ERCZ: Mitigation of Hurricane Damage to Constructed Facilities

全球气候变化可能会影响天气变异性，并改变极端风事件的地点、强度和频率，例如沿海地区的飓风。飓风强度的增加将造成比目前更大的破坏和更大的经济损失。这项研究将利用结构力学和计算机科学开发一个关于风阻和对已建设施的潜在损害的预测模型。德克萨斯理工大学存档的损失信息数据和华盛顿大学开发的基于知识的损失评估系统将用于项目和开发的损坏预测模型将帮助尽可能识别易受影响的设施和结构不同地点的风事件，而且强度和持续时间都是现在从未有过的。

Global climate change may influence weather variability and alter the location, intensity and frequency of extreme wind episodes, such as hurricanes in coastal areas. An increase in hurricane intensity will cause more damage and higher economic losses than presently. The study will develop a predictive model for wind resistance and potential damage to constructed facilities using structural mechanics and computer sciences. Damage information data archived at Texas Tech University and a knowledge-based damage assessment system developed at the University of Washington will be used in the project and the damage predictive model developed will assist in identifying vulnerable facilities and structures to possible extreme wind events in locations, and with an intensity and duration now not experienced.