Tsunamis pose a substantial threat to coastal communities around the globe. To counter
their effects, several hard and soft mitigation measures are applied, the choice of which …

Recent natural disasters, such as the 2004 Indian Ocean and 2011 Tohoku Tsunami,
exhibited the importance of tsunami-resistant infrastructure in high-risk coastal areas. The …

Abstract The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and the recent 2011 Japan tsunami have
highlighted the need to investigate the interaction between tsunamis and coastal structures …

Recently, major tsunami events have resulted in considerable damage to low-lying coastal
developments as well as significant loss of life. This is owing to the fact that coastal …

This paper presents an experimentally validated, closed-form set of equations for predicting
forces on rectangular buildings impinged by nominally unsteady tsunami inundation flows …

Tsunamis, impulse waves, and dam failures are disasters that challenge humanity, often
leading to massive casualties and extreme economic losses. The highly unsteady flow …

Tsunamis, landslide-generated waves, and dam failures are rare, but highly destructive
phenomena, associated with extreme loading on infrastructure. Recent events showed that …

Laboratory experiments of dam-break flows are extensively used in investigations of
geophysical flows involving flood waves, to provide insight into relevant aspects of the …

Wave experiments were conducted on a 1: 20 length scale to measure water surface
elevations and extreme pressures on and around idealized structural elements and arrays of …

This paper focuses on the hydrodynamic interaction between dam-break waves and circular
pier. Firstly, a series of dam-break waves under dry-bed and wet-bed conditions were …