Assessing the Vulnerability of Delaware's Coastal Bridges to Hurricane Forces

The vulnerability to hurricane forces of a sample of Delaware's coastal bridges will be assessed in this study. The procedures to be used were developed from extensive hurricane history and data collection in the State of Florida and have been extended for application to the entire Gulf and Atlantic coasts. Other efforts are concentrating on the Gulf and southeastern Atlantic coasts to validate the applicability of the procedure. This study extends this validation to the middle Atlantic coast.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $30664.00
• Contract Numbers:

  DTRT06-G-0026

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Research and Innovative Technology Administration

  Department of Transportation
  1200 New Jersey Avneue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Project Managers:

  Stearns, Amy

• Performing Organizations:

  University of Delaware, Newark

  Department of Civil Engineering
  301 DuPont Hall
  Newark, DE  United States  19716
• Principal Investigators:

  Mertz, Dennis

• Start Date: 20070901
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20110831
• Source Data: RiP Project 14713

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aerodynamic force; Bridges; Data collection; Hurricanes; Research projects; Risk assessment
• Geographic Terms: Atlantic Coast (United States); Gulf Coast (United States)
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Bridges and other structures; Highways; Research;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01464803
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Delaware Center for Transportation
• Contract Numbers: DTRT06-G-0026
• Files: UTC, RIP, USDOT
• Created Date: Jan 3 2013 2:49PM