Rossetto, T;
Chandler, I;
Adams,, K;
Antonini, A;
van Balen, I;
Baiguera, M;
Buldakov, E;
... Boutlon, S; + view all
(2024)
The Makewaves Tsunami Tests and their Relevance to Tsunami Engineering and Risk Management.
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Proceedings of the 18 World Conference on Earthquake Engineering.
(pp. pp. 1-9).
International Association for Earthquake Engineering
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Abstract
MAKEWAVES is an international multi-partner collaborative project bringing together nine academic institutions and two commercial consultancies. The objective of the collaboration is to develop experimental data and associated numerical modelling on tsunami inundation and interaction with boulders, buildings, natural and engineered barriers, towards the development of new internationally accepted guidance for structural codes and standards. Using a pneumatic tsunami simulator (TS) developed jointly by HR Wallingford and UCL the team conducted experiments between November 2022 and April 2023 within a highly instrumented 100m long flume. The TS is capable of simulating realistic trough and crest-led tsunami waves at 1:50, including traces from the The TS is capable of generating very long trough and crest-led waves, and can reproduce at 1:50 scale waves from real life events such as the Mercator trace from the 2004 Indian Ocean event and theand 2011 Tohoku tsunamis. The TS capability has been further extended to include bore-waves. The characteristics of the waves are controlled by adjusting the flow rate and total volume of water drawn in and discharged by the TS. The experimental campaign is was subdivided into discrete research areas, each aimed at furthering knowledge on how different tsunami wave characteristics affect their interaction with manmade and natural structuresenvironments. These include tests aimed at understanding: (1) how roughness representative of coastal forests and mangroves affects tsunami inundation characteristics, (2) how tsunami interact with boulders (3) the effectiveness of offshore breakwaters as tsunami barriers (4) how structural loads and foundation scour are affected by building permeability. This paper presents an overview of the tests conducted and some of the important early observations made that are relevant to future engineering standards and to tsunami disaster management.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Makewaves Tsunami Tests and their Relevance to Tsunami Engineering and Risk Management |
| Event: | 18 World Conference on Earthquake Engineering |
| Location: | Milan, Italy |
| Dates: | 30th June-5th July 2024 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://proceedings-wcee.org/view.html?id=25619&co... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Civil, Environ and Geomatic Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10205633 |
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