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Resilience

Windstorm impact reduction

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Structural Performance for Multi-hazards Program

Ongoing
Objective: To develop and deploy advances in measurement science to enhance the robustness of buildings and infrastructure to natural and manmade hazards. What is the technical idea? The fundamental new idea is that structural robustness can be significantly enhanced by developing reliable
Moore OK Hospital

Design for Tornadoes

Ongoing
Objective To advance tornado hazard mitigation through improved characterization of tornadoes and their interaction with buildings and structures, providing the technical foundation for improvements to tornado load design guidelines, standards, codes, and code adoptions. This includes research and
Cyclone

Resilience Infrastructure and Future Hazard Impacts: Tropical Cyclones

Ongoing
Objective By 2028, develop a methodology for quantifying hurricane-induced hazards, including wind speed, storm surge, waves, and associated hydrodynamic effects, with consideration of the near- and long-term effects of natural hazard evolution. Technical Idea This project will investigate and

Coastal Inundation: Hazard Characterization and Structural Design

Ongoing
Objective - To develop next-generation methods and tools to better characterize coastal inundation hazards, associated loads, and response of structures, thus enabling performance-based standards for designing structures that resist coastal inundation. What is the new technical idea? Current design

Publications

Design Guide for New Tornado Load Requirements in ASCE 7-22

Author(s)
Erik Perfetto, James Taylor, Karah Osburn, Brian O'Connor, Marc Levitan, Jennifer Mitchell
This instructional guidance is for design professionals and building officials to help them determine when a building or other structure is required to be

Awards