Wind-driven rain deposition on building Façade: Development of test-based data Conference

Baheru, T, Chowdhury, AG, Pinelli, JP. (2013). Wind-driven rain deposition on building Façade: Development of test-based data . 2 825-834.

cited authors

  • Baheru, T; Chowdhury, AG; Pinelli, JP

abstract

  • Wind-driven rain is one of the main sources of damage to building interior and contents during hurricane landfall. Recently, vulnerability models for hurricane induced total building interior damage (damage to building interior components, utilities, and contents) have been widely developed for prediction of property loss in relation to determination of insurance premiums and development of damage mitigation techniques and guidelines. However, the prediction capabilities of these models have been limited due to the lack of field and experimental data on some specific model parameters. This paper presents an experimental study being conducted to develop test-based data on wind-driven rain intrusion through building envelope breaches caused by strong wind and wind-borne-debris. The study aimed at investigating parameters such as rain admittance factor (RAF) and surface runoff coefficient for different wind directions. The dataset may be used to increase the accuracy and prediction capabilities of existing catastrophe (CAT) models.

publication date

  • December 1, 2013

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 13

start page

  • 825

end page

  • 834

volume

  • 2