This paper presents the results of a research project aimed at examining the capabilities and
challenges of two distinct but not mutually exclusive approaches to in-service bridge …

Coastal residential buildings have suffered significant damage during recent hurricanes,
which illustrates the poor performance of coastal structures. This paper reviews the …

Recipe for Disaster: How the Dynamic Ingredients of Risk and Exposure Are Changing the
Tornado Disaster Landscape in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Volume 97 Issue …

Background Given the continued need to educate the public on both the meteorological and
engineering hazards posed by the severe winds of a tornado, an interdisciplinary science …

Research has illustrated that tornado disaster potential and impact severity are controlled by
hazard risk and underlying physical and social vulnerabilities. Previous vulnerability studies …

Tornadoes are a low-occurrence high-consequence hazard and not only threaten the life
safety of building occupants but have recently resulted in billions of dollars in direct and …

Mitigating tornado damage remains a critical challenge for communities throughout much of
the United States. Enhanced construction techniques typically used in hurricane-prone …

While risk and associated hazard characteristics are important components of disaster
formation, the consequences of hazards are often driven by underlying human and built …

Since its founding in 2018, the Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance (StEER) Network
has worked to deepen the capacity of the Natural Hazards Engineering (NHE) community for …

Tornadoes are one of the most devastating natural hazards that occur in the United States.
Although the average number of tornadoes per year across the country is approximately …