Hurricane damage to residential construction in the US: Importance of uncertainty modeling in risk assessment

Engineering Structures

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1009-1018

  Li, Yue ^a,b   Ellingwood, Bruce R ^b  

^a Michigan Technological University   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Buildings; Design; Fragility; Hurricanes; Probability; Reliability; Statistics; Structural engineering; Uncertainty; Wood

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; HAZARDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL TESTS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; WIND EFFECTS; WOODEN BUILDINGS;

HURRICANE DAMAGE; RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION; STRUCTURAL FRAGILITY; STRUCTURAL RESISTANCE; UNCERTAINTY MODELING;

HURRICANE EFFECTS;

DECISION THEORY; HAZARDS; HURRICANE EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL TESTS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; WIND EFFECTS; WOODEN BUILDINGS;

DAMAGE; HURRICANE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33644976626     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2005.11.005     Document Type: Article

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