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Can Tang, Xinchao Hou, Yanjie Xu and Feng Jin
A rock-filled concrete (RFC) dam is an original dam construction technology invented in China nearly 20 years ago. The technology has been continuously improved and innovated upon, and the accumulated rich practical experience gradually formed a complete...
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Ziyu Chen, Philip Orton and Thomas Wahl
Gated storm surge barriers are being studied by the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) for coastal storm risk management for the New York City metropolitan area. Surge barrier gates are only closed when storm tides exceeding a specific ?trigge...
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Malcolm L. Spaulding, Annette Grilli, Chris Damon, Brian McKenna, Michael Christensen, Nathan Vinhateiro, James Boyd and Grover Fugate
STORMTOOLS Coastal Environmental Risk Index (CERI) predicts the coastal flooding damage to individual structures using coastal flooding levels, including the effects of sea level rise (SLR), provided in terms of the base flood elevation (BFE), specificat...
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Mehrdad Salehi
Hurricanes pose major threats to coastal communities and sensitive infrastructure, including nuclear power plants, located in the vicinity of hurricane-prone coastal regions. This study focuses on evaluating the storm surge and wave impact of low-probabi...
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Malcolm L. Spaulding, Annette Grilli, Chris Damon, Grover Fugate, Bryan A. Oakley, Tatsu Isaji and Lauren Schambach
Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) are developed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to provide guidance in establishing the risk to structures and infrastructure in the coastal zone from storm surge and coincidental waves. The maps are used...
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