazards have been responsible for widespread damage to life and property, and are the largest contributor to insured annual losses in coastal areas of the U.S.A. Such losses are expected to increase because of changing climate and growing coastal population density. An effective methodology to assess hurricane wind and surge hazard risks to coastal bridges under changing climate conditions is proposed. The influence of climate change scenarios on hurricane intensity and frequency is explored. A framework that couples the hurricane tracking model (consisting of genesis, track, and intensity) with a height-resolving analytical wind model and a newly developed machine learning-based surge model is used for risk assessment. The proposed methodology is applied to a coastal bridge to obtain its traffic closure rate resulting from the observed (historical) and future (projected) hurricane winds and storm surges, demonstrating the effects of changing climate on the civil infrastructure in a hurricane-prone region.


    Access

    Download

    Check availability in my library

    Order at Subito €


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    Hurricane Wind and Storm Surge Effects on Coastal Bridges under a Changing Climate


    Additional title:

    Transportation Research Record


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2020-05-05




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



    Hurricane Gilbert Storm Surge DATA

    Garcia, Andrew W. | HENRY – Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute (BAW) | 1990

    Free access

    Hurricane Elena Storm Surge Data: Report 3

    Garcia, Andrew W. / Hegge, William S. | HENRY – Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute (BAW) | 1987

    Free access

    Hurricane Kate Storm Surge Data. Report 5

    Garcia, Andrew W. / Hegge, William S. | HENRY – Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute (BAW) | 1987

    Free access

    Hurricane Alicia Storm Surge and Wave Data

    Garcia, Andrew W. / Flor, Thomas H. | HENRY – Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute (BAW) | 1984

    Free access

    Hurricane Danny Storm Surge data: Report 4

    Garcia, Andrew W. / Hegge, William S. | HENRY – Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute (BAW) | 1987

    Free access