Understanding flood risk in the context of community resilience modeling for the built environment: Research needs and trends

OM Nofal, JW Van De Lindt - Sustainable and Resilient …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Floods can be devastating to communities and result in fatalities and injuries, negatively
impacting the economy, and quality of life. This paper presents a review of community …

Risk assessment for people and vehicles in an extreme urban flood: Case study of the “7.20” flood event in Zhengzhou, China

B Dong, J Xia, Q Li, M Zhou - International journal of disaster risk reduction, 2022 - Elsevier
Extreme flood events in urban environments have become a major source of threat to
human life and property, and therefore have attracted widespread concerns. In this study, a …

New insights into US flood vulnerability revealed from flood insurance big data

OEJ Wing, N Pinter, PD Bates, C Kousky - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Improvements in modelling power and input data have vastly improved the precision of
physical flood models, but translation into economic outputs requires depth–damage …

Multi-variate and single-variable flood fragility and loss approaches for buildings

OM Nofal, JW van de Lindt, TQ Do - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2020 - Elsevier
Propagating uncertainties in flood damage models is a critical step towards a risk-informed
decision methodology that is based on quantitative assessment. Flood-related data scarcity …

High-resolution flood risk approach to quantify the impact of policy change on flood losses at community-level

OM Nofal, JW van de Lindt - International Journal of Disaster Risk …, 2021 - Elsevier
Communities are changing the way they manage flood risk as a result of climate change
which increases both the flood hazard intensity and frequency and therefore results in more …

Minimal building flood fragility and loss function portfolio for resilience analysis at the community level

OM Nofal, JW van de Lindt - Water, 2020 - mdpi.com
Current flood vulnerability analyses rely on deterministic methods (eg, stage–damage
functions) to quantify resulting damage and losses to the built environment. While such …

Flood damage functions based on a single physics-and data-based impact parameter that jointly accounts for water depth and velocity

T Lazzarin, DP Viero, D Molinari, F Ballio, A Defina - Journal of Hydrology, 2022 - Elsevier
Direct flood damage is commonly assessed using damage models (ie, vulnerability
functions and fragility curves), which describe the relationship between hazard, vulnerability …

Flood Damage Assessment: A Review of Microscale Methodologies for Residential Buildings

OD Aribisala, SG Yum, MD Adhikari, MS Song - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Flood damage assessment (FDA) is an essential tool for evaluating flood damage,
vulnerability, and risk to civil systems such as residential buildings. The outcome of an FDA …

Flood depth‒damage curves for Spanish urban areas

E Martínez-Gomariz, E Forero-Ortiz… - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Depth‒damage curves, also known as vulnerability curves, are an essential element of
many flood damage models. A relevant characteristic of these curves is their applicability …

Residential building flood damage: Insights on processes and implications for risk assessments

R Paulik, A Wild, C Zorn… - Journal of Flood Risk …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Flood damage assessments provide critical insights on processes controlling building
damage and loss. Here, we present a novel damage assessment approach to develop an …