Assessing transportation vulnerability to tsunamis: utilising post-event field data from the 2011 Tōhoku tsunami, Japan, and the 2015 Illapel tsunami, Chile

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Assessing transportation vulnerability to tsunamis: utilising post-event field data from the 2011 Tōhoku tsunami, Japan, and the 2015 Illapel tsunami, Chile

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Abstract. Transportation infrastructure is crucial to the operation of society, particularly during post-event response and recovery. Transportation assets, such as roads and bridges, can be exposed to tsunami impacts when near the coast. Using fragility functions in an impact assessment identifies potential tsunami effects to inform decisions on potential mitigation strategies. Such functions have not been available for transportation assets exposed to tsunami hazard in the past due to limit...

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Research paper

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Journal article

Date created

2020

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Williams, J.H. / Wilson, T.M. / Horspool, N. / Paulik, R. / Wotherspoon, L. / Lane, E.M. / Hughes, M.W.

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https://hdl.handle.net/10092/100047

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Engineering / Civil engineering / Transport engineering / Engineering practice and education / Risk engineering / Infrastructure engineering and asset management / Earth sciences / Physical geography and environmental geoscience / Natural hazards

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