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New publication on experimental studies of Tsunami induced collapse of buildings

New publication on experimental studies of Tsunami induced collapse of buildings

© Clemens Krautwald / TU Braunschweig

Scaled house models were loaded in GWK by broken solitary waves and their collapse processes were categorized.

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Can house models collapse in scaled hydraulic experiments? Which collapse patterns can be derived from this? In the new publication in the journal Coastal Engineering on "Collapse processes and associated loading of square light-frame timber structures due to bore-type waves" a new methodology for modeling structures is presented, which was developed together with colleagues from the IBHolz of the TU Braunschweig and the INRS was developed in Canada. The publication was created as part of the CollStruct project and contains new insights into physical modeling and the collapse of buildings at the interface between coastal engineering, structural design and timber construction.

The paper was published online in Coastal Engineering on July 21, 2022. Videos showing the collapse of the model structures are available in the TU Braunschweig repository under the following DOI: https://doi.org/10.24355/dbbs.084-202202110737-0

To the article:

Krautwald, Clemens; von Häfen, Hajo; Niebuhr, Peter; Vogele, Katrin; Stolle, Jacob; Schimmels, Stefan; Schürenkamp, David; Sieder, Mike & Goseberg, Nils (2022). Collapse processes and associated loading of square light-frame timber structures due to bore-type waves. coastal engineering. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2022.104178