Abstract
Through the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure program (NHERI) established by the National Science Foundation in the United States, a suite of experimental facilities has been made available to the research community to advance the resilience of civil infrastructure and communities to coastal storm and earthquake hazards. An experimental facility called the NHERI Experimental Facility hosted at the O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory at Oregon State University (HWRL EF) was created through this program that serves as a state-of-the-art engineering research, education, and outreach center related to tsunamis caused by earthquakes and coastal waves and surge caused by windstorms. HWRL EF includes two specialized large-scale resources for physical model testing of coastal systems: a large wave flume (LWF) and a directional wave basin (DWB). These facilities are available to the research community to address grand challenges relating to tsunami and coastal windstorm surge and wave hazards impacting the built and natural environments. This paper describes the capabilities of the HWRL EF and presents 10 example projects conducted under NHERI since 2016. The research projects highlight the broad scientific interest and potential application of physical model testing in multi-hazard mitigation and resilience in coastal communities.
Highlights
The Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) program is supported by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) since 2016 to enable a distributed, multi-user, national facility that will provide the natural hazards engineering community with access to research infrastructure coupled with education and community outreach activities
specifically on tsunamis caused by earthquakes
coastal wave and surge caused by windstorms with two specialized large-scale resources
Summary
The Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) program is supported by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) since 2016 to enable a distributed, multi-user, national facility that will provide the natural hazards engineering community with access to research infrastructure coupled with education and community outreach activities. NHERI enables research and educational advances that can contribute knowledge and innovation for the nation’s civil infrastructure and communities to prevent natural hazard events from becoming societal disasters. The purpose of this paper is to describe the NHERI Experimental Facility hosted at the O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory at Oregon State University (HWRL EF for brevity). The HWRL EF supports the broader vision of NHERI to increase the resilience of civil infrastructure and communities to coastal windstorms and tsunamis (NHERI Science Plan, 2020) along the lines of these three grand challenges: 1. Identify and quantify the characteristics of tsunamis, storm surge, and waves hazards due to earthquakes and windstorm that are damaging to civil infrastructure and disruptive to communities The HWRL EF supports the broader vision of NHERI to increase the resilience of civil infrastructure and communities to coastal windstorms and tsunamis (NHERI Science Plan, 2020) along the lines of these three grand challenges: 1. Identify and quantify the characteristics of tsunamis, storm surge, and waves hazards due to earthquakes and windstorm that are damaging to civil infrastructure and disruptive to communities
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