Quantitative model to forecast changes in hurricane vulnerability of regional building inventory

Journal of Infrastructure Systems

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 55-64

  Davidson, Rachel A ^a   Zhao, Huan ^b   Kumar, Vineet ^a  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^b BECHTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Damage assessment; Forecasting; Hurricanes; Models; North Carolina; Wind loads

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION; HURRICANE EFFECTS; MARKOV PROCESSES; WIND EFFECTS;

BUILDING INVENTORY;

BUILDINGS;

BUILDING; FORECASTING METHOD; HURRICANE; INVENTORY; MODELING; NATURAL HAZARD;

EID: 0038268131     PISSN: 10760342     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1076-0342(2003)9:2(55)     Document Type: Article

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