Engineering perspectives on reducing hurricane damage to housing in CARICOM Caribbean islands

Natural Hazards Review

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 140-150

  Prevatt, D O ^a   Dupigny Giroux, L A ^b   Masters, F J ^a  

^a J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Buildings, residential; Caribbean; Hurricanes; Risk factors; Structural engineering; Wind loads

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS , RESIDENTIAL; CARIBBEAN; RISK FACTORS; STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING; WIND LOADS;

AERODYNAMIC LOADS; APARTMENT HOUSES; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; ECONOMICS; LOADS (FORCES); RESEARCH; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; WIND STRESS;

HURRICANES;

BUILDING; CONSTRUCTION METHOD; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; FUTURE PROSPECT; HOUSING MARKET; HURRICANE; HURRICANE IVAN 2004; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; RISK FACTOR; SMALL SCALE INDUSTRY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; STORM DAMAGE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WIND VELOCITY;

CARIBBEAN ISLANDS;

EID: 77958138247     PISSN: 15276988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000017     Document Type: Article

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