Dive summary:
- In Japan after the tsunami that did such extensive coastal damage and after Hurricane Katrina in the U.S., observers noticed that horizontal forces posed as big a risk or perhaps even a bigger one to some buildings than gravity and waterlogged foundations did.
- A loaded container taken from a ship's deck, a stack at a port or a tractor-trailer can be a powerful weapon even if it is moving no more than 10 mph in flood waters.
- Researchers see the most important targets for their research results as buildings into which people flee to escape rising water and coastal chemical and fuel storage tanks.
From the article:
A multi-university team lead by Ronald Riggs, a structural engineer at the University of Hawaii, has determined just what the impact could be and will present findings at an international conference in June. ...
