Wind storm and storm surge mitigation /
Description: This monograph contains 13 technical papers presented at the First International Workshop on Wind Storm and Storm Surge Mitigation Construction: Issues of Storm, Shelter, and Safety, held in Bangladesh in 2005. The papers by U.S. and Bangladeshi scientists and engineers explore the long...
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| Language: | English |
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Reston, Va. :
American Society of Civil Engineers,
©2010.
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| Series: | Monograph (ASCE Council on Disaster Risk Management) ;
no. 4. |
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Table of Contents:
- Wind storm types affecting Bangladesh / Richard E. Peterson and Kishor C. Mehta
- Experimental storm surge forecasting in the Bay of Bengal / Hassan S. Mashriqui [and others]
- Wind effects on cyclone shelters in the coastal regions of Bangladesh / Mir M. Ali and Puja Mohandas
- 3D effects on the seismic response of dam-reservoir systems / M.A. Millán, Y.L. Young, and J.H. Prèvost
- Coastal land loss : hurricanes and New Orleans--a prelude to Hurricane Katrina / Ivor L. van Heerden
- Risk-based approach to shelter planning for coastal area exposed to storm surge / Jahir Uddin Chowdhury
- Shelters : more than a safe haven / Ian Rector and Shantana R. Halder
- Design criteria for shelters in coastal areas of Bangladesh under multipurpose cyclone shelter program / M. Shamin Z. Bosunia
- Wind field statistics : literature review and research needs / Erik Vanmarcke and Zhaohui Chen
- Initial assessment of New Orleans' flooding event during the passage of Hurricane Katrina / Ivor L. van Heerden, G. Paul Kemp, and Hassan Mashriqui
- Improvements in flood fatality estimation techniques based on flood depths / Ezra Boyd, Marc Levitan, and Ivor L. van Heerden
- Socio-economic effects of tsunami on Bangladesh / Shah Alam Khan [and others]
- Twenty-five years of Caribbean hurricane disaster mitigation / D.O. Prevatt, L. Dupigny-Giroux, and F.J. Masters.