Download or read book Revision to the Personal Residential Component of the Florida Public Hurricane Loss Model written by Timothy James Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Improvements to the Florida Public Hurricane Loss Model Including a Comparison of ASCE 7 05 to ASCE 7 10 written by Steven Andrew Bell and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Florida Public Hurricane Loss Model is a catastrophe model commissioned by the State of Florida with the primary purpose of predicting insured losses of residential buildings due to hurricanes. The model has been in a state of ongoing development since 2001, and is contributed to by several universities around the state of Florida. The model is comprised of three main components. The Meteorological Component predicts and models hurricane behavior. The Vulnerability Component predicts and models building damage given specific wind conditions. Lastly, the Actuarial Component takes data from the other two to predict and analyze economic losses. This paper presents several updates to the Vulnerability Component of the model. First, a more realistic cost analysis is presented, created based on information gathered from actual building contractors as well as RS Means. The new cost analysis includes updates such as unit costs that scale with repair size, considerations for actual roof repair methodology, and various other factors specific to the particular building requirements and market conditions of Florida. Second, an analysis of Contents (as well as ALE) vs. Building damage curves (aka Type 2 curves), which allow the Vulnerability Component of the model to be validated independently of the Meteorological Component, is presented. A procedure for their use in model validation is also given, along with a brief sample validation which illustrates the usefulness of the Type 2 curves in uncovering hidden issues with the model. Finally, a brief study analyzing the effects of the changes made to the wind provisions of ASCE 7-10 is presented. The study shows that the changes implemented in ASCE 7-10 will have little effect, in the case of low-rise, personal residential buildings, on actual building practices in the state of Florida.
Download or read book Public Hurricane Loss Prediction Model written by Liang Zhang and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering written by Michael Faber and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the pressure of harsh environmental conditions and natural hazards, large parts of the world population are struggling to maintain their livelihoods. Population growth, increasing land utilization and shrinking natural resources have led to an increasing demand of improved efficiency of existing technologies and the development of new ones. A
Download or read book Florida Public Hurricane Loss Projection Model written by Joshua Murphree and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Predicting the Vulnerability of Typical Commercial and Single Family Residential Buildings to Hurricane Damage written by Johann Everton Weekes and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hurricane impacts have caused significant damage to residential and commercial structures, producing billions of dollars in insured losses. Numerical models are widely used by insurance companies in the prediction of loss cost. Several such loss projection models have been developed by private industry, and the State of Florida sponsored development of a non-proprietary hurricane loss model, known as the Florida Public Hurricane Loss Model (FPHLM). This model resulted from a multi-university effort to quantify the damages and cost of repairs for structures that have been subjected to hurricane force winds. The original FPHLM focused on single-family residential housing. The model is now extended to cover commercial-residential buildings ranging from multi-story apartments to the high rise condominiums typically found lining the beaches of South Florida. This paper proposal focuses on the development of the exterior vulnerability component of the commercial-residential model, and provides a description of the strategies to probabilistically quantify physical exterior damage for two models: low-rise and mid/high rise commercial-residential structures.
Download or read book Interior Damage Prediction in Residential Buildings Due to Hurricane Induced Rain Penetration written by Timothy James Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catastrophe modelers are responsible for estimating and predicting expected physical and monetary building losses under extreme uncertainty. In the case of hurricanes, interior damage might represent the majority of the repair bill so accurate estimates of the interior damage are paramount to a reliable predictive model. Recent studies have shown that wind-driven rain (WDR) is the predominant source of interior related losses even in the absence of visible exterior physical damage. Significant strides have been made in quantifying the external WDR deposition characteristics during hurricane events, and in identifying sources of WDR intrusion through the building envelope. Recent laboratory tests have measured the so-called rain admittance factor (which quantifies the direct impinging rain) and surface runoff coefficients (which quantify the rain surface run-oft) on buildings subjected to hurricane winds and rain. In addition, post-disaster reconnaissance surveys, following hurricanes landfalls in Florida, have shown that soffits are an important source of water penetration, which is not always specifically taken into account in current vulnerability models. Follow-up laboratory tests have measured the amount of the water penetrating through certain types of soffits. These issues of water intrusion are compounded by the fact that a hurricane rotates around any particular building. Therefore the amount of horizontal rain exposure and penetration on any particular facade or component of the building envelope will vary in time as the storm rotates, while the components go from windward to leeward exposure or vice-versa. This dissertation addresses these issues. First, a new vulnerability model for the soffit incorporates experimental data on soffit rain penetration. Second, a new method captures the effect of the storm rotation on the rain deposition and penetration, which is essentially time dependent, into an existing vulnerability model, which simulates both pressure and debris induced envelope breaches but without an explicit time component. Third, a new interior vulnerability model incorporates the new experimental data on building envelope rain deposition and surface runoff. The model succeeds in evaluating the total volume of water penetration though both defects and breaches of the envelope (including soffits), which is then transformed into interior damage. Several implementation strategies were investigated, and the final version was incorporated into version 6.1 of the Florida Public Hurricane Loss Model. This work emphasizes the critical role WDR plays in interior damage as well as provides insights into future mitigation strategies with regard to WDR management.
Download or read book Florida Public Hurricane Loss Projection Model written by Arnoldo A. Artiles and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Quantitative Model Forecasting Changes in the Hurricane Vulnerability of Residential Wood frame Structures in North Carolina written by Huan Zhao and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Development of a Hurricane Loss Projection Model for Commercial Residential Buildings written by Juan Antonio Balderrama Garcia Mendez and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The research presented in this thesis contributes to the development of a probabilistic model that fulfills this goal. The main component of the model is a Monte Carlo Simulation engine that samples component capacities, the loads they sustain, and predicts their probability of damage. The damage estimates calculated by these models will be used to predict interior building damage and finally monetary losses.
Download or read book Hurricane Damage Mitigation written by Felix F. Rodriguez and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABSTRACT: This document discusses various contributions to research in hurricane damage mitigation. A graphical user interface was created to assist the Florida Coastal Monitoring Program in the deployment of wind observation towers deployed during the landfall of a hurricane. The program calculates geo-positional coordinates of observation towers based upon terrain properties and storm characteristics. An updated Florida Hurricane Loss Model was created that re-defined a load path analysis, and improved the program usability and automation. The improvements included a model consolidation into one damage model routine, and introduced menu functions. A literature review of commercial building damage estimation provided information on assessing damage on multi-story buildings in creating a commercial Florida Hurricane Loss Model. A methodology was devised that would consider the damage energy of debris for impact modeling, and the vulnerability of common cladding materials such as exterior insulation finish systems and glass.
Download or read book Hurricane Loss Reduction for Housing in Florida written by Florida International University. International Hurricane Center and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Florida Commission on Hurricane Loss Projection Methodology written by Florida Commission on Hurricane Loss Projection Methodology and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Florida Commission on Hurricane Loss Projection Methodology written by Florida Commission on Hurricane Loss Projection Methodology and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Insurance Decision Making and Market Behavior written by Howard Kunreuther and published by Now Publishers Inc. This book was released on 2006 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considerable evidence suggests that many people for whom insurance is worth purchasing do not have coverage and others who appear not to need financial protection against certain events actually have purchased coverage. There are certain types of events for which one might expect to see insurance widely marketed are now viewed today by insurers as uninsurable and there are other policies one might not expect to be successfully marketed that exist on a relatively large scale. In addition, evidence suggests that cost-effective preventive measures are sometimes rewarded by insurers in ways that could change their clients' behavior. These examples reveal that insurance purchasing and marketing activities do not always produce results that are in the best interest of individuals at risk. Insurance Decision Making and Market Behavior discusses such behavior with the intent of categorizing these insurance "anomalies". It represents a first step in constructing a theory of insurance decision making to explain behavior that does not conform to standard economic models of choice and decision-making. Finally, the authors propose a set of prescriptive solutions for improving insurance decision-making.
Download or read book Journals of the Florida House of Representatives written by Florida. Legislature. House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biscayne National Park N P General Management Plan Amendment written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
