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COASTAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
卷 64, 期 1, 页码 3-23出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/21664250.2021.1958613
关键词
Hurricane; Dorian; Bahamas; storm surge; wind; damage assessment
资金
- Division of Civil, National Science Foundation, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation [1841667]
- Directorate For Engineering
- Div Of Civil, Mechanical, & Manufact Inn [1841667] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
This study presents field observations of Hurricane Dorian's coastal hazards and impacts on the built environment in the Bahamas, highlighting the importance of well-confined, elevated construction under major hurricanes. Recommendations include the need to codify practices through storm surge design provisions and an increase in design wind speeds in the Bahamas Building Code for better resilience in the future.
On September 1 2019, Hurricane Dorian made landfall in Elbow Cay in the Bahamas with sustained winds of 295 km/h and a central pressure of 910 mb, with subsequent landfalls in Marsh Harbour and Grand Bahama Island, where it stalled for two days. This paper presents field observations of Dorian's coastal hazards and impacts on the built environment in these locales, collected by the Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance (StEER) Network. Data were collected using a mixed methodological approach: (1) surveying high-water marks and inundation extent, including an approximately 8 m high water mark in Marsh Harbour, (2) conducting surface-level forensic assessments of damage to 358 structures, and (3) rapidly imaging 475 km of routes using street-level panoramas. Field observations are complemented by a debris field analysis using high-resolution satellite imagery. Observed performance reiterates the potential for well-confined, elevated construction to perform well under major hurricanes, but with the need to codify such practices through the addition of storm surge design provisions and an increase in the design wind speeds in the Bahamas Building Code. This study further demonstrates the value of robust reconnaissance infrastructure for capturing perishable data following hurricanes and making such data rapidly available using publicly accessible platforms.
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